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.

Next up is Mr Mercedes by Stephen King.

Mr Mercedes was ok, no better, no worse than ok

 

Started "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" by Richard Flanagan which won The Man Booker Prize in 2014.

About one hundred pages into it and got to say I am struggling to really get into it. Not saying it's a bad book, maybe just the right one for me.

Mr Mercedes was ok, no better, no worse than ok

 

Started "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" by Richard Flanagan which won The Man Booker Prize in 2014.

About one hundred pages into it and got to say I am struggling to really get into it. Not saying it's a bad book, maybe just the right one for me.

 

I always struggle with Man Booker Prize winners and actually avoid them now - something about them being too descriptive without getting to the point puts me off tho I did read The Luminaries recently which I enjoyed

 

I'm reading Fourth of July Creek but swithering about ditching it - not got into it at all and the last chapter described a teenager arousing a dog which made me feel ever so slightly queasy - yuck 

I've finished Martin Fletcher's book about the Bradford fire, really interesting and compelling stuff.  Clearly the initial inquiry was far too hasty and narrow in it's scope.

 

I had no idea Fletcher was also present at Hillsborough.  That's mental that he witnessed both!

Finders keepers is out now, Stephen king. in the same timeline as mr mercedes and some characters reappear especially Brady Hartfield.

 

Will give that one a look mate 

 

Reading "The Dolls House" by David Hewson just now. Set in Amsterdam and a cracking read.

 

On separate issue, just wondering if anyone else has ditched their e reader and gone back to buying paperbacks also ?

On separate issue, just wondering if anyone else has ditched their e reader and gone back to buying paperbacks also ?

 

No.

I still buy books - read the occasional one on my daughter's kindle but there's something about a bookshop and the smell & feel of a paperback that I can't let go 

"The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair"by Joel Dicker

 

600+ pages and absolutely superb, brilliantly written and loved it

 

Hebrew - Reckon this would be one for you. Check it out

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-about-Harry-Quebert-Affair/dp/1848663269/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435735794&sr=1-1&keywords=joel+dicker+the+truth+about+the+harry+quebert+affair

Ooh Al thank you very much - I liked the sound of it so it's downloaded and I'll start reading it tomorrow cheers 

I bloody loved your book Al - first time in ages i've been awake till the wee small hours with a book i can't put down 

 

I feel a bit lost this morning tho...........................

A couple of books came today.

 

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison & The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan.

 

Ony o you guys read these two authors?

A couple of books came today.

 

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison & The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan.

 

Ony o you guys read these two authors?

 

Like the look of The Unknown Terrorist and might give that a go.

Only thing putting me of it is that I bought one of Flanagan,s other books "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" and frankly just couldn't get into it and gave up before I was half way through it.

Does anyone still read 

If so lets be having your recommendations please.

On the lookout for some reading o'er the winter months.

Does anyone still read 

If so lets be having your recommendations please.

On the lookout for some reading o'er the winter months.

 

Just you and hebrew

 

I'm looking for recommendations though, long haul flights to kiwi land mean I have a lot of time coming up!

Stuart Cosgrove's Detroit 67 is superb if your into soul music and social/political movements of the sixties.

 

It's dense like, encyclopaedic in scope and likely to veer down wee avenues but the narrative is pushed on chronicling a year in the life of Motown.

 

It's nae really light reading though and I'd say you really do need an interest in the music of that era to get through it but it's the best thing I've read this year by some distance.

 

I really like Cosgrove. One of few folk on Radio Scotland worth listening to.

Been reading 'Kill Your Friends' cracking book and looking forward to watching the film aswell.

Been reading 'Kill Your Friends' cracking book and looking forward to watching the film aswell.

 

Christ Mini....you're alive min

Welcome back 

Christ Mini....you're alive min

Welcome back 

Keep forgetting to pop in here, hope all is well Al?

Recently read a book called Armada, it's Earnest Cline's follow up to the much vaunted ready player one (which is great btw if your like that sort of thing). It's a decent enough sci fi read that doesn't reach the heights of rp1 but leaves plenty of room for sequels that could. I'm looking forward to seeing where he takes it.

I've just started Nemesis by Philip Roth. Probably his latest novel as written in 2010.

 

Not a book I necessarily recommend (yet, as it's a pretty harrowing subject matter and without his usual excellent humour thus far) but he is a brilliant must-read author. Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.

 

Edit: finished it tonight. Definitely NOT a book I recommend!

 

Weird one. Troubling. Sad. Not an enjoyable experience at all.

 

This reminds me when I first started exploring his books. Some great but some not so good.

 

I reckon he's bi-polar.

I still read a lot, but a lot of it these days is easy reading crime stuff like John Sandford. Last "real" book was about Little Big Horn called "The Last Stand" very different from the usual "hero/twat" dichotomy over Custer

I've just started Nemesis by Philip Roth. Probably his latest novel as written in 2010.

 

Not a book I necessarily recommend (yet, as it's a pretty harrowing subject matter and without his usual excellent humour thus far) but he is a brilliant must-read author. Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.

 

Edit: finished it tonight. Definitely NOT a book I recommend!

 

Weird one. Troubling. Sad. Not an enjoyable experience at all.

 

This reminds me when I first started exploring his books. Some great but some not so good.

 

I reckon he's bi-polar.

 

Think I've only read one of Roth's books, "The Plot Against America" and that was several years ago.

Not really sure why I never sent back to read any more as it was a pretty decent read.

Might check out some others on Amazon, but will take your council RS and give that one a miss.

Council? Do I come across as a committee man?

 

I would counsel you to read more books to improve your linguistic abilities ?

 

I've got I Married A Communist in the house but his award winning American Pastoral is great.

Council? Do I come across as a committee man?

 

I would counsel you to read more books to improve your linguistic abilities ?

 

I've got I Married A Communist in the house but his award winning American Pastoral is great.

 

Could blame predictive text, but what the fuck, I 'm just a thick cunt 

For my next read, I'm just away to start King Joey.

 

He got turfed from that bar at the top of Union Street for having his fingers in the till. Not sure that will appear in the book.

 

Edit: when I start a book and I get into it, I tend to read it in a one-ner. It's aligned to my personality. Addictive, I think they call it. For me it's simple enthusiasm. Plus freedom.

 

Unless it's massive and not possible to read in six or eight hours, or heavy or complex like Proust - there's 800 pages of my life I'll not get back and that was only volume 1.

 

Not finished Joey's autobiography yet, well written by Charlie Allan by the way, but spooky coincidence. The Roth novel I just read had polio as its pervasive theme. Never knew Joey was hospitalised for four months with polio as a kid. It's one of those conditions I've heard of but until this week, never really knew what it was. Wonder if I'll finally learn about cystic fibrosis next week, an ailment I similarly have had no idea about.

 

Harper was great. Truly, truly great. The first goal I ever saw at Pittodrie was his.