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Topic: The unofficial Book Thread which doesn't look as good but was here first (Read 13739 times)
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Quote from: DaveShoelace on September 15, 2011, 03:56:55 PM
Quote from: Tonji on September 15, 2011, 12:05:34 PM
Any travel writing readers got any recommendations?
Done most of the usual suspects. Bryson, Theroux, Dalrymple etc
Not quite travel but I was just reminded of the book where Tony Hawk
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Tony Hawks did a good one with Norman Wisdom as well - One Hit Wonderland, which is very funny and touching.
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Cheers guys, already read all of them
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Quote from: DaveShoelace on September 15, 2011, 11:14:50 AM
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Quote from: DaveShoelace on September 15, 2011, 10:49:43 AM
The good think about the Frank Skinner book is that as you read it, you can just imagine him doing every word as a stand up routine, so if you like him as a stand up, its a great read.
Slightly "off-topic" from Book Reviews, but last year, Frank Skinner did an astonishinghly good, & revealing, Desert Island Discs, in which he spoke openly about all manner of oddities, including, incongrously it seemed to me, his love of Opera.
I'm sure it will be available on i-Player or whatever the Radio 4 version is. Well worth a listen.
Saw him do an equally surprising interview, cant remember where, talking about his Christianity.
Oh, and also, did anyone ever see his documentary about his shirt which he believed was owned by Elvis, and at the end he finds out it wasn't, that was great.
Yeah I watched that, was good.
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Quote from: GreekStein on September 14, 2011, 07:33:58 PM
Anyone read any of the following:
- Man and Boy (I think it's my favourite book - amazing read but it was quite a few years ago now that I read it). I think it's by Tony Parsons.
Yes, loved it too, brilliant book
Currently starting Game of Thrones. Program was excellent so thought I'd start the books.
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Quote from: DMorgan on September 14, 2011, 11:41:26 PM
Got the reading bug back this summer after a lot of years of almost never reading for entertainment. So far I've read:
Life and Laughing - Michael McIntylre autobiograpy. Really funny and a very interesting story
Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern - Never read a book that made me laugh out loud until this one
Devilfish Autobiography - Really cool story about how he made it to the top. Mentions a lot of people and places that you'll recognise if you've played much live in the north of England
Confessions of a GP - Benjamin Daniels - Very interesting insight into what the job is like, very entertaining read and funny in parts too
The Confession - John Grisham - I really like his style of writing and intent to read pretty much all of his crime/legal drama books
The Street Lawyer - Another John Grisham book based on a hotshot lawyer than gets held hostage by a homeless guy ends up jacking in his six figure salary to work for homeless rights. Highly recommend this one
Love John Grisham, can anybody recommend any similar types of author?
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Quote from: DMorgan on September 14, 2011, 11:41:26 PM
Got the reading bug back this summer after a lot of years of almost never reading for entertainment. So far I've read:
Life and Laughing - Michael McIntylre autobiograpy. Really funny and a very interesting story
Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern - Never read a book that made me laugh out loud until this one
Devilfish Autobiography - Really cool story about how he made it to the top. Mentions a lot of people and places that you'll recognise if you've played much live in the north of England
Confessions of a GP - Benjamin Daniels - Very interesting insight into what the job is like, very entertaining read and funny in parts too
The Confession - John Grisham - I really like his style of writing and intent to read pretty much all of his crime/legal drama books
The Street Lawyer - Another John Grisham book based on a hotshot lawyer than gets held hostage by a homeless guy ends up jacking in his six figure salary to work for homeless rights. Highly recommend this one
Love John Grisham, can anybody recommend any similar types of author?
Michael Connelly wrote a series of legal thriller novels, The Lincoln Lawyer was the first of them. All pretty good imo.
John Lescroart also a good crime/legal thriller writer.
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Reading James Joyce at the moment. Ulysses gets plaudits aplenty for all the modernism and pioneering the stream of conciousness technique and all that. All well and good, what I'm interested in is that they used txt speak at the beginning of the 20th century.
KMA is Kiss my arse and KMRIA is Kiss my Royal Irish arse.
Both would make for fine editions to any teenagers arsenal. They can stand next to ROFL and GTFO and do very nicely.
The other thing I like about Ulysses is that it offers a very fine counter example to call upon if you ever meet a prig who claims that there's no need for sweary words and that people who use them just do so because they don't have sufficient vocabulary to express themselves.
Ulysses famously uses a lexicon of 30,030 different words in the book. Had it only been 30,023 the work would not be improved for it's lack of fuck balls shit arse piss and grey sunken *****. Possibly of greater importance, the English language itself would be the lesser if we didn't have the exclamation "Shite and onions, life is too short"
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Oh, it automatically starred out the c word. Thankyou forum. We can sleep easily in our beds now that we're shielded from such raw badness.
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Oh, it automatically starred out the c word. Thankyou forum. We can sleep easily in our beds now that we're shielded from such raw badness.
lol, piss and beans, life is way too short
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Reading James Joyce at the moment. Ulysses gets plaudits aplenty for all the modernism and pioneering the stream of conciousness technique and all that. All well and good, what I'm interested in is that they used txt speak at the beginning of the 20th century.
KMA is Kiss my arse and KMRIA is Kiss my Royal Irish arse.
Both would make for fine editions to any teenagers arsenal. They can stand next to ROFL and GTFO and do very nicely.
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There was something on the BBC a bit ago saying about how all the telegraph operators in the Victorian era used to chat to each other in txt speak when they didn't have any work to do - none of the examples they gave were as good as KMA or KMRIA though.
Although it isn't as good - I'd recommend Dubliners for after Ulysses (I'd actually recommend it before Ulysses but you've spoiled that unless you've already read Dubliners before).
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Yeah I've buggered that up but I'll get on to the Dubliners at some point.
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Currently reading foundation by Isaac asimov....totally hooked...
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They're well good. Remember reading them when I were a lad.
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Currently reading Derren Browns book Tricks of the Mind, where he reveals many of his own tricks as well as discusses things like belief, paranormal stuff, cold readers etc
hooked, Ive already learned a new way to memorize things that I will use for the rest of my life. Its also quite funny.
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