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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Muzzzz on August 23, 2008, 05:27:26 AM
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Title says it all. Any readers here? What do we enjoy reading? What are we all reading at the moment?
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Love to read, better than most hollywood movies out there. Currently reading Ronnie Wood's biography, very interesting but The Faces seem to have been skipped over!
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It's funny, I used to read loads, but hardly seem to get the time these days. I should get back into it really.
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We read an awful lot.
I just finished "Citizen Soldiers" by Steven Ambrose.
Might be about to reread Ian Kershaw's two volume Hitler biography, or possibly Anthony Beevor's "Stalingrad" or "Berlin".
On a musical note, I read Gerry McAvoy's "Riding Shotgun" recently - pretty good, but a little bit sad about Rory.
I seem to have been reading a lot of non-fiction recently though, might take a break and dive into the well-stocked bookshelves to see if I can find something that won't look too girly on the tube!!!
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Steven Ambrose books are always great Andy. The Hitler biog is now available in a single volume( what happened in the end?).Currently I am reading a Peter James novel though-an easy read.
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i like thrillers- baldacci, coben, grisham, etc., cr@p like that. it's hardly culturally significant, but it's good fun, and i'm reading for fun.
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Absolutely agree Dave. Have you tried Lee Child's books?
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I just wandered into the local charity bookshop this morning and picked up "Brief Lives" by John Aubrey. I'm also currently re-reading "Watchmen" for the eight millionth time, and I'm halfway through "Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon which is killing me. I found "V" and "Gravity's Rainbow" exhilarating, and "Mason & Dixon" was exhausting but incredibly entertaining; but "Against the Day" may just be far far too much of a very very good thing.
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Absolutely agree Dave. Have you tried Lee Child's books?
Loved the first dew Jack Reacher books...havent kept up of late
Used to read tons- sarted with Stephen King
Later enjoyed Grisham, Patricia Cornwall and Kathy Reichs and loads of stuff like that
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I can't remember any time in my life when I wasn't reading a book. :)
Nearly always fiction - I'm not a big fan of biographies or non-fiction. I read all sorts of stuff but haven't actually bought anything for a while - we have a "library" in work where people dump old books, so I've been mostly reading so-so thrillers recently. Can't really give an exhaustive list of "favourite" authors, but I really like Joe R Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, Peter Straub, Michael Moorc--k and I love old classics like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (especially the non-Holmes stories) and of course Charles Dickens.
Currently reading Congo by Michael Crichton, which is absolute cobblers. His writing style is dreadful.
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I love old classics like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (especially the non-Holmes stories)
Brigadier Etienne Gerard pour la victoire! :D
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Absolutely agree Dave. Have you tried Lee Child's books?
nah, i never got round to getting/reading one. i always meant to, they seemed to be in the same section as the stuff i like (and the blurbs seemed to suggest they were similar). they're good, i take it? :)
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Entertaining.His character Jack Reacher is quite engaging.Worth a punt. I have read them all-got hooked pretty quick.
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I love old classics like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (especially the non-Holmes stories)
Brigadier Etienne Gerard pour la victoire! :D
Absolutely. And the bold Sir Nigel an' all! :)
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Entertaining.His character Jack Reacher is quite engaging.Worth a punt. I have read them all-got hooked pretty quick.
thanks mr 38th, i'll give them a shot. :)
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Read Confucius' first 10 books on the coach to reading. Was truly enlightening. How pretentious do I look though =(
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Yeah, you should be on the tube :lol:
I'm reading The Hitchhickers Guide to the Gallaxy at the minute, but I keep hearing the voices and seeing the people from the telly series in my head when I read it and it's kind of taking the fun out a bit. Got Going Postal by Terry Pratchett next.
Generally though, I don't really read anything with a story. Normally a physics book or a Haynes manual or something. Trying to expand my horizons a bit.
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Just finished reading The Dirt. Although I'm not a fan of Motely Crue and not really familiar with any of their stuff it really is an entertaining book. Plenty of laugh out loud moments but also a few really, really sad and touching parts.
I'm now on to reading 'Hiding the Elephant - How Magicians Invented the Impossible' by Jim Steinmeyer. It's not too bad, a bit heavy going but interesting if you like that sort of stuff.
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I havnt read anything (non work related) for the last 7 months as I'm all read out after 3 to 4 books per week while I was stranded in London foe 3.5 years
The last ones I read where
My bass and other animals, Guy Pratt
The Derren Brown book (forget it's title)
& the scariest book ever
The History of Mind Control (forget the author)
There's a lot I want to read but I needed a rest for a while
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My bass and other animals, Guy Pratt
One of the very few rock autobiographies I've actually enjoyed reading. :)
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The Derren Brown book (forget it's title)
& the scariest book ever
It's on my list too...... although I can't remeber the name of it either.
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The Derren Brown book (forget it's title)
& the scariest book ever
It's on my list too...... although I can't remeber the name of it either.
Heh I actually meant that the following book was the scacriest book ever, compared with what doctors have done Mr Brown is an absolute saint (though his pre showbiz background is facinating)
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I don't read as much as i used to but i am currently reading a great book about the life of 'The Ice Man' aka Richard Kuklinski. He was a Mafia contract killer and was one of the most deadly assassins the world has ever seen.
http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3573015/The-Ice-Man-Confessions-Of-A-Mafia-Contract-Killer/Product.html
buy it!
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Currently reading a pretty good thriller called The English Assassin by Daniel Silva, not bad for a freebe.
I read thrillers a lot but do like biographys. Richard Cole's Stairway To Heaven was a good read. He was the road manager. Must get a few Keith Moon books for my holiday in a few weeks.
I'll give any book a go. Read Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man that was mental. London Fields by Martin Amis, very funny!
Dirty Havana trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez is just the epitome of promiscuity, filth but funny too. George Orwells' down and out in Paris and London is a real eyeopener! Also lots of guitar books about song writing, theory, technique.
Texts books on Engineering, the physics of loud speaker design, thats a cracking read!! Or photographers print books but thats not reading but stunning to thumb through all the same.
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At least no-one has fessed up to reading wiring diagrams to 1960s Marshall amps.....
Yet!! :lol:
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Johnny is good in mentioning Goerge Orwell. Not just the obvious 1984 and Animal farm( though great reads) there are some great essays and novels. Catch 22 of course is a must read.