Books The BOOK thread

utdalltheway said:
anyone try these?

my MP3 player has the function that allows me to upload and listen to these. I tried the excerpts of 5 books that came with the player and some seemed ok. depends on the narrator of said books I'd say though.
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Its great for listen on the way to work in the car etc.,i prefer a good old fashioned book over audio ones tough i just isnt the same feeling and i also read pretty fast so i easily get bored with the audio ones.
 
Christ only seeing this topic now.


I hate fiction - Anyone feel the same??

Have over 50 books on Everest - and if anyone wants to read something on everest try -

Into Thin Air by Jon KraKauer (he was left for dead at the summit and walked into camp 2 days laters)

The Climb - Anatoli Bourkeev - excellent read about the 1996 tradegy on Everest

Total High - The Everest Challenge - Grania WIllis, an Irish Woman with little climbing experience and numerious unfortunate circumstances during her life climbs the North Ridge


Also just finshed Alastair Campbell's Diaries - Took me ages to finish (I usually fly through books but Because you can pick it up easily and there is no real story it was easy to let sit, So cann't say I was engrossed by it) but was a good read and enjoyed.

Another one I just started and finished was The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay - Very easy read, very funny and a great insight in The Irish Comedian
 
Been on a Dystopian trip of late. Finished 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Neuromancer recently.

Also read in the past month :

What Ho ! - PG Wodehouse
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Illium - Dan Simmons (Still reading)
 
Currently reading 'The Dragon Reborn.'

Which is the third installment of the 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan.
 
Currently reading the Lucifer comic series, which is a spin-off from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.

Great stuff.
 
Bought a couple of Mario Puzo's, Richard North Patterson's and John Saul's recently at a 2nd hand books sale. Did not have time to read them yet as exams are around. But did finish reading Crichton's Jurassic Park though which I thought is way, way better than the movie. Same with The Green Mile, way better than the movie.
 
bazalini said:
Christ only seeing this topic now.


I hate fiction - Anyone feel the same??

Have over 50 books on Everest - and if anyone wants to read something on everest try -

Into Thin Air by Jon KraKauer (he was left for dead at the summit and walked into camp 2 days laters)

The Climb - Anatoli Bourkeev - excellent read about the 1996 tradegy on Everest

Total High - The Everest Challenge - Grania WIllis, an Irish Woman with little climbing experience and numerious unfortunate circumstances during her life climbs the North Ridge


Also just finshed Alastair Campbell's Diaries - Took me ages to finish (I usually fly through books but Because you can pick it up easily and there is no real story it was easy to let sit, So cann't say I was engrossed by it) but was a good read and enjoyed.

Another one I just started and finished was The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay - Very easy read, very funny and a great insight in The Irish Comedian
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I dont hate fiction but I do prefer non fiction. Best book I have read recently is the biography of Ayan Hirsi Ali - I might have posted on that before tho. Currently reading In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. Good book.
 
Heres the book im currently reading.

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Pig Island ​

Plot Summary: "The novel's protagonist is Joe Oakes - "Oakesy" - a journalist who makes his living exposing supernatural hoaxes. So, when a bizarre videotape recorded by a tourist catches a glimpse of a disturbing creature, half-man half-beast, wandering the beaches of a remote Scottish island, Oaksey is just the man to investigate. Pig Island is home to a mysterious religious community, the Psychogenic Healing Ministries, and its leader Pastor Malachi Dove, and they ask him to come to the island to debunk the rumours of Satanism which are the result of the videotape. Oaksey has met Pastor Dove before, and the two have a long-standing threat to make good on.

However, Oaksey's visit throws up more questions than answers. Why does the wider community not want him there? Why will no one talk about the creature seen wandering the island? What lies beyond the wood and the gorge that almost splits the island in two, with a fence that has rotting pig heads atop its posts? Most importantly, what has happened to Pastor Dove, not seen on the island for years, and why will no one talk about him? Joe's visit to the island, and its horrific conclusion, is only the beginning of the legacy that Pig Island will leave on his life."

Im only a few chapters in but im really enjoying it so far, im not really the book type but i just want to keep reading this one and see what happens.
 
I recently read the much acclaimed 'The World Is Flat'. Decent enough book but a bit repetitive. He's managed to write a best seller by stating pretty much the obvious.
 
