Search:

Ahhh I remember reading and re-reading The Goshawk as a kid... fantastic book, I loved it. Must look for a copy!

:)

Alan

Could not agree more. Have you read Blood Meridian? I thought it was excellent (incidentally, the audiobook version read by Richard Poe is very, very good).[/quote]

The Road...scariest book I've...

Me too, finished 'The Light Fantastic' recently and then read 'Spook Country' (Gibson)

Now reading 'The Gone Away World' by Nick Harkaway, I'm about 100 pages in an it's a great read so far

:)...

Last week I finished 'Bumblebees' Ted Benton (new naturalists), I like to read non fiction on a regular basis, in fact I'd say the ratio fiction:non-fiction is 50:50 these days.

Over the weekend...

A Book of Bees - Sue Hubell - about beekeeping (!) I'd like to have a go at that someday

The Walking Dead - Gerald Seymour -the first book I've read by this author and although I enjoyed it I...

Just finished 'Wild Places' by Robert Macfarlane - excellent, makes you want to go live in the Scottish hills....

Next is Neil Gaiman - 'American Gods'...I'm about 3 chapters in, so far so good
...

Sounds interesting Dunk :)

I've just finished 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I actually stopped reading it halfway through because I found it too stressful emotionally. but a week later I picked...

I'm tempted more towards classics too at the moment Bob. I bought Senecas ' On the shortness of life' and Aurelius' "Meditations' recently. I find I need to read books which really make me think...

'What was lost' by Katherine O'Flynn .........excellent book which reminds you what freakin idiots we are in falling for the whole 'consumerism is the path to happiness' lie and what we have given up...

Just finished 'Black Mass...apocalyptic religion and the death of Utopia' by John Gray.

This book explained an awful lot to me about what is happening in the world and the world view it proposes...

Just finished 'The Crow Road' by Iain Banks - excellent :)

Read in the last few weeks -

Kingdom Come - J.G. Ballard

Tescopoly

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Shane Warne, portrait of a flawed genius - Simon Wilde

Just finished 'Measuring the World' by Daniel Kehlmann, a fictionalised story of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, the mathematician.
Humboldt explores the...

Boy, that takes me back Bob. A great book. I think I read her books 4-5 times :)



Yep, still happens now too I guess. Though they rely more on the sharpness of their lawyers than their...

Reading 'Agent Zigzag' by Ben Macintyre, it's about the wartime agent / double agent Eddie Chapman. Fascinating stuff, what a great life to have lived. Before this I read Gerald Seymours latest ' Rat...

Me too... :)

:)

Alan

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (editor of Wired) -

it's about how the Internet has increased choice and how companies now sell a much wider range of goods (eg previously hard to find CD's etc)...

Just finished 'Killer Elite' by Michael Smith (Defence corr. for The Times and former military int.officer).

It's about the U.S. special forces intelligence group which is known as 'The Activity'...

I'm reading 'Cloud Atlas' by David Mitchell and enjoying it a lot...I hope I can work it out before the end :?

Brilliant writing though

:)

Alan

Just finished ' The Spanish Game' by Charles Cummings.

It's a novel about a British ex spy who is based in Madrid. I found it very entertaining aand a good quick read.

Before that was the '...

Just finished 'The Lighthouse' by P.D. James. I've never read any of her work before but I really enjoyed it. Apparently it's not one of her best but I thought it was alright.

:)

Alan

'The Shadow of the Almighty' by Elizabeth Elliot

The story of her and her husbands missionary work with Indians in Ecuador and his subsequent killing by Auca natives

cheers

Alan

'The Somme' - Peter Hart

I'm reading Moby Dick but I just bought 'The Historian' by Elisabeth Kostova which is getting rave reviews so I'm looking forward to that next

cheers
Alan :)

Dirt Music - Tim Winton (should have won the Booker) (also 'Cloudstreet' or 'The Riders')

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

Anna Karenina - Tostoy

The 'Boudica' books - Manda Scott
...