What book are we reading at the moment?

age'd parent

age'd parent

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I'm really enjoying working my way through 'The ragged trousered philanthropists' by Robert Tressell, so much of it reminds me of my childhood, hiding from the tally man, bread and dripping with sugar laden tea, going to school in wellies because we had no shoes, penny in the gas meter.
I could go on for ages about it, and to compare the politics with todays politics makes me despair of it ever changing!
 
db

db

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just started The Black Cloud by Sir Fred Hoyle:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141196408

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i had no idea Hoyle even wrote fiction! i stumbled across it entirely by accident while reading up on his "steady state" theory of the universe and his rejection, right up to his death, of the big bang theory - despite being one of the most respected and notable astronomers of recent times..

celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins describes it as "one of the greatest works of science fiction ever written".. i'm only 1 chapter deep, but it's quite engaging and easy to read, despite being science heavy (as you would imagine from a chap with his credentials)..
 
Carole

Carole

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Got a bit bored with the man who climbed out of the window. Read it but although it started well it all got a bit tedious.

Then I read "dissolution" by CJ Sansom. I think everyone has read this and I am a bit behind. Fabulous .....loved it, loved it, loved it.


Then someone bought me "the woman who stayed in bed for a year". What a load of tosh. That's 8 hours of my life that I won't get back. The only bit worth reading is where she tries to tell her husband how to "do Christmas".

Now I am losing sleep over the very fabulous ( so far) Gone Girl. From page one it made me want to do nothing else but read. I have about 100 pages left.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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New series on Channel 4 starting soon on Psychopaths

You all know one, and not all are killers, in fact a lot of them are kapitans in industry

Not a book but a response to one
 
age'd parent

age'd parent

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Just finished "The art of racing in the rain" by Garth Stein, I have to admit was sitting in bed at 2 am
with tears rolling down my face as Enzo the dog died.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Not at the moment i'm not but i remember rather vividly the first time i read Jane Eyre. My copy has many scribbled notes in't.

What an extraordinary story it is.
 
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Withnail

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Talking of novels (were we?), i have finally succumbed to the lure of Wolf Hall. Late to the party as ever.

Enjoying immensely, and would recommend to any that recently enjoyed its televisual portrayal. It's not what i would describe as an 'easy' read, but a 'compelling' one it certainly is.

Murky.
 
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