What book are you reading?

[Wittonworrier]

A Game of Three Halves . Biography of Kenny Swain,ex.footballer, played for chelsea, ASTON VILLA, Nottingham Forest and [pay up] Pompey,now a coach, Swainey has had a glittering career,or at least he did when he was at The Villa!

[Low D]

Fortunately I have a thesaurus!

We used to have one as a pet. Mom made us get rid of it after it ate the dog.

I'm surprised that a thesaurus ate a dog. I'd've thought it would be more likely to manducate a canid.

If we'd been allowed to keep it, maybe i coulda said that...

[Toonboy]

Hwaksbee & Jacobs Clips of the Week. Very,very funny!

[Heather]

Soon to be reading:

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.

As it is the first show to be performed at the new Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

[KittyM]

I've just started A Drink With Shane MacGowan, I've read it 2 or 3 times, but it's been a few years now so I'm going to give it another read!

Also really want to read Here Comes Everybody

[Villa John]

How to Make Gravy : Paul Kelly. Kitty M,you obviously enjoy reading 'A Drink With Shaney Mac' ,i've read it several times too,modesty prevents me from mentioning pages -171-172 in which i get name checked,oops i just did!

[Low D]

I have just read the "Hunger Games" trilogy, along with my youngest (the older two read 'em when they were new). Actually really good. I think it's so wonderful that dystopic sci-fi is a hit with the young 'uns these days, since the world IS in fact going to hell in a handbasket and all. Nice that they'll be psychologically prepared for it.

[Toonboy]

Has anyone read 'The Best Night Out In Town'?,its written by a lifelong Pogues fan,apparently.Waterstones in Newcastle don't have it in stock,its available from Amazon and its received lavish praise by those who've read it,so,is it worth puchasing folks?

[firehazard]

Has anyone read 'The Best Night Out In Town'?,its written by a lifelong Pogues fan,apparently.Waterstones in Newcastle don't have it in stock,its available from Amazon and its received lavish praise by those who've read it,so,is it worth puchasing folks?

There's a (very positive!) discussion about it going on here, Toonboy: http://www.pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=16844

[Low D]

"The Road" (2006) by Cormac McCarthy. I guess it got a lot of attention at the time and there's also been a movie, but i'd never heard of it and just picked up somebody's forgotten copy at the community centre the other day.

Clearly it's earned it's reviews, i was unable to put it down and finished it in two days. Echos of Marry Shelly's "The Last Man", but even more bleak as it's not humankind dying but rather life itself on the face of the earth that has been extinguished, leaving only a dwindling number of humans scavenging the ruins and each other. The story is of a man and his young son. I found it powerful and moving and exactly the kind of a book a parent shouldn't read. Ugh, not sure i'm happy i read it though.

[firehazard]

"The Road" (2006) by Cormac McCarthy. I guess it got a lot of attention at the time and there's also been a movie, but i'd never heard of it and just picked up somebody's forgotten copy at the community centre the other day.

Clearly it's earned it's reviews, i was unable to put it down and finished it in two days. Echos of Marry Shelly's "The Last Man", but even more bleak as it's not humankind dying but rather life itself on the face of the earth that has been extinguished, leaving only a dwindling number of humans scavenging the ruins and each other. The story is of a man and his young son. I found it powerful and moving and exactly the kind of a book a parent shouldn't read. Ugh, not sure i'm happy i read it though.

Cormac McCarthy's a powerful writer. Finished reading his All the Pretty Horses a while ago. Recommended.

[Christine]

The Road is fantastic, very scary and haunts you for a long time after.

I just started Marquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made Rich Through Publicity, and Then Spurned by the Government and Forgotten for All Time. Highly recommended for Medusans for its similarities to that raft, poignant story of one sailor's miserable story but also an indictment of a corrupt government. True story, too.

[Low D]

OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
by David Kilcullen

Moving away from the remote and rural terrain on which guerrilla warfare has often been fought, this book explains why the future of modern conflict will be urban, coastal, and digitally networked.

‘…a brilliant book by the most unfettered and analytically acute mind in the military intelligentsia.’ — Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

Well I've just started it, so i can't give an opinion, but Mike Davis liked it so that's good enough for me!

[Low D]

The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

The latest (short) novel from Neil Gaiman. Exploring the idea of repressed traumatic childhood experiences, with the typical Gaiman ease of shift from this world to other, largely unexplained, worlds. It's this lack of explaining, for me, that lifts Gaiman's work a full head above his peers (I'd he even had any). Like oldy Greek or Celtic myths, which are always kind of weird and unexplained, Gaiman's stories leave you yearning for more.

[Frances]

Tuesday, November 11th, 7 p.m. – Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page will be signing copies of his book Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page at the Barnes & Noble located at 189 The Grove Drive, inside of the Grove shopping center, in Los Angeles.
http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/85507