| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 7/12/2008 1:43:38 AM |
"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman"
Andy - can you tell me who is the author ? Publisher?
I have two on the go - Dont Cry For Me Aberystwyth (pulp fiction pastiche) and Memory Lanes , all about the Motoring News Rally Championships 1970 - 1973 ...... | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 7/12/2008 5:06:38 AM | wow hoo another book thread that will get deleted as soon as the mods see it
As for best book well I could go on and on praising the godlessness that is Peter F Hamilton and his "Night's Dawn" trilogy, I could also mention the sublime Iain M Banks and his marvelous "Culture" novels....I would even be forced to admit that I really enjoyed Dan Simmons "Hyperion Cantos", but for the best book ever....well I am still writing it...
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 7/13/2008 9:30:31 AM | | If nobody has read the frost books - yes the ones that the series are based on, please do so. They are a lot darker than the series on the tv, but some parts are laugh out loud. The author by the way did not approve of david jason taking the lead in the series, and when you read the books you can sort of see why. I think there are only 6 in the series, but if your into crime fiction well worth the read. | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 7/13/2008 10:42:31 AM | I picked up today:
Newgate: Londons prototype of hell by Stephen Halliday.
Synopsis
There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place - the inspiration of more poems, plays and novels than any other building in London. It was a place of cruelty and wretchedness, at various times holding****Turpin, Titus Oates, Daniel Defoe, Jack Sheppard and Casanova. Because prisons were privately run, any time spent in prison had to be paid for by the prisoner. Housing varied from a private cell with a cleaning woman and a visiting prostitute, to simply lying on the floor with no cover. Those who died inside - and only a quarter of prisoners survived until their execution day - had to stay in Newgate as a rotting corpse until relatives found the money for the body to be released. Stephen Halliday tells the story of Newgate's origins, the criminals it held, the punishments meted out and its rebuilding and reform. This is a compelling slice of London's social and criminal history.
I so love me London history!! And this book will be marvellous.
He also wrote 'By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London'
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Posted: 7/13/2008 10:51:54 AM | Fiction: The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (due to be released as a film later this year) - A great love story with a difference
Non-Fiction: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins | |
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Posted: 7/13/2008 11:01:23 AM | Wasted by Mark Johnson -- It blew me away! Didn't stop wittering on about it for weeks. It's an autobiographical account of his horrific childhood abuse and subsequent descent into heroin and crack addiction and homelessness. He's sorted now, a multimillionaire in fact, and works for the Prince's Trust advising on youth criminality.
Later, I got the chance to interview Mark for my paper and ask him what happened to all the characters in his book! | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 7/13/2008 1:30:40 PM | | Huxley's Brave New World Revisited. His earlier work, Brave New World, and Orwell's 1984 are essential reading for anyone concerned at the direction in which our society is heading. Also on the go: Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg. The origins of the universe, quantum theory and relativity are subjects I find fascinating. For light reading, I've Personal Injuries by Scott Turow. Only read a few pages, so can't give much info. | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 3:25:30 AM | | The best book I have read this year is The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak its exceptiionally good . Im reading Nocturns by John Connolley at the moment I loved the book of lost things and I am enjoying this too | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 3:51:28 AM | The Book of Lost Things I read that recently too & I hear it is to be made into a film, it will make an excellent film.
Hells angel by Sonny Barger is a good read, what a life he has lead! | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 5:13:05 AM | | I love reading about other people,s lives ,so i,m quite into autobiographies.The last onthe i read was Survivor My Story-The Next Chapter,by Sharon Osbourne.I read her 1st book Extreme too.I,m a right bookworm and sometimes have 2 books on the go.Ive just started reading the Miss Read collection for the umpteenth time lol.Ive even been known to pick up a Famous Five or 2 and read again.My childhood favourite. | |
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Posted: 9/10/2008 5:33:26 AM | I've read quite a few books recently all of which i've enjoyed and i've usually got 2 or 3 on the go at any one time.
There was Life expectancy by Dean Koontz.
The sleeping doll and a maiden's grave both by Jeffrey Deaver.
Also The quickie, 4th of July, cradle and all, all by James Patterson! | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 5:50:10 AM | relentless......simon kernick
when you have a bad read this it'll put your day into perspective.
birdsong...........brill
Gazza........if you don't cry your dead inside......... | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 6:45:28 AM | Anything by Stephen King gets my full attention, recently finished Cujo which was good.
I find the Tori Hayden books readable but very sad the last one I read was One Child | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 7:51:04 AM | Two books that I have read recently that have had a profound effect on me and changed my out look where
Dice man - by Luke reinhart - a pyschologist bored with life who decides to run his life by the roll of a dice and they eventually take over and it becomes quite surreal and dark.
the other was Just say yes - by danny Wallace - which basically is a recount of a year of his life were he said yes to everything, from spam emails and adverts in papers and random offers, very funny and shows how easy it is to change your life.
I love Ben Elton books as well, all brilliant, satirical and funny. and also anything by the legend that is Jeremy Clarkson. | |
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| Best book (or books even) you've read lately.?
Posted: 9/10/2008 8:14:20 AM | The last 2 books i read where,
Relentless-simon kernick,really enjoyed it had me gripped tight by the balls from start to finish.
The Road-Cormac McCarthy-Brilliant book about the breakdown of society after what appears to be a nuclear war,seen through the eyes of a man and a boy who are trying to reach the us coast.Scary and very bleak but also touching.
Just started Severed another simon kernick novel appears to be in the same vein as relentless. | |
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