What are you reading (book wise)?

kosherOY · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:40 pm

Just out of interest really, but I wonder what everyone is reading between Saturday's and the odd Tuesday night games?

I've just purchased 'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel. It's a novel about Thomas Cromwell (now on TV) and a good read. For work I am reading 'The Twits' ,Dahl and 'Wonder'. Palacio. All the class have since got their own copy of 'Wonder' without any prompting.....gives one hope.

coddy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:27 pm **Posts:** 44

Pete townshends biography, cracking read when you listen to what he got up to before the who took off, its only took me about 5 month to get half way through, im not a big reader, I struggle with a lot of words seen as I went to Henry's....

liam_HUFC_1451 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:13 am **Posts:** 313

just finished neil warnocks which i thinks a must for any football fan, now starting jack whitehalls

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:19 pm

Just finished this an hour ago....

I honestly didn't realise he was as evil as he was....some of the stuff he done was unimaginable....horrific reading but a book you find hard to put down!!!!

Rot In Hell you Evil Evil Bastard!!!! rakxe

Hartleblue · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:35 pm

Arsene Wengers biography , boring as! Just finished Louis Swarez, really good read and he comes out of it different to how I imagined him he is quite open and honest especially about all the times he has sunk his prolific nashers into people.

I could not ever read anything about Saville I just wish he was still alive and in prison getting some very just deserts rakxe

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:39 pm

Over the last few months I have read these....

All brilliant reads but definete reads are....Miracles and Massacres, David & Goliath, Wheelmen, The Everything Store, One Summer, Unbroken, The Big Fat Suprise and Twelve Years A Slave....All 10/10!!!!

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:40 pm

Hartleblue wrote:

I could not ever read anything about Saville I just wish he was still alive and in prison getting some very just deserts rakxe

I wish he was still alive but not in Prison and people knew the real him!!!! rakxe

Toxteth O'Grady · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:48 pm

Recently read Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy's autobiographies... Keefs being the best and ozzy's the funniest.
Might give Pete Townshend's a go next!

coddy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:27 pm **Posts:** 44

Toxteth O'Grady wrote:

Recently read Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy's autobiographies... Keefs being the best and ozzy's the funniest.
Might give Pete Townshend's a go next!

Haha ozzys is a beauty read, id really advise townshends like

Hartleblue · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:06 pm

[quote="Toxteth O'Grady"]Recently read Keith Richards, Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy's autobiographies... Keefs being the best and ozzy's the funniest.
Might give Pete Townshend's a go next![/qu

I read ozzys last year and it was very funny especially when he walked in on Tommy Lee! :laugh:

Toxteth O'Grady · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:12 pm

My fav bit was when he turned up at the pub on the horse haha

marcus richardsons third leg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:04 pm **Posts:** 446

The Neil warnock autobiography is class

kosherOY · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:43 pm

Mutley....you are quite the bibliophile!

kebab & chips · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:47 pm

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.Games of Thrones & Clough v Revie.All very good.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:58 pm

kosherOY wrote:

Mutley....you are quite the bibliophile!

I do like a good read....ever since I bought my first book in Junior School aged 7 in about 1979 from the Book Club (remember them from school????)....Kevin Keegan The Biography....and I've still got that book!!!!

KeithNobbsBigToe · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 11:32 pm **Posts:** 1057

Currently reading 3 books depending on the mood

1) John Bishops Autobiography - piss funny

2) 1984 - A classic,

3) Re reading Stuart Pearce autobiography - one of my favourite players ever - gutted he is no longer managing Forest.

If you're looking for inspiration - I loved the Jack Reacher books and have read and own them all - cracking man books.

Ritchies birthmark · **Joined:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:31 am **Posts:** 5637

Really like Dan brown books. Read them all bar the last one. Got it when it came out but for some reason have never picked it up. Work-tele (sport) - sleep is pretty much my life with the occasional slurp flung in at the moment

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

Post Office by Charles Bukowski, enjoyed everything I've read by him, pretty bleak, full of drinking, sex and gambling in the grimy underbelly of the USA, most of his works are semi autobiographical written from the point of view of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Not always easy reading but strangely compelling.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Menus.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:51 pm

I'm nearly finished Freakonomics, which has some interesting theories in it.

