Book recommendations

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Surprised no one has mention "Nothing to Envy". It's about life in North Korea and is sobering and heartwarming at the same time. I could not put it down.

[bealster]

If you like your epic sci fi (and I do mean EPIC!) try Ilium and Olympos back to back....seriously insane and probably the most way out there story ive ever read.

Brilliant read, and a great way to escape to another alternate universe for a month!

[lolbeck]

I had a nice trip to Waterstones and bought The Green Mile and The Life of Pi. Verdicts shall be given in a few weeks time when I've read them both.

Lots of the suggested ones look pretty good though, so I'm going to look into buying a few more for the sake of it.

[PeterD]

Over the past 6 weeks I have read One Day by David Nicholls, loved this as I loved Starter for ten and the understudy. Its only a movie by Mark Kermode, pretty good if you like Mark Kermode, which I do. Different for Girls by Louise Wener, this details her time up to and including her days in Sleeper, very interesting as they used to be one of my favourite bands. Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe, not good this one, quite bad, I would suggest avoiding. Live Fast Die Young, Misadventures on the rock n roll highway, an account of a road trip to honour Gram Parsons and other rock people. I enjoyed this one. I am Ozzy Osbourne, ozzy's autobiography, really enjoyable, really good account of ozzy's life. Finally I am currently reading Steven Gerrards ghost written autogiography, not bad, you realise at times his thinking behind his filthy tackles and where he came from.

Next up after this I have an errol flynn biography and brad friedel's (former liverpool and blackburn goalie, currently between the sticks at Villa) biography.

[RABun]

Over the past 6 weeks I have read One Day by David Nicholls,

Edited July 16, 2010 by RABun

[PeterD]

I read it on holiday and thats it, not too taxing, quite enjoyable.

[philipsteak]

Finally I am currently reading Steven Gerrards ghost written autogiography, not bad, you realise at times his thinking behind his filthy tackles and where he came from.

[PeterD]

It was recommended to me, he is still a filthy c**t mind.

[Nedson]

I like Lee Childand Tom Cain books.

[The Nal]

Catcher in the Rye was released today 59 years ago. May give that another read.

[The Nal]

Finished Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman, ex Doors manager.

Awful shite. Despite the fact that he was mates and managed The Doors and Ray Manzerek until the late 70s at least, we get NO insight into Rays character and its all basically a book about himself on smack, looking for smack, recovering from smack and feeling sick from smack.

Yeah you were a heroin addict, we get it. Take it to the man.

[Ricochet]

If you dont mind being moved to tears.

[RABun]

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Absolutely amazing book, my personal favourite. Might take you the whole holiday to read but it 100% worth it. It is based in our history but there are differences, magic is a gentlemans hobby that noone can really do, until a real wizard turns up... (no cloaks hats or wands, all very sophisticated.) Cannot recommend this book enough!

[jump]

I've finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman A couple of months ago, fantstic book with some great ideas behind it but I've been too lazy to get myself another book to read at the moment.

[Ed209]

I'm sure a lot of people have read it, but I just this morning finished The Kite Runner.

Seriously one of the best books I've read. It takes quite a bit to pluck away at my heart strings but this got me all emotional like a teenage girl. Stunning read.

[The Nal]

Reading the Henry Root letters at the moment. Hoax latters from "Hnry Root" from 1979. VERY funny and quite relevant again with the Tories back in etc as he takes the piss out of them, Thatcher etc in it.

My favourite from the 100 or so Ive read so far is a letter to Esther Rantzen after she replied to him saying she wouldn't be using his jokes in her TV show:

"Dear Esther,

You're a fat idiot and your show's a disgrace.

Kind Regards,

Henry Root"

Bring back the rope!

[Katster]

I'm reading The Chronicles Of Narnia at the moment, seeing how my opinions on them have changed as an adult.

One book I would recommend is The Time Travellers Wife. It made me cry.

[grumpyhack]

Truckers, Diggers and Wings - a trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett. Like Guilliver's Travels and a lot of fantasy they can be read on two levels. They are great books for kids but very readable for adults too, exploring issues about the existence or not of God and our view of the world in a very funny and quirky way. Make sure you read them in order as it's a story that develops.

One of my all-time favourites is Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Much lighter than his other work. It was brilliantly precied in Ralph McTell's song The Ferryman. When I first read it I went out and bought a bicycle.

[rexclark]

One Day by David Nicholls, one of the most bittersweet books I've ever read. It's fantastic.

[lifelessfool]

Just this second finished rules of attraction, cant reccomend it enough, a nice book about debauchery.

[rachbon]

Just this second finished rules of attraction, cant reccomend it enough, a nice book about debauchery.

[Katster]

Porno is a good book, I did struggle with Spud's parts in it though

[rexclark]

Porno is a good book, I did struggle with Spud's parts in it though

[rachbon]

i love porno, i prefer it to trainspotting. it's better just for having juice terry in it.

[worm]

Sifi: I finally got a copy of House of Leaves (unedited edition). Excellent stuff. He makes my breaks from narration look tame. Cheers for the recommendation, I'm very impressed.