Non fiction only
I don't know why, but in adulthood, I find my brain is just not wired for fiction anymore. I have TV and movies (and latterly games) for fiction.

I love reading, but feel I need to read stuff that fills my brain with stuff.
Almost all my reading of the past ten years or so has been either film, TV or music related.

The only fiction author I even attempt to read now is Christopher Brookmyre, who's excellent books are pretty much movies anyway.
Think Irvine Welsh by way of Jerry Bruckheimer.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:16, 9 replies)

I love Brookmyre
not read any since boiling a frog though..I need to catch up ;)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:21, closed)

I haven't read the last two
They're all pretty solid. I think the only duff one (rather the only one I haven't finished) was A Tale Etched in Black pencil.

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night was my introduction and its still my favourite
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:35, closed)

Yes - Hard Black Pencil is an interesting idea, but doesn't really work
Though it does get more normal to the end, so maybe try again
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:58, closed)

Ha! I was just going to post a mention of Chris Brookmyre
A Big Boy Did It Then Ran Away is my favourite, but they're all gems
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:21, closed)

Brookmyre is fantastic
although I prefer the earlier ones personally.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:23, closed)

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I don't know why, but in adulthood, I find my brain is just not wired for fiction anymore. I have TV and movies (and latterly games) for fiction.

Yeah, me too. In about the last 15 years I think I've maybe read 20 books, of which maybe 5 were fiction. In the 30 years before that, I read that many every couple of months, of which the proportions were reversed.

Over the same last 15 years, though, I've built a collection of maybe 500 DVDs & BluRays. None of which are porn (not since my gf moved in, anyway. No hardship - what's fast broadband for, eh?).
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:24, closed)

Is he the one that wrote the
story about someone blowing up a dam? Foggy memory here . . .
(username failed moderation, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:25, closed)

that's the fella
Big Boy Did it and Ran Away
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:34, closed)

I preferred The Sacred Art of Stealing
I've finished all the Brookmyres, and I've started to read Stuart MacBride, who is also very good. Not quite as funny, but very good though.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:37, closed)