UKRM Book Club

I'm in a philosophical frame of mind atm.

Indeed, but none the worse for that. I've passed it on to eldest.

I was very good today went into Waterstones to pick up a copy of 'Of
mice and men' for a friend and didn't buy the Bill Hicks collection.
The idea of spending the money that would have gone on cigarettes on
books is valid in principle but in practice I wasn't on 80 a day.

 

Chocolate ginger.

 

Knowing that we are never going to be more skint than in the next year
or so, I've joined the local library. As much reading as I can manage
for none of the cost. And as much Danielle Steele as I can brave.
Actually, I might just have to see how long it is before I do read one
of her books - are they as bad as I imagine they might be? (catherine
cookson meets jilly cooper?)

Arse, I've just realised I should have rung them up to renew the books
I didn't have time to take back...and now they'll be closed. ;o( So,
no cost but the fines then!

 

So did I, when I was a teenager.

 

thought I'd better say something!

ta for all the answers - a wide range of comments. I read quite a lot
but it tends to be almost all non fiction or else subject specific
books. I asked the question to try to understand what motivates those
ukrmers who read lots of fiction. The escapism / imagination aspect
hadn't really dawned on me but for those fiction books that I have read
and enjoyed I realise I got the same enjoyment - Armistead Maupin's
Tales of the City series is one example but I doubt that series of books
passes the ukrm literati test.

 

It passes my literati test.
TotC is a bit of a modern day Mapp&Lucia.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Corfield

I enjoyed the telly series of that.

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Crystallised ginger.

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I've kept quiet because I know I'd fail the test. I have a quite
extensive and catholic collection of books, much the same as my music
- one for every eventuality. I read and have read, loads of books of
all kinds; but I come back to SF for escapism although there's always
a bit of non-fiction to balance the space operas.
I have several books on the go atm - and the selection may give you a
giggle - or a raised eyebrow:
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody, by Michael Gerber (shite)
Good Omens, by Pratchett and Gaiman (old favourite)
River God, by Wilbur Smith (another old favourite)
Great Sea Battles, by Oliver Werner (illustrated, badly ;-))
Enigma (Battle For The Code), by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (good account,
v. interesting, v.dry)
Bombing Colours 1937-1973, by Michael Bowyer (mountains of solid fact,
dry as dust)
Rommel - Gunner Who?, by Spike. (old favourite, been in the upstairs
bog for months)

Next on the list, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and then Bill
Bryson's Walk In The Woods. And any non-F that I get interested in
along the way.

 

Pip says...

<snip>

I have a quick flick through some of these books while I'm sitting down
waiting for 'things to develop'. I have to say that I never tire of
Spike Milligan books.

 

Pip says...

Mostly shite, but it has a few moments.

Anyway, I was most impressed that your good lady managed to pick up my
book line at the BOSM. First person to manage that, shows good taste, I
reckon.

 

ginger nuts.

 

She's sorted, mate. Now I've managed to infect her choice of reading
material with selections from my own, at least. From a perusal of
your shelves, we overlap considerably, btw (as do many ukrm readers, I
have noticed).

 

I think they are. They probably would deny that, claiming that they
fill their time just as creatively, watching Corrie, Emmie and
Brookie. Or crotcheting cardies for Honda-riding Sheddi.

The world is their oyster. Pas me a book; I don't care what it is,
I'll just disappear for a while. Ta.

 

I met you at the BOSM then

Ah, I see.

Oh he is, just off top of my head we've got religion in Small gods,
sociopaths and revolution in Nightwatch, pagan and ecological in the
witches set, anti war in jingo, myth running through all.

 

Good librarys are great, ours is OK with occasional gems.

They are always 'grandma' books for me. Well not Jilly Cooper she's
the 13/14 year old reading the set that had girls names.

Write it on the calendar, or get your computer to beep at you

 

Reading Ukrm is a bit like those books your parents could order for
you with your name and your friends names in the story line. A
completely nonsensical plot with occasional familiar characters.

 

I read this recently for the first time. Actually it was the last book I
finished. I really thought it was excellent and barely put it down. I hope you
enjoy it as much as I did.

 

Surely libraries in Cambridge must have good books? In any case, you
can request an inter-library loan, and get anything that is available
in any British (English?) library. You may have to wait for it, but
you'll get it.

 

****, you're that young? Anyway, if they were funny then, why not now?