A few of the better sports books iv read have been about cycling, namely Kimmages book A Rough Ride, David Millars bio, Robert Millar (no relation) bio, Pantani story.
Just finished reading Clockers again, superb tale on the futility of life on the street and the cops who nominally fight the war on drugs in the US. Must read for anyone who enjoyed The Wire and the associated books (Homicide & The Corner).
Have been reading a lot of fiction lately for a change and enjoying it I must say
The latest Benjamin Black Quirke novel is up to the usual high standard.
But, but the new Julian Cope book Copendium is a thing of beauty. In fact it is so beautifully presented in its black leather case I am slow to open it.
Read Homage to Catalonia over the last week. Fantastic stuff. Couldn’t praise it highly enough. The flashes of dark humour are superb.
[quote=“BeTimberin, post: 626”]Finished moneyball by Michael Lewis yesterday - great read overall.
Lewis has an excellent style and to be fair the story is very interesting to anyone with an interest in stats[/quote]
Read his earlier book, liars poker, superb
There’s been about 10 books in the meantime Kid
Ok, thanks
I’m reading a book about the History of Africa since the colonial days ended. Its a huge book but it was an area of History which I knew very little about. The summary so far seems to be that the Colonials are to blame for the vast majority of Civil Wars due to their arbitrary grouping of disparate groups people together by basically drawing straight lines on the map and also the massive vacuum they left behind after hasty handovers to the locals who had zero experience of running their own countries.
Some mad shit in it considering it only happened about 50 years ago. The Belgians in particular were awful cunts.
Just finished reading that this evening. It’s pretty good. Didn’t find the last chapter on America as interesting as the rest of the book though.
Any good books you’d recommend at the moment?
More into non-ficton but would consider any highly recommended ficton books.
Bravo 2-0 by Andy McNab which gets better with every read.
The Great Gatsby
A Million Little Pieces
The Godfather
The Kite Runner
The Boys From Brazil
Have read these since Christmas. All excellent.
[quote=“Titch, post: 645”]The Great Gatsby
A Million Little Pieces
The Godfather
The Kite Runner
The Boys From Brazil
Have read these since Christmas. All excellent.[/quote]
Have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns? It’s Hosseini’s other novel. Brilliant.
Reading Child of God by Cormac McCarthy at the moment. Christ it’s dark but an excellent novel.
Lots of free ebooks here:
http://www.oggham.com/share/books/
http://sirpabs.ilahas.com/ebooks/Kindle%20eBook%20Library/Fiction/
It would want to, considering what a load of oul shite it is.
Reading 1984 by Eric Blair at the moment, christ he was some writer.
:rolleyes:
What is it now Totti?
Possibly a stupid question but I can’t open these files, is it safe to install the solution recommended by the Bing?
Those books are in epub or mobi format, which are used on e-readers and Kindles respectively.
If you want to just read them on a laptop / computer you may need to download an epub to pdf convertor.
Cheers buddy. Have you read Star of the Sea? Just finished Fall of Giants by Ken Follett, historical fiction, based on true events with some famous people involved, very good read.
Also for anybody who’s interested in New York at the turn of last century, a writer called Caleb Carr is writing fantastic thriller/mysteries based on the history of New York circa 1890, research is top class and the characters are really well drawn also.