The last fiction book I read was 'Flick' by Abigail Tartellin, all about a lad growing up in Marske. A lot of it was like my youth, although its aimed at teenagers I really got into it.

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:56 pm

HHhH by Laurent Binet. A strange sort of novel about the assassination of the 'Hangman of Prague' Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. I can't put it down.

Before that, Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd. Both excellent.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6477

Been plowing my way through the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child, I'm currently on the latest one called Personal.

All book lovers with some sort of e reader should register on this site

https://www.bookbub.com/home/

Basically they send you a daily e mail, based on your reading preferences, with deals and a lot of the books are free

shilts · **Joined:** Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:32 pm **Posts:** 1575

Read Neil Warnock's autobiography ageas ago - good read

Anything by Iain Banks (RIP) or even his sci fi stuff under Iain M Banks.

Reading Imajica by Clive Barker at the minute

Toxteth O'Grady · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:09 pm

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks is a great read, agree with shilts there.

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey is amazing, I couldn't put it down and I can't recommend it enough... Also the follow up, 'My Friend Leonard' is good. An unrelated book he wrote 'The Final Testament of the Holy Bible' is cracking as well!

Some other faves of mine are The Beach (much better than the film!), Just Kids by Patti Smith and The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. Anything by Kerouac as well.

Fatty eats roadkill · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:58 pm

Gruff Rhys- american interior. Very funny book about his search for a lost tribe of Welsh speaking red indians

Brian Honour's Left Foot · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:27 pm

Dinner with Mandelson by John Ashton - makes me laugh...

poolie1966 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:55 am **Posts:** 1182

I finished reading Tuesday's with Morrie, by Mitch Albom a few weeks back. Its about someone dying of ALS (the same disease that Stephen Hawking has) & then read Will I Still Be Me by Diana Sanders. A true story of a woman who needed a heart transplant. Now going to start reading something a bit less heavy, John Cleese's autobiography.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:49 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

Hartleblue wrote:

I could not ever read anything about Saville I just wish he was still alive and in prison getting some very just deserts rakxe

I wish he was still alive but not in Prison and people knew the real him!!!! rakxe

Was the paedophila and necrophila just an act and he was otherwise a really nice fella then

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:57 am

Evil Mr.Talbot....Pure Evil!!!! rakxe

kosherOY · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:48 am

Have also read 'David And Goliath' by Gladwell. I liked his take on the sling shot. Recently read Caroline Glick's book 'The Israeli Solution' and 'Hitler's Furies by Wendy Lower.....good reads both.

The J Dizzle · **Joined:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:21 pm **Posts:** 342

Currently reading Morrissey's autobiography, just finished reading The Stepford Wives and prior to that it was Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (my favourite writer).

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:26 pm

Currently on Squash & a squeeze, stick man and the smartest giant in town

born toulouse · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:43 pm

Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs and The North by Paul Morley.

Not far into either so can't say for sure but Stubbs' effort is doing well at getting me to listen to stuff I'd never really got into and Morley is keeping up his usual level of pretentious twattery and then dropping something really good in every now and again.

Toxteth O'Grady · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:53 pm

The J Dizzle wrote:

Currently reading Morrissey's autobiography, just finished reading The Stepford Wives and prior to that it was Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (my favourite writer).

I struggled through that book, the man doesn't half waffle on! Love his music both with the Smiths and solo, but that book is so awkward!
I enjoyed it a bit 'til it got to the part where they recorded Meat Is Murder... preachy or what!
Also not adding chapters and just having 400 odd pages of moaning was a pain in the arse.

kosherOY · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:49 pm

'Callum's Road' by Roger Hutchinson and 'Stargazing' by Peter Hill are good, for those who enjoy folk with character and personality in the most isolated of places.

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6477

monkeybutt wrote:

Currently on Squash & a squeeze, stick man and the smartest giant in town

not a patch on The Gruffalo or Room On The Broom

The J Dizzle · **Joined:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:21 pm **Posts:** 342

Toxteth O'Grady wrote:

The J Dizzle wrote:

Currently reading Morrissey's autobiography, just finished reading The Stepford Wives and prior to that it was Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (my favourite writer).

