What are you reading tonight?
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Having a re-read of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. Saw it in the library and just had a yen to read it again.
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New issue of VIZ, and lo and behold there's a new Drunken Bakers comic strip! Lovely stuff.
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Halfway through Fatty Batty. Absolutely superb.
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anybody read this? might pick it up... Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything
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I'm reading Alan Sugars autobiography 'What you see is what you get'. A page turner but good God he's a self righteous tosser. Always quite liked the guy before hand as well
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"Try to take control of it and not meeeeee...."Harry Genshaw wrote: 'What you see is what you get'.
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Just bought the Titanic Thompson book - any read/reading it?
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General Mannerheim wrote:Just bought the Titanic Thompson book - any read/reading it?

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How do you think film and book compare? I think the film tidies up a plot that is a bit convoluted in book form.TANGODANCER wrote:Having a re-read of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. Saw it in the library and just had a yen to read it again.
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Enjoyed the film, but the books were great for the period they were written in. Films have made Bond a bit too tongue -in-cheek amusing for me. Daniel Craig is a decent and more believable Bond, but I liked the original scripts from Fleming. As I said, they were of times past. None the less enjoyable. I'm currently reading The Falconer's Tale, a modern day spy/intelligence novel.ratbert wrote:How do you think film and book compare? I think the film tidies up a plot that is a bit convoluted in book form.TANGODANCER wrote:Having a re-read of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger. Saw it in the library and just had a yen to read it again.
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Much much much prefer the Bond books to films.
Started 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson - all about the history and evolution of football tactics. Heavy stuff but very engaging.
Started 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson - all about the history and evolution of football tactics. Heavy stuff but very engaging.
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'Alone in Berlin' by Hans Fallada.
I think it was mentioned on here some considerable time ago and i've just got round to getting it. Looking forwards to making a start on it this evening.
I think it was mentioned on here some considerable time ago and i've just got round to getting it. Looking forwards to making a start on it this evening.
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Just finished Dunblane unburied. Absolute shite.
Movd onto 'In the shadow of Papillon' which has already got me gripped.
Movd onto 'In the shadow of Papillon' which has already got me gripped.
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Just got into John Grisham's The Innocent Man. Based on a true story and with great reviews.
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Read that last year Tango. It's a good unTANGODANCER wrote:Just got into John Grisham's An Innocent Man. Based on a true story and with great reviews.
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Read too many Grisham books, they all just blend into one now
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Just starting everyone's favourite ex US president's book. Should be interesting.
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Just finished it HG. Non-fiction and a real eye-opener into a part of the great American justice system. Enjoyed it.Harry Genshaw wrote:Read that last year Tango. It's a good unTANGODANCER wrote:Just got into John Grisham's An Innocent Man. Based on a true story and with great reviews.
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Went on a bit of a history book binge last week.
firstly ' The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich' by William L Shirer. Half way through so far and it is superb, an eye-opening and probing account by an American journalist who was stationed in Germany at the time. The only grumble I have with it really is the illustrations mostly seem to be at odds with what is being described on the page. But that's a minor ailment for an excellent book.
Also got 'The Gulag Archipelago' (Solzhenitsyn), 'A History of Modern Britain' (Marr) and although not non-fiction a book I've been meaning to read for years...'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Lee). Should keep me occupied for quite a while
firstly ' The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich' by William L Shirer. Half way through so far and it is superb, an eye-opening and probing account by an American journalist who was stationed in Germany at the time. The only grumble I have with it really is the illustrations mostly seem to be at odds with what is being described on the page. But that's a minor ailment for an excellent book.
Also got 'The Gulag Archipelago' (Solzhenitsyn), 'A History of Modern Britain' (Marr) and although not non-fiction a book I've been meaning to read for years...'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Lee). Should keep me occupied for quite a while

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