what are you reading ?

ew, try this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843544539/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/026-7432871-6685207

American Psycho at the minute, better than the film so far

The book p1sses over the film.

I have just started reading The Inheritance of Loss (yes on the back of it winning the BP)

The musical pisses over the film and the book.

born on a blue day

john sergeant give me ten seconds, auto biography of the famous journalist. Very interesting and an interesting insight in to the strange world of the BBC.

has there ever been a film that was considered better than the book?

yes

will give the AP book a read then -

Just finished A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life (Paperback) - some good bits about the UN high commissioner in Bosnia granting visa to attractive looking woman in exchange for s#x.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-World-My-Masters-Travellers/dp/0330355678/sr=1-6...

just started Michelle Houllebeque's Possibility of an Island - only a few chapters in buts its shaping up well.

but then i have enjoyed his other books so im possibly speaking from a fan point of view :)

The Godfather and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Both films better than the book.

U2 By U2 :)

Gonna read Damage Done next about the Aussie lad (his dad rode winner in Melbourne cup) who got locked up in Bangkok for drug trafficking. Read 1st few pages while out there last week & had to stop it was that frightening!! I'll feel much safer reading it in my bedroom!!

Trying to plough through JFKs biography by Robert Daller.
Bloody hard work!

That new No More Heroes book is apparently very good, so I'm told...

has there ever been a film that was considered better than the book?

Bladerunner

And Baywatch, the Movie.

Luff, have you read Atomised by Michelle Houllebeque? I have just finised it recently, great book and I will definitely read more by him.

I'd like to read that No more heroes, but Amazon haven't deigned to send me a copy yet...

Graphic novel called Palestine

I am writing a novel at the moment.

No time for reading.

This week, I am mostly reading "Last Post" by Max Arthur - conversations with the few remaining WWI veterans. Talked with 21 veterans in 2005, since when 17 have passed on.

And, fiction-wise, To Kill a Mockingbird. Found it slow going for the first 60 pages or so, which surprised me considering its reputation.

Sorry Huckerson,

I think there were some delays. My apologies. I only got my copies two days ago.

No probs. Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm hoping it will make excellent "bathroom" reading.

''A Short History of the World'' - very old HG Wells book (<1946) and
''Philosophy - 100 Essential Thinkers'' by Phillip Stokes

innocent man by john grisham amazing true story of injustice..

No offence taken. All good literature should be devoured on the throne.

...in one way or another...

It will follow Gary Imlach's "My Father and other working class heroes". Looking forward to it.

Didn't Imlach's book just get voted sports book of the year?

I'm thinking about picking it up for Christmas.

'A History of Medieval Europe from Constantine to St Louis' by RHC Davis (1957).
Interesting stuff in there about the methods and motivations of the crusaders ... plus ¿ change ....

It did, not long into it to be fair...

Cell . by Dean Koontz ,i am finding it hard work .

Shane Warnes autobiography,I only read sporting books,literay heathen that I am.

The Simon Barnes book, which is good but not great, and John Feinstein's account of a year behind the scenes with the Baltimore Ravens, which is a cracker.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaning-Sport-Simon-Barnes/dp/1904977456/sr=1-1/qid=1163696976/ref=sr_1_1/203-4453461-7567124?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Next-Man-Up-Behind-Todays/dp/0316013285/sr=1-3/qid=1163697032/ref=sr_1_3/203-4453461-7567124?ie=UTF8&s=books

Dirty Numb Angel Boy 16 Nov 13:27
Gonna read Damage Done next about the Aussie lad (his dad rode winner in Melbourne cup) who got locked up in Bangkok for drug trafficking. Read 1st few pages while out there last week & had to stop it was that frightening!! I'll feel much safer reading it in my bedroom!!


Not read the book, but when I was over in bangkok 2 years ago, I went to the 'bangkok hilton'
to visit the lads mate, 'trevor' - who was a friend of Johns (the lad the book is about). John
is my mates cousin.Trevor was (is) a great lad and a pleasure to meet him, he done a lot of work for charity,while in the prison, and is larger than life. He was released last year last i heard.
John on the other hand, after his sister petitioning for years to get him out, and eventually got him the kings pardon, turned his back on his sister when he got out, and was totally ungrateful. That is prob why i havent read the book.

Stem - platform is good too - well worth the effort :)

The A-Z of London

Streets ahead of anything else.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads-Song By Song

Jim Drury

michael connelly

L. A . cop crime fiction

JP Donleavy The Ginger Man (again)

Les Hauts Murs - Auguste Le Breton , life in a Reform School.
Napoleon - Max Gallo , I am on the third book and will be glad when I have had enough of it.

Somehow, I seem to have 3 books on the go at the mo!:

Ring of Fire - Simon Hughes. My "bog book"; an account of LFC in the 00s. Very enlightening, but probably only for reds.

Race of a Lifetime - Heilemann and Halperin. Account of the 2008 US election. Cracking

Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith. Easy to digest thriller for when I want to read for 5 minutes before sleep.

Another good/easy thriller read.

Without Fail - Lee Child ( jack Reacher novel) 6th in the series

Marabou Stork Nightmares. Strong stuff as always from Irvine Welsh. Still have a few of his novels left to read.

A Large Town in Berkshire

County Town, each way should look up Capitalization.

I've just started The Girl On The Train.

Who is that by Crags. Can't find it on Amazon.

Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. Very good so far, about 3/4s through. Never seen the film though.

The Road Less Travelled.
M. Scott Peck.

Psychology book thats a best seller.
Gets the old cogs churning which is good.

Just finished I Am Pilgim at a lost now didn't want it to end . Old book I know but too busy gambling to keep up with the times but if you haven't read it and you like a good thriller get a copy.

"The Secret Club that Runs the World"...

Maxwells Island by M.J.Trow  love the Maxwell series he is a schoolteacher who investigates murders  has a few amusing  lines in his books too
Such as ...canteen duty with class seven ff today and they are eating pizza.......like watching a row of tumble dryers

Tears of Summer is a fictional account of the remain voters, no not really it's true they are crying their eyes out.

Regrets or a football maverick.
Biography of Terry Curran