What are you reading tonight?

[clapton is god]

Back in October I signed up on audible.com. I'd previously listened to about half a dozen audio books on CD and always enjoyed them, particularly in the car on long journeys, so this seemed like a good next move. It's a basic £8 a month which gets you one book and additional books are then often cheeper if you buy the Kindle version and then the audio version as well - Whispernet sorts out where you are up to on each device and keeps them synched together.

Since then I have bought about a dozen books and love listening to them. I am well and truly hooked! I have finished the first two of Ken Folletts 'Century' trilogy, and have the third lined up, and have more recently listened to Everest 1953, which is a Boys Own adventure on that epic climb. Loads of stuff I didn't know about the expedition. I'm currently about half way though Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which is marvellous stuff. Each book is a performance, similar to listening to a play.

Free 30 day trial on Amazon if anyone fancies giving it a whirl.

[TANGODANCER]

James Lee Burke I can relate with Clapton's view. They're good, but unlike some others like Connelly, Rankin, Jardine and Lee Child, I wouldn't ever want a re-read. (I finished the latest Jack Reacher "Personal" not long back and also Never Go Back, and re-read The Affair

Harry Bosch is a firm favourite and I've also read all R.B.Parker's Spencer novels and two of his westerns: Appaloosa and Resolution (got Appaloosa with Ed Harris and Vigo Mortensen on D.V.D and it's excellent.) Just starterd James Patterson's Mistress .

[TANGODANCER]

I'm currently about half way though Mario Puzo's The Godfather, which is marvellous stuff. Each book is a performance, similar to listening to a play.
Free 30 day trial on Amazon if anyone fancies giving it a whirl.

I must be one of the few dinosaurs left on the planet who still owns a video player. A few weeks back I bought Godfather I,II & III videos in brand new condition for £1-50 at a Charity shop. Don't think the assistant could believe her eyes, nobody buys these things any more it seems. My good luck.

[General Mannerheim]

i feel like that buying dvd's! saw Alpha Papa in Tesco for £3 the other day. thought i might as well have it.

went to put it on, turns out the dvd player went in the loft ages ago!

[Dujon]

Finally! I finished Monsarrat's Richer Than All His Tribe. After a rather laborious start it turned into a decent sort of yarn but included interludes which, other than peripherally, didn't add much to the story line. The novel follows the fortunes of a mythical African country as it moves from dependency to independence after years of British rule as a protectorate. There are parallels with other African countries which have experienced the same process - which is the main thrust of the book. Whilst it's a bit jerky over all, Monsarrat does present a reasonably acceptable description of such an event. I wouldn't recommend anyone to rush out and buy the book, but if it's available at your local library then by all means borrow it and then return it when you get bored.

[Raven]

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This am really enjoying it, will let reviews their from brighter sparks than me explain it

And this

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Mankind's vile acts of evil are unbelievable at times

[TANGODANCER]

Robert Goddard's Blood Count (with a tiny disturbed feeling I may have read it before)?

[Lord Kangana]

Just in the middle of reading my (signed hardback ) copy of Alan Johnson's biography.

Very human, very engaging, very enjoyable.

It was that or Boris Johnson's waffle about Churchill. I think I asked for the right present.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Robert Goddard's Blood Count (with a tiny disturbed feeling I may have read it before)?

Like me with movies these days! I watch everything for the first time every time.

[TANGODANCER]

Just finished John Le Carre's " A Delicate Truth". Cracking, as ever. Who does shady dealings at the Foreign Office better?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Robert Goddard's Blood Count (with a tiny disturbed feeling I may have read it before)?

Like me with movies these days! I watch everything for the first time every time.

Dunno how. They're all remakes of remakes or part 6 or 7 with 99% of the story line of the previous 5 or 6.

[General Mannerheim]

Just in the middle of reading my (signed hardback ) copy of Alan Johnson's biography.

Very human, very engaging, very enjoyable.

It was that or Boris Johnson's waffle about Churchill. I think I asked for the right present.

remember when he put us in the lead at Ipswich right before the Barry Knight show! also his missed penalty in the semi final...

[thebish]

rather topically - I am currently reading "January Window" - about a coach at a Premier League club and a murder!!

Scott Manson is team coach for London City football club. He's also their all-round fixer - he gets the lads in to training, and out of trouble, keeps the wags at bay and the press in his pocket. The players love him, the bosses trust him.

But now London City manager Joao Zarco is dead, killed at his team's beloved stadium at Silvertown Docks. Even Scott Manson can't smooth over murder... but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

Set in the glamorous but corrupt world of Premier League football, this is a gripping thriller from a bestselling crimewriter.

it's not particularly well-written - but is interesting because of its setting! It mentions real players and people alongside this made-up team (where a few small London clubs were bought up and amalgamated by a russian oligarch...)

[TANGODANCER]

Just about to re-visit an old classic after a long absence: Erskine Childers-Riddle of the Sands.. published in 1903. Old-style derring do.

[General Mannerheim]

being a big fan of his film work (his tv work less so) i bought that Richard Ayoade book after i read santa sent a copy to bish on another thread.

i had to sack it off after about 50 pages, the whole interviewing himself format did my head in. the joke wore thin very quickly and he is just talking uninteresting bollocks.

left it on a train.

[KeyserSoze]

Finished 'No Country for Old Men this morning.

Great book. Very melancholic. And brilliantly written. And violent when it needs to be.

[TANGODANCER]

Got The Constant Gardener to start shortly.

[LeverEnd]

Finished 'No Country for Old Men this morning.

Great book. Very melancholic. And brilliantly written. And violent when it needs to be.

Love it. McCarthy is just about the greatest living writer I can think of. His earlier works are incredibly dark and violent. Have you read All The Pretty Horses? He started to lighten up at that point.

I'm on Police, the latest novel in Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series. Only just started though.

[General Mannerheim]

Just bought no country on Amazon for 1p plus £2.80 postage.

Hope to have more joy than the Ayodae one...

[thebish]

Just bought no country on Amazon for 1p plus £2.80 postage.

Hope to have more joy than the Ayodae one...

not the book for you if you're looking for joy!!