Grafters by Colin Blaney is a top read

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That's Andy Nicholls on the left and Cass Pennant on the right by the way, he's mates with them both.
 
Any of you Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime ever read The Religion, by Tim Willocks?

Triffic
 
'Last Chance to See....' by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. Good book.
 
bazalini said:
Christ only seeing this topic now.


I hate fiction - Anyone feel the same??

Have over 50 books on Everest - and if anyone wants to read something on everest try -

Into Thin Air by Jon KraKauer (he was left for dead at the summit and walked into camp 2 days laters)

The Climb - Anatoli Bourkeev - excellent read about the 1996 tradegy on Everest

Total High - The Everest Challenge - Grania WIllis, an Irish Woman with little climbing experience and numerious unfortunate circumstances during her life climbs the North Ridge


Also just finshed Alastair Campbell's Diaries - Took me ages to finish (I usually fly through books but Because you can pick it up easily and there is no real story it was easy to let sit, So cann't say I was engrossed by it) but was a good read and enjoyed.

Another one I just started and finished was The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay - Very easy read, very funny and a great insight in The Irish Comedian
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Into Thin Air is great
 
Any Bill Bryson book, i especially recomend "life and times of the thunderbolt kid" Hanibal Rising is another good book, the film is somewhat of a let down.
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
You have to read the translation by R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky. Simply the best read out there.

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Fact.

Their translation of "Brothers Karamazov" is my current favorite. The old favorite being the Constance Garnett version.
 
TheSwede said:
Its great for listen on the way to work in the car etc.,i prefer a good old fashioned book over audio ones tough i just isnt the same feeling and i also read pretty fast so i easily get bored with the audio ones.
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I would recommend having a look at the Teaching Company (http://www.teach12.com/). They've got some brilliant lectures on there, most of which do well as purely audio. For those of you stuck in traffic on a daily basis, it's the way to go. I'm up to 340 hours worth.

Also any of the BBC Shakespeare productions are a great listen. The actors are the best, and the dialog never gets lost in annoying sound effects. Also, towards the end of King Lear, I swear you can hear Judy Dench fart. "Govern her! She is desperate!"
 
reading the Golden Compass by Philip Pullman now

or Northern Lights as it's named in the UK
 
What's Crime and Punishment about? It's about a student in Russia who plans to kill this person for money. The book revolves around his thoughts and how he convinces himself that his motives are good and that he would be helping the world by killing this person. It's one of the best written novels ever. There's this scene I love to go back and read where the detective meets the student.

Another book, The Idiot by the same author is also an excellent read.

His books while being great fictional reads are heavily influenced by modern philosophy and deal a lot with the characters' inner turmoil.

Also read Dr. Zhivago by Paternak after that and you'll fall in love with russian writers.
 
Nice one, cuntos. I'm currently drawing up a reading list. So I take you lot don't like Asimov?
 
Spoonez el Grande said:
What's it about?
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some random cnut from the net said:
My first thought after reading this book( daggerspell ), is that it's somewhat
different from the standard fantasy novel, and that it introduces some
new aspects to this world of literature. After giving it some more thought
I find that I'm probably partly right and partly wrong. You'll find everything
you expects to find in a fantasy story, such as magic, elves, dwarfs, gnomes,
gods and the fight between good and evil. What I find quite different with
this story is how it's written, it's a story that spans over centuries,
and yet is about the same people all the time, or rather their various
reincarnations. Simply a great book, and probably a great start to a great
series (haven't read any of Katherine's other works yet, but I surely will).
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i copied that review from some website somewhere
 
mehro said:
Over Crime and Punishment? What's it about?
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I've not read Crime and Punishment. Gravity's Rainbow's the best novel I've ever read, I reckon.

It's about lots of things, but the basic premise is, there's this American spy in London in WWII, and every time he bones anyone, a V2 rocket lands in the place where the boning took place, about a day later.
 
I need some advice... is this book any good?
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Also, by what you have read, what books on Manchester United do you most strongly recommend? I would prefer something about George Best (I know way too little about him), Sir Matt Busby (I would like to know more) or something that I might not have known at all. Any help will be greatly appreciated, especially by my girlfriend who doesn't have a clue as what to buy me for Christmas :)

Thank you
 
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