Garry Nelson's teacher
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A good read. Not seen the film so can't commend.
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
- Thread starter Lady Buck
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A good read. Not seen the film so can't commend.
mune ni kamome
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Reading Station Eleven after recommendations on this thread. Post apocalypse fare is always a winner with me and this is a particularly good one
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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His Bloody Project (half way through and bloody good a project it is. Great writing)
Norman Potting
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One recommended on a recent thread - "Up Pompey!" - most amusing despite the team focussed on therein.
boik
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Currently staying in an old beach cafe in Cornwall owned by Jim shekdar, the first person to row the pacific ocean unaided. It's quite a story and he's quite a character.
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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There was a Man Booker Prize book this year about a chap who buys an old Cornish cottage overlooking the sea and his subsequent dealings with the locals who see him as a grockle.. It's quite a dark tale but very descriptive especially of the weather which always seemed to be appalling. It's called The Many and by Wen Menmuir.
Buzzer
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- Oct 1, 2006
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I've done quite a bit of reading recently having read Nicholas Mosley, Muriel Spark, Hubert Selby jr, Walter Tevis amongst others and the last book I read was Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima who coincidentally committed seppuku on this day in 1970. It's a beautifully written book albeit a little messed up and undoubtedly roman-à-clef.
I'm now re-reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for the first time in something like 20 years and thoroughly enjoying it. She wrote with such clarity that it's impossible to get bogged down in the story.
I'm now re-reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for the first time in something like 20 years and thoroughly enjoying it. She wrote with such clarity that it's impossible to get bogged down in the story.
withdeanwombat
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Concrete Blonde.
BrightonCottager
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The Old Ways bt Richard McFarlane. Brilliant writing about ancient land (including the South Downs Way) and sea routes.
JCL666
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- Sep 23, 2011
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I enjoyed that.
Have you read End of the World Running Club?
Post apocalyptic easy read.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Both decent.
mune ni kamome
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Thank you. Next one for me then
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Just taken delivery of THIS little beauty - currently available half price from local publishers HERE:
http://queensparkbooks.org.uk/books-projects/brighton-graphic-novel-book/
http://queensparkbooks.org.uk/books-projects/brighton-graphic-novel-book/
Just finished The maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills. Another goodun.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maintenance-Headway-Magnus-Mills/dp/1408800764
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maintenance-Headway-Magnus-Mills/dp/1408800764
Gullflyinghigh
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- Apr 23, 2012
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I'm reading 'Half a King' by Joe Abercrombie. Compared to some of his other books it seems a little light so far, but I guess that's part of being a standalone book when compared to a series.
Prior to this I was re-reading the 'Night Angel' trilogy, by Brent Weeks, for the hundredth or so time.
Prior to this I was re-reading the 'Night Angel' trilogy, by Brent Weeks, for the hundredth or so time.
Return of the Rev
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Mincemeat(still)
Cheeky Monkey
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My 100th and final Lance Armstrong related book: The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton.
Before that 'The Humans' by Brighton's very own Matt Haig, a brilliantly amusing fantastical novel for all ages about us and the meaning of life. Matt Haig really does write some fantastic stuff, most of it for kids, but all good.
Before that 'The Humans' by Brighton's very own Matt Haig, a brilliantly amusing fantastical novel for all ages about us and the meaning of life. Matt Haig really does write some fantastic stuff, most of it for kids, but all good.
For the Glory by Duncan Hamilton. Biography of Eric Liddell. Gripping and very readable story of an extraordinary and committed man. Recommended.
Just finished it. I seem to have something in my eye......