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MC Prussian

What are you reading at the moment?

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I think we all like football here, so you should all get on and read Fever Pitch if you haven't aalready. :thumbup:

Fever pitch is fantastic, as is the rest of Nick Hornby's stuff....

There is also some interesting literature on football hooliganism. Most of the memoirs are a bit cheap and just 'beat-em-up' tales, but for a better more academic perspective a good but accessible book is Gary Armstrong 'Knowing the Score'.

Ian Mcwean is a great author. Again pretty accessible stuff, but perhaps more 'high-brow' than Hornby (although I don't buy into critic snobbish attitudes to books).

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The Sand, The Bucket and Me.

Very, very funny account of childhood camping trips.

Also just finished "The Room", an fictional account of a hostage from a child's perspective, written as if by the child himself, who is born to his mum whilst she is held captive by a guy who snatched her off the street in a random kidnapping. They are kept locked in a 12 x 12 room and their only view of the world is through a skylight. This is the only place the child has ever known and his entire world is the room. Until...

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