What have you read recently?

rhouses

Finally giving The Spider by Leo Carew a read, quite fun and like that he’s approaching it as a murder mystery so far.

C_J

i’m about 100 pages into In Ascension by Martin MacInnes.

Pretty “deep” so far

(that’s actually a really clever joke but you wouldn’t know that unless you’d read the book or at least knew what it was about).

C_J

C_J i’m about 100 pages into In Ascension by Martin MacInnes.

This was really good by the way. Would recommend. Young, talented Scottish author.

Homegrove

I’ve given King and his publishers a few bucks over the years. Add to this about 10 of his books translated to Finnish I got before I got good enough in English to read him on the original language. I left those with my parents when I got my first own place.

gcw

Homegrove have you got Rage? They discontinued it didn’t they years ago, but I have the version of The Bachman Books that has it in

Homegrove

gcw yeah, same. Got the Bachman-books on paperback.

Along_the_Wire

Just read The Amateurs by John Niven. Classic John Niven, very funny and enjoyable and more so if you like golf

Homegrove

I finished my through read of everything William Gibson’s written (well almost everything, did not include his screenplays). The Difference Engine (his only collaboration written with Bruce Sterling) was pretty bad, but enjoyed all his solo works. The Blue Ant-trilogy (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History) was my favorite. I read his books otherwise in the order they were published, but ended with Distrust That Particula Flavor, which is a collection of his non fiction essays. It was great way to end it, because it helped make sense of what I’d otherwise just read.

rhouses

Got about 200 quid to splurge on books from the company (normally use this for badminton/tt classes, but paying the coaches under the table this year).

Any must-have coffee table hardcover books worth looking at? Design, art, music, history…

vinnyt77

rhouses

https://www.taschen.com/en/books/photography/40819/kubrick-photographs

RichM

rhouses https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0CHLDHKHX/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

C_J

rhouses not sure how well these fit your key terms there mate but i can highly recommend these two books:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-theory-of-everyone/michael-muthukrishna/9781399810630

https://www.waterstones.com/book/21-lessons-for-the-21st-century/yuval-noah-harari/9781784708283

rhouses

vinnyt77 Argh. Rs. 20K on Amazon India. But will search it out.

Amps I’m not submitting an invoice for that.

RichM This is India. I have an app where I hit a few buttons and a plumber is in my house fixing the mess, within 30 mins.

Amps

https://www.taschen.com/en/books/photography/03848/the-big-book-of-breasts

Dubman

Just Finished ‘ The most dangerous man in Brighton by Martin Webb’ A gangsters second man decides to steal a million pounds from his boss. There’s a lot plot twists along the way It’s all set in & around Brighton.

I’m now going to read ‘Purfume by Patrick Suskind’. I first read it over 20 years rated it.

alistair

Just finished “Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics” by Dylan Jones. Brilliant, well researched/told read on that era

rhouses

Ended up getting Taschen’s latest “complete paintings” of Dali, Van Gogh, and Basquiat. Not very original, I know. The fourth book was a Taschen compilation of Japanese wood block paintings. All very sexy looking, and I’m hoping they will bring some value to my daughter’s life down the line. Doubt most of her generation will know who they are.

The Rizzoli stuff was quite nice too. Maybe next financial year.

rhouses

C_J Easy kindle purchases, will load it up.

Homegrove

Stephen King - The Dead Zone (1979). King at some point said this is his best book. I don’t agree, but it’s a damn good one. Greg Stillson is also pretty damn close to Trump in many ways (“regular” people love him, as does the press), but I guess it’s just the fact that both are populists.

Recommended if you’ve not read this one. Not seen the Cronenberg-adaptation ever, might have to check it out. I’ve seen clips of Martin Sheen as Stillson comparing him to Trump, and he at least seems perfect. Christopher Walken might be too weird for me as Johnny Smith.

Mad_Cyril

Homegrove it’s a damn good one

Trigger pulled

gcw

Homegrove one of his absolute best books IMO. I’ll prob dig it out now for yet another read.

Would recommend the movie also, its one his better adaptations.

JonQPublik

Homegrove The Dead Zone, book and film, are in my top five for SK books and film adaptations. I agree that Walken was a weird choice for the main character, but he actually works well in that role.

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