A jolly good read?

[Langers]

The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. A broad brush frolic through the house of the most violent bastards that ever lived. Wonderful stuff.

I might give that a look. The White Queen has stirred my interest in that era again.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

I would recommend Gallipoli by L A Carlyon.

Possibly the best book about the Dardanelles campaign in 1915. And interestingly, Carlyon does not lay all the blame for the failure at the British, as most others have done.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

On hols I have been working my way through pillars of the earth. Really well written stuff. I should have read it years ago.

 

[North West Wanderer]

Currently reading Warday, a fantastic what if book set five years after a nuclear war

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Currently reading Warday, a fantastic what if book set five years after a nuclear war

I seem to recall reading Warday some years ago, and it is indeed an excellent read. Superbly written, and the description of post nuclear attack America is both surreal and chilling. The one thing I did question though was how a nuclear attack could wipe out New York, yet leave Manhattan Island relatively unscathed save for the nuclear fallout.

 

[North West Wanderer]

Purely from where the bombs fell and where the winds were afterward I think.

 

[Parkins left foot]

'Nothing for Tears' by Lali Hortsmann.

A German living just to the east of Berlin in the last days of the war. Whilst she was of the Upper Classes (doubt that the book would have survived otherwise) a good example of the futility of war & the impact on the majority.

A rational being would see all of this as futile, though it continues to happen!

 

[b3h]

B3h get yourself some Stephen King, you wont regret it.

My random list is as follows, few hours before I hit Waterstones though:


-The Da Vinici Code
-Frankie Boyle Autobiography
-A Storm of Swords
-The Penal Colony
-"A Stephen King book"

If you want some SK suggestions then my personal favourites are:

11/22/63 (Time travel back to the 60's - his best book for years IMO)
Salem's Lot (Vampire book)
The Shining (About a haunted hotel)
The Dead Zone (Man goes into coma, wakes up with new ability - a fantastic book IMO)
The Green Mile (About death row - I'm sure you've seen the film)

I am STILL only 4/5 of the way through. I hope that, if you can remember back to when I asked for some suggestions for a book for my holiday and afterwards, you will see why it was important I got a good book! It's very good and I'm hoping it plays out well in the last 5th (he hasn't taken the bloke out yet, he's just looking after Sadie and just done the college show to raise funds for her surgery.)

 

[PPB]

This isn't a jolly good read but I won it in a Library raffle last month , which is just my luck as neither do I fecking knit or do I own a dog. The title " Knitting With Dog Hair " ( Better A Sweater From A Dog You Know And Love Than A Sheep You'll Never Meet )

If anyone else wins this in a raffle or receives it as a gift, then rip the pages out and either use it as toilet paper , line ya parrots cage with it,or eat your fish n chips out of it .

 

[Lord Knows]

Wait till we get you home. Theres drunk, and theres plastered.

"He was then seen to go down the High Street with his trousers around his ankles and his T-shirt pulled up over his head.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-caught-cctv-having-sex-2266791

 

[PPB]

Wait till we get you home. Theres drunk, and theres plastered.

"He was then seen to go down the High Street with his trousers around his ankles and his T-shirt pulled up over his head.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-caught-cctv-having-sex-2266791

:icon_lol: what a sad twat !!

 

[UKYankieWWFC]

After months of searching I finally found Brian Lumleys book (13th in series I think)
Necroscope. The Touch!
So engrossed in it I finished it in less than a week!

 

[So Long Architect]

The Devotion of Suspect X. A Japanese crime thriller (translated to English obviously). Not so much a whodunnit but a howdunnit. If you like a twisty turny very clever story where you don't see how it all fits until the end, you'll probably like this.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Sounds pretty good SLA. Judging by the Haruki Murakami books my wife reads Japanese books tend to be a bit weird, but that one sounds like it might be up my street.

Currently reading a Philip Roth book my mate lent me - The Plot Against America.

 

[So Long Architect]

Sounds pretty good SLA. Judging by the Haruki Murakami books my wife reads Japanese books tend to be a bit weird, but that one sounds like it might be up my street.

Currently reading a Philip Roth book my mate lent me - The Plot Against America.

That's a very good book. I do like Philip Roth.

Suspect X isn't Japanese weird at all. The writing is a little stilted but I think that's probably the translation (useless bloody translators!). It's one of those books where you think you know where it's going and then suddenly it changes direction. Then you look back and you see how everything you've read fits the final scenario.

 

[PPB]

Looking forward to starting ' Bonkers ' by Jennifer Saunders. Just read that she has made some remarks on certain subjects though , that aren't very nice. :/

 

[Hereford Wolf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls:_The_Infernal_City

Surely one for Hereford?

For some reason I don't like 'fantasy' books...but games are fine!

 

[Hereford Wolf]

I am currently reading, "The story of the SS" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brutal, horrifying, and a stark reminder of what man is capable of doing to his fellow man.

Thanks for that - now on my Kindle.

 

[Hereford Wolf]

Reading Kurt Wallander books by Henning Mankell at the moment.

Very atmospheric - you almost feel you are living in a very dark, cold Scandinavian winter.

Very good read - great stories.

 

[t3ch]

Finished Song of Ice and Fire (game of thrones series). Good god those were some long books, took me 2 months to finish.

So good!!!