| Book recommendations..... 22:39 - Jul 30 with 886 views | BlacknGoldnBlue |
Been reading some John Marrs recently and thoroughly enjoying his books...but always on the lookout for other books...
Recommend some books and hype them up with a couple of lines of why I should read them.
Currently lined up on my list is
Artificial Wisdom - Thomas Weaver
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Institute - Stephen King |  |
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| Book recommendations..... on 22:48 - Jul 30 with 833 views | Pique |
Mayflies (Andrew O'Hagan) - a really quite moving study of male friendship, split between teenage years in the 1980s and middle age in the present day.
Ariadne (Jennifer Saint) - feminist retelling of the Theseus/Minotaur myth from the point of view of Ariadne, Theseus's accomplice and spurned lover. A fantastic story that includes a large cast of characters from Greek mythology. |  | | |
| Book recommendations..... on 22:50 - Jul 30 with 827 views | Basuco |
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick, from phone phreaker to computer hacker to FBI most wanted. It is his own true, amazing story about how he was hunted and how for a considerable time kept one step ahead of the FBI and even monitored them trying to find him! Start reading it and you will very soon struggle to put the book down. |  | | |
| Book recommendations..... on 23:02 - Jul 30 with 781 views | StNeotsBlue |
The Unicorn Road by Martin Davis.
A multi faceted tale, which combines a scholar's search for beasts of legend, a plot to destroy the Papacy, a forbidden love, a secret language and a father's quest to find the truth of what happened to his missing son.
A fantastic read. |  | | |
| Book recommendations..... on 01:05 - Jul 31 with 690 views | Kropotkin123 |
I'm currently reading the Old Testament.
The Hype: Erm. There's everything in there that you could want - 900 year old humans, giants, talking animals, epic battles, morally questionable characters, cataclysmic events, and more.
I'm three quarters of the way through and remain unconvinced that it offers a consistent moral vision or a universal truth. But I'm looking forward to and bracing myself for the sequel. |  |
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| Book recommendations..... on 07:28 - Jul 31 with 569 views | cordonblue |
Piranesi is packed ready for holiday next week....
I have just finished A Month in the Country by J L Carr, and planning to ready it again straight away. A beauty of a little novel. 135 pages where on the face of it nothing much happens but the prose is fabulous and its packed full of feeling. Will transport you to an English village in the 1920s... |  | | |
| Book recommendations..... on 07:37 - Jul 31 with 548 views | NthQldITFC |
I got an audiobook version, but it was so quiet that I really had to pump up the volume. |  |
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| Book recommendations..... on 07:51 - Jul 31 with 526 views | urbanblue |
I have just finished 'The Power of the Dog' by Don Winslow following a recommendation by someone on a previous thread on this subject. Superb. Thanks to whoever it was.
Also recently read 'Killers of the Flower Moon' by David Grann which was also excellent. So well written and reads like a whodunnut. Hadn't seen the film and have tried to since watch it twice and just can't. The whole story just glossed over.
'Utopia Avenue' by David Mitchell is another I read recently. The rise and fall of a fictional band starting in the 60's. Along the way the characters meet real life artists like Bowie, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin etc. Really enjoyed it.
I read 'The Institute' a while ago. Not bad. Not Stephen Kings best but not his worst either.
Just started 'Head On' The autobiography of Julian Cope. Hooked already. Can tell I'm going to love it, but then again was a massive fan of 'The Teardrop Explodes'. [Post edited 31 Jul 7:52]
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| Book recommendations..... on 07:51 - Jul 31 with 524 views | BrianTablet |
Put Demon Copperhead at the top of the list. It's fantastic. |  |
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| Book recommendations..... on 08:08 - Jul 31 with 487 views | RobTheMonk |
| Book recommendations..... on 07:51 - Jul 31 by urbanblue |
I have just finished 'The Power of the Dog' by Don Winslow following a recommendation by someone on a previous thread on this subject. Superb. Thanks to whoever it was.
Also recently read 'Killers of the Flower Moon' by David Grann which was also excellent. So well written and reads like a whodunnut. Hadn't seen the film and have tried to since watch it twice and just can't. The whole story just glossed over.
'Utopia Avenue' by David Mitchell is another I read recently. The rise and fall of a fictional band starting in the 60's. Along the way the characters meet real life artists like Bowie, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin etc. Really enjoyed it.
I read 'The Institute' a while ago. Not bad. Not Stephen Kings best but not his worst either.
Just started 'Head On' The autobiography of Julian Cope. Hooked already. Can tell I'm going to love it, but then again was a massive fan of 'The Teardrop Explodes'. [Post edited 31 Jul 7:52]
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Power of The Dog is excellent. There's two more books in the trilogy. |  | | |
| Book recommendations..... on 09:24 - Jul 31 with 376 views | blueasfook |
Loved him in The Smiths |  |
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| Book recommendations..... on 09:40 - Jul 31 with 332 views | tommcd |
Quick look through my Goodreads history throws up only six books that I rated 5/5 (out of just shy of 200 books read). It also appears to show a preference for WW2-based fiction, I live in Rural(ish) suffolk and spend a lot of holidaying time in rural France, so maybe I visualise the environments in those books more vividly, the Robert Radcliffe book is Suffolk-based if I remember right, giving it an extra draw:
Under an English Heaven - Robert Radcliffe
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Under the Dome - Stephen King
Far to Go - Alison Pick
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah |  | | |
| Book recommendations..... on 13:18 - Jul 31 with 199 views | NthQldITFC |
| Book recommendations..... on 08:08 - Jul 31 by RobTheMonk |
Power of The Dog is excellent. There's two more books in the trilogy. |
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| Book recommendations..... on 13:31 - Jul 31 with 167 views | Ryorry |
What Iām really looking for is advice/tips on how on earth people find (or make) the time to read books?š
Less time spent on TWTD?! (Sorry Phil, Gav and Mark). |  |
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| Book recommendations..... on 13:35 - Jul 31 with 142 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Book recommendations..... on 01:05 - Jul 31 by Kropotkin123 |
I'm currently reading the Old Testament.
The Hype: Erm. There's everything in there that you could want - 900 year old humans, giants, talking animals, epic battles, morally questionable characters, cataclysmic events, and more.
I'm three quarters of the way through and remain unconvinced that it offers a consistent moral vision or a universal truth. But I'm looking forward to and bracing myself for the sequel. |
Spoiler alert: the sequel's got a twist on the old "And then I woke up" trope. | | | |
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