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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #525 on: February 13, 2025, 04:25:13 AM »
Crossing America by Jonas Deichmann

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« Reply #526 on: February 17, 2025, 12:15:23 PM »
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera....a dark and intriguing book......excellent....

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« Reply #527 on: March 08, 2025, 12:51:55 PM »
Orbital by Samantha Harvey winner of 2024 Booker Prize ,six astronauts on board a Space Station, story set in one single day as they orbit earth it explores each ones dreams,fears,thoughts.A beautiful novel.

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« Reply #528 on: March 23, 2025, 08:34:31 PM »

Adrian Edmondsons autobiography, 'Berserker'... lovely and very funny book and plenty of stories about him and Rik...
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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #529 on: March 26, 2025, 09:03:52 PM »
"Far From the Sodding Crowd" by the lads behind the Framley Examiner, a great book of unusual and quirky places to go for a day out rather than the usual overpriced and overcrowded "attractions".
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« Reply #530 on: March 27, 2025, 09:13:38 PM »

The Bridge, Iain Banks.  Loved a lot of his books back in the 90's but never got around to reading this one.  It's excellent.  There's certainly a few that I've never read, I don't read much fiction these days but it's reminded me of what a great author this guy is.

Never read any of his sci-fi novels though, anyone got any opinions about them?   ???
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« Reply #531 on: March 29, 2025, 03:24:00 PM »
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray...what an incredible read,also,the illustrations in the book are fantastic (he was also an artist)..Loving it.... 

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« Reply #532 on: April 22, 2025, 07:26:29 PM »

The Crow Road, Iain Banks.
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« Reply #533 on: April 23, 2025, 11:03:49 AM »
After reading (and really enjoyed) ''Poor Things'' by Alasdair Gray i decided to delve further into his work.Then i read ''1982 JANINE'' probably one of the strangest books i have read but again really enjoyed it,and am now going to start ''A History Maker''...

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« Reply #534 on: May 12, 2025, 04:41:58 PM »
''KLARA  AND THE SUN'' by Kazuo Ishiguro one of the most beautiful books i have ever read....a masterpiece..

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« Reply #535 on: May 15, 2025, 08:53:19 PM »

Really enjoying Bobby Gillespie's autobiography 'Tenement Kid', often funny, somewhat pretentious and full of hedonistic stories as is often the way with music autobiographies. 

I must check out more of Primal Scream's output, always enjoyed what I heard but there's a few albums I never bothered with...
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« Reply #536 on: July 25, 2025, 07:35:09 PM »

A Song Of Stone - Iain Banks.
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« Reply #537 on: July 26, 2025, 12:05:45 PM »
''Raising Hare'' by Chloe Dalton....''A nourishing nature memoir at its finest'' Sunday Times.......''A love letter to the natural world'' The Times.........just two of  the comments i have read that sum up the book  perfectly.........Beautiful...