What Are You Currently Reading

[jodieohdoh]

Just finished Pandaemonium by Chris Brookmyre. I was cynical, unsure, & doubtful but the bugger reeled me in & I did the usual laughing out loud on the bus thing you get with Brookmyre. Suspend your belief re the plot & dive in. Pure brulliant.

[tommytank]

Ooh, didnt know he had a new one out...

Just finished "Dont tell mum i work on the rigs, she thinks i'm a piano player in a whorehouse"

Probably funny because i work on the rigs, but it is pretty funny nonetheless. Quick read though...

[My Kitten]

Just started "Granny made me an anarchist" by Stuart Christie.

Glaswegian Stuart Christie gets caught trying to kill Franco. Quite good so far.

[hazy]

Extracts from the Book of Enoch. Awsome reading.

[floweredpig]

Public Servant Secret Agent by Paul Routledge,a biography of Airey Neave.MI6,escape from Colditz and a bit of a bounder.All for £1.50 from a charity shop.

[Lucky Poet]

I'm currently pecking away at Scotland and America, c.1600 - c.1800 by Alexander Murdoch. Has what looks to be an interesting chapter on Glasgow and the tobacco trade, and another to do with Scotland's entanglements with slavery. Which is nice.

[Josef]

Ooh, didnt know he had a new one out...

Just finished "Dont tell mum i work on the rigs, she thinks i'm a piano player in a whorehouse"

Probably funny because i work on the rigs, but it is pretty funny nonetheless. Quick read though...

That got a mention a week or so back in the Guardian, as the best guide to working on the rigs.
They quoted an anecdote about the bloke accidentally disembowelling himself with a pipe. Eek.

[HollowHorn]

Everyone's entrails gotta be somewhere.

[Mori]

I've been reading the Modesty Blaise series of books and Graphic novels over the past few months and have just learned the writer of the books Peter O'Donnell died a few days ago aged 90.

Telegraph

I have found the work greatly intriguing based on a real life character that Peter O'Donnell met during serving with the army in the midle east... and the life which he concocted and wrote about for 40 years.


wikipedia

Premise

In 1945, a nameless girl escaped from a displaced person (DP) camp in Kalyros, Greece. She did not remember anything from her short past. She wandered through post-WW2 Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and North African regions. During these years she learned to survive the hard way. She befriended another wandering refugee, a Hungarian scholar named Lob who gave her an education and a name: Modesty (Blaise she added herself later, after Merlin's tutor from the Arthurian legends[1]). Eventually she took control of a criminal gang in Tangier and expanded it to international status as "The Network".[2]

During these years she met Willie Garvin. Despite the desperate life he was leading, she saw his potential and offered him a job. Inspired by her belief in him, he pulled through as her right-hand man in The Network and became Modesty Blaise's most trusted friend. Theirs is a strictly platonic relationship and is based on mutual respect and shared interests. He has always called her "Princess", a form of address only he is allowed to use. Other members of The Network would call Modesty "Mam'selle" (as in the French term "Mademoiselle" or "Miss").

When she felt she'd made enough money, she retired and moved to England; Willie Garvin followed suit. Bored by their new lives among the idle rich, they accepted a request for assistance from Sir Gerald Tarrant, a high-ranking official of the British secret service — and this is where the story really begins...

[8cats]

Thought there would be a thread like this in here somewhere....

I'm reading Nick Kent's memoir, Apathy for the Devil. It's helping to fill in an early 70s-shaped hole in my rock music knowledge.

[Bridie]

Thought there would be a thread like this in here somewhere....

I'm reading Nick Kent's memoir, Apathy for the Devil. It's helping to fill in an early 70s-shaped hole in my rock music knowledge.

Never mind Nick - ask away

I'm reading The Glass Curtain by Carlo Gebler a kind of travel book about life in the 80's in rural Norn Ireland I'm cherry picking cause it's all so complicated because not only do we have the wee villages and their goings on we have that auld thing called politics

[Fossil]

New Ikea book

check the cogk l amp shade, Soog drainer.
Whomakes these names up?

[Bridie]

New Ikea book

check the cogk l amp shade, Soog drainer.
Whomakes these names up?

ehhh probably the Swedish marketing people at Ikea...

[HollowHorn]

Whomakes these names up?

Whoknows.

[minxy]

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Pretty good book, a bit creepy though. Can be a quick read, as like some books, a bit repetative in bits
http://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Novel-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0385498721