StanSP Posted 1 March 2010 Posted 1 March 2010 very interesting ,nice easy to read book Got lots of pictures in it then
Zingari Posted 1 March 2010 Posted 1 March 2010 Got lots of pictures in it then not enough for my liking i'd best stick to the beano
Lillehamring Posted 1 March 2010 Posted 1 March 2010 currently reading against type with Tom Rob Smith's 'The Secret Smile' - mainly because i really enjoyed 'child 44' - nowhere near as good so far, but still quite gripping.
FoxyPV Posted 1 March 2010 Posted 1 March 2010 Any of the Jasper Fforde novels are amazing! Count of Monte Cristo is an essential read too
Webbo Posted 9 March 2010 Posted 9 March 2010 Just finished 'One hump or two' Frank Worthington's biography. Most of it is bragging about the women he's had(and there are quite a few) but the chapters about his time at Leicester are fascinating. Some of the names and places mentioned take me back to Leicester in the 70s when I was a kid. One or two funny stories as well. Well worth the £1 I spent on ebay for it.
Libertine Posted 9 March 2010 Posted 9 March 2010 Finished Lolita by Nabokov today. Awesommme. Started Animal Farm (Orwell) and A Tranquil Star (Primo Levi) too.
Guest Bilo Posted 12 March 2010 Posted 12 March 2010 Finished Lolita by Nabokov today. Awesommme. Started Animal Farm (Orwell) and A Tranquil Star (Primo Levi) too. Amazing books both. Orwell is probably my all-time favourite writer for his works about totalitarianism, so much so I'm considering writing a dissertation on him. A good bokk if you're interested in Orwell as a whole is Orwell's Politics by John Newsinger. I went to his lecture during Cultural Exchanges at DMU and it was genuinely fascinating. Lolita is a fantastic work too, much misunderstood because of its content. Certainly one I'd recommend though.
Lillehamring Posted 12 March 2010 Posted 12 March 2010 I've just started the worryingly long East of Eden by John Steinbeck... long long overdue, 10 pages in i'm already hypnotised
MC Prussian Posted 6 April 2010 Posted 6 April 2010 In times of trouble it's all about the Hesse: What a cracker - one of the best things I've read in a long time. So revealing, intriguing, fascinating - a great little book for all things life concerned.
Daggers Posted 7 April 2010 Author Posted 7 April 2010 Don't like biogs, especially not sports biogs, but someone gave this to me as an early birthday present and it was OK. Leicester occupy three lines.
FoxyPV Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 Read this recently - Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka. Pretty harrowing account of immigration.# And - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - based on the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War - again pretty harrowing. Both fantastic reads and would recommend to anyone. Going to start A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hiosseini so if you don't hear from me it's probably because I will be in hospital with a massive depression.
The Doctor Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 reading Jeremy Clarkson - Don't Stop Me Now. Basically a compilation of newspaper columns in which he critisizes everyone and occasionally passes judgement on a car. Just about finished reading this though and moving on to "Round Ireland with a fridge" by Tony Hawk - It's accounts of his hitchhiking round the irish coast with a fridge as part of a bet with a friend.
Head Honcho Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and just about to start The Girl who Played with Fire.
Narborough_fox Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 Reading Peter Shilton My Autobiography, Very interesting read as I feel I can learn a lot from it.
Lillehamring Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 been on a diet of american 50s literature: James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, John O'hara amongst others. needed a break so opted for 'Summer Moonshine' by P G Wodehouse. funny.
Guest Bilo Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 Probably shouldn't use this thread for this purpose but what the hell? I'm writing my dissertation on how British literature since 1960 has represented the changing face of the working classes and am looking at a number of texts to study as part of it. I'm currently looking at A Kestrel for a Knave, GB84, Union Street and Trainspotting as well as some works by Tony Harrison. Thing is, I'd like some more up to date suggestions that chart the changes that have occurred since the election of a New Labour government. Does anyone have any suggestions? They'd be greatly appreciated.
iBleedLeicesterColours Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 My Favourite book is Goodnight Mister Tom It was a made into a film/drama type thing, and starred John Thaw, very moving, as is the book. Brilliant Film. Not read the book. Other books i like: Gerrard Auto (My hero) .. and Cass.
Fosse Boy Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 Goodnight Mister Tom was possibly the best book I read as a kid.
Ozwin Posted 1 June 2010 Posted 1 June 2010 Reading "Bret Hart - Hitman - My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling" Pretty good so far, I don't even like wrestling anymore but he was my fav as a kid so I had to check it out.
Lillehamring Posted 2 June 2010 Posted 2 June 2010 Probably shouldn't use this thread for this purpose but what the hell? I'm writing my dissertation on how British literature since 1960 has represented the changing face of the working classes and am looking at a number of texts to study as part of it. I'm currently looking at A Kestrel for a Knave, GB84, Union Street and Trainspotting as well as some works by Tony Harrison. Thing is, I'd like some more up to date suggestions that chart the changes that have occurred since the election of a New Labour government. Does anyone have any suggestions? They'd be greatly appreciated. not sure if this fits, timewise, but it's a fabulous book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_late_it_was,_how_late - by James Kelman could also try andrea levy, but i think she's a terrible writer
Guest Bilo Posted 2 June 2010 Posted 2 June 2010 not sure if this fits, timewise, but it's a fabulous book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_late_it_was,_how_late - by James Kelman could also try andrea levy, but i think she's a terrible writer 1990's Scotland, stream of consciousness style, controversial Booker Prize winner with police brutality and disability as issues. Definitely worth thinking about including as I reckon I could get very interested in that book, which in turn would lead to a good section of my diss. Many thanks sir!
James. Posted 3 June 2010 Posted 3 June 2010 Read this. It's brilliant and genuinely very, very funny.
Zingari Posted 3 June 2010 Posted 3 June 2010 another good one to keep us nutters banging on about how the official 911 narrative and official explanations just do not add up
FoxyPV Posted 3 June 2010 Posted 3 June 2010 been on a diet of american 50s literature: James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, John O'hara amongst others. needed a break so opted for 'Summer Moonshine' by P G Wodehouse. funny. Try a bit of Jasper Fforde of light-hearted, intelligent fun - The Eyre Affair is the start of the Thursday Next series or The Big Over Easy for the Nursery Crime series.
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