clint van damme
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Started this, really enjoying it.
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Started this, really enjoying it.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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Just started Ade Edmondson's autobiography, pretty good to be fair
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Great to hear that. Honestly the one I mentioned above this one is brilliant. Especially given the debate on here on the Nottingham incident I wish more people would read it and have a greater understanding of mental illness and crime.
clint van damme
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Yeah I've caught them.
clint van damme
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It's all very centrist (the podcast, not read the book), but it still provides a good insight into how politics work.
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Just finished this (the audio book version).
An incredible story and a startling insight to life in Russia and the incredible levels of corruption, right from the top.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Amazon.co.uk
An incredible story and a startling insight to life in Russia and the incredible levels of corruption, right from the top.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Amazon.co.uk
Agree, and Campbell does like to breeze over issues related to the Blair administration but well worth a listen.
clint van damme
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Cheers, will take a look. I almost don't want to read it though because it looks like it will make me angry
clint van damme
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clint van damme
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Just been reading this thread to get some recommendations as I'm right back into reading at the moment so may as well bump it.
Just finished The trading game by Gary Stevenson and currently reading Bob Mortimers autobiography.
Just finished The trading game by Gary Stevenson and currently reading Bob Mortimers autobiography.
Sky Blue Pete
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Liked that one about Bob Mortimer
Sky Blue Pete
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Reading the three body problem
Short stories by Stephen king and mythos by Stephen fry
DawlishSkyBlue
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Trying to get thru the top 100 best fiction lists, though think it will take me years. Crime and Punishment was a struggle though glad to get through it. Ulysses I gave up on at 80 pages though I'll try again one day. The Great Gatsby easy read and a good book. Salingers stuff I really enjoyed, ditto Cormac McCarthy. The Siege by Helen Dunmore is bleak but brilliant. Same with Handmaid's Tale. Currently halfway through Heart of Darkness
clint van damme
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What Cormac McCarthy?
Finally got round to reading Blood meridian earlier in the year, fuck me!
DawlishSkyBlue
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Yeah I think his stuff is great. Blood Meridian is one I've not read yet but have read the three books of the border trilogy, and The Road. Blood Meridian is meant to be a bit brutal!
clint van damme
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It certainly is!
Mcbean
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Have just read Vulcan 608 by Rowland White which details the raid on the Falklands - brilliant story about the outbreak of the war and the requirement to take out the runway - it’s a true story , even though I knew the result it was difficult to put it down - he has also written about the Buccaneer raid in the British Honduras debacle I am reading that now
Kneeza
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Catching up on the 'post-retirement' Rebus books.
I read all the others up to Exit Music, and loved them, but didn't get onto the next stage of his life as I (I think) couldn't see how Rankin could make it interesting.
I was wrong. Am reading them one after the other now, and nearly up-to-date (two more to go after this one - In a House of Lies).
I read all the others up to Exit Music, and loved them, but didn't get onto the next stage of his life as I (I think) couldn't see how Rankin could make it interesting.
I was wrong. Am reading them one after the other now, and nearly up-to-date (two more to go after this one - In a House of Lies).
jimmyhillsfanclub
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Have you read Bob Mortimers "Satsuma Complex"? Its a great tale & fucking hilarious in places. Great holiday reading.
DawlishSkyBlue
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Are all the books set in Edinburgh? Having read most of Iain Banks and Irvine Welsh's books I feel like I know the place inside out despite only ever spending one afternoon there
Mcbean
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If you enjoy Rebus the Stuart Macbride books are excellent fair Logan McRae books - very funny - they do go in order
Kneeza
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Cheers. Will avagander.
Kneeza
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Yes, all in Reekie, although he ventures north a few times in his old Saab.
Still mired with Ger Cafferty too.
I too feel I know Edinburgh pretty well, and have only ever driven past on the way to the road bridge!
clint van damme
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Bought it, will read it next.
DawlishSkyBlue
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Finished Heart of Darkness; for a short book i found it hard to read and i didn't really enjoy it. A rare case of the film (Apocalypse Now was adapted from it) being better than the book. On to Catch 22 now!
Mcbean
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We were given Heart of Darkness at school was crap with all the hidden meanings we were just pubescent boys - didn’t need all that at the time - when I first got a kindle about 15 years ago it was on the free list so I thought I would give it a go again - lasted one chapter and binned it
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Great_Expectations
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Giving this a bump as I need some holiday book inspiration! My current favourite genres and authors are in the below.
Any recommendations?
Any recommendations?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Fatherland (Robert Harris) and The Man In the High Castle (Phillip Dick). Both very interesting stories set in timelines where the Axis won WW2.