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[The East Terrace]

He was that, I thought the book would get behind the headlines a bit but it was written by a journalist who just re-lived some of his greatest moments and not much else. I remember seeing Charlie score a belter against Barnsley at Highbury, he could light up a game with a moment of magic.

 

[mistermagic]

Wuthering Heights is a bit of a strange book as it's a love story but very atypical. It does have one of the best literary characters of all time in it in Heathcliffe, a rough, hard and complex character who spends most of the book looking for revenge. He's a but of a brute but you can't help but root for him.

I was sceptical about reading it at first but I really liked it. Given the small cast, it's quite an incestuous setting so it gets a little complex with who is who. The other difficult bit is the Yorkshire dialect of Joseph (although he is a minor character).

In summary, it's probably not what you expect, but give it a go, stick with it and you should like it. As you know, I voted it in my list.

Started fine but bit of a soap opera now.
I agree on Joseph's dialect. It's a good thing he doesn't get too much dialogue in the book.

 

[Hooped Wizard]

Finally got round to reading I, Partridge.

Ruddy good book

 

[Red]

120 days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade. Weird.

 

[Stevencc]

You are a pervert mate.

 

[Red]

You are a pervert mate.

Ahem, actually I'm reading as to get an insight into the depravaties that humans can sink to. Have you read it Ste? I'm about three quarters way through and it's becoming more and more disturbing.

 

[lordofthepies]

Pervert.

 

[Aber gas]

Ahem, actually I'm reading as to get an insight into the depravaties that humans can sink to. Have you read it Ste? I'm about three quarters way through and it's becoming more and more disturbing.

Course you are mate

 

[Stevencc]

Ahem, actually I'm reading as to get an insight into the depravaties that humans can sink to. Have you read it Ste? I'm about three quarters way through and it's becoming more and more disturbing.

I've not read it yet mate but I know a fair bit about it and also the film adaptation.

Being a pervert myself I will end up reading it at some point though.

 

[Red]

Course you are mate

Right fuck you lot ! I didn't even know what the word sodom meant before I started reading it. I had an inkling that sodom was a coastal resort on the north east coast of England. I suspected the book was about a group of 4 dandy lads having an extended holiday there with no bum love or coprophilia. It is indeed the story of four dandy lads. As of now I am 3/4 of the way through the book and no mention has been made of the seaside. Disgusted as I am by what I have read thus far I shall continue to do so until the story does gravitate towards being about the seaside. I'm sure it will at some point.

 

[Pliny Harris]

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Kenko. Impulse buy from those 80p Penguin books that're being sold. Nice cheerful ramblings from a bloke who was around in the middle ages, what he likes and doesn't like. Remind me somewhat of ancient MySpace bulletins.

 

[Red]

I've just finished reading the Boleyn inheritance by Phillipa Gregory . It was an exceptionally good read if you like historical fiction

 

[appletablepenny]

For the past 2 months I have been reading Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". The internet hates this book and the author. I don't have any strong feelings either way, other than to wish it was about 900 pages shorter.

 

[SUTSS]

Finished Down and Out in Paris and London. Now onto Starman by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony which is about Yuri Gagarin.

 

[mistermagic]

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1340576977

My goodreads review of Wuthering Heights. Started Ravage of Barjavel yesterday.

 

[Sparrow]

I finished The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game the other day. Provided some good insights into professional football. His first book is the best one he's done but this was readable. Also read The Nowhere Men that is about football scouts. Really interesting and well written by Michael Calvin.

Started Turning My Back on the Premier League now. Manchester United fan decides to support his local team, Dagenham & Redbridge, instead.

 

[SALTIRE]

Ahem, actually I'm reading as to get an insight into the depravaties that humans can sink to. Have you read it Ste? I'm about three quarters way through and it's becoming more and more disturbing.

Sadist!

Into book 6 of the Aubrey/Machurin novels - The Fortune Of War, arrrrrgghh me hearties!!!

 

[Oaf]

I'm currently reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, having just read Half Blood Prince. That shock at the end of the last one, didn't see that coming !!1!!!1three!!!

 

[Techno Natch]

Just finished "Alone in Berlin" by Hans Fallada. I enjoyed it greatly even though it was slow and spent a long time building the characters. It's based on the true story of a couple who, after the death of a family member start dropping anonymous postcards around Berlin denouncing Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Hans Fallada lived in Germany during the war and it gave an interesting insight into what life was like for the average German at the time.

