Best of/Worst of....books - Page 2

**wakka839** · #21 27-01-2009, 01:07 AM

last time i was in a chippy in belfast, it had an offer of being burnt down at 4am.... Lovely place honest!..

Only book i have read is frank herbert's dune, not everybodies cup of tea, its a sci-fi, the RTS game was based on it. I thought it was pretty damn good, and i dont like reading.

**glenman** · #22 27-01-2009, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by wakka839

last time i was in a chippy in belfast, it had an offer of being burnt down at 4am.... Lovely place honest!..

Only book i have read is frank herbert's dune, not everybodies cup of tea, its a sci-fi, the RTS game was based on it. I thought it was pretty damn good, and i dont like reading.

My local KFC had an offer like that-it closed its doors for good within the hour!

**Tats** · #23 27-01-2009, 01:42 AM

Im sure it was in Jimmy GReaves biography that he had the best kept garden in london ....Cos he kept burying his bottles of booze and forgeting where , so his whole garden got dug over till he found them lol ... i may have the wrong footballer but im sure it was greaves

**Begbie** · #24 27-01-2009, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by bill.glentoran

the executioner by albert pierrepoint!

I've read that at some stage over the past year. Very interesting.

With a name like Begbie, it's anything by Irvine Welsh for me.

It's easier read if you read with an accent.

Agree with Sharks about the Shakespeare. I find it impossible to enjoy. Must be something to do with the words stopping half-way across the page and then starting on the next line as if there was no space.

**Sharky** · #25 29-01-2009, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by KUBLA

"The Damned Utd" by David Peace a stunning book

50 pages in and I have to say it's quality already. bastards bastards bastards

**mjm** · #26 29-01-2009, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Tats

Not a great book reader but 2 that i have read and realy enjoyed are George Bests autobiography and Stephen Kings The Stand .

The Stand, original and then uncut version, are my favourite books. I have managed to encourage dozens of mates to read it, and not one has said it was crap. They almost always rate it as their best book.

Another classic, but hard to come by book is The Hab Theory, by Allan Eckert. I think it is due to be made into a major film around 2010, or 2011, but there is very little floating about the web about it at the moment.

**Burdock** · #27 29-01-2009, 11:05 PM

Recent reads for me have been the old classics 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' and 'All Quiet On The Western Front'. Both excellent.

Ken Follett's 'Pillars Of The Earth' is well worth a go an' all.

**mjm** · #28 30-01-2009, 09:45 AM

Begbie mentioned Irvine Welsh books- If you give the way it's written time, then they are brilliant. Trainspotting is reasonable, but the likes of Filth, and Maribou Stork Nightmares are cracking reads.

I'm really enjoying Duma Key at the moment, the newish King book.

**robo** · #29 30-01-2009, 10:52 AM

I enjoyed FAMINE, cant remember the Authour, its about the potatoe famine.

NO spamming here, but all bloody good books,

http://www.johngrishamonline.com/books

Also ive still got

http://www.fred-dibnah.co.uk/biog.htm

to read yet, loved watching him, great bloke, down to earth and bloody clever.