Funky_Gibbon Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I am currently reading The Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton and as an added bonus it's also my very first ebook on my new Kindle Fire HD. Less than a fifth of the way through but it's been very good so far. It's also quite amusing/disturbing how he seems to have devised the future UK as a vision of what life would be like if the current government managed to alter everything to their ideological desire, particular the ghetto areas know as GSWs or Government Services Withdrawn areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeG Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 (edited) 'When I was a Nipper' by Alan Titchmarsh. Reminds me of what life was like for 'working class' Yorkshire folk in the 50's and 60's. An enjoyable read. Edited December 18, 2012 by mikeG Wron word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Just finished The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks. Great stuff but not as dark as some of his earlier Culture novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manlinose Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 just finished a christmas carol by dickens - read it every year but it still brings a tear to my eye at the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfish1936 Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Currently in the middle of 'The Throwback' by Tom Sharpe. Hilarious. Would make a very funny film. I too0 loved "the Throwback". Tom Sharpe has a way with mayhem! I was a book addict, of the most severely affected. I am now down to only 2 or 3 books per day. Open at the moment is "Heart of Stone" by Michael Chamberlain. It describes his and wife Lindy's being accused of the murder of their baby daughter Azaria in 1980. A first inquest found a dingo had taken the baby; so a second inquest was held to find the parents had murdered Azaria, and Lindy went to jail; finally what I hope will be the last inquest has certified that Azaria was taken by a dingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Fancied something humorous at this time of year so I'm half way through Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. Just like every other Wodehouse book of course but still amusing enough. Shame they didn't make a film of it really... Charles Hawtrey or Kenneth Williams as Bertie Wooster, Bernard Bresslaw as Jeeves, Joan Sims as Aunt Agatha etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 The Secret House of Death. An early non Wexford murder mystery by Ruth Rendell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalman Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Finished the Wodehouse, then zipped through 'The Little White Car' by Danuta de Rhodes, which, because it's actually Dan Rhodes under a thinly disguised pseudonym, was the usual inconsequential amusing whimsy but very good for all that. Now I'm back to the 1920s detective stories again with 'Murder in the Maze' by J. J. Connington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcloren Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Right now I'm re-reading The Six Wives of Henry VIII... I particularly like Anne Boleyn. Another very intelligent ambitious woman that despite the times created lasting change in Britain manipulating the king to break from the stranglehold of the Roman church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Atmospheric tale of Barcelona during the 30's and 50's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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