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  • jd0272jd0272 Frets: 3867
    Just finished Hitler's Furies, quite interesting.

    Just starting And God Created Burton.

    On the look out for a decent Sellers biog too.
    "You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."
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  • BidleyBidley Frets: 2912
    Still ploughing through the Wheel of Time series, and loving it.
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  • dchwhitedchwhite Frets: 182
    I've got two on the go atm - Partridges by GR Potts, & I'm re-reading Mötley Crüe's The Dirt.
    Stonevibe: 'The best things in life aren't things'.

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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7669
    Nova Swing - M John Harrison.
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, love his stuff.
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  • JohnPerryJohnPerry Frets: 1616
    Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess. I was lured in by the opening line: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." It's a great, epic, funny read spanning eight decades, with a great and shocking twist near the end.

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  • d8md8m Frets: 2431
    Megii said:
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, love his stuff.
    Awesome series.

    Which book are you on at the moment?

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  • Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower

    Fast Machine - Elizabeth Ellen


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  • xSkarloeyxSkarloey Frets: 2962
    The Broken Road- Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Ian Thompson's biography of Primo Levi

    Various books on what to plant in your garden, where and when. 

    It's about this time of year I also have to go back and check out what I haven't finished from the year before. 
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7669
    Megii said:
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, love his stuff.
    I've started that, but it does feel like every other Murakami I've read, so I'm leaving it for now - number9dream by David Mitchell is the most Murakami-like book I've read that's not written by Murakami if you've not tried it yet.
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    edited January 2014
    d8m said:
    Megii said:
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, love his stuff.
    Awesome series.

    Which book are you on at the moment?
    Only on book 1, but I have 2 & 3 ready to go also - so a bit of a Haruki fest to look forward to. Hadn't read any of his stuff for quite a while, so a real pleasure to get into something new by him.
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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    Paul_C said:
    Megii said:
    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, love his stuff.
    I've started that, but it does feel like every other Murakami I've read, so I'm leaving it for now - number9dream by David Mitchell is the most Murakami-like book I've read that's not written by Murakami if you've not tried it yet.
    Not tried number9dream, maybe I'll give that a go at some point, cheers for the tip. :)
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  • bigjonbigjon Frets: 680
    I usually have about 10 books on the go. Currently - 
    The Red Right Hand - Joel Townsley Rogers
    The Anatomy of Ghosts - can't remember
    The End of The Party - Andrew Rawnsley
    Officers & Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh
    I am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter
    Standing on Giants Shoulders - anthology by Stephen Hawking
    The Assassin's Cloak - diaries anthology
    Genius (biog of Richard Feynmann) by James Gleick
    Time-torn Man (biog of Thomas Hardy) by Claire Tomalin
    Computer Science, 7th edition - text-book can't remember the author
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  • am currently starting to read some of alan moore's stuff with comic rack on my laptop (have just started reading from hell/the first watchman also).

    just realizing now (only 30 years late) that they are most excellent.

    just finished killing joke batman also (that was excellent too).

     
    i like cake :-) here's my youtube channel   https://www.youtube.com/user/racefaceec90 



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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4901
    Just finished Railway Modeller Feb 14 issue, so am about to start "Leviathan Wakes" by James S.A. Corey, on my son's recommendation.

    Also about halfway through the Donald Fagen book from the other thread - very enjoyable.
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  • holnrewholnrew Frets: 8207
    Nitefly said:
    Just finished Railway Modeller Feb 14 issue, so am about to start "Leviathan Wakes" by James S.A. Corey, on my son's recommendation.

    Also about halfway through the Donald Fagen book from the other thread - very enjoyable.
    Do you have a model railway?
    My V key is broken
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  • ChuffolaChuffola Frets: 2014
    The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks. 

    I've been putting it off since when this one's done there are no more :(

    I'll miss The Culture...
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  • SkippedSkipped Frets: 2371
    I'm reading 2 biographies.
    The Beatles by Bob Spitz seems to have got mixed reactions. Some people not happy about details that he got wrong (for example talking about Huddlesfield in Yorkshire or Scousers eating "chick butties"). I am trying to overlook these things because generally he is massive on details that I have not seen in other books. In fact this book is 5 times better than I expected. The very detailed sections on the USA tours are laugh out loud funny.

    Elvis by George Klein.
    Lots of interesting stuff.....Random example.....Elvis talking about advice given by Sam Phillips. Phillips told Elvis to be careful when he went to record in Nashville. Sam would not be there to stand up for Elvis when they tried to turn him into a Country Boy so he would have to stand up for himself. While recording in Nashville Chet Atkins walks over to Scotty Moore and tries to tell him how he should be playing a particular part. Elvis recalls the advice...... and walks over to confront Chet Atkins....
    ‘Mr. Atkins, we appreciate your guidance, but we’ve got our own style and I wish you wouldn’t tell my guitar player how to play.’”
    “What happened?”“Well, I knew Mr. Atkins was a little ticked, because I could see the hair on the back of his neck stand up,” laughed Elvis. “But I had to do it. I had to speak up.

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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4901
    holnrew said:
    Nitefly said:
    Just finished Railway Modeller Feb 14 issue, so am about to start "Leviathan Wakes" by James S.A. Corey, on my son's recommendation.

    Also about halfway through the Donald Fagen book from the other thread - very enjoyable.
    Do you have a model railway?
    Not yet, but when I retire at the end of the year I plan to start one - I've acquired a few bits and pieces towards the day...
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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4901
    Chuffola said:
    The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks. 

    I've been putting it off since when this one's done there are no more :(

    I'll miss The Culture...
    Enjoyed it immensely, and I'll miss it too...
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