leemond2008 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Bunny Munro was brilliant, I love the way he perved over the junky that he thought was Avril Lavigne, seeings how I am slightly obsessed with her I could really relate to that part of the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) Brilliant book Edited January 20, 2014 by Ikantcpell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I'll say it again, just because I met a friend who loved it as much as I did. Louis de Bernieres A Partisan's Daughter, is a brilliant book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I'm reading Ask the Dust at the moment. It's easily great and hilarious. I haven't got that much of a frame of reference because I don't read loads and loads, but I'd say this one reminds of Hunger by Knut Hamsun and it's also slightly similar to Notes from the Underground by Fyodor dostoevsky. Also apparently it was a big influence on charles bukowski who wrote the forward, I don't know too much about him though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyShears Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I'm reading Ask the Dust at the moment. It's easily great and hilarious. I haven't got that much of a frame of reference because I don't read loads and loads, but I'd say this one reminds of Hunger by Knut Hamsun and it's also slightly similar to Notes from the Underground by Fyodor dostoevsky. Also apparently it was a big influence on charles bukowski who wrote the forward, I don't know too much about him though. Ask The Dust is part of "The Bandini Quartet". If you like it you'll love the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) I'm reading Ask the Dust at the moment. It's easily great and hilarious. I haven't got that much of a frame of reference because I don't read loads and loads, but I'd say this one reminds of Hunger by Knut Hamsun and it's also slightly similar to Notes from the Underground by Fyodor dostoevsky. Also apparently it was a big influence on charles bukowski who wrote the forward, I don't know too much about him though. Ask The Dust is part of "The Bandini Quartet". If you like it you'll love the others. I only realised after I started the book would have been nice to read them chronologically, but looking forward to the others though. Edited January 21, 2014 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 D-Day: The Battle For Normandy by Antony Beevor. Saw it, without it's sleeve in a charity shop for 20p, so bought it. Been a while since I read about anything WW2, I know a bit already but just fancied this when I saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Will delve into Filth later this week once I've finally gotten George RR Martin out of my head for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadenb42 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Dunno whether to feel guilty that I've read the first 3 books of a song of ice and fire within a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Dunno whether to feel guilty that I've read the first 3 books of a song of ice and fire within a month. That is pretty hardcore. I took me 5 months to read them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 In the past month I have read the autobiographies of Cyrille Regis, Craig Bellamy and Usain Bolt's. And I didn't pay a penny, I just sat on the sofas at the Waterstones next to the pavilions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Sports autobiographies make me want to hurt kittens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Sports autobiographies make me want to hurt kittens. If you've never read this... ...GTFO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic_bouma Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 The Devil All the Time Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Reading this at the moment. It is superb and i can't put it down. I'd choose it to read next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 At the moment I'm on a bit of of a H P Lovecraft kick and I'm re-reading loads of his stuff then I've got Tolkiens unfinished tales to start on so the devil all the time won't be started for a while yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturdaygig Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 I'll say it again, just because I met a friend who loved it as much as I did. Louis de Bernieres A Partisan's Daughter, is a brilliant book. Interesting. It looks like quite a departure for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Sports autobiographies make me want to hurt kittens. Craig Bellamy's book is actually a really good read, the best of the 3. But yeh some autobiographies are crap. Vieira's is the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 31, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 31, 2014 Well, I finished the epic Harlot's Ghost (good, but flawed) What didn't you like about it? I loved it, and reading more about James Angleton afterwards only increased my liking for it. Just finished Doug Coupland's Worst.Person.Ever. which got a bit of a bashing from the critics but I thoroughly enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 31, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31, 2014 Sports autobiographies make me want to hurt kittens. I've never read one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 31, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31, 2014 Well, I finished the epic Harlot's Ghost (good, but flawed) What didn't you like about it? I loved it, and reading more about James Angleton afterwards only increased my liking for it. Would have benefited from some editing, I thought. It kind of couldn't decide whether it was a Le Carre style spy novel or a satire on the American class system. But like I say, generally good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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