The BOOKS thread... what you reading?

[Tarsier]

I was left quite disturbed by Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees... Rinsed my mind with Donna Tartt's The Secret History. About to start reading a book my friend gave me for birthday - he didn't know what I was reading, and in the back cover of the book he gave me was written "One if the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History". Ok then, that sounds like a destiny The book is The Wytch Elm, by Tana French.

[Ghosttrain]

I have just finished ''England Made Me'' by Graham Greene.....excellent read..

''The Wytch Elm'' looks right up my street cheers Tarsier..

[Tarsier]

''The Wytch Elm'' looks right up my street cheers Tarsier..

Thank my friend, he has great taste  ... Or wait, I'll take that back. He has a great hunch of what people he knows would love to read. On personal level, what it comes to books, he's an omnivore - he'll read ANYTHING!! Actually, I'm on a mission to find a book he would not read. If you happen to know a book you think no-one could possibly find even remotely interesting, ever, please let me know!! I want to give him the most boring book ever as a Christmas present. And he'll love it, because it's terrible, and he'll read it out of interest. 

[Ghosttrain]

Just Googled most boring books....loads of sites,found one called The Eleven Most Boring Books Ever....a cure for insomnia..i was amazed to see it featured 3 of my all time favourites    :......so i regret i will be no help in your quest.. ..

[jc]

I found Ulysses by James Joyce pretty dull.

 Cheers

jc

[Bever]

These Truths: A History of the United States (Jill Lepore)

Will be at that for a while

[Tarsier]

For reasons unknown to me, I've never read Clive Barker before... Now halfway into The Damnation Game, and holy crap, I'm hooked!! Which books are your favourites from him? Thinking already what I should read next 

[Phill]

For reasons unknown to me, I've never read Clive Barker before... Now halfway into The Damnation Game, and holy crap, I'm hooked!! Which books are your favourites from him? Thinking already what I should read next 

Weaveworld is my favourite by him.

[Ghosttrain]

Re-reading ''Ginger Geezer'' The Life Of Vivian Stanshall,(first read it over 20 years ago)..a fascinating insight into the life of this true British Genius/Eccentric......both hilarious and tragic.I remember watching him as a kid with The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on TV in the late sixties....loved them, thankfully loads on YouTube to watch.And not forgetting ''Sir Henry At Rawlinson End''...comic genius (imho).. ..

[Ghosttrain]

I am just flicking through a book i purchased today ''The Hacienda How Not To Run A Club'' by Peter Hook.....and their are pages listing bands,events,club nights etc.through the years it operated.Interesting to read that on Nov.1st.1984 New Model Army played a gig and on March 8th. 1987 Joolz performed there.....I am sure most of you knew that..........i did'nt. .

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I am just flicking through a book i purchased today ''The Hacienda How Not To Run A Club'' by Peter Hook..... and there are pages listing bands, events, club nights etc. through the years it operated.  Interesting to read that on Nov. 1st. 1984 New Model Army played a gig and on March 8th. 1987 Joolz performed there.....I am sure most of you knew that..........i didn't.

Living on the wrong side of the pond, I had no clue whatsoever.  Cheers for posting this cool bit of NMA/JD trivia, Ghosttrain!

[Tarsier]

At the moment reading Belinda Bauer's Exit, which is refreshingly funny Quoting from the back cover: "Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it's never too late for life to go horribly wrong. A crime novel... but not as you know it"

[Winterwulf]

"Terry Pratchett - a Life With Footnotes" by his former PA, Rob Wilkins, based on the recordings TP had made with the intention of writing an autobiography, plus contributions from people who knew how. Lots of funny anecdotes, some of which Rob has marked as TGTC (Too Good To Check), in other words he couldn't independently confirm that it happened as Terry said it did but it was far too good to leave out.

[Ghosttrain]

''Waging Heavy Peace'' Neil Young's Autobiography.....a fascinating read from one of my all time musical heroes....brilliant.

[Ghosttrain]

''Beware Of The Bull''(The Enigmatic Genius Of Jake Thackray)..Biography written by Paul Thompson and John Watterson,a brilliant book well researched....Jake Thackray was a genius and one of the cleverest song writers ever (imho).i was lucky enough to see him live here in Jersey late 70's he was incredible.