What are you reading?

[John Duncan]

 

[chebby]

Re-reading Nicholas Rodger's "The Command of the Ocean" (A Naval History of Britain Vol 2 1649 - 1815) and "The Safeguard of the Sea" (A Naval History of Britain Vol 1 660 - 1649)

I am re-reading these in anticipation of his third volume being published in June this year.

 

[Lost Angeles]

J D Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye, I must be missing the Uni Education cause it just passed me by.

 

[John Duncan]

Never read it. Nor To Kill A Mockingbird. The latter is obviously a favourite of parents at school, we have Jems, Scouts and Atticuses...

 

[chebby]

Never read it. Nor To Kill A Mockingbird. The latter is obviously a favourite of parents at school, we have Jems, Scouts and Atticuses...

No Boos then?

 

[Alec]

The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennet. Just starting Occupy by Chomsky.

 

[chebby]

The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennet. Just starting Occupy by Chomsky.

I have that on BBC CD. It's no longer available as a CD but you can get it on iTunes for £3.95 ...

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-lady-in-the-van-dramatised/id321657882

 

[Alec]

it's not read by Bennet. I had a Whinnie The Pooh audio book read by Bennet. On cassette. I think it might have been the coolest, well, thing, ever.

 

[DIB]

If you like Mark Radcliffe (and I do) then this is a very entertaining read.

.

 

[Alec]

by Malcolm Kendrick.

 

[richardw42]

Currently reading The Strain (Guillermo Del Toro) and enjoying it.

Now have a quandary, as I'm recording the tv series and don't want to spoil that. Decisions.

 

[tinkywinkydipsylalapo]

 

[Covenanter]

Loads of text books for my MA in Military History that I have just started. For relaxation have just finished Satre's "The Age of Reason" and am a few pages into "The Reprieve" the second book in the trilogy, a much harder read as he runs several themes in parallel and skips between them sometimes on a sentence by sentence basis. I haven't read them for about 20 years which was too long to wait!

Chris

 

[DIB]

Another music related biog..

.

 

[Alec]

by Mark Everett. And a weight training book by Fred Hahn. Grrr.

 

[Alec]

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

 

[Alec]

by Owen Jones.

 

[Alec]

This year I have read:

Simology by Sam Feltham

Blue Is The Warmest Colour

As I write I'm starting The Meat Fix by John Nicholson.

 

[Lost Angeles]

After Flodden by Rosemary Goring, a fictional tale around the battle of Flodden. Something we never covered in History at school all those years ago. I might learn something.

 

[Alec]

John Habgood.

 

[Diamond Joe]

The DIY guide to natural stonework by JAC Harrison *yes3*

 

[chebby]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Britain-Begins-Barry-Cunliffe-ebook/dp/B008YU1H1E/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1425815735

 

[Alec]

by Malcolm Kendrick.

 

[DIB]

I'm going to bump this thread up as I've been devouring books of late.

Currently enjoying greatly this one:

Such a wonderful writer, I've loved all his books bar none. My wife and I went to see him at Bury Met last year when he was on a speaking tour of the UK promoting his new book The People's Songs. A quite wonderful 2 hours of chat and a nice meet and greet afterwards.

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[NMANo1]

Just finished this classic.

Been wanting to read it for years after hearing so many bands, artists & 'heads' citing it a post modern classic dealing with a near future dystopian England. One of my old favourites, Hawkwind had a song called 'High Rise' from 'PXR5'. Joy Division, another personal favourite have a song on their album 'Closer' called 'Attrocity Exhibition', a JG Ballard novella.

Beautifully written with a genuine, charismatic style & a vivid claustrophobic, dark intensity.

Turned the last page, closed the book & thought... what a pile of merde.