lou Posted 13 July 2009 Posted 13 July 2009 Cant mention anything high brow like all these novels everyone else seems to read on ere I read autobiographys usually and have just read Alan Carrs which was brilliant and got me a few strange looks on the plane for laughing out loud.
Lillehamring Posted 13 July 2009 Posted 13 July 2009 A Million Little Pieces is fantastic. Absolutely gripping and beautifully written.I've never actually read any Martin Amis but I get the impression he's considered massively pretentious..? Currently, and for the forseeable future, I am reading this: It's bloody massive but I'm loving it. ha, well, no where near as pretentious as will self--- i first read London Fields when i was about 18 and loved it, and have just read it again, as if for the first time, and it is incredibly well written, i'd heartily recommend it to anyone who likes a well thought through, atmospheric book about london - great characters and fabulous descriptive technique, funny and sexy... oh, and if that was gisela in your avatar...
Webbo Posted 13 July 2009 Posted 13 July 2009 Just finished this; Typical Wilbur Smith, sex and violence in pre war British Africa. A lot of the dialogue is shockingly corny but I love these kind of books.
BoneDog Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 This is really good I reckon you'd like this aswell. I used to read loads of these kind of books and this one was shat-hot. I'm sure it's a true story of some US special force guy who helped the Afghanis in the war against Russia
BoneDog Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 I'd been meaning to buy the God Delusion for ages and did so last week. For anyone interested, it is simply the best, most brilliantly argued book I've read in a very long time. Richard Dawkins is a genius. Are you serious?!! The most brilliantly argued? Normally Dawkins does have some very good arguements, but not in this book, it's mainly a poor rant. The below book is better! It shows up the flaws and unusually poor arguements from Dawkins in the other book. One quote (by an atheist) from the cover "The God delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why". This quote is from Michael Ruse who is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. And if you read The Dawkins Delusion you'll see what he means.
Guest Bilo Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 Are you serious?!! The most brilliantly argued? Normally Dawkins does have some very good arguements, but not in this book, it's mainly a poor rant.The below book is better! It shows up the flaws and unusually poor arguements from Dawkins in the other book. One quote (by an atheist) from the cover "The God delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why". This quote is from Michael Ruse who is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. And if you read The Dawkins Delusion you'll see what he means. Come on. A poor rant? With endorsements from one of the discoverers of DNA and a Nobel laureate as well as one from a noted Harvard psychologist? As for the counter-arguments, Dawkins blows them apart in the later version (the one I own).
Asha Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 I'm currently reading the best selling book of all time.
Webbo Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 I'm currently reading the best selling book of all time. The Ikea catalogue?
BoneDog Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 Come on.A poor rant? With endorsements from one of the discoverers of DNA and a Nobel laureate as well as one from a noted Harvard psychologist? As for the counter-arguments, Dawkins blows them apart in the later version (the one I own). He doesn't. Have you read both books? And are you saying that Michael Ruse is a little deluded by questioning Dawkins' arguements? If you read both books I think you would change your mind. (Not your beliefs, just your opinion about Dawkins' book) As for Watson, yes he might endorse it, but there are many more at The Human Genome Project who don't. Many of the folk who know alot more about DNA than Watson (and Dawkins) have come out and said that the DNA structure is a great proof that Dawkins theories are shite.
BoneDog Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 I'm reading all 7 parts of this at the moment. On part 4 and they are very good. Funny
BoneDog Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 No The Bible :thumbsup: I thought Lord of the Rings at first
stez Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 I'm reading all 7 parts of this at the moment. On part 4 and they are very good. Funny the 'according to...' books are very funny too i struggling to read 'the pickwick papers' at the moment, it's bloody hard work i tells thee!
Webbo Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 the 'according to...' books are very funny tooi struggling to read 'the pickwick papers' at the moment, it's bloody hard work i tells thee! I always find Dickens hard work, that's why I don't bother any more.
Lillehamring Posted 14 July 2009 Posted 14 July 2009 the 'according to...' books are very funny tooi struggling to read 'the pickwick papers' at the moment, it's bloody hard work i tells thee! worth it though - i've been thinking of going back to dickens quite a bit, but they do take me a while - little dorrit took me an entire summer vacation
welck12 Posted 15 July 2009 Posted 15 July 2009 I'm reading all 7 parts of this at the moment. On part 4 and they are very good. Funny My internet at work is being crap and wont show me any pics at the minute, which book is it?
BoneDog Posted 15 July 2009 Posted 15 July 2009 My internet at work is being crap and wont show me any pics at the minute, which book is it? Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall. It's his WW Deuce memoirs and it's in 7 parts, this is the first. Very entertaining
welck12 Posted 15 July 2009 Posted 15 July 2009 Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall. It's his WW Deuce memoirs and it's in 7 parts, this is the first. Very entertaining Might have to have a nosey at it myself
Saladin Posted 16 July 2009 Posted 16 July 2009 Reading a really good book called 'Petrodollar Warfare', can be found here , gives a alternative but believable explanation as to why the US decided to go to war with Iraq. Definately recommend it.
Fosse Boy Posted 17 July 2009 Posted 17 July 2009 Do you not know the rules yet? I know that whatever Ponting did, he's out.
stez Posted 19 July 2009 Posted 19 July 2009 I always find Dickens hard work, that's why I don't bother any more. worth it though - i've been thinking of going back to dickens quite a bit, but they do take me a while - little dorrit took me an entire summer vacation i'm persisting with it, because it is amusing, but if he got to the point the book would only be 10 pages long, it's the overly flowery language i'm finding tough, by the time i get to the end of the sentence, i've forgotten what the event was that he was describing! oh, that's right, ten lines on mr tupman coming through a door.
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