What you reading? Your fav books? The book thread

[Lady Ashba]

Pillars of the Earth is fucking ace by Ken Follett.

That's the last book I read too, was incredibly long (over 1400 pages), but totally worth it!

[zihuatenajo]

Under the Dome - Stephen King

very good story

[AxlReznor]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[Jdog0830]

I wanted to ask this question about this thread for a while now.
Do dirty books count???
 

Would really give everyone a lot to talk about.



Joe

[BlowUpYourVideo]

I wanted to ask this question about this thread for a while now.
Do dirty books count???
 

Would really give everyone a lot to talk about.



Joe

Do you really read those though? We've gotta keep within the rules ya know.




I have the books by Slash, Ozzy, Nikki Sixx, Chris Jericho plus Mick Wall's book on Led Zeppelin all to read but I can just never be motivated to start any of them. I'm sure once I get started I'll be fine though....

[Jdog0830]

^I am just joking around but this thread would be vary crazy if people did talk about those books.

Just saying.



Joe

[Genesis]

i read in a recent interview that he will probably never go back to the Kenzie-Gennaro series.. he just isnt in the right "place" anymore mentally to write another book with them in it. 

Well actually, what he said was that he doesn't have a Kenzie-Gennaro kind of plot at the moment and he won't shoe horn them into any story just for the sake of it. When he gets the right plot for them, he'll put out another Kenzie-Gennaro book. I kind of respect that. I rather have a well written novel with a good plot if they're in it than a half baked one.

i wish you were right, but i think the whole "not having the right plot" thing is from an older interview. here is the new interview from early september of this year with USA today.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-09-03-fall-books-lehane_N.htm

(towards the bottom)

He knows what he won't do: write another whodunit about the two private eyes, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, in his first five novels, which include Gone Baby Gone. "They were written from a young man's perspective. I left Patrick when I was 33 and he was 33. I've tried, but his voice won't come."



lets hope he changes his mind and tries again lol

It took a few years, but he did! There's a new Kenzie - Gennaro novel called Moonlight Mile coming out this year. It's a sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone.
Man, can't wait.

[jarmo]

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs


/jarmo

[dont_damn_me]

My Appetite for Destruction....of course!!!!! Stevie is awsome and put out an interesting book for sure. 

[Jdog0830]

It however might be a book of fiction 
No I love Steven and I really need to get the book!!!




Joe

[Krok1]

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 

[cyllan]

Currently reading:

I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett (No surprise there as I've read (and constantly re-read) everything he's written.  Ankh-Morpork feels like a second home to me and Lord Vetinari's my favourite tyrant  )

Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal - Russell Brand  (Loved ol' Russ since the days of Big Brother's E-forum - even if he does seem in danger of becoming a, ahem, respectable member of society these days.)

The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry  (Stephen can do no wrong in my eyes - a true literary genius.)

[Genesis]

Trying to get "The Man In The White Suit" by Ben Collins who is / was The Stig on the BBC Two show Top Gear. Can't get it over here yet. Grrrr.

[D]

My Appetite for Destruction....of course!!!!! Stevie is awsome and put out an interesting book for sure. 

Just read it also.

thought he kinda sugar coated his mistakes as far as GNR were concerned. over all excellent but depressing read.

[zosobob6]

Just finished Vince Neils Tattoos And Tequilla.  Some people seem to not like it but I did, its a good read.  Also just read Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid which I thought was fantastic.  Now Im reading a Lennon book called Lennon Revealed which is kind of slow, but a decent read.

[One.In.A.Million]

I remember I used to read ' Guns N' Roses - The Band That Time Forgot, religously. Those were the days, when you grasped at anything to try to find out about GN'R, even buying a Chrome Dreams DVD. 

The book I am going to purchase soon is Living Between Two Worlds by Joel S. Goldsmith. Robin was reading this alot during 06/07, so it will be interesting to see what attracted him to this book.

[svdv22]

I finally started with Dan Brown's new book.. about time

[IzzyDutch]

I'm a big fan of WW2 books (I'm interested in WW2 in general) as in memoirs of soldiers.. have read a lot of books of airborne paratroopers etc. -my favorite being Donald Burgett's books, everyone knows Easy Compagny from Band Of Brothers, he was in Able Compagny- and since recently out of curiousity I started to read books from 'the other side', German soldiers from the Wehrmacht and even Waffen-SS soldiers. I find it interesting to read about their view on things at that time and how they became soldiers, being drafted or volunteerd. But the things that draw me the most are the battle stories and emotions they went through at the time, which I've found are all similar whatever side they fought on.

Anyways I'm now reading 'Soldat' by Siegried Knappe who was in every Wehrmacht campaign from France to the end in Berlin.. and before that I finished 'Blood Red Snow' by G?nter K. Koschorrek which are his memoirs of being a German soldier on the Eastern Front. That one is one of the best WW2 books I've ever read, highly recommended if there are other people who are interested in this subject..

[Genesis]

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane. Not as good as the previous books but a must read for fans of the Kenzie - Gennaro novels.

[babydolls]

Imperial Bedrooms - bret easton ellis - halfway through and totally back in the less than zero zone..

Before that I read "All my patients are under the bed" by Dr Louis J Camuti... its a must for any cat lover, loved it and the simple, anecdotal style it was written in

Must recommend Roger Moore's "my word is my bond" - brilliant autobiography i re-read recently, felt like I was sitting there with him in a smoking jacket, whiskey in hand. A must for all bond fans (fortus!)