What are you reading tonight?

[LeverEnd]

I might use it for kindling.

no - go ahead and read it - you might think it's ace!!

I will read it really, after having it for so long. Part of the reason I haven't is that I have a hunch it will cover similar ground to The Fountainhead, and at unnecessary length. However it rather than TF is considered the classic so I'll have to give it a go, maybe soon after I finish Sunnyside, the Chaplin book.

[TANGODANCER]

Just back from the library. One or two decent looking fiction novels amongst which I got The Chamber by Howard Gordon (Homeland and 24). Has a commendation by Kiefer Sutherland, for what that's worth.

Edit. Forget it, it's crap. Gone to The Sett by Ranulph Fiennes. Read his The Feathermen years ago. That was a good book.

[LeverEnd]

Just back from the library. One or two decent looking fiction novels amongst which I got The Chamber by Howard Gordon (Homeland and 24). Has a commendation by Kiefer Sutherland, for what that's worth.

Edit. Forget it, it's crap. Gone to The Sett by Ranulph Fiennes. Read his The Feathermen years ago. That was a good book.

Any man who walks to poles and saws his own frostbitten fingers off with a hacksaw is OK by me. I read his autobiography however and although a fascinating story I can't say his writing style was particularly exciting. He's also been in the SAS (for a bit ) though. Let me know what you think. Did you read or watch The Killer Elite?

[General Mannerheim]

Just back from the library. One or two decent looking fiction novels amongst which I got The Chamber by Howard Gordon (Homeland and 24). Has a commendation by Kiefer Sutherland, for what that's worth.

Edit. Forget it, it's crap. Gone to The Sett by Ranulph Fiennes. Read his The Feathermen years ago. That was a good book.

Any man who walks to poles and saws his own frostbitten fingers off with a hacksaw is OK by me. I read his autobiography however and although a fascinating story I can't say his writing style was particularly exciting. He's also been in the SAS (for a bit ) though. Let me know what you think. Did you read or watch The Killer Elite?

sound like a bit of a fecking idiot to me - whats up with a package holiday to Tenerife!

[Gary the Enfield]

Just back from the library. One or two decent looking fiction novels amongst which I got The Chamber by Howard Gordon (Homeland and 24). Has a commendation by Kiefer Sutherland, for what that's worth.

Edit. Forget it, it's crap. Gone to The Sett by Ranulph Fiennes. Read his The Feathermen years ago. That was a good book.

Any man who walks to poles and saws his own frostbitten fingers off with a hacksaw is OK by me. I read his autobiography however and although a fascinating story I can't say his writing style was particularly exciting. He's also been in the SAS (for a bit ) though. Let me know what you think. Did you read or watch The Killer Elite?

Bit harsh. Must be difficult holding a pen........

[TANGODANCER]

Just back from the library. One or two decent looking fiction novels amongst which I got The Chamber by Howard Gordon (Homeland and 24). Has a commendation by Kiefer Sutherland, for what that's worth.

Edit. Forget it, it's crap. Gone to The Sett by Ranulph Fiennes. Read his The Feathermen years ago. That was a good book.

Any man who walks to poles and saws his own frostbitten fingers off with a hacksaw is OK by me. I read his autobiography however and although a fascinating story I can't say his writing style was particularly exciting. He's also been in the SAS (for a bit ) though. Let me know what you think. Did you read or watch The Killer Elite?

Not done that one L.E, but if you want to read about the S.A.S, read The Phantom Major, the story of David Stirling who founded it from the L.R.D.G.

[KeyserSoze]

Nothing! However, saw this and wondered what our great and good thought of it. Penguin Classics' new cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[thebish]

ok - that's enough!!! am binning off Atlas Shrugged.... I hate not finishing a book - but I have my limits...

[bobo the clown]

Nothing! However, saw this and wondered what our great and good thought of it. Penguin Classics' new cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

That, Keyser, is worrying. I'd say that the Jimmy Savile police should be looking into the people who selected it.

[General Mannerheim]

Keyser if you've nowt to read get hold of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes. If you don't love it I'll give you the money back!

