What book are you reading atm??

Dial Hard

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Just finished Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff. A post-apocalyptic zombie type book, but based in Ireland. Not my usual sort of thing, but I quite enjoyed it.

I love post-apocalyptic fiction and really wanted to love this but it was just lacking... something. Like, all the elements were there but she just didn't quite pull it off, imo.

One More Toy

Méin kampf just to see what it's like

Your Face

Underboss by Peter Maas

CrankyHaus

Kind of got two on the go at the moment.

The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk. Went in blind so don't fully know what to expect, maybe Crimson Tide on a WW2 Minesweeper in a Typhoon. Great so far. Excellent characterisation. I'll check out the film after.

Inside the Doomsday Machine; Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner - Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg was the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, portrayed in Spielberg's The Post, which eventually lead to Watergate. He was also a RAND Corporation strategic analyst and Pentagon and State Department specialist, positions which gave him access to the highest level of nuclear war planning. His descriptions of highly classified nuclear war death toll estimates and the wilful lack of safe control over nuclear weapons is chilling. However, clearly no intellectual slouch himself, he makes little concession for his readers and many may find the book very dense to get through.

cj maxx

One More Toy wrote: »

Méin kampf just to see what it's like

Really? I wanted to read that years ago but found it impossible to , erm, find.

storker

cjmc wrote: »

Really? I wanted to read that years ago but found it impossible to , erm, find.

I started to read it many many years ago but I didn't get far into it. Just a lot of claims with no real arguments or evidence to back them up. Rubbish, really.

EmmetSpiceland

cjmc wrote: »

Really? I wanted to read that years ago but found it impossible to , erm, find.

It was re-released there a few years ago so should be easy enough to get now.

daveorourke77

Soccernomics.

One for the nerds.

Foweva Awone

I'm currently halfway through One Foot Wrong, by Sofie Laguna, and I'm absolutely glued to it. Think a mix between Stephen King's Carrie and Emma Donoghue's Room, but better than either.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The Measure of Things (Ken Alder). A history of the metric system.

cj maxx

I'm currently putting an order to amazon

A hand maids tale
A book on garibaldi
Any other good books you'd reccomend

optogirl

BBC has Margaret Atwood's The Testaments serialised - all episodes available now


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008jyk

cj maxx

optogirl wrote: »

BBC has Margaret Atwood's The Testaments serialised - all episodes available now


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008jyk

Cheers

daveorourke77

Currently readig a book about the Hillsborough disaster by Phil Scraton

I'm not a liverpool supporter but I thought that I knew quite a bit about it. Didnt really know the half of it.

Cyrus

im reading stephen kings the institute at the moment, about 40% through, its ok so far but not riveting.

Prior to that was Daniel Silvas latest Gabriel Allon one which was loosely based on the house of saud, again was ok not amazing.

Ihatewhahabies

I am reading Skull and bones by Anthony Sutton

Flew through most of book but been stuck 2nd chapter from end for a month.

Blew my mind initially (It never occurred to me that of you controlled both sides of the dialectic you can control the outcome, now it seems like common sense, how did I not know this previously).

This has helped in my understanding of geopolitics etc. Which oftentimes made no rational sense to me.

Immortal Starlight

The Passage by Justin Cronin is my latest. I'm only 30 pages in but it's looking good.

mondeo

I never stood at an ATM reading a book before. Seems to be a lot of people doing it though.. I'll take Treasure Island to the AIB one and see how I get on. I'll get my hat and coat.

EmmetSpiceland

mondeo wrote: »

I never stood at an ATM reading a book before. Seems to be a lot of people doing it though.. I'll take Treasure Island to the AIB one and see how I get on. I'll get my hat and coat.

Really glad you didn’t go with the “urban dictionary” definition there, M.

Hector Savage

The Dead Zone by Stephen King - good read, SK can be really hit and miss, fortunately this one seems to be a hit so far!

Conall Cernach

Just finished Patrick O'Brian's "The Mauritius Command" and am about to pick up Bernard Cornwell's latest "Sword of Kings". What will Uhtred get up to now? How many priests will he kill, how many oaths will he swear? I'm about to find out.

Ipso

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Just finished Patrick O'Brian's "The Mauritius Command" and am about to pick up Bernard Cornwell's latest "Sword of Kings". What will Uhtred get up to now? How many priests will he kill, how many oaths will he swear? I'm about to find out.

'Wyrd bið ful āræd

appledrop

Just finished 'Once, twice, three times an Aisling' a great easy read for those of us that are fans of the books.

Just started 'The Testaments' by Margaret Atwood.It is really good + keeping me intrigued.

Tauriel

Just finished The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury. I actually got this free donkeys years ago when I pre ordered San Browns The Lost Symbol. Although I did try to read it back then, I lost interest about 80 pages in but I decided to give it another go from the beginning and I actually enjoyed it.

I've now ordered The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury.

appledrop

Well well well 'The Testaments ' won the booker prize this year, joint winner.A book I'm really enjoying at the moment.

Unlike last years winner + heap of c**p 'The Milkman'

Assetbacked

appledrop wrote: »

Well well well 'The Testaments ' won the booker prize this year, joint winner.A book I'm really enjoying at the moment.

Unlike last years winner + heap of c**p 'The Milkman'

Should be renamed the Woman Booker Prize. A judging panel made up entirely of women for an award that claims to be about the best book in general.

Ipso

Going to start Julius Caeasar, allegedly written by William Shakespeare.

The Late Late Show

appledrop wrote: »

Well well well 'The Testaments ' won the booker prize this year, joint winner.A book I'm really enjoying at the moment.

Unlike last years winner + heap of c**p 'The Milkman'

The Testaments is one of the best books I read in a long time. The Milkman is a not: it is a book written by someone who read The Handmaid's Tale and thinks she is Margaret Atwood. Margaret showed how it should be done with The Testaments.

eisenberg1

crushproof wrote: »

Very very enjoyable book, some great characters. He's so good at setting up scenes, I could vividly picture myself sitting in that ferry terminal. Gorrion!

About half way thru...a bit slow to start, but really enjoying “Nightboat to
Tangier”now.

Joe_ Public

The Late Late Show wrote: »

The Testaments is one of the best books I read in a long time. The Milkman is a not: it is a book written by someone who read The Handmaid's Tale and thinks she is Margaret Atwood. Margaret showed how it should be done with The Testaments.

Well, i like Milkman, very worthy booker winner imo, and while I quite enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale, i never subscribed to the hype that came with it over the past few years. But it never occurred to me reading Milkman that it had anything at all to do with Margaret Atwood or any other book, completely different genre for a start and it stands or falls on its own criteria. All opinions at the end of the day. I quite like both of the books.