What Are You Currently Reading

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby War Baby » Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:19 pm

...Have just started reading John Cleese autobiography. Got it as a Christmas present.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:46 pm

Kindle on the phone, I rattled my way through "Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video Games" by Peter David.

Part memoir, part autobiography. I'm reading it, and just howling with laughter at some of the stories.

I've been a fan of his writing for more years than I'd care to admit, and I'll definitely buy a physical copy at some point.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Mon Feb 01, 2021 5:00 pm

"The Two Lost Mountains" by Matthew Reilly.

Sixth, and penultimate book in the "Jack West Jr." series of action adventure novels.

Kind of Indiana Jones by way of Dan Brown.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:49 pm

"Edge of the Grave" by Robbie Morrison.

First in the Detective Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn series.

Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case – despite sharing a troubled history with the victim’s widow, Isla Lockhart.

From the flying fists and flashing blades of Glasgow’s gangland underworld, to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business, Dreghorn and his partner ‘Bonnie’ Archie McDaid will have to dig deep into Glasgow society to find out who wanted the man dead and why.

All the while, a sadistic murderer stalks the post-war city leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake. As the case deepens, will Dreghorn find the killer – or lose his own life in the process?
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Mon May 17, 2021 8:22 am

"Tall Tales and Wee Stories" by Billy Connolly.

A collection of the Big Yin's best stories from his decades of stand up comedy.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Delmont St Xavier » Sat May 22, 2021 1:45 pm

The Creeping Spleen wrote:"Tall Tales and Wee Stories" by Billy Connolly.

A collection of the Big Yin's best stories from his decades of stand up comedy.


I just finally finished reading Billy's book and now moving onto 'Mrs Cowan's Boy' by Rory Cowan of Mrs Brown's Boys fame. It is interesting enough with some revelations about his family's connections with Irish organisations. I'll be interested to see how it concludes but so far it is extremely honest and entertaining.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sat May 22, 2021 2:46 pm

On the comics front, I'm working my way through "Usagi Yojimbo" written and drawn by Stan Sakai.

Set primarily at the beginning of the Edo period of Japanese history and features anthropomorphic animals replacing humans. The main character is a rabbit rōnin, Miyamoto Usagi, whom Sakai based partially on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.

Usagi wanders the land on a musha shugyō (warrior's pilgrimage), occasionally selling his services as a bodyguard.

The comic has been running on and off since 1984, the period detail - costume, landscape, architecture, culture, etiquette and so on is all spot on.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby War Baby » Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:55 am

Reading CASH, the autobiography of Johnny Cash. He was great friends with Roy Orbison. At one point, he writes of his admiration of the way men styled themselves away back in President Thomas Jefferson's time, and Cash told Roy Orbison he wanted to wear his hair as Jefferson wore his, in a ponytail tied off with a black ribbon. Roy thought that was a grand idea. "Tell you what," he said. "I'll do it if you do it."

Cash says he chickened out of it, and he never saw Roy again, and some time after this Roy died.

Cash says he went to his funeral and walked up and leaned over the casket to get one good last look at his old buddy. Cash writes: "When I saw him I couldn't help myself; I started laughing. That son of a gun had done it! There, sticking out from under his head, was a neat little ponytail, and it was tied with a black ribbon."

I like the way Cash writes.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:35 am

Kindle - The "Forgotten Ruin" series by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole.

Comprising, "The Forgotten Ruin", "Hit and Fade", and "Violence of Action".

A series of military fantasy novels that answer the old pub question of - "What would happen if you dumped a couple of platoons of US Army Rangers into the middle of Lord of the Rings?".
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Jun 10, 2021 6:38 pm

"The Spitfire Kids" by Alasdair Cross.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:07 pm

Everyone’s got a plan until they get punched in the face - Tiny Bellew
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:09 am

"The Longest Day" by Cornelius Ryan.

The classic history of the D-Day landings.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:10 am

Paperback - "Just One More Thing: Stories from my Life" by Peter Falk.

A not quite autobiography, not quite memoir, more a collection of humorous anecdotes covering the ups and downs of his life and career.


Kindle - "The Crossing Places" by Elly Griffiths.

First in the Dr. Ruth Galloway mysteries.

Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, is called in by the police when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?

DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows that Ruth's expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.

But when a second child goes missing, Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Mon Jul 12, 2021 5:14 pm

"From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe's Rifles" by Jason Salkey.

In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe’s Rifles, a Napoleonic war drama, was to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. Little did the producers know that they would be sending Jason and the crew to film in a rapidly disintegrating Soviet Union. There they faced near-starvation and danger round every corner as they set about creating one of Britain’s most successful and critically acclaimed television programmes.

"From Crimea with Love" documents the mishaps, blunders, incompetence and downright corruption that made Sharpe’s Rifles go down in British television folklore for its unique tales of hardship. Follow the cast through intense deprivation and constant catastrophe until they become every bit the jaded, battle-hardened soldiers we saw on screen. Tapping into his diaries, photo journals and video log, Jason brings you an eye-opening, jaw-dropping insider’s account of one of the best-loved shows ever made.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:38 am

"The Thursday Murder Club" by Richard Osman.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
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