[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,992

Living In a Box

• Oct 20, 2020

• #3,041

mothy said:

Barbarian days - william Finnegan

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Bought that the other day so no spoilers please

 

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Ghost of Killer Reeves

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Oct 3, 2020

2,137

Somerset

• Oct 20, 2020

• #3,042

Homicide .....David Simon.

 

Fitzcarraldo

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Nov 12, 2010

961

• Oct 20, 2020

• #3,043

Beach Hut said:

Bought that the other day so no spoilers please

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You know that it's a autobiographical account of his early years chasing waves? I got halfway through and thought that he was a very good writer for someone who spent their life being a beach bum and having their brain pickled by the sun, head regularly banging against ocean floors/reefs. I then checked and found out later he had become a staff writer at the New Yorker

I'm reading The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash

Jul 6, 2003

70,374

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,044

Mad Man by Dick Knight

Shameful omission on my part up til now. Thought I'd save a few bob on the £20 cover price by waiting for the paperback which never came and probably never will. Still, job done, fortune favours the tightwad, pristine new copy scored for £9.99 via Ebay from the very excellent Soccer Books Ltd of Cleethorpes. Now, where do I apply for my share of DK's shares?

 

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CHAPPERS

DISCO SPENG

Jul 5, 2003

44,806

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,045

Ghost of Killer Reeves said:

Homicide .....David Simon.

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Incredible book.

 

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CHAPPERS

DISCO SPENG

Jul 5, 2003

44,806

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,046

Just finished True History of the Kelly Gang which is a quite incredible feat of writing. Highly recommend.

Now onto Man and Boy by Tony Parsons. Started well, worried it's going to all get a bit emotional.

 

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Ghost of Killer Reeves

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Oct 3, 2020

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Somerset

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,047

CHAPPERS said:

Incredible book.

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The Corner,David Simon &Ed Burns, is also excellent.The mini series was very watchable.

 

Peteinblack

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NSC Patron

Jun 3, 2004

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Bath, Somerset.

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,048

The Patrick Melrose novels (5 of them) by Edward St Aubyn - in lieu of watching the box-set starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

In the previously 4 weeks, I'd read J. G. Ballard's 'Super Cannes,' Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness at Noon', and Robert James Waller's 'The Bridges of Madison County'.

 

GOM

living vicariously

Aug 8, 2005

3,225

Leeds - but not the dirty bit

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,049

The Testament - John Grisham

 

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mune ni kamome

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Jun 5, 2011

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Worthing

• Oct 23, 2020

• #3,050

William Boyd-an Ice Cream War

Absolutely Stunning. I’m a fan of William Boyd anyway but this is one of his finest.

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,992

Living In a Box

• Oct 24, 2020

• #3,051

French Revolutions - Tim Moore

 

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Palacefinder General

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Apr 5, 2019

2,594

• Oct 29, 2020

• #3,052

‘One Kick’ by Chelsea Cain. Well written, not a wasted or superfluous word.

Anyone doing the just released Gary Numan autobiography? Very well reviewed from what I’ve seen.

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,992

Living In a Box

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,053

Start The Car - David 'Bumble' Lloyd

 

Jam The Man

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Jul 5, 2003

8,136

South East North Lancing

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,054

Stuart Pearce - Psycho
Decent so far.

 

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mune ni kamome

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Jun 5, 2011

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Worthing

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,055

John le Carre - A Delicate Truth

 

AmexRuislip

Trainee Spy 🕵️‍♂️

Feb 2, 2014

33,875

Ruislip

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,056

Baby Blue for the 3rd time

 

Barry Izbak

U.T.A.

Dec 7, 2005

7,328

Lancing By Sea

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,057

Just One Look by the brilliant Harlen Coben

 

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Ghost of Killer Reeves

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Oct 3, 2020

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Somerset

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,058

Motherwell. .... Deborah Orr.

 

dejavuatbtn

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Aug 4, 2010

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Henfield

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,059

Life - Keith Richards

 

wunt be druv

Oh bugger..!

Jun 17, 2011

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In my own strange world

• Nov 5, 2020

• #3,060

"Fight to the finish" by Allan Mallinson, it is a month by month account of the First World War from start to finish, very interesting and so many things I was unaware of. Thoroughly recommend it if you are interested in WW1 history.