Read any good books recently?
Please make some recommendations.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:03, 124 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Game of Thrones, by Mince Gaydar.
It's amaaaazing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:05, Reply)

Sounds like a right load of testes.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:06, Reply)

It's frightful.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:12, Reply)

I think you've actually read it
and possibly its sequels
( Peej, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:59, Reply)

I recommend you fuck off

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:05, Reply)

Show me how eh? Lead by example.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:06, Reply)

I recommend YM

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:07, Reply)

Really? You're even more sick than I thought.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:07, Reply)

I reommend YM and sister in a sex sandwich.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:09, Reply)

Crack on son. Don't come running to me when you've got some extra nasty infections.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:10, Reply)

Not much of a reader but 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' was interesting.
The film left a lot out and I found it confusing. Book is far superior.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:08, Reply)

I read that. Got a bit bored with it towards the end.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:08, Reply)

It had a good twist at the end.
It was a bit repetetive, one I had to go back to.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:12, Reply)

I read half of it and it became very clear that I didn't actually need, or indeed want, to talk about Kevin at all.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:13, Reply)

See also: 'Let The right One In'

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:12, Reply)

I let a right one go a minute ago.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:17, Reply)

POTD

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:18, Reply)

*sprays Febreze*

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:21, Reply)

it's the only way to be sure
sprays Febreze nukes the site from orbit
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:23, Reply)

I actually haven't read any good books lately.
I tried to get in to Game of Thrones, but i couldn't get past about halfway through the first book.
So, basically, i can't help. although i have read good books in the past that i could recommend, you've specifically asked for books I've read recently, which, if we're honest, is a silly question.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:09, Reply)

this book might change your life
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:10, Reply)

Pity it is only a pdf
At least if it were a real book he could stand on it, if none of the tips worked.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:13, Reply)

You should read this one
www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Exit-Digital-2011-ebook/dp/B004TGU1VY/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375798348&sr=1-5&keywords=How+to
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:13, Reply)

Not a book, but a radio programme **BEAKER ALERT**
Don't know if anyone remembers me being all 'chase me, chase me' a couple of weeks ago. No? Who cares...
Well it appears that a track from my album is going to be played on Late Junction on Radio 3 tonight.
I appreciate this probably means little or nothing to most of you, but this is one of my favourite programmes and this is extremely exciting news to me.
As you were.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:11, Reply)

haha, gay.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:13, Reply)

Well bent.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:16, Reply)

Some sort of "world music" segment, is it?
Can't imagine sitar and bongo music being prime time stuff.
( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:13, Reply)

That's why it is on so late.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:16, Reply)

...and on Radio 3.
Seriously, has anyone ever tuned into Radio 3? Even by accident?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:20, Reply)

Late Junction is probably one of the best music programmes on the radio.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:21, Reply)

Radio 3 doesn't even really exist.
Poor old Tango, he's being 'trolled'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:28, Reply)

Oh shut up.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:14, Reply)

I might never shut up about this.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:15, Reply)

These fucken tragignomes can't handle a success story tang, fuck 'em

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:17, Reply)

I knew I could rely on you for support, Reg.
Cheers m8!
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:18, Reply)

Too much negativity round here for my liking
If these pricks quit whining on the interwebs and got to know their oats a bit better then they might learn there's more to life than sneering through a keyboard
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:21, Reply)

It's clear to me exactly who *does* know their oats here

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:22, Reply)

Nice one!
I'm going to listen to it and say "hey, I've bantered with this chap on my internet box!"
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:19, Reply)

Thanks Twoser!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:20, Reply)

That's really good news
Remember us little people when you're famous, won't you?

I know you won't...I wouldn't. I'd laugh at how much poorer everyone else is compared to me.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:21, Reply)

I'll probably be very busy with my new friends Kershaw and N'Dour to even give you a second thought.
Soz.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:26, Reply)

What, your kids?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:29, Reply)

NO SHUT UP


_Yes
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:30, Reply)

He has a meeeeeelyun choices.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:30, Reply)

hahaa

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:45, Reply)

:D

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:53, Reply)

I'm going to print out the listing page off the BBC website and curl out a poo-poo on it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:22, Reply)

Sweet man !

