What to read?

[lexington_spurs]

Yep, in fairness there is nothing wrong with his knowledge of music.

But we are not in the business of being fair.

BTW the Innocents Abroad would appeal to just about every spectrum of opinion on this board ...

[gingerjedi]

Hello Sir

Have lurked longtime so I know who is mint and who is very wrong on this board.

Fecking Nick Hornby mentioned earlier in this thread! Only if the andrex has run out.

Judging by your name I guess you have it in for Nick Hornby because he's a gooner?!

[lexington_spurs]

Not really.

I'm no fan of FP but thought High Fidelity was quite good.

About a Boy/How to be Good/Long Way Down read like they were generated by Micro$oft Hornby ... every single character in all of those books has exactly the same style of dialogue or inner voice .. but some people think that makes him a master of characterisation.

[gingerjedi]

I'm not a gooner either but I liked fever pitch as a fan of football and could see parallels in my woes at ashton gate, I thought it was a funny read but eh... we’re all different.

[freakydancer]

I'm not a gooner either but I liked fever pitch as a fan of football and could see parallels in my woes at ashton gate, I thought it was a funny read but eh... we’re all different.

Fever Pitch was nothing more than dirty gooner propaganda

[lexington_spurs]

Fever Pitch is 50% about the football and 50% about the rites of passage etc

For me, the interesting thing about Nickzzz Hornby zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[where did my id go?]

Good Reads
---------------
(a selection from the pile by the side of my bed)
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch
Gulag Archipelago
Blood and Roses
The Buried Soul - Timothy Taylor
The Clown - Heinreich Boll
The Plague - Camus
Tin Drum - Grass
Letters of Henry VIII - HMSO
the philip marlowe books - Raymond Chandler

I think Rankin is probably the best author churning out light entertainment at the moment.

[zathras]

Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden

Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven
when his father died in an ambush. His family were thrown out of the tribe
and left alone, without food or shelter, to starve to death on the harsh
Mongolian plains.

It was a rough introduction to his life, to a sudden adult world, but
Temujin survived, learning to combat natural and human threats. He gathered
other outsiders to him, creating a new tribal identity. It was during some
of his worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes and
bringing the silver people together came to him. He will become the khan of
the sea of grass, Genghis.

[Ruprect]

I think Rankin is probably the best author churning out light entertainment at the moment.

For those of you considering reading Rankin, do yourself a favour and spend those hours of your life doing something fun instead.

[Gibbon]

You all should read my book entitled

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Also recommended are

Ceasar - The Civil War and The The conqueut of Gaul.
Livy - The war with Hannibal
Herodotus - The Histories.

For Fiction

Homer