What have you read recently?

Dan

Alistair has kindly lent me Mein Kampf…. Quite an enjoyable read.

wrongun

Jules72

I’m Not Really Here by Paul Lake…. I always like a football biography when I need some light reading. This is an alternately sad and amusing story of Lake’s footballing development from schoolboy to the verge of playing for England (some say he was destined to be an England captain), before his cruciate ligament snapped. This story of his struggle through operations, aborted comebacks, depression and eventual (very) early retirement from football is well worth reading .. strongly recommended.

Along_the_Wire

I’m not a particularly massive book reader, but have started reading a little more recently as it helps with a bit of mindfulness and getting me off to sleep. Does anyone have any decent book recommendations? Something dark and funny ideally - Iain Banks/Irvine Welsh/John Niven sort of shizzle

Cheers

vinnyt77

Along_the_Wire Kevin Sampson’s worth a punt. Powder’s probably my favourite of his - very Niven-esque, but they’re all readworthy.

Homegrove

John Connolly’s Parker-series is awesome. Read the latest in full yesterday. Started at 2 PM and with some breaks ended at 10 PM. 400 pages or so.

He’s Irish, but the books are based in the US. They’re PI-books with a supernatural twist. Quite violent, and Connolly writes really beautiful prose. Lee Childs he isn’t. My wife loves the Jack Reacher books, and I read the first one, but found it not to my tastes.

The Parker-series starts with Every Dead Thing, and if you like it there are about twenty more.

Along_the_Wire

Homegrove cheers H!

Along_the_Wire

vinnyt77 Bought this as well, cheers Tim

Kells77

Finished up the Stephen Fry books on the Greeks - Mythos, Heroes, and Troy (although I think there’s one more in the works about the Odyssey) and now reading “Caligula” by Simon Turney. After that, another book by Turney - “Commodus”.

Amps

Kells77 How heavy going is this? I’m still tempted.

Smallman1

Too hot to read.

Dubmick

anyone got any good modern day fiction recommendations for the holidays?

bosstrabs

Dubmick

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-21st-century-so-far.html

Probably only read about 20% of these, still it’s a good list of recommendations. Personally, I loved The Corrections and Platform.

Dubmick

bosstrabs Thanks for that will check it out. Love all Franzan’s books, would consider re-reading. Good oul platform. Great bit of filth in his books lol.

Smallman1

bosstrabs Probably only read about 20% of these

Palestine.

Mad_Cyril

bosstrabs
Anything Houellebecq.

Have look at Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let me Go’ as well.

Jules72

bosstrabs great list this Dave - need some new books to read 👍

mono-stereo

bosstrabs Just finished Platform. Not sure what to make of it tbh. I think I enjoyed it, although I found it quite bleak.

bosstrabs

Mad_Cyril Interesting Houellebecq fact:

While his brother Danny kept the English spelling of the name, Michael adopted a French spelling to ensure literary success.

Mad_Cyril

bosstrabs
Also, Micky has actually written more books than Danny has scored goals

LT42

‘Blood Gun Money’ by Ioan Grillo, about how America supplies the weaponry and fuels the drug wars. Holy shit!

Smallman1

LT42 ‘Blood Gun Money’ by Ioan Grillo, about how America supplies the weaponry and fuels the drug wars. Holy shit!

Any cop?

Sounds mustard!

LT42

Smallman1 brilliant book imo, Grillo has been deep in Mexico since around 2003, fantastic journalist

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