The BOOKS thread... what you reading?

[Rusco]

I've been reading a biography by Patti Smith.

I think it's quite good and it's centered to people and a period I don't know much about. But besides music, there is another story line or topic inside the shelves that is interesting too: it's about fine art and how Patti and her boyfriend would had succeeded as artists in 60's and 70's in the States.

[Master Ray]

Just re-read 'Lost In Music' by Giles Smith, a brilliant book about loving music and being in no-hoper bands... highly recommended...

It's especially amusing when he finds himself on tour in Germany with a band called The Cleaners From Venus with a fellow Colchester musician called Nel... who, as he puts it, 'later found himself involved with New Model Army'... sound like anyone we might have heard of?

 

[Bunny]

Im currently reading The Book of Stamps. Its about a war between the Red Queen and the Gold Queen. 

[Master Ray]

Simon Peggs autobiography... very amusing.

[Wessexy Witch]

Anger is an energy - John Lydon

I'm half way through and loving it.

 

[Shush]

My missus is reading that also. Keeps quoting me bits of it, but looking forward to reading it myself when she has finished.

[Bever]

John Williams - Augustus

[Dipple]

Just finished a book called Ready Player One by Ernest Cline it's a story set in the future in 2044 but as loads of 80's references from films, music and computer/arcade games. I think any geeky types who remember the 80's will love it.

[Master Ray]

Anger is an energy - John Lydon

I'm half way through and loving it.

 

Bought it today, looking forward to getting stuck into it over the weekend... although I'm interested to how it differs from 'No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish', his previous autobiography... any opinions from those who have read it?

[Heno]

a history of christianity - paul johnson

good book. paul johnson - one of the best historical commentators

[Red]

Doctor Sleep:Stephen King

[Johnz]

Adventures of a Waterboy by Mike Scott.

Really enjoying it.

[Master Ray]

I'm about half way through a book called 'Camerons Coup', well worth a read, all about how this government is ******* the county even worse than Thatcher ever did... yeah, I know, its me slagging the bloody Tories off yet  again, but this book is very interesting and shocking reading...

[lotus]

Started Nick Cave -  "And The Ass Saw The Angel"  - I don`t smoke mushrooms, perhaps he did while writing it
But it was not a mistake buying it ...

[Wessexy Witch]

Anger is an energy - John Lydon

I'm half way through and loving it.

 

Bought it today, looking forward to getting stuck into it over the weekend... although I'm interested to how it differs from 'No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish', his previous autobiography... any opinions from those who have read it?

Finished it now and really enjoyed it.
I love that man.