[Prufrock]

Nothing! However, saw this and wondered what our great and good thought of it. Penguin Classics' new cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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[KeyserSoze]

Keyser if you've nowt to read get hold of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes. If you don't love it I'll give you the money back!

Haha! guffawed at the cover - will keep an eye out for it!

in the meantime, for the train journeys to and from somerset at the weekend, and after my first exposure to Miller, I bought his first collection of plays. All My Sons, Death of a Salesman. The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays and A View from the Bridge. Looking forward to ploughing through tehm.

[William the White]

Keyser if you've nowt to read get hold of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes. If you don't love it I'll give you the money back!

Haha! guffawed at the cover - will keep an eye out for it!

in the meantime, for the train journeys to and from somerset at the weekend, and after my first exposure to Miller, I bought his first collection of plays. All My Sons, Death of a Salesman. The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays and A View from the Bridge. Looking forward to ploughing through tehm.

I don't know Memory of Two Mondays... The others are absolute classics... Enjoy...

[CAPSLOCK]

I think its been mentioned on here but I've picked up Letters from Berlin

Seems severely lacking in pictures

[TANGODANCER]

Finished two books this week: Ranulph Feiness-The Sett, a long ramble based around badger- baiting, murder and intrigue, drugs, Yardies and extreme cruelty in a hunt for revenge.
Robert Harris-The Fear Index, the world of high finance, hedge funds and computer domination. A somewhat weird read.

[LeverEnd]

Finished two books this week: Ranulph Feiness-The Sett, a long ramble based around badger- baiting, murder and intrigue, drugs, Yardies and extreme cruelty in a hunt for revenge.
Robert Harris-The Fear Index, the world of high finance, hedge funds and computer domination. A somewhat weird read.

I'm on Robert Harris' new one, An Officer and a Spy, a semi-fictionalised account of the Dreyfuss affair and the process that led to his exoneration. 100 pages in and very impressed. Haven't read The Fear Index but have most of his other stuff. He's informative without being stuffy, very enjoyable to read.

[TANGODANCER]

Finished two books this week: Ranulph Feiness-The Sett, a long ramble based around badger- baiting, murder and intrigue, drugs, Yardies and extreme cruelty in a hunt for revenge.
Robert Harris-The Fear Index, the world of high finance, hedge funds and computer domination. A somewhat weird read.

I'm on Robert Harris' new one, An Officer and a Spy, a semi-fictionalised account of the Dreyfuss affair and the process that led to his exoneration. 100 pages in and very impressed. Haven't read The Fear Index but have most of his other stuff. He's informative without being stuffy, very enjoyable to read.

Read Enigma when it first came out and loved it. Read most of Harris's stuff but never fancied Fatherland for some reason. Harris is very like the better writers, Le Carre, Graham Green, Robert Goddard etc in his no-nonsense style. I'll look out for An Officer and a Spy

[LeverEnd]

Fatherland was superb, first I ever read. I'd recommend it. Will check out Goddard at some point, you've mentioned him before.

[Prufrock]

Is there a version of something like The Week that isn't edited by that utter prick Jeremy O'Grady?

[Dujon]

The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
The Lonely Sea - Alistair MacLean

Well I've finished both. In fact I finished them a few weeks ago and have left my brain to stew on their content.

Monsarrat in his usual style produced a plethora of characters, some fully filled and others just sketched. His descriptions of life at sea are compelling and his plots of war at sea quite believable. It has been so long since I first read the book that I'd virtually forgotten everything about it apart from a lingering feeling of 'that was good' - which is why I bought it. I was not disappointed.

MacLean's book of short stories is similar but different. Similar in the fact that it covers the navy during the second world war; different as the stories are short and the characters included have, by necessity, to be hastily constructed and painted in pastel. My original intent was to read the short stories as and when I felt like it. That didn't happen as I read the whole lot. A couple of them are funny; some are full of pathos; others are brutal.

I am now reading Monsaarat's This is the Schoolroom. At the moment I'm not very far in as time and tiredness have precluded much reading of late.