I struggled through that book, the man doesn't half waffle on! Love his music both with the Smiths and solo, but that book is so awkward!
I enjoyed it a bit 'til it got to the part where they recorded Meat Is Murder... preachy or what!
Also not adding chapters and just having 400 odd pages of moaning was a pain in the arse.

I'm about 50 pages in and doesn't seem bad, I've heard that the first half is good but the second half is just him ranting.

The J Dizzle · **Joined:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:21 pm **Posts:** 342

born toulouse wrote:

Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs and The North by Paul Morley.

Not far into either so can't say for sure but Stubbs' effort is doing well at getting me to listen to stuff I'd never really got into and Morley is keeping up his usual level of pretentious twattery and then dropping something really good in every now and again.

I have a presentation on krautrock worth 50% of my module grade in April so let me know if that's any good please

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:59 am

Fensy wrote:

monkeybutt wrote:

Currently on Squash & a squeeze, stick man and the smartest giant in town

not a patch on The Gruffalo or Room On The Broom

My kids would argue that sir, my personal favourite is stick man and never tire of reading it after 6 years banghead

kosherOY · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:44 pm

'A Year In The Life Of A Field' by Michael Allerby was quite interesting too. There's a lot happening in a field....though the stuff happening....ON....the field is rather worrying at the moment!

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

This guy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coles

Brilliant!!

born toulouse · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:53 pm

The J Dizzle wrote:

born toulouse wrote:

Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs and The North by Paul Morley.

Not far into either so can't say for sure but Stubbs' effort is doing well at getting me to listen to stuff I'd never really got into and Morley is keeping up his usual level of pretentious twattery and then dropping something really good in every now and again.

I have a presentation on krautrock worth 50% of my module grade in April so let me know if that's any good please

I can already say that he's clearly a lifelong fan who has made a real effort to put those influential bands into musical and social context. And over the years he has interviewed just about everybody that mattered. Get it read Mr Dizzle.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:08 pm

I love Stick Man, if I'd been working away the eldest would want me to read that to himwhen I came home, 'back in the family tree' and that.

Tootles the Taxi is still ellish, read that to the youngest now.

My mam found my 'little worm book' a couple of weeks ago and it's a firm favourite at the moment. I'll get round to reading it to the bairns at some point.

kosherOY · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:20 pm

I still have my childhood copy of 'The Adventures Of The Little Wooden Horse' by Ursula Williams....loved it as a kid.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:51 pm

I had that book too - is there a really sad bit in when he gets his head chopped off?

The J Dizzle · **Joined:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:21 pm **Posts:** 342

born toulouse wrote:

The J Dizzle wrote:

born toulouse wrote:

Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs and The North by Paul Morley.

Not far into either so can't say for sure but Stubbs' effort is doing well at getting me to listen to stuff I'd never really got into and Morley is keeping up his usual level of pretentious twattery and then dropping something really good in every now and again.

I have a presentation on krautrock worth 50% of my module grade in April so let me know if that's any good please

I can already say that he's clearly a lifelong fan who has made a real effort to put those influential bands into musical and social context. And over the years he has interviewed just about everybody that mattered. Get it read Mr Dizzle.

Ah great :D

kosherOY · **Posted:** Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:09 pm

"Is there a really sad bit in when he gets his head chopped off?"....Yes, and he almost drowns as a result. A kindly man makes him another before he "...trundles off into the moonlight".

BritishWestHpool · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:35 pm **Posts:** 1243

I'm reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Just finished Girl with a Pearl Earring and The English Patient. All great choices

MickMonkey · **Joined:** Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:55 pm **Posts:** 19

The J Dizzle wrote:

Currently reading Morrissey's autobiography, just finished reading The Stepford Wives and prior to that it was Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (my favourite writer).

Blood Meridian is one of my favourite books. Doubt I would like the Morrissey one but each to their own

Currently reading The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie.

The J Dizzle · **Joined:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:21 pm **Posts:** 342

MickMonkey wrote:

The J Dizzle wrote:

Currently reading Morrissey's autobiography, just finished reading The Stepford Wives and prior to that it was Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (my favourite writer).

Blood Meridian is one of my favourite books. Doubt I would like the Morrissey one but each to their own

Currently reading The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie.

I loved it too but I think The Road is my favourite by him.

What are you reading (book wise)?

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