What book have you just read?

[stonelephant]

Marvellous book - I bought it in a secondhand bookshop (don't tell Mads ) in a place called Kuranda - near to Cairns in N. Queensland and have read it many times.

Hey Skeets only I'm allowed to namedrop Aussie locations!

Seriously GJ and Skeets, I have never read a Western book so maybe I should try Lonesome Dove

[Doc Martin]

converted it to dvd - I'll do you a copy if you want.

Skeets surely that's illegal What the hell! How can we arrange it. The rebel's back

Yeah Doc, the guy who wrote Lonesome Dove, and many other great books, the prequels to Lonesome Dove are also very good, I too have the DVD of the mini series, Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones suit the roles just perfecly.

I would put Lonesome Dove in my top ten books of all time.

Dead Man's Walk is the only prequel I've read. It's pretty good too. Lonesome Dove would probably make my top ten as well.

[Delboy]

I feel left out on this thread, because I haven't read book for years. Well, I can now announce that I have just reached the end of the new Argos catalogue.

[GJ21]

No you still haven't, it's a price list doesn't count.............sorry

[Scorpio]

I am reading and am totally engrossed in "The Winter Ghosts" by Kate (Labyrinth, Sepulchre) Mosse.

The book has a really old fashioned feel about it, with illustrations that give it the feel of a yarn, set just after the first world war, it explores the theme of loss of siblings. It almost has a gothic feel about it...any way I would recomend it..but get it from your library!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 06792.html

[skeeterthefly]

What do you know Scorps - I got it out of the library yesterday"!

I discovered Kate Mosse via 'Labrinth ' as I have spent quite a lot of time in La Cite, Carcassonne.
I also have a very clean, ex charity shop, copy of 'Sepulchre' - I just need the time to read it

[paulatko]

Loved Labrynthe and Sepulchre - when she was on Simon Mayo on 5 Live a couple of months back, she said that The Winters Ghosts was something she particularly wanted to write, but she will then be finishing the third part of the trilogy. Can't wait myself.

[Scorpio]

I've nearly finished it, I'm sure you'll love it Skeets!

To my shame I have not read Labrinth or Sepulchre, though I bought a copy from the library (we sell them off when they get a bit "used") and am determined to read them, as so many people have loved them.!

[Wild Bill]

Finished 'When giants walked the Earth' a Led Zeppelin biog,it took me a month! It was a bit boring and repetitive in parts and did nothing for my respect of those people.

I have just started to read 'Consider Phlebas' sci fi by Iain Banks I first read it in the early 90s I think and so am having a re-read of this and his other early sci fi books.

[raif rawlinson]

Finished 'When giants walked the Earth' a Led Zeppelin biog,it took me a month! It was a bit boring and repetitive in parts and did nothing for my respect of those people.

I have just started to read 'Consider Phlebas' sci fi by Iain Banks I first read it in the early 90s I think and so am having a re-read of this and his other early sci fi books.

Hmm, I was a big fan of Led Zep as a youth. I may give that a go. Dreadful behaviour won't be much of a surprise but the details might make for gripping, car-crash reading.

I've been dipping in and out of Peter Ackroyd's Biography of London in my 8 year (so far) quest to read it in it's entirety. It's a marvellous work and illustrates very clearly that none of the social problems in this great city are new. The Gordon Riots, for example, make recent G10 protests in the City look like the teddy bears' pic-nic.

[Wild Bill]

I feel left out on this thread, because I haven't read book for years. Well, I can now announce that I have just reached the end of the new Argos catalogue.

What did you think was the best part Del?

I have fond memories of browsing the ladies lingerie section in my mams catologues as a boy.

[Doc Martin]

I have fond memories of browsing the ladies lingerie section in my mams catologues as a boy.

One of my sister's in law is an Avon rep and whenever I casually pick up one of her Avon books it always falls open at the lingerie pages I'm thankful that Mrs Doc believes in coincidences otherwise

[Claude Balls]

I've just finished reading Nancy Cartwright: My Life as a 10 Year Old Boy.

For anyone unfamiliar with her work, Nancy cartwright provides the voice for Bart Simpson.

That aside, it's a superb read of how she overcame childhood poverty, knockbacks to become not only a successful voiceover artist but also a very successful businesswoman.

[oldraver]

Just finished Old Gods Almost Dead - The 40 Year Odyssey Of The Rolling Stones, by Stephen Davis.

One fantastic biog. Loved every page.

[GJ21]

Just as a note concerning Larry McMurty, this is his son. Voted one of the top songs of the last decade by Rolling Stone magazine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW0y6kazWM