Spanish Seagulls
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Just started this & have Homo Deus to follow it if I can actually endure one straight after the other. I read too much fiction so thought these would broaden my mind a little.
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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Just started this & have Homo Deus to follow it if I can actually endure one straight after the other. I read too much fiction so thought these would broaden my mind a little.
Having finished my Patrick Leigh Fermor trilogy, I've turned to something completely different and am reading Q by Luther Blissett.
It's a bit of heavyweight book - in every sense - but am learning lots about the reformation movement in Germany.
It's a bit of heavyweight book - in every sense - but am learning lots about the reformation movement in Germany.
tinycowboy
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Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain by David Cavanagh. Lengthy but really absorbing. Peel was not perfect, but he was a genius. Love the man.
Dolph Ins
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The Brighton trilogy. Peter Gutteridge.
Probably been covered before. Crime thriller set in Brighton but that's where the Peter James comparison ends. Set mostly in present day Brighton but includes sections in first and second world wars. Gosbts even gets a mention. Lots in 1930s Brighton but best of all the first half of the second book is set in the Brighton of the 60s with hippies mods and rockers. Worth a look.
Probably been covered before. Crime thriller set in Brighton but that's where the Peter James comparison ends. Set mostly in present day Brighton but includes sections in first and second world wars. Gosbts even gets a mention. Lots in 1930s Brighton but best of all the first half of the second book is set in the Brighton of the 60s with hippies mods and rockers. Worth a look.
seagull_special
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Phillip Pullman’s The Book If Dust Volume One- he is a brilliant writer who creates the best characters whether good or bad, you are always emotionally engaged with them. He is perceived as a children’s writer but as far as I am concerned he is just a superb writer whom childen happen to like.
Thecoffeecake
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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. It's an awesome left-wing account of American history going back to
Columbus. My travel book right now is called the Modern Middle East, it's a political analysis of the Middle East from World War I (with a great opening chapter of brief history before the era to establish context) until I'm guessing 2005 or so when the book was published. It must've been used as a text book for college courses, I found it in a bin of free books on the street, glad I picked it up.
Columbus. My travel book right now is called the Modern Middle East, it's a political analysis of the Middle East from World War I (with a great opening chapter of brief history before the era to establish context) until I'm guessing 2005 or so when the book was published. It must've been used as a text book for college courses, I found it in a bin of free books on the street, glad I picked it up.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Of mice and men , watched the film a while back and thought it was superb , half way through the book and tbh the film's winning so far .
I've almost finished Johnny Marr's fantastic autobio 'Set the Boy Free'.
Lined up next is Joe Simpson's 'Touching the Void'.
Lined up next is Joe Simpson's 'Touching the Void'.
That sounds interesting: not one I'd heard of.
Same, I started today and am halfway through. I re-read His Dark Materials in preparation which I hadn't read for maybe fifteen years, I forgot how good they were.
Next one should be out 2018/9.
Marshy
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My first ever Stephen King book... I am ashamed to say
11.22.63
Bloody marvellous so far
11.22.63
Bloody marvellous so far
I read that recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
I love the books of David Baldacci.
Just started No Man's Land
Just started No Man's Land
Kalimantan Gull
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I just finished Robert Webbs' autobiography, How Not to be a Boy and it was wonderful. Highly recommended
Return of the Rev
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sams dad
I hate Palarse
The Bottom Corner, by Nige Tassell.
Stories from the world of Non-League football, including chapters about Lewes, and Worthing Utd. ( Detailing the effect of the Shoreham Airshow disaster on the club. Very moving)
Stories from the world of Non-League football, including chapters about Lewes, and Worthing Utd. ( Detailing the effect of the Shoreham Airshow disaster on the club. Very moving)
Cheeky Monkey
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Birdsong by Faulks. About 20 years late to the party with this one I appreciate.
Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
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The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haight. Interesting so far.
Just finished The Loved Ones by Evelyn Waugh which I could take or leave.
Just finished The Loved Ones by Evelyn Waugh which I could take or leave.