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:25, Reply)

I've nearly finished the fifth Game of Thrones book, they're ace
Ol' Mincey Bonce up there is just cryin' like a pusseh cos he's late to the party, as per usual. Fucken hipster prick
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:14, Reply)

The Straw Men by Michael Marshall
It's the first book in a series, mystery/thriller. Starts with two seemingly unconnected threads about an FBI agent and a detective investigating the abduction of a young girl and a guy who goes home for the funeral after his parents die in an accident, and finds a note hidden in their house that says, "we aren't dead".

Really good writing, the threads gradually converge, the lead characters don't ignore the blindingly obvious as they so often do in thrillers.

Edit: Here it is: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Straw-Men-ebook/dp/B002RI9PG8/
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:17, Reply)

Just started the second one.

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:18, Reply)

I will investigate. Ta.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:19, Reply)

He's written some very good SF in the past, which persuaded me to give it a try

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:21, Reply)

He did 'Only Forward', right?
Read that many years ago and quite enjoyed it. Surreal as fuck in places if I remember rightly.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:15, Reply)

I just got two packets of Randoms out of the vending machine.
Free sweets! :D
( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:17, Reply)

Well that puts my news into perspective.
Way to piss on my chips there, Krones
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:19, Reply)

Soz, but I thought we should have some news that would actually matter to people.

( Kroney, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:24, Reply)

Don't bother with 'Life of Pi'
Fuck load of shit about Religion in it. Few interesting bits about human and animal nature and that's it.

It also appears I read a lot of books that are also films...
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:18, Reply)

This lot all bought it because they thought the main character was a pie.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:20, Reply)

You could do a spin off cookery book!

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:22, Reply)

It's allegorical you oaf.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:22, Reply)

I didn't read it that way...

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:25, Reply)

I'm reading what I talk about when I talk about running by haruki murakami
it's probably not worth reading unless you like reading haruki murakami books
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:18, Reply)

Is that from the Lion King?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:20, Reply)

It means No Worries

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:30, Reply)

I just can't get into them.
All that paper folding malarkey - waste of time, mate.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:23, Reply)

I'm more of a pamphlet man

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:19, Reply)

Admit it, you're more of a top shelf magazine man

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:22, Reply)

Does anyone pay for scud any more?
Apart from my dad, and I refuse to initiate a conversation with him about it as that would be well wrong.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:23, Reply)

Pakis?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:23, Reply)

Who's he?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:23, Reply)

Dunno, soz

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:27, Reply)

No one that I know...as far as I'm aware
There's a paper shop round the corner from me that has a massive selection of grumble. I took Mrs Hats in there to show her recently. She didn't know that's what I wanted to show her. She didn't think it was funny.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:27, Reply)

Some people eh. FFS

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:30, Reply)

It was great
"come see what they sell in here, it's really cool"

Then I just pointed at the massive amount of porn...everything from skinny young blondes to dirty old ladies. Her face was a picture.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:33, Reply)

again thats odd as she is always showing me pictures of her growler
So I thought she would like that's sort of thing
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:31, Reply)

Ha, jokes on you
because her extreme level of autism means she can't even use a camera, so HA!
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:34, Reply)

I didnt say she was using the camera...
I assume that the milk float I see in the background is the giveaway to the protagonist...

SO NERRRR NERRRR,,,


BTW very neatly trimmed, well done you
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:38, Reply)

I WILL NOT HAVE MRS HATS' MINGE BANDIED ABOUT WILLY-NILLY
WELL GROOMED, OR OTHERWISE!
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:52, Reply)

Hey
Don't shoot the messenger TH,

I am not the one bandying it about willy nilly
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:53, Reply)

THAT TOLD *HIM*!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:38, Reply)

I imagine some people get an illicit thrill out of paying for it
Making some 17 year old till dolly ring up their copy of Teen Slut Backdoor Action Monthly (incorporating Bunty) could float their boat I suppose.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:28, Reply)

I love Bunty.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:29, Reply)

Thanks Biggles

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:31, Reply)

It's my mission to read some classics this year.
So far I've done Great Expectations (alright - quite fun, but dear gods he needs a bag of commas and full stops), and now I'm onto Around The World In 80 Days.

