Books

[Mark Bolam]

Anything by Rankin gets my vote.

Currently reading Stonemouth by Ian Banks (same guy that wrote the Wasp factory, a disturbing but fascinating read), and so far loving it. You have such empathy/familiar feeling for the characters.

I've also enjoyed Harlequin, Heretic, 1346 and the other one in the series by Bernard Cornwell.

 

The Wasp Factory is a very weird (but good) book! Complicity is also excellent.

 

Anyone who has travelled anywhere will like 'Dark Places' (previously released as 'Trail of the Dead') by Jon Evans.

As good, if not better, than 'The Beach' by Alex Garland.

 

 

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[Richard 1234]

Just got the new lee child ( jack reacher)

Not long finished all the game of thrones to date. They were very good waiting for the next one!

[WirralBoy]

David Baldacci always provides a good read (in my opinion).

 

Reading material is so subjective.

Depends how your own mind works.

 

Two excellent, and very different, good reads that I have enjoyed recently are:-

 

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared, written by Jonas Jonasson.

 

and,

 

Empire Of The Deep - The Rise And Fall Of The British Navy, written by Ben Wilson.

This book is particularly interesting as it defines the formation and decline of the British Empire. It will be of interest to anyone who likes history or geography, even if their interest has only been as a global tourist.

 

I usually read at least one book a week.

A wide variety of topics and authors.

If this thread runs on, I will post my current recommendations.

I'll forget the books that I read and then think WTF did I bother with that.

[Hodge]

The Wasp Factory is a very weird (but good) book! Complicity is also excellent.

 

Anyone who has travelled anywhere will like 'Dark Places' (previously released as 'Trail of the Dead') by Jon Evans.

As good, if not better, than 'The Beach' by Alex Garland.

 

 

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I loved trail of the dead Mark, you mentioned it a few years back and I really enjoyed it. A few linwood Barclay books are good. I am reading a Nordic crime thriller at the moment called the keeper of lost causes which is looking good so far.

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

I can definitely recommend James Lee Burke as an author. He writes about a character called Dave Robicheaux, a parish police officer just outside New Orleans. I have read all the ones I can find and often go back to re-read them.

[breffni]

Read a biography of Stalin by Robert service recently that was very good. Currently reading an American football book called ten-gallon war by john eisenberg, a book called the slow death of British industry by Nicholas comfort and an Adrian mole book

 

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[Joe Newton]

It has been recently mate!

 

 

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You lucky git.

 

I'd love to get that much time to read.

 

It's tough, having all this sex.

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Feel your pain bro.

 

 

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[csservices]

Working my way through all of Terry Pratchett's books at the minute been getting them for xmas and birthdays last few years very easy to get lost in them and plenty of humour and sideways looks at the world, also just started re-reading The Wind in The Willows as my bedtime reading