Paging the book club - holiday reading

Eh? He wrote Contact in 1986. Those things were well known by then
and had been for years.

 

Liked that

Liked that even more. More thought-provoking than the film

Utter crap. Badly written and boring - the TV was better.

All IMHO, naturally.

 

Indeed. Apparently Nature reviewed it, and only found a few minor errors
in it too, which is impressive.

 

The new Flashman book. In fact, if you've never read any of them,
absolutely any Flashman novel.

 

That's a catholic assortment. Agree about The Cruel Sea. Have you ever
read Life Is A Four Letter Word? NM's autobiography.

 

It rocks a big fat one.

Speaking of which; "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk, "Trainspotting" by Irvine
Welsh and "Vurt" by Jeff Noon.

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The Older Gentleman scribbled on the back of a napkin:

I'd certainly go with that - "Flashman and the Dragon" had me in
stitches...

 

In which case I stand corrected.

 

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The English - Jeremy Paxman
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Liked all of the above, especially Bryson's book.

 

Utter crap. Badly written and boring - the TV was better.[/QUOTE]

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That's high praise indeed! Actually, from the synopsis on Amazon it
seems a fair description.

 

I like the look of it. Generally I'm drawn to books which broaden my
understanding of the perspective of others or that deal with social
issues.

 

This looks like it should go on my list.

 

Abso wrote:

It gave me an insight to post-war Britain, something you're not taught at
school.

 

A truly classic book I borrowed from my Dad earlier this year (written about
1955). You enter a world which seems real and you become part of the ship
and its crew.

 

Still not finished the Eco, but agree with the rest.

High Fidelity is ideal holiday reading. I'd add another recommendation
for The Time Travellers Wife.

I'm currently reading 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire. First couple of
pages here.

http://www.gregorymaguire.com/gm_wick_ex.html

 

And a good film, too, with Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden. The film was
toned down a bit from the book, mind.

You ought to try some of Monsarrat's short stories, especially HMS
Marlborough Will Enter Harbour.

 

If the author wants to sell more books then he _really_ should take down
that web-page.

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I didn't look, just found the extract, is it really bad? <goes to
look> Hmmm.

 

Well, I didn't want ot go jumping off the deep end. I thik it meets
your criteria, though.

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