Good read?

[Gray git]

Just working my way into 'The fundamentals of general tree work' by G F Beranek. big book not cheep but some v good tips and some of the biggest trees you will ever see being cut!

[Dean Lofthouse]

BORING!!

 

Talking boring, I've thought of an invention for felling dead trees and keeping them going in the right direction.

 

Will try and draw some pictures and email them to you, see if you think it will work and whether there'd be a market.

[Jason James Gairn]

Anyone else on here an avid book worm?

 

I've just spent too many hours finishing Tom Robins book "Jitterbug Perfume"

 

Awkward in style and construction in parts, but the humour is dark and fierce, the politics incorrect and the laughs both loud and subtle. Enjoyed it immensley.

 

 

Who has some good recomendations? and what you reading?

 

I'm a Robbins fan, Ive read most of them. my fave is Still Life with wood pecker.

If you have fun with the oddness of Robbins try these, they are my absolute favorites...

The Third Policeman -flan O'Brien. The greatest Irish novel ever. More python than python, and 20 years before!

When the Ass saw the angel-Nick cave. yes that nick Cave. dark as a a novel can get without actually turning the light off.

The 3 stigmata of Palma eldrich-Philip K dick. The master takes us on a very weird trip into Sc-fi. Unfilmable thankfully.

 

My wife has chunking her way through Anna Karenina, war and peace and an ed o Brian novel all at the same time! Parallel reading gone nuts!:wave:

[Chris P]

Just reading "High Climbers and Timber Fallers By JB. That has got some good yarns in it and nice pics. other then that i,m halfway through "The art of Hapiness by the Dali Lama. just read "Blaze" by Steven King and if you like another easy Steven King book "tales from a buick 8" is good.

[Peter]

I enjoyed the roland and the dark tower series of stephen king's, but i'v never got round to reading anything else by him.

 

I'v also managed to avoid everything by j.k.rowling.....

 

Dont read as much as i used too, just got out of the habit i suppose, although i re-read pratchetts for relaxation!

 

The last book i read was McCarthy's Bar, by Pete McCarthy, a collection of Irish anecdotes loosely held together by a journey through Ireland visiting McCarthy's Bars. Dry humour aplenty as well as insights into what makes the Irish irish.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I'v also managed to avoid everything by j.k.rowling.....

 

 

I know someone...and I'm talking fully grown mature male with macho competitive streak, owns a shotgun certificate... that went to a Harry potter book signing in wizards cloak.

 

I was thinking of ringing firearms licensing and telling them, in the belief he is unfit to own a certificate. :wave:

[Peter]

Tell him to chop it in for a wand!

[Quickthorn]

One of my recent favourites is "The Restraint of Beasts" by Magnus Mills. Very funny in a dark way.

[Rich Rule]

Jim Dodge's Stone Junction

 

or anything by Haruki Murakami:wave::icon14:

[TheTreeWiseMen]

'The Dice Man' by Luke Rhinehart.