sidcow Posted January 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 19, 2021 I'm currently reading The Institute by Stephen King. It's a page turner alright. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Currently about a quarter of the way through this: Really enjoying it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 On 14/01/2021 at 23:42, rjw63 said: I don't like Mike Love much, so I waited til his book "Good Vibrations, My Life As Beach Boy" was two quid. It's actually a decent read considering he is all about himself. It explained a lot of stuff we as fans knew about in more detail. What I was pleased about is that it confirmed his brothers Steve and Stan as a pair of words removed, and Rocky Pamplin as the scab on those words removed. Was it Steve and Stan who (allegedly) done Dennis in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 10 hours ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: Was it Steve and Stan who (allegedly) done Dennis in? No it was Stan and Rushton "Rocky" Pamplin. Steve was the one who creamed thousands out of the bands bank accounts when he was manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Currently working my way through the Jack West books by Mathhew Reilly. Bit of an action packed Indiana Jones series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Salad Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 On 19/01/2021 at 17:22, sidcow said: I'm currently reading The Institute by Stephen King. It's a page turner alright. King could write a whole book about someone going to the store to get ingredients for spaghetti and make it a page turner. Most creative author ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Big Salad said: King could write a whole book about someone going to the store to get ingredients for spaghetti and make it a page turner. Most creative author ever. Ermm. Isn't that essentially this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Salad Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 3 minutes ago, sidcow said: Ermm. Isn't that essentially this? Ha totally forgot about this;never read it but did see movie several years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Enjoyed the first one enough to have a crack at the 2nd... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Up next, purchased tonight: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 17 hours ago, Hornso said: Enjoyed the first one enough to have a crack at the 2nd... This is on my next few books list. Really enjoyed the first one so looking forward to this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 (edited) Nightwood by Djuna Barnes: ‘I was in the war once myself,’ the doctor went on, ‘in a little town where the bombs began tearing the heart out of you, so that you began to think of all the majesty in the world that you would not be able to think of in a minute, if the noise came down and struck in the right place. I was scrambling for the cellar—and in it was an old Breton woman and a cow she had dragged with her, and behind that someone from Dublin, saying “Glory be to God!” in a whisper at the far end of the animal. Thanks be to my Maker I had her head on, and the poor beast trembling on her four legs so I knew all at once that the tragedy of the beast can be two legs more awful than a man’s. She was softly dropping her dung at the far end where the thin Celtic voice kept coming up saying, “Glory be to Jesus!” and I said to myself, “Can’t the morning come now, so I can see what my face is mixed up with?” At that a flash of lightning went by and I saw the cow turning her head straight back so her horns made two moons against her shoulders, the tears soused all over her great black eyes. I began talking to her, cursing myself and the mick, and the old woman looking as if she were looking down her life, sighting it the way a man looks down the barrel of a gun for an aim. I put my hand on the poor bitch of a cow and her hide was running water under my hand, like water tumbling down from Lahore, jerking against my hand as if she wanted to go, standing still in one spot; and I thought, there are directions and speeds that no one has calculated, for believe it or not that cow had gone somewhere very fast that we didn’t know of, and yet was still standing there.’ Quite a difficult read, and I didn't understand half it, but because of the inventive style of the writing I still enjoyed it. Edited January 27, 2021 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Read Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, liked it a lot and think I will probably read it many more times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 On 17/01/2016 at 18:50, useless said: I've only read two Dickens novels. Great Expectations which I didn't really enjoy too much, but it wasn't so bad that I refused to finish. And Bleak House which is one the best books I've ever read. I hadn't read Great Expectations, I'd got it mixed up with David Copperfield. Reading Great Expectations now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Ted Templeman - A Platinum Producer's Life In Music. Just coming to the end of this and it's been excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Salad Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Just finished the newest book by Harlan Coben titled 'Win'.As with all his other books it was fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted March 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2021 On 21/01/2021 at 09:47, jacketspuds said: Currently working my way through the Jack West books by Mathhew Reilly. Bit of an action packed Indiana Jones series. The fella with metal arm and a hawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted March 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2021 Just finished the Prodigal son the fifth nowhere man novel. Takes a little while to get going due to the backstory but very good then on. Cracking series of books if you’ve never come across them, author Gregg Hurwitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Follyfoot said: The fella with metal arm and a hawk That's him. Really fast paced and easy to get through in no time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted March 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) 47 minutes ago, jacketspuds said: That's him. Really fast paced and easy to get through in no time. I found it quite touching how the Jew and the Arab became close friends. I think I’m one behind the series at the moment as a new one came out last year I think. Based on that I would give the series I mentioned above a go as you are more than likely going to like that as well Edited March 29, 2021 by Follyfoot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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