[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Braders]

How not to be a football millionaire - Keith Gillespie

Close to finishing it , honest and enjoyable

 

[Norman Potting]

Gary Imlach's book. A great book. An honest and intelligent tribute to his father. With some fascinating insights into times gone by.

Great approaching brilliant, imagine today's Premier stars cycling home after training to get their tool bag and returning to fix some broken seats in the stand - he played in the equivalent division but in a very different time!

Currently reading "Four Men" by Hillaire Belloc.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just finished 'The Hate Game: Benn, Eubank and British Boxing's Bitterest Rivalry' by Ben Dirs. Tremendous read. As well as telling the story of the rivalry, the build-up and and the aftermath, it includes the views of the promoters, trainers, commentators and reporters around the fighters at the time. It doesn't pull any punches! (available in hardback and kindle only for now, paperback is out in the Summer)

 

[East Preston Gull]

Star Wars scoundrels. A forty year old who still reads star wars novels....I'll get my coat. Cheers!

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Just started "Into the Silence" recommended above. Very interesting. Michael Gove might want to read the first few chapters on WW1.

I'm midway through that book too and entirely agree - Gove might find the first few chapters 'educating'.

I've read a fair amount of WW1 stuff but this book has some of the most graphic accounts of the western front I have read. I was surprised just how much of the book is devoted to this but together with their mainly public school and privileged backgrounds it explains why the climbers were such tough but flawed characters. Set against the backdrop of the final flings of the British Empire and all the colonial attitudes.

Nevertheless huge admiration for their efforts especially given the very basic mountaineering equipment available back then and lack of modern technology that contemporary Everest expeditions now enjoy -and still doesn't ensure safety.

I regret missing the documentary on BBC 3 or 4 earlier this week re the recent expedition to find out what really happened in 1924. Hopefully it will be repeated.

My next book is 'Inconvenient People - Lunacy, liberty and the Mad Doctors in Victorian England', should be interesting social history.

My previous book was 'The Rosie Project' - (fiction) about a University Professor with Aspergers syndrome who tries to find an ideal female partner. Gently amusing.

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Just finished King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. A really good read about unimaginable cruelty in the Belgian Congo. Europeans really ****ed up Africa.

Moving onto Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Mad Man.

 

[Silk]

Japan's Last Bid for Victory - the Invasion of India 1944 by Robert Lyman

Gripping account of the battles of Imphal and Kohima.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Fiction: Hemingway - To Have and Have Not
Non-fiction: Some US navy seal - Lone Survivor (film out soon I believe)

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Any "Nordic Noir", but I particularly recommend the Camilla Lackberg, Jo Nesbo or Hakan Nesser books. t.

Many thanks for these recommendations, excellent.

 

[Willy Dangle]

Thought I would try something out my comfort zone 'Beyond Evil' not a fiction book and in some ways worth a read.

Justice and society failed them two girls and their families, how could that monster not have been stopped before the inevitable.

 

[catfish]

Capital Punishment by Robert Wilson.

 

[Simon Morgan]

Recently finished David Peace, 'Red or Dead' and Barbara Demick, 'Nothing to Envy'. Now reading Alan Sillitoe, 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'.

 

[joeywortho]

Just finished 'The Fault in our stars' by John Green which is probably the most powerful and emotional book I ve read...well ever maybe

please read it

 

[Nibble]

I am currently trying to get through these three:

Cornish Archaeology Vol 50 - Various authors

Build Your Own Home - Tony Both & Mike Dyson

and for some lighter reading I am currently 1 chapter into

In One Person - John Irving (excellent author of The World According To Garp).

I have enjoyed Irvings books before, his intelligent and quirky take on sexuality is refreshing and ahead of it's time.

 

[MuppetMaestro]

Just finished Robert Elms The Way We Wore. Call the Midwife, as well as 432 Days the biography of the two Swedish journalists who were imprisoned by the Ethiopian government on terrorist charges for illegally entering the Ogaden region to write a article on the oil companies working there and their effects on the conflict in the region.

 

[Gwylan]

Just finishing Stoner by John Williams. An absolutely mind-blowing book: the story itself is slight but what powerful writing.

London Belongs to Me is lined up next, just got it out of the library

 

[Cappers]

Fergies Bio.
Quite good actually

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Having read Niccolo Ammaniti's three English-translated novels (The Crossroads being his best imho) I am now working my way through Shirley Jackson's back catalogue - We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Road Through the Wall are good reads and am now onto her short story collections - dark writing from a dark woman.

 

[Prince Monolulu]