Snugglybear Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 We should have a book club - fiction and non-fiction sections - with recommendations for reading material. Eric Ambler's thrillers sound really interesting in this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33972802 Off to see whether the city library has any copies. Otherwise it's the second hand bookshops / websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Link dead. Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 'Page not found' - error on the link. This doesn't bode well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33972802 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/161769-good-books-forum-hpc-reading-list/ There is already a thread of sorts.....not something that would appeal to all tastes. Edit: If you search books there are three pages of related threads with books in the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I quite like reading books, especially "Asterix the Gaul" as it has pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Cue the willy waving contest with each post containing ever more obscure and esoteric references to books and authors. It's the HPC way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I quite like reading books, especially "Asterix the Gaul" as it has pictures. I like Asterix too. Reading it in French at age 9 helped my French no end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I like Asterix too. Reading it in French at age 9 helped my French no end! Books that play with language are great for helping learn it. I guess the way they seem to attract some great translations capturing the spirit of wordplay helps. One of the first books I read when I was learning Italian was Lo Hobbit. The translator - as with the English Asterix - had gone firmly for the spirit of all the plays on language, making a great read of the same book that first motivated junior-me to learn to read English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Cue the willy waving contest with each post containing ever more obscure and esoteric references to books and authors. It's the HPC way.I only read books that haven't been written yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I only read books that haven't been written yet. I only write books that haven't been read yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I read anything and everything that's good. Not fussed about the language but I loathe bad translation into English. I'm currently reading The Brethren by Robert Merle, in English. It's a rotten translation but I can't find the book in the original French. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battenberg Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 George Orwell with his classics. http://www.george-orwell.org/ I'm currently reading Coming Up For Air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Somebody recommended me the "Flashman" series. I haven't got round to reading them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trampa501 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I'm surprised Philip Kerr isn't bigger than he already is. I'm a massive fan of his Bernie Gunther series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Somebody recommended me the "Flashman" series. I haven't got round to reading them yet. Mildly amusing: a side you probably haven't encountered before of our imperial era. Take-it-or-leave-it territory for me. Worth dipping a toe in to see how much he grips you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In particular Mother Night, Cats Cradle and Slaughter House 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AThirdWay Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Somebody recommended me the "Flashman" series. I haven't got round to reading them yet. Probably me. George MacDonald Fraser's stuff is very good. He did a trio of books based on his experiences in the army while waiting for de-mob after the war, I found them very funny. A kind of Scottish version of Jaroslav Hašek's "Good Soldier Svejk" (also worth a read). Tom Sharpe as well, another author I've sadly missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Probably me. George MacDonald Fraser's stuff is very good. He did a trio of books based on his experiences in the army while waiting for de-mob after the war, I found them very funny. A kind of Scottish version of Jaroslav Hašek's "Good Soldier Svejk" (also worth a read). Tom Sharpe as well, another author I've sadly missed. No it wasn't you, but it was a Scottish bloke I was working with. We were stuck on a gas platform near Egypt for a few weeks. So books come in handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Somebody recommended me the "Flashman" series. I haven't got round to reading them yet. I read them in my teens. Funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Cue the willy waving contest with each post containing ever more obscure and esoteric references to books and authors. It's the HPC way. I follow Quentin Crisp's advice: 'Books are for writing, not for reading.' Off to write my next one. *puts willy back in trousers* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 We should have a book club - fiction and non-fiction sections - with recommendations for reading material. Eric Ambler's thrillers sound really interesting in this articlehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33972802 Off to see whether the city library has any copies. Otherwise it's the second hand bookshops / websites. A Radio 4 programme on them certainly made them sound like they are worth a look. Do often find with forgotten fims and literature etc. that, to an extent, they are forgotten for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I read them in my teens. Funny. I never got round to it, but I may do now. Apparently the history side of it, is educational, and fairly accurate. I imagined they would not be a hit with women. Seems to be a right blokey set of books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I never got round to it, but I may do now. Apparently the history side of it, is educational, and fairly accurate. I imagined they would not be a hit with women. Seems to be a right blokey set of books. Blokey? 'Cos he shags his way around the empire? So does James Bond, and Flashman is by far the better-written and more entertaining of the two. I won't pretend to have a clue about the thought processes of the maddest humourless feminut, but for any normal person it's too preposterous to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 A Radio 4 programme on them certainly made them sound like they are worth a look. Do often find with forgotten fims and literature etc. that, to an extent, they are forgotten for a reason. I read an Eric Ambler book years ago, I've forgotten the name but it was about some people trapped in a lonely farmhouse in winter while a gang of criminals held the place to siege. It was very gripping. He also wrote the screenplay for 'The October Man' which is a great film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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