What book are you reading?

halfmanhalfbiscuit · Post by **halfmanhalfbiscuit** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:52 pm

I run a book exchange at the weekends.
I was looking for something to read and I picked up Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby.
I've read it before, but it really is a good book.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:53 pm

ewanrob wrote:Greemantle. ..by John Buchan his 2nd book after The 39 Steps. Fabulous writer and great books.

Hitchcock wanted to film Greenmantle. I know because I'm reading 'Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light' by Patrick McGilligan!

At one time the idea was to do it as a sequel to The 39 Steps, with Robert Donat again in the Hannay role. Later he thought he could use Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Alas it didn't happen. One of the reasons was it cost too much to buy the rights from the Buchan estate.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:55 pm

Judas Unchained - Peter F Hamilton

boiledclaret · Post by **boiledclaret** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 4:31 pm

Weird Scenes inside the Canyon by David McGowan. All about the Laural Canyon music scene in the 60's and early 70's.

Lots of gruesome deaths, drug overdoses, suicides by people who seemed perfectly happy, lawsuits, rip offs, satanic rituals, the Manson family and occasionally some music.

Pleasant bedtime reading.

chorleyhere · Post by **chorleyhere** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 6:19 pm

Bill Bryson - The Road to Little Dribbling. Amusing and informative in parts - not as rewarding as "Notes from a Small Island"

ewanrob · Post by **ewanrob** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 6:36 pm

Hipper wrote:Hitchcock wanted to film Greenmantle. I know because I'm reading 'Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light' by Patrick McGilligan!

At one time the idea was to do it as a sequel to The 39 Steps, with Robert Donat again in the Hannay role. Later he thought he could use Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Alas it didn't happen. One of the reasons was it cost too much to buy the rights from the Buchan estate.

Would make a great film, even today....masterful writer. In it he mentions Mosul and a lot of the other locations currently under siege, identifying even then they were a powder keg ready to blow.

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:57 pm

Tim Shipmans " All out War ", the inside story of the 2016 Referendum Campaign.. I thoroughly recommend it, but if you're a Corbynite who feels strongly about staying in the EU, I'd take your Blood pressure pills before reading it !!

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:30 pm

'The Miniaturist' by Jessie Burton.

Different.

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:38 am

Wexford_Claret wrote:Just finished 'The Troubles' by Tim Pat Coogan- very factual and VERY heavy!

Fancy a fiction now, anyone got any good murder mysteries to recommend?

DCI Ryan series by LJ Ross is good reading, it starts on Lindisfarne and links to each subsequent book.

I'm on holiday and reading Joey Barton , a poor choice I'm afraid as he strives to put across how intelligent and worldly wise he is on all and any subject.

lucs86 · Post by **lucs86** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:26 am

East of Eden by Steinbeck is epic, nearing the end now, fantastic book

Elder statesman · Post by **Elder statesman** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:22 am

Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run, in between the Peter May, Lewis trilogy.

ClaretCanada · Post by **ClaretCanada** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:03 pm

Peter May The Lewis Trilogy ....Excellent

Stevie2112 · Post by **Stevie2112** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:07 pm

Just finished Dark Rising by Greig Beck,and today started on The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry

Wexford_Claret · Post by **Wexford_Claret** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:38 pm

JohnMac wrote:DCI Ryan series by LJ Ross is good reading, it starts on Lindisfarne and links to each subsequent book.

john'sroseyspecs wrote:If you are open to Scandinavian fiction then the Harry Hole detective stories by Jo Nesbo are very good

Thanks, will have a look out for both of these.

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:11 pm

I will second the Jo Nesbo books featuring Harry Hole. They are excellent. I would add that you would benefit by reading them in chronological order. The first one is The Bat. It is set in Australia. Later ones are set in Scandinavia.

Smallpaul · Post by **Smallpaul** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:47 pm

The Mystery Knight - George R.R. Martin

boyyanno · Post by **boyyanno** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:24 pm

Posted on another book thread about Steven King's The Dark Tower series. I've read and re-read them cover to back and just recently finished them again. I'd recommend to anyone who wants somthing a little different, and anyone looking for a new obsession

harpers_perm · Post by **harpers_perm** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:41 pm

1421 The year China discovered the world by Gavin Menzies.

Suggests that they were circumnavigating the globe over 200 years before anybody else. Very convincing with lots of evidence you'd struggle to argue with.

Burnleyareback2 · Post by **Burnleyareback2** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:32 pm

Just finished Joey's which I enjoyed.

Now reading football doesn't do fairytales. I have quite a back log to clear...

Beagleheart · Post by **Beagleheart** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:58 pm

Amazing Grace: The Man who was WG by Richard Tomlinson. A fascinating biography of arguably the first modern global sport star.

Dante.El.Chunk · Post by **Dante.El.Chunk** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:23 pm

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline.

Charlie and the chocolate factory meets the Matrix.

Enjoying it thoroughly

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:33 pm

Wonder what this bloke is reading,must be something riveting to take it to a football match,the saying is "you can't put a good book down""............obviously

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burnleysteve · Post by **burnleysteve** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:38 pm

I'm in Jamaica this and next week I've just read welcome to Bangkok hilton and nearly finished a book called welcome to hell

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