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SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:19 pm
by Scotty C
Heading off in a couple of weeks on holiday, going to be visiting Clare (Miss Tut) in Dubai and then off to the middle of the Indian ocean to chill in out in a beach hut
Only ever time I read books is on holiday and just wondered if anyone had any recommendation.
I read “no way down” last year story about climbing K2. Strange read when it was 30 plus and i was chilling by the pool and they were talking about how cold it was and how hard it was climbing up and down K2.
Ali C gave me “The Art of Racing in the Rain” a couple of years ago. Really liked it, but it was very apt at the time.
Anyone suggest anything? I don’t really do autobiographies, just some light easy reading.
Cheers
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:46 pm
by r055
Anything by Peter James gets my thumbs up for easy reading - his books are carved up into lots and lots of chapters - sometimes only 3 pages a chapter, which in my opinion makes it easier to deal with those holiday moments when you are are a pool side or beach and you want to put the book down for some 'scenery' watching.
What about this one...?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-People- ... 39&s=books
John and Naomi Klaesson are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but when they find out they are both carriers of a rogue gene, they realize the odds of their next child contracting the disease are high. Then they hear about geneticist Doctor Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease - even if his methods cost more than they can afford. His clinic is where their nightmare begins. They should have realized that something was wrong when they saw the list. Choices of eye colour, hair, sporting abilities. They can literally design their child. Now it's too late to turn back. Naomi is pregnant, and already something is badly wrong . . .
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:48 pm
by pete
"The sacred art of stealing" Christopher Brookmyre. Crime caper. Scottish. Ace.
"Espedair Street" Iain Banks. Although anything by Banks (esp earlier stuff) rocks. Scottish fiction.
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:56 pm
by mckeann
Any of Christopher brookmyres funny books, you won't go wrong.
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:02 pm
by graeme
I was going to recommend anything by Christopher Brookmyre too. Scottish, light reading, very funny.
EDIT: In fact, I've got a stack of them on the shelf if you want to borrow them.
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:13 pm
by robin
The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared.
The Martian (edit: a bit geeky).
The time travellers wife (assuming you haven't seen the film).
Year of the hare.
The wasp factory (assuming you haven't read everything by Iain Banks already).
The life of Pi (assuming you haven't seen the film).
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:16 pm
by Dominic
I'm not an autobiography fan either, but these two are very good.
Peter Warr's book about Lotus F1 is a good read...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Team-Lotus-View ... 710&sr=8-1
Also, if you have not already read it, Jackie Stewart's Autobiography is good.
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:16 pm
by BiggestNizzy
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:30 pm
by Titanium S1 111S (gla)
Not entirely seriously, it is for 11 to 14 year olds, but given that it is written by my wife I recon I should throw it into the mix.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viking-Gold-V-C ... =1-1-spell
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:31 pm
by flyingscot68
Best book I've read in a while is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One of those you can't put down
Description:
It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:38 pm
by Scotty C
graeme wrote:I was going to recommend anything by Christopher Brookmyre too. Scottish, light reading, very funny.
EDIT: In fact, I've got a stack of them on the shelf if you want to borrow them.
on a shelf or still in a box
Sounds good I will just order one off the net. Cheers
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:55 pm
by C7Steve
Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson since you liked 'No Way Down'
Steve.
RE: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:12 pm
by jimbo
Not exactly a "light read" but Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion. Quite the eye opener...
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Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:27 pm
by robin
flyingscot68 wrote:Best book I've read in a while is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. One of those you can't put down
I can second that.
Re: SE book club
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:38 pm
by hendeg
robin wrote:The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared.
I read this on holiday recently. Good fun and is probably a premonition of what will happen to tut.