What BOOK are you currently reading, and would you recommend it?

[Bad Ash]

I'm reading a few at the moment

Is there any reason why you are reading 6 books at the same time? I find it hard enough keeping up with one. Also, I find that if I'm enjoying a book then I don't want to put it down, so I wouldn't go an pick up 5 others.

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot, I'm reading VBA in Excel for Dummies. No, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[champion7]

Nelson Mandelas Autobiogrphy/ i would highly recomend it, he's had an interesting life

 

[Nibble]

Nelson Mandelas Autobiogrphy/ i would highly recomend it, he's had an interesting life

I heard it gets a bit repetative in the middle

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Me too. Very gushy in places but describes Shanghai well.

I finished it 2 weeks ago. Very Tony Parsons... easy read, but very forgettable

 

[Peppermint Tea]

The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey. Fantastic stuff.

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

1980 by David Peace (the guy who wrote The Damned United). Third part of his Yorkshire quartet (1974, 1977 and 1983 being the others). Absolutely superb stuff. Think James Elroy, but set in Leeds and about the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

 

[pasty]

I have just recently finished A Painted House by John Grisham. No I wouldn't recommend it - pile of shite. Dull, dull and even more dull. The only reason I managed to finish the damn thing was I kept telling myself something MUST happen soon. It didn't.

 

[Juan Albion]

"Dreams From My Father" by Barry Obama

 

[Ernest]

Just finishing 'Ooh Ah Stantona' by Phil Stant, cracking read and he speaks well of us.

 

[Tooting Gull]

House Music, by Oona King - memoirs of her time in politics/Parliament before getting booted out by Galloway over the war.

Very honest, in no way your stereotypical politician, and a kind of 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' for Westminster. Much more bothered about trying to do some good than her own career.

 

[Ding Dong !]

The Innocent Man

John Grisham's first Non Fiction book.


and yes, an excellent read.

 

[Braders]

Is there any reason why you are reading 6 books at the same time? I find it hard enough keeping up with one. Also, I find that if I'm enjoying a book then I don't want to put it down, so I wouldn't go an pick up 5 others.

see I'm weird like that , I basically have spare reading material EVERYWHERE and a massive stack of books to read as well as three shelves full of previously read stuff

bit of a bookworm all said and done , normally I'm fine with remembering the story but normally what I'm reading is vastly different in genre

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Marcus Trescothick autobiography, very good read and would recommend it

 

[Market Porter]

John O'Farrell's An Utterly Impartial History of Britain.

Very funny and very informative.

 

[Langley]

Current Book

"Rogue Warrior of the SAS", the Col Paddy Blair Mayne story and his ww2 escapades. one of the most decorated soldiers of the war, DSO and 3 bars, and he didnt get these sitting in a command post, fantastic man fantastic reading.

 

[Amsterdam Albion]

Tom Holland - Persian Fire

Taking me ages and ages, do like it but can only read it in small doses

 

[British Bulldog]

Bravo Two Zero, It's ok but not great.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Jordan's 3rd Autobiography.

Just in case any of you guys were thinking of reading it, I'm not sure you'll like it....

She has done THREE 'auto'biographies? :thud:


I am reading 'A Painted House' by John Grisham and would highly recommend it.

 

[Don Tmatter]

'The Strange Death of Dr David Kelly'(or something like that) by our friend Norman Baker MP.

 

[Fran Hagarty]

"3 Para" by Patrick Bishop (Re the 3 Para Battle Group in Afghanistan)