Sadly I also downloaded a free computer game to my 'phone at the same time I did the books, so it's kind of difficult to bother because oo shiny!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:21, Reply)

Verne: almost all brilliant
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the best books I have ever read.

Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo also - as the intro says, you probably think you've read this but you haven't, not the full version. It's superb.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:25, Reply)

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Twilight: Full Moon
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:27, Reply)

Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo My Star Wars/Star Trek cross-over fan fiction epic trilogy
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:29, Reply)

e on kaye's six part autobiography
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:56, Reply)

Our survey saiiiiiiiiid

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:07, Reply)

Have you read "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:29, Reply)

Honest answer
I have been re reading PG Wodehouse's Jeeves books

Also Tom Sharpe, who I like immensely.

I would recommend both authors
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:33, Reply)

Wodehouse is excellent

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:41, Reply)

Even if you don't think dog training manuals are 'your bag' you really shoud give them a go!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:41, Reply)

I GET THIS!!

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:44, Reply)

Siii It

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:51, Reply)

She was a cunt, wasn't she
I mean really.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:53, Reply)

She sure was.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:58, Reply)

she would have made an excellent
Dominatrix though... all that twead
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:08, Reply)

I've read and enjoyed pretty much all of Tom Sharpe's stuff.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:54, Reply)

Also, if you haven't read Jerome K Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, like my idiot brother who is already an editor, and thought it one of the best things you've ever read,
then you're even more of an idiot than he is.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:42, Reply)

I greatly enjoyed his 'Thoughts of an Idle Fellow'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:47, Reply)

Chapter 1: Treworgey Tree Fayre

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:59, Reply)

Not the only time you have enjoyed
3 men in a confined space... IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 15:52, Reply)

BOAT LOLS

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:05, Reply)

Also the sequel,
"Three Men On The Bummell".
So close to a great title.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:23, Reply)

Is that any good, though?
I heard it was yet another ill-advised sequel.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:27, Reply)

I quite enjoyed it.
in a "immerse yourself in an Edwardian school trip" kind of way.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:36, Reply)

Well that's TMIAB as well, but I might give it a try, now.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 17:00, Reply)

I prefered Three Men on a Bummel personally, but the boat one was good too.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:29, Reply)

o I
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( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:31, Reply)

well, I knew someone would go for the obvious
but I'm saddened it was you Tangles. Especially now you're a radio star.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:34, Reply)

What? Like a Time/Life book?

( Peej, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:01, Reply)

I haven't read anything worth recommending recently
but my eldest says that Peppa Pig's - Mister Zebras Post Van is an epic yarn and well worth reading.
( Peej, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:03, Reply)

"Would read again, every night, for a FUCKING month" - Paul Ross

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:06, Reply)

With help weading the big words from my bwother

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:07, Reply)

Clicking this.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:11, Reply)

^parental understanding ^

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:13, Reply)

I bet you guys laugh at "My family" as well.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:16, Reply)

YM especially, yes

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:16, Reply)

Innit bruv. Same with having to play the same nursery rythme in the car repeatedly, despite there being 30 other songs on the CD.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:19, Reply)

I read a terry Pratchet book that I thoroughly enjoyed
and I'm now reading what I am glad to learn was not actually Iain Banks last non-sci fi book. it is unsurprisingly about a family of scottish nutters like most of his books.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:21, Reply)

You could try The Russian Concubine
by Kate Furnivall. First in a series and an edge of your seat thriller in The Orient.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:27, Reply)

Or on the lighter side Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson.
A novel about a novelist trying to write a novel. Well constructed and funny.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 6 Aug 2013, 16:30, Reply)