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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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jakarta
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HSG258: Controlling airborne contaminants at work: A guide to local exhaust ventilation (LEV)
tinycowboy
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Took me a fair while to read that, very enjoyable picaresque though.
Currently reading Working The Room by Geoff Dyer, a collection of essays.
Albion_Dave
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Sycamore Row - John Grisham.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamo-Andy-Dougan/dp/1841153192
Dynamo by Andy Dougan, is my recommendation. Absolutely fantastic book. Probably not for you, if you are one for happy endings, mind.
Dynamo by Andy Dougan, is my recommendation. Absolutely fantastic book. Probably not for you, if you are one for happy endings, mind.
Started on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (the novelist, not the smug comedian) on holiday. Left it at my mums house in France by accident. So good I'm going to buy it again so I can carry on straight away,
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Bhowani Junction
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bhowani-Jun.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
99p on kindle
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bhowani-Jun.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
99p on kindle
KZNSeagull
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Just finished Good Morning Mr Mandela by Zelda Le Grange, his PA. A pretty good read and interesting if you like that sort of thing. She tells a few stories about some of the goings on surrounding the last few months of his life and the farce of a funeral and is rather scathing of some of the elements of the ANC and some of his family members. Overall, a decent read if that is your thing.
keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
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The first two thirds are very interesting. Then it gets very dull, very quickly
Behind Enemy Lines
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Yes... Any Human Heart is a brilliant book, a vivid and deeply moving account of what it means to be human.
If you're enjoying that, I'd strongly recommend Boyd's The New Confessions. It's literary equal if not better.
Monsieur Le Plonk
Lethargy in motion
Agreed re New Confessions, brilliant.
Currently working my way through a fairly recent novel of his - Ordinary Thunderstorms. Pretty average sadly. Reads similar to a Roy Grace and, without wishing to be disrespectful to Peter James, was expecting a bit more depth from a Boyd book.
Been recommended Flash Boys by Michael Lewis - anyone read it?
Part of my work teams "book club". I will have to suffer the final third as no doubt we'll be discussing it.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Stoner was okay, but there was a vague whiff of disappointment about it that I couldn't quite put my finger on.
I recall thinking it was very special but that was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away so will see how I feel second time around.
Spun Cuppa
Thanks Greens :(
I'm just going to start Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn
The blurb promises a smut-fest, so should be a banger
The blurb promises a smut-fest, so should be a banger
I'm just going to start Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn
The blurb promises a smut-fest, so should be a banger
It's not all that much: get hold of his Sexus, that's certainly a, er, banger.
I'm currently reading Vanishing Kingdoms by Norman Davies - it's about all the countries that used to exist but have now been subsumed by larger ones - well researched and brilliantly written, he has a droll sense of humour
Butcher's Crossing, also by John Williams, is as good if not better than Stoner.