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ok one for the book worm's

I'l start,, well apart from the piles of Digi Toggin mags

and spending loads of time on TP

the latest is Stephen King's The Dark Tower and i'm currentley about mid way through book 4.

also an avid fan of Lee Child ( Jack is the man ! )
apart from Cobra the PS GOD ! :)

David Gibbon's and Wilbur Smith and
Robert Ludlum (then Eric V L)the Bourne series
 
Vulcan 607 (or how the RAF got a very old plane a very long way to drop some very big bombs)
 
I'm more of an autobiography/biography reader so....

i'm currently working my way through "Eddie Jordan - An Independant man"
 
RobC said:
Vulcan 607 (or how the RAF got a very old plane a very long way to drop some very big bombs)
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I read that last year in Iraq...it went all round the office, including to all the Americans working with us - oh how they laughed at the bit where they chipped the concrete out of the refuelling probes and found the last remaining fuel-valve in existence being used as an ash-tray in the fitters' crew-room...

Talk about string and sellotape...

We used to have a whole Empire, FFS!

Reading John LeCarre's 'A Most Wanted Man' about post 9-11 paranoia and bumbling by the European Security Services...
 
Just about to start The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, seen the film a few times (Sean Connery) and fancied finding out how the author meant it to be.
 
The Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss
 
Just finished part 2 of the Warrior of Rome series by Harry Sidebottom, 'King of Kings'.

Glyn Iliffe is next - King of Ithaca.
 
Jeffrey Deaver - someones watching (or whatever it is called)
And something else I can;t remeber the full title of.

I think I am half way through a Terry Pratchett as well.
 
just picked up, the nostradamus phrophecies, 50 pages in and its ok.
 
I just read valentino rossi's autobiography and it was fappin fantastic. That said its the first book i've read since school (10 years ago).
 
flyingmonkeycorp said:
I've just finished "Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash" which was really good. Not sure what's next on the list - it was going to be Birdsong, but I lent that to a mate.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks by any chance ?

If it is then that is a good read.:thumbs:
 
Arkady said:
I read that last year in Iraq...it went all round the office, including to all the Americans working with us - oh how they laughed at the bit where they chipped the concrete out of the refuelling probes and found the last remaining fuel-valve in existence being used as an ash-tray in the fitters' crew-room...

Talk about string and sellotape...

We used to have a whole Empire, FFS!

Reading John LeCarre's 'A Most Wanted Man' about post 9-11 paranoia and bumbling by the European Security Services...
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Arkady if you haven't seen this one yet ( or maybe you have ) I could not put it down.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sniper-One-Blistering-British-Battle/dp/0718149947

Good read :)
 
There Is A Happy Land by Keith Waterhouse. We were forced to read it at school in Eng Lit class, I don't remember understanding it but it stuck in my mind for decades. This year I managed to get a rare film dvd of it, then shortly after a book. It's all coming back to me now.
 
Ancient Rome on five Denari a day.
 
david1701 said:
just finished 'kill your friends' which is a vvvvvvv funny book
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This book is fabulous, I am always recommending it to people.
For funny, I would recommend Mil Millington's books, specifically 'Things my girlfriend and I have argued about'
taster here http://www.mil-millington.com/

I am in the middle of Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - v good. Just finished Jeffrey deaver's latest (actually, is that even his name?), anyway the new Lincoln Rhyme one, which was ok, readable, easy, nothing special.

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Headless Lois said:
This book is fabulous, I am always recommending it to people.
For funny, I would recommend Mil Millington's books, specifically 'Things my girlfriend and I have argued about'
taster here http://www.mil-millington.com/

I am in the middle of Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - v good. Just finished Jeffrey deaver's latest (actually, is that even his name?), anyway the new Lincoln Rhyme one, which was ok, readable, easy, nothing special.

L
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HHMmmmmm will look out for this one... :thumbs:
 
Steep said:
Just about to start The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, seen the film a few times (Sean Connery) and fancied finding out how the author meant it to be.
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Hope you enjoy this one, as it's so much more than the scope of the film. The opening hundred pages are deliberately 'hard', but once past there then the narrative opens up and begins to entertain.

I'm reading J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood. It's the first part of a trilogy of autobiographical fiction, in which the author, looking back, is extremely hard on himself.
 
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im reading pride and prejudice and zombies. by jane austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.
 
Mile said:
I'm reading J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood. It's the first part of a trilogy of autobiographical fiction, in which the author, looking back, is extremely hard on himself.
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I should think so too. After the promise of his earlier writing, his latest stuff has been pretty poor imo. I used to be a fan, but no more.
 
Reading my manual on the D2X......In between Pilot issues monthly
 
Have now finished Child 44, and would highly recommend it, it is absolutely one of the best books I have read this year, and pretty unputdownable imo.
Now started City of the Sun by David Levien, which is also off to a good start.

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