Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Post by **macca** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:30 pm

GB84 by david peace, just started this and i thought this would be right up my street ie a sympathetic view of the miners strike written by an acclaimed storyteller "the dammed utd" but 100 pages in and i am losing the will to live bloody hell its hard work.

Post by **M H** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:38 pm

Try "Hitler, The Nemisis" Macca, takes a load of getting into but when you do you won't put it down

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:04 pm

i was going to start this thread the other day as it happens.

im reading andy mcdermotts second novel still, a bit bogged down in military action and seems to have forgotten what the plot is supposed to be.

Post by **M H** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:08 pm

I know a bird that was shagging him. No further comment!

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:29 pm

mcdermott? maybe she distracted him!

Post by **mattp** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:31 pm

Just started "The Pines" by Robert Dunbar.
A horror book (as usual!) - started off ok (but the print is feckin' tiny!) combining "Deliverance"-style inbred yokel stuff with the Jersey Devil legend. Apparently a "modern horror classic", we'll see......

Post by **Randall** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:36 pm

i just cannot keep my eyes open long enough to read. hardly read anything in 2 months and my book case is bursting full!

Post by **sat** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:07 am

You should get a Kindle or such.
Got one on my phone and I love it.

Post by **Randall** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:16 pm

future generations are going to have serious eye defects.

Post by **M H** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:17 pm

randall wrote:future generations are going to have serious eye defects.

Too much wanking?

Post by **Randall** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:20 pm

M H wrote:
randall wrote:future generations are going to have serious eye defects.
Too much wanking?

some of the magazines i found at work the other day shocked even me!

Post by **M H** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:22 pm

Too tame?

Post by **Randall** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:25 pm

M H wrote:Too tame?

far from it, in a family chain of newsagents i wasnt expecting hardcore pornography.

not that i was unhappy at the find!

Post by **M H** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:27 pm

Really? I only remember the likes og Penthouse and Mayfair, really tame stuff

Post by **Randall** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:30 pm

these were american hardcore magazines, left nothing to the imagination.

i had to have a good look through several to be totally sure how disgusted i was to find them there.

Post by **M H** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:33 pm

As you would mate.......

Post by **sat** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:21 pm

randall wrote:future generations are going to have serious eye defects.

'Kindle eye'?

Post by **Randall** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:27 pm

sat wrote:
randall wrote:future generations are going to have serious eye defects.
'Kindle eye'?

he

all these new phones/gadgets must be a dream to the opticians market.

Post by **sat** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:10 pm

Does reading on a screen actually affect the eyes? Or is that just a myth?

Post by **Randall** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:42 pm

sat wrote:Does reading on a screen actually affect the eyes? Or is that just a myth?

i would imagine it must do?