Anyone Read Any Decent Books Lately?

Gearoid uses Politics UK, Urban Geography, The Global Perspective and Utopia On Trial: vision and reality in planned housing as an aid to masturbation.
 
Read - 'Lies and the Lying Liars that tell them' by Al Franken on a plane yesterday. (3 hours on tarmac in Paris - Heathrow closed) - very biased - very funny!
 
Interesting book that An, you should try anything by Noam Chomsky if you enjoyed Franken.

I also recently read Mark Ronsons "Men Who Stare at Goats", which is a fascinating insight into some the ideas of some high ranking officers in the US army.
 
I finished "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" & it was fantastic - I really would recommend it, it is beautifully written.

Since then I have read "The Virgin's Lover" by Philippa Gregory which was quite good, & I am now reading Steven Pressfield's "Alexander, The Virtues of War" which is good so far.
 
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor ( a modern Victorian thriller with as a character the young Edgar Allen Poe )
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon ( a good yarn set in Barcelona mid 40s but a bit predictable)
The Count of Monte Cristo - you need a holiday to read 1200 pages of Dumas - couldn't put it down
Saturday by Ian McEwan - what a great novelist he is
 
I keep meaning to read Atonement by him but it never seems to get to the top of the "to read" pile.
 
PDJ bless him B)

SL yes - same guy . Not read any of those yet . This was an impulse buy at Stansted Airport - excellent .
 
well they are written for under 11s- can I recommend Stig of the Dump next :lol:

PS I read The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe again recently before giving it to my god-daughter - it is brill
 
The Chronicles of Narnia are fantastic.....

Seriously James, I cannot recommend the Roth Trilogy highly enough - I have them in one volume if you want to borrow them!!
 
I loved that book - it is the best description of what it feels like to be about 8 or 9 ever
 
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I'll have you know was very precocious as a child!!! I had read all of Enid Blyton's books by the age of 8, & the headmaster at my primary school told my parents it was unantural for a child of that age (8) to spend most of their time reading books about the Ancient Greek myths & legends!!! (mind you, he was put away for kiddy fiddling a couple of yesra gao...I knew he was a perv!! :blink: ) I had also read Riders & Rivals by the age of 12, & Flowers in the Attic by the age of 10!!!!!! :lol:
 
Actually, my favourite books as a very small child (about 5 or 6) were the ones used as educational books, they were about a boy with a black cat who was magic & who used to turn up on a broomstick at his bedroom window; together they would go on journeys throuigh magic worlds battling witches & the like - in one of the books they battled against a moor full of piles of stones that turned into giants - can anyone remeber what the books were called?
 
I was more into the "Adventure" books - the Iland of Adventure, Valley of Adventure et al. You'd have to go a long way to beat the Magic Faraway Tree too!!!!
 
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