SNC Book Club

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Feel free to share your favourite books, recommendations or your thoughts on what you're currently reading.

I went through a bit of a dry reading patch after the summer. Ended up getting The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo around September, got through 3/4s of it and got fed up - I was expecting "the next Stieg Larsson", not a Girl With the Dragon Tattoo rip-off! Ended up reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas just before Christmas and really enjoyed that.

Ordered Salem's Lot by Stephen King the other day so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into that.

[The Quito Diet]

Pires autobiography which in truth was a bit poor. Most insightful parts were about his time pre Arsenal or with France.

Wenger biography was brilliant, very thoroughly researched and loads of details I didn't previous know.

Nearly finished Andy Murrays book, its a good read but quite clearly a cop out because of what he did last year. Written in his dry sarcastic time though so won't be for most people.

[Shinra]

Recently read hunger games and catching fire and absolutely loved them. Waiting for some money and I'll be reading mockingjay next. Ive read about 5 star wars books as well which were really good so I'd recommend some of those if you're a star wars fan.

Im so fussy when it comes to books and films but I am always after recommendations. I'm into fantasy and sci fi but have not been able to get into Raymond Feists books. I need something as well written and engaging as hunger games. I've read all of A song of fire and ice series to date. I've heard robin hobb is a good fantasy author?

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I can't say from experience Shinra but Ender's Game is a great read apparently. I seen the movie this year and it reminded me of Hunger Games quite a bit so maybe that's worth looking into.

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I'd encourage anyone who hasn't seen the film or wants to watch the film, or just loves incredibly well written literature, to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. One of my alltime favourite reads and probably the only book to date I've read in one sitting.

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Jan 4, 2014 16:23:28 GMT daveyposhboy said:

I'd encourage anyone who hasn't seen the film or wants to watch the film, or just loves incredibly well written literature, to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. One of my alltime favourite reads and probably the only book to date I've read in one sitting.

I found that book extremely grey and depressing to be totally honest haha. I actually felt horrible after I read it, didn't enjoy it at all.

Different strokes I suppose.

[notpropaganda]

Yeah I mean I didn't finish The Road and start singing and dancing but it's a fantastic piece of literature. The lack of chapters or any real punctuation is great and like Davey said, I read it all in one sitting

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About to finish a collection of short stories by Kafka. It's some weird shit but I think liked most of it (especially The Metamorphosis and In The Penal Colony).

[#FreeBTS]

Bought Alex Ferguson's autobiography for a tenner, enjoying it so far, sometimes find the early parts of biogs to be a bit of a slog but this one's alright.

[Dan]

I've still not got round to getting Ferguson's book. I read quite a lot but mainly cricket and football books really, not a fiction reader really.

Was given Clarke Carlisle's book for Xmas, not a fan of him really but I'll give it a chance anyway.

Just bought a new book by a bloke called Gideon Haigh, who's an excellent Australian cricket journalist. If you like cricket then I'd recommend anything by him

[U R GAY]

Just finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It's my favourite film of all-time and I quite enjoyed the book, works well as an accompaniment to the film. It goes into more detail on most things although the bits Kubrick chose to change definitely enhanced the overall experience.

I did like a bit more detail into the ending though because in the film, the 20 odd minute flashly colours thing followed by the star baby was my least favourite bit about it. In the book he finally reaches his mission and enters into the star gate (which is described as being like a grand central station of space) and then he's thrown out through a black hole into another galaxy. Then there's the bit from the film where he's in the room with the bed and stuff but when he switches off the light he's basically evolved and re-born as the space baby.

I found it interesting the reason HAL goes mental/faulty in the book which isn't really delved into in the film, he's set up as the bad guy whereas in the book he's more a product of human dishonesty - which I thought would've appealed to Kubrick and was surprised that was left out.

[Dan]

I've just bought a Kindle to try and get me to read more as well, should arrive sometime this week. Just bought the most basic one, sounds alright for £70.

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They're dead handy, especially with all the Kindle torrents out there now. You can have hundreds of books on there in a minute or two.

You'll probably need to get a bedside lamp though because the screen can be quite hard to read at times.

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My Kindle is the reason I started reading properly again. So handy and easy to pick up and start reading. Tend to read a lot more now because I have 100s of books stored on it. I do miss having the actual book sometimes though haha.

Just started a re-read of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. One of my favourite books of all time, and I was just at a bit of a loss for what to read so thought I'd give it a re-read. Beautiful story, brilliantly written.

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Actually picked up my Kindle for the first time in months yesterday. Decided to give Ozzy's book a read while waiting for mine to arrive in the post. Going through a bit of a Black Sabbath phase so perfect time to read it.

Enjoying it so far. He's a much better sense of humour than expected. Tony Iomma just comes across as a top, top bloke. What a guitarist.