Books

[Colback's Orange Tufts]

I've just read 'the signs were there' about recent disaster on the stock market, cos I'm dead cool like.

Also, despite not being into the genre, read the 'wayfarers' series by Becky Chambers. Its Sci fi but about the societies and cultures in space not pew pew space battles. Reminded me a bit of the council and races of mass effect.

[overseasTOON]

I've just read 'the signs were there' about recent disaster on the stock market, cos I'm dead cool like.

Also, despite not being into the genre, read the 'wayfarers' series by Becky Chambers. Its Sci fi but about the societies and cultures in space not pew pew space battles. Reminded me a bit of the council and races of mass effect.

You should read Too Big to Fail by Sorkin.

[ALF]

Just started reading 'Kill Your Friends' by John Niven. Anyone read it?

[Diego21]

I read 'A Life too Short', really excellent (and tragic). Also read a few autobiographies, Shay Given's and Jenson Button's were both decent, Kieron Dyer's surprisingly good too. A few of Guy Martin's books are quite good reads.

I'm getting this next:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Evil-Sc ... B0764FLN97

Love books about serial killers, people in prison etc.

If you like this books, maybe you like Dexter books. Obviously, is fiction. But Dexter is the best serial killer in the fantastic world.

Next book I have bought it's the book in the next link. It's about a brazillian serial killer who killed 492 persons... But I don't know if thera are an English version

https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-4 ... tos/272876

[lassassinblanc]

I read 'A Life too Short', really excellent (and tragic). Also read a few autobiographies, Shay Given's and Jenson Button's were both decent, Kieron Dyer's surprisingly good too. A few of Guy Martin's books are quite good reads.

I'm getting this next:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Evil-Sc ... B0764FLN97

Love books about serial killers, people in prison etc.

One of my favorite books. Such an important story and as you say a tragic one too

[bodacious benny]

I'm getting this next:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Evil-Sc ... B0764FLN97

Love books about serial killers, people in prison etc.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through this now and it's really interesting. It goes into some of the science behind why people do things but without bamboozling you (I have no scientific background since my GCSE grade C in 2001...). It tries to put the reader in the place of people who have done 'evil' things and gets you to ask questions of yourself and what you might have done to other that would be classed by some as a form of evil, and questions how/if committing one act of evil makes you evil for life (or at all) and so on.

[Chappy]

Just finished 100 Years of Solitude. Great read but hard to keep track off all the different characters.

[Luna Lovegood]

Reading and studying To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf for school.

[bodacious benny]

I recently finished 'The Sun Does Shine' about a guy who was on Death Row for 29 years fighting for his freedom. Really excellent read, highlights many of the flaws, failings, injustices, lies, politics and racism in the US Justice System and really makes you think just how many innocent people may have been executed over the years. It's one of the few books that has given be goosebumps reading it, would highly recommend it. There's a lot in it about the people he was on Death Row with, and who the person behind the crimes were and that not everyone is a monster (thought some are!).

[ToonCraig]

Read Speedway rider, Tai Woffindens book. Really enjoyed it.

[overseasTOON]

So far in the lockdown I've read:
Rock the Casbah - the story behind the Arab Spring
Oil Kings - the story behind his the US and Saudi politics destroyed Iran
The Hidden Empire - how the US hides it's overseas territories
The Euro and its threat to the future of the European Union - how fundamentally the EU has f***ed itself.

Cracking on now with the History of the Holy Roman Empire; 900 pages of very dry writing.

[biggeordiedave]

So far in the lockdown I've read:
Rock the Casbah - the story behind the Arab Spring
Oil Kings - the story behind his the US and Saudi politics destroyed Iran
The Hidden Empire - how the US hides it's overseas territories
The Euro and its threat to the future of the European Union - how fundamentally the EU has f***ed itself.

Cracking on now with the History of the Holy Roman Empire; 900 pages of very dry writing.

They all sound great, with the exception of the last one perhaps. I'm about to start 'Israel and Palestine: The Complete History'.

[ALF]

I read The Stand by Stephen King, very good book in my opinion.

[Valentino's fast feet]

For anyone into crime novels, I'd recommend The man on the streets by Trevor Wood. Main character is a homeless veteran that witnesses a a murder, set in Newcastle. I'm not from the area myself, but have visited when I can, even that brief knowledge added a little bit more intrigue to the goings on of the story itself.

[Crowchild]

I recommend Carlos Ruiz Zafon series called The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books

[bodacious benny]

This is quite a cool idea:

https://www.futurelibrary.no/

[Cushley]

For anyone into crime novels, I'd recommend The man on the streets by Trevor Wood. Main character is a homeless veteran that witnesses a a murder, set in Newcastle. I'm not from the area myself, but have visited when I can, even that brief knowledge added a little bit more intrigue to the goings on of the story itself.

A hammers fans here, just registered just to thank you for a cracking good read

[Valentino's fast feet]

For anyone into crime novels, I'd recommend The man on the streets by Trevor Wood. Main character is a homeless veteran that witnesses a a murder, set in Newcastle. I'm not from the area myself, but have visited when I can, even that brief knowledge added a little bit more intrigue to the goings on of the story itself.

A hammers fans here, just registered just to thank you for a cracking good read

Haha you're welcome, I'm sure he'll be glad to know you enjoyed

[gola]

just finished virigina woolf diaries. any readers here? to the lighthouse is incredible if were going off novels

[lassassinblanc]

Starting the below today after finally finishing Jonathan Wilsons Hungary book

https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Change-Big ... 1785317296

As much as people probably dislike how Red Bull has invested and renamed clubs , they've also done an amazing job in developing players