First up, may I recommend Gary Sutherland's "Hunting Grounds":

http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3370157/Hunting-Grounds/Product.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Grounds-Gary-Sutherland/dp/1841585866/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198166624&sr=8-1

 

Its an excellent journey round all 42 Scottish fitba grounds in one season.  Detailing transport, pre-match venues for a pint, the quality of the pies at the ground, and a review of the performance of both the players and the fans.  He goes into some depth in his report for each ground.  Its rather witty too!

 

He obviously visits Pittodrie (2-2 cup game with Hibs last season), and also a Falkirk v Aberdeen SPL game where the away fans are praised.

I read it and enjoyed it but probably just because I knew it would piss off the Church.  Read the rest of his books after and they were terrible.

 

On a slight tangent; I spotted 3 people on the train this morning on the way to work that were reading.  Each book had "The number 1 international best seller" written on the front cover and it got me thinking.  Are there any books that don't claim to be this?

I liked TDVC but only got as far as the first chapter of A&D which I thought was pish

 

Love in the Time of Cholera was pretty dire - I skimmed most of it

 

I am about to start Play Dead by Richard Montanari

 

And will need to read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince just beforethe film comes out

Seeing as im new.....what ive read over the last year or so....

 

 

One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs....all about the Cuban Missile Crisis,excellent read..

 

The Unforgiven by Rob Bagchi...Don Revies time at Dirty Leeds...

 

The Final Days by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein...Watergate..

 

Kennedy,A Life by Robert Dallek...JFKs life...(surprisingly... )

 

Nixon,Alone in the Whitehouse by Richard Reeves...got a thing going with reading about ex-presidents!!!

 

And the book i can recommend to anybody reading this is Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman.

 

Best read ever.

 

Away to a buy a couple of books regarding music, saw a beatles book for £3 in HMV and a Billy Bragg book aswell for £2, anyone from here read either or even better got other suggestions?

Away to a buy a couple of books regarding music, saw a beatles book for £3 in HMV and a Billy Bragg book aswell for £2, anyone from here read either or even better got other suggestions?

 

There possibly couldn't be more than one book written about The Beatles could there? 

Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre.

 

A must for all, especially for those confused and frightened about media scare stories, esp MMR.

 

 

And the book i can recommend to anybody reading this is Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman.

 

 

 

Belated welcome on board, good to have someone else on here of shall we say "mature" years that vividly remembers the good old days

Had a look on Amazon at "Wonderland Avenue" and it certainly gets positive reviews. Order to be placed ahead of summer hols  

Belated welcome on board, good to have someone else on here of shall we say "mature" years that vividly remembers the good old days

Had a look on Amazon at "Wonderland Avenue" and it certainly gets positive reviews. Order to be placed ahead of summer hols  

 

 

Mature???  Jeeezzz...im gettin` ald!!!

 

Wonderland Avenue is a terrific read...been through that book a number of times now,would love to rabbit on a bit about it,but i winna ruin it for you!!!

Enjoy!

 

Mature???  Jeeezzz...im gettin` ald!!!

 

 

Well Bumper did leave us in the summer of '77 if I remember correctly

Well Bumper did leave us in the summer of '77 if I remember correctly

 

Aye,pissed off to Leeds and left me greeting into my scarf the bastard

 

Oh well i thought,i`ll support Leeds too then........

 

Cheers Arthur.

Reading "My Name is Legion" by A. N. Wilson. Quite an enjoyable satire on the Daily Mail, amongst other things.

 

I'm reading "My Name is Leighton" by Andy Legs 

Aye,pissed off to Leeds and left me greeting into my scarf the bastard

 

Oh well i thought,i`ll support Leeds too then........

 

Cheers Arthur.

 

Nothing wrong with supporting Leeds mate 

Nothing wrong with supporting Leeds mate 

 

 

Oh ya fucker......is this the same Kowalski that has a pop at me about the Toon

Just finished "If you're second you are nothing" by Oliver Holt.

 

Well worth a read, a double biography of Shankly and Ferguson.

 

Enjoyed it, but it seemed needlessly anti-Ferguson at times, frequently criticising his character as a man, whilst occasionally indulging in dewy-eyed romanticism about Shankly.

 

It was written at the end of the 2005/6 season and the criticism of Ferguson (similar stuff to this Rob Smyth article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2006/jul/31/sport.comment) now looks foolish with regards to what the team has achieved since then.

 

 

Oliver Holt is a bit of a smarmy cunt.

Has anyone read any of David Peace's books (other than The Damned Utd)?

Just wondering if they are any good.

Just started another Simon Kernick book, seems very good so far.

Has anyone read any of David Peace's books (other than The Damned Utd)?

Just wondering if they are any good.

 

I have bought 1974, haven't read any of it yet. I will start it soon but it will take my ages to read it as i'm not reading very much atm.

Read two books so far this summer, Le Carre's A Most Wanted Man, quite enjoyable and obviously quite relevant to today's politics, and Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, again very interesting and recommend it 

 

Just starting The White Tiger by Arabind Adiga.

Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre.

 

A must for all, especially for those confused and frightened about media scare stories, esp MMR.

 

 

I picked this up on holiday, an excellent read.

Just started reading D-Day by Anthony Beevor. If it is as good as Stalingrad and Berlin then it will be a cracking read.

 

Recently finished D-Day: Piercing the atlantic wall by Robert Kershaw. An excellent book.

 

Also read Join Me by Danny Wallace. Not very challenging but an enjoyable read non the less.

In last few weeks rattled through the following:

 

Kyle Mills - Fade

David Baldacci - Devine Justice

Sieg Larrson - The Girl Who Played With Fire

Martin Luther King Jr - The Autobiograghpy

 

Incredible to think what went on in the USA during my lifetime

 

Just started on "The Garden Of Last Days" by Andre Dubus III.

Waiting in the wings are, R J Elory " A Simple Act Of Violence, Johan Theorin "Echoes From The Dead" and translated from Russian, Andrey Rubanov " Do Time, Get Time"

 

Anyone read "Dissolution" By CJ Sansom ?

If so, is it any good 

Read two books so far this summer, Le Carre's A Most Wanted Man, quite enjoyable and obviously quite relevant to today's politics, and Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon, again very interesting and recommend it 

 

Just starting The White Tiger by Arabind Adiga.

 

What did you make of this? I had high hopes but thought it was a little light. I suppose it gave a perspective of India not usually acknowledged but hardly surprising. Liking Balram wasn't really difficult, despite what he did, if that was what the intention was? It certainly didn't cause a crisis of conscience for me, anyway.

 

Also read Flood by Stephen Baxter which I though could have made better use of the subject matter, but again not a bad book.

 

Next up I have Netherland by Joseph O'Neill which has some fairly divided reviews so???

 

Then I've promised myself I'll go back and try to finish 2666

What did you make of this? I had high hopes but thought it was a little light. I suppose it gave a perspective of India not usually acknowledged but hardly surprising. Liking Balram wasn't really difficult, despite what he did, if that was what the intention was? It certainly didn't cause a crisis of conscience for me, anyway.

 

I liked it, and as you said, dealt with an aspect of India that doesn't get written about very often. It was a bit lightweight, certainly from reading the back, you got the impression he was going to go a bit further and make you feel bad for feeling the way you did, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

 

Incredible to think what went on in the USA during my lifetime

 

Aye, the Boston Tea Party for one, I'm sure there's some good books about it out there.