The author himself lived a interesting life and wrote this book just before his death in a mental asylum. Worth reading if you can cope of the slow pace.

 

[blade1889]

Anybody ever read this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-Humankind/dp/1846558239

 

[smat]

Just finished "Alone in Berlin" by Hans Fallada. I enjoyed it greatly even though it was slow and spent a long time building the characters. It's based on the true story of a couple who, after the death of a family member start dropping anonymous postcards around Berlin denouncing Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Hans Fallada lived in Germany during the war and it gave an interesting insight into what life was like for the average German at the time.

The author himself lived a interesting life and wrote this book just before his death in a mental asylum. Worth reading if you can cope of the slow pace.

Yeah that is briiiiilliant. The characters and background is so lovingly constructed that I didn't mind the slowness at all, I loved it.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Read I Am Pilgrim while I was on holiday this week. Pretty sure it was in the top 100, in which case whoever nominated it did a good job. I'm not really a big reader of thrillers, but I thought this was superb. It's a bit longer than it needs to be, but a real page-turner so it didn't drag. A few bits that didn't quite seem believable or that I just didn't like, but on the whole I'd recommend it to anyone.

 

[mistermagic]

Read I Am Pilgrim while I was on holiday this week. Pretty sure it was in the top 100, in which case whoever nominated it did a good job. I'm not really a big reader of thrillers, but I thought this was superb. It's a bit longer than it needs to be, but a real page-turner so it didn't drag. A few bits that didn't quite seem believable or that I just didn't like, but on the whole I'd recommend it to anyone.

It was. Finished 50th.

 

[This Charming Mike]

Read I Am Pilgrim while I was on holiday this week. Pretty sure it was in the top 100, in which case whoever nominated it did a good job. I'm not really a big reader of thrillers, but I thought this was superb. It's a bit longer than it needs to be, but a real page-turner so it didn't drag. A few bits that didn't quite seem believable or that I just didn't like, but on the whole I'd recommend it to anyone.

It was either top or second on my list, so you're welcome. I think I'd agree with your assessment of it on the whole, though when the writing is as good and gripping as it is in I Am Pilgrim, I always find it difficult to criticise a book for being too long as I find myself longing for more. The author is a fairly successful screenwriter/producer, which I think really helped this book because at times it read like an action film, and I can certainly see one of the big Hollywood studios buying the rights to it soon.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Pretty sure someone already has bought the rights to it.

 

[Pyeman]

Just finished Sanctus by Simon Toyne.

A bit like the Da Vinci Code in terms of the religious conspiracy angle, yet in this book the religious organisation and location are purely fictional.

Overall it was a decent read. It's the first of three books so I'll give the next a try.

 

[TimeyWimey]

Just finished The Humans by Matt Heig, which was a good read if a little soppy at times for my liking.

Currently half way through The Girl With All The Gifts. Really liking it, turning into one of the best books I've read in ages. Wont give too much away as there seems to be an early twist. Where Im currently at does seem a little formulaic for its genre but it's still pretty gripping.

 

[SUTSS]

Anybody ever read this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapiens-A-Brief-History-Humankind/dp/1846558239

I have. Pretty interesting read but a little dry in parts. Feel the author lets their own political opinions seep into it at times as well. Still worth a read though.

Just finished The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock. A great book. Effortless dialogue and you really feel invested in the characters' lives.

 

[blade1889]

I have. Pretty interesting read but a little dry in parts. Feel the author lets their own political opinions seep into it at times as well. Still worth a read though.

Just finished The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock. A great book. Effortless dialogue and you really feel invested in the characters' lives.

That's the feeling I get with most of those kinds of books tbf. Remember in the Selfish Gene how one of Dawkins' first comments was that he wast going to let his religious views get in the way and then bible bash, which of course he then did.

I'm in two minds about getting it, from the bit I know of it its probably similar to my own viewpoints on certain things...which is interesting in one way but more interesting to read about alternate viewpoints.

 

[Techno Natch]

I am Pilgrim is being moved into a movie, I think the writer of the book is also a script writer? It will transfer well to the big screen I am sure.