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I'm in need of some books to take on holiday with me. Last time I went it was for 7 days and I went through 4 books, this time I'm going for 14 days so I'm going to need a few more.

Recommendations please...

Gerrard biography
Lampard biography

What kind of stuff you into reading?
I enjoy a good book on crime and that kind of shit.

'northern lights' by some guy whos name escapes me, its very good, i've just started on the next book in the series, 'the subtle knife'.


('northern lights' was turned into the film 'the golden compass', which i've not seen. but the book is very good)


'cloud atlas' is also a good book. errrrrrrrr... richard hammonds autobiography is good too. eerrrrrrrm... if you havent read it yet, the book 'high fidelity' is awesomeooooo, better than the film, and the film is ace!

I have the Northern Lights trilogy but I've not read it yet, so I'll take that with me. I've already read Richard Hammond's auto-biography.

And Tans, I'll read anything really. Footballer's auto-biographies aren't that high up on the list though.

You are on honeymoon and you want to read???

Strange strange lad

Depends on what you like. If you like Tom Clancy then Patrick Robinson is of a similar ilk. Last year I read Conn Igullsons "Rome" type series (Historical Fiction based on fact) which I enjoyed plus his first one on Genghis Khan.

I'll need something to do when she can't take any more.

Whenever i see these threads i recommend the same books. So this time i will recommend the very same as i probably have previously. :yawn: Some are amazing, all are engrossing.

Lionel Davidson - Kolymsky Heights (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kolymsky-Heights-Lionel-Davidson/dp/0099415895)
John Grisham - The Firm (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Firm-John-Grisham/dp/0099830000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217841284&sr=1-1)
Andrew Klavan - Don't say a word (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Say-Word-Andrew-Klavan/dp/0747508550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217841320&sr=1-1)
Michael Cordy - The Miracle Strain (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b/026-7906589-5069268?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=miracle+strain)

If you like horror, I would recommend any collection of Call of Cthulhu short stories (Robert Bloc and others) - very creepy.

For crime, I enjoy the Falco books by Lindsay Davies - they are light hearted and based in ancient Rome.

If you are into sci-fi/fantasy, give any book by Guy Gavriel-Kay a go.

  I've always found reading something linked to where you are to be good, eg if you were on holiday in Dorset, you would read Hardy or maybe Fowles.

 So where are you going Samdy?

Cuba.

war with the newts, by Karel Capek.  written in 1930s and makes disturbingly accurate predictions about the future (apart form the bit about living with newts)

Depends what you like.

GMABLING/TRUE LIFE THRILLERS
Ben Mezrich (Bringing the House Down, Breaking Vegas, Uglky Americans): glitzy stories about MIT students busting vegas and


CRIME THRILLER
PJ Tracy (Want to Play, Dead Run, Snow Blind)
Anything by Jonathan Kellerman

FOOTBALL
David Peace: Damned United (best football book ever: fact)

Eric Clapton's autobiog is pretty cool.

should keep you busy!

Why anyone would want to read any present day foobtballer autobiographies is beyond me, though. Gerrrard, Cole, Lamps, couldn't think of anything worse.

I'll second the PJ Tracey books - all three of them are cracking reads.

  :nod:

  Other than referring to Lampard as Lamps, in total agreement.

   I imagine evil psychopaths bent on world domination, having a pool for great white sharks and piranha, and a chamber for having to read the autobiographies of John Terry, Phil Neville and Rio Ferdinand.

Agree Juddie.  Up at Easter Road on Saturday and I bought "Bobby Johnstone - The passing of an age".  For those that don't know Bobby was a member of the Hibernian Famous Five, a brilliant footballer who dazzled the Scottish league, until he left for Man City. 

I real nice guy from Selkirk, I was lucky enough to meet him in his final years when visiting my uncle up in Selkirk.  He must have been 80 odd, playing the fruit machines, but he came over and we had a long chat about his life and career, he died in 2001, and when I saw he book I couldn't resist.  Read a fair bit of it already and it really makes you think of what a special age of football the 1950's were.  Today's lot don't compare.

Surely it should be The Joy of Sex in preparation for round 2. Though if the Beardy Man is still in it then maybe not, he looks like a geography teacher but still gets laid. As if.

already mentioned but david peace-damned utd is superb.
fictional, but told as if its brian clough speaking the words.
sam, you will love this book.

i'll agree with damned united, its very good indeed

Modern day footballers have nothing of interest to say. 'Look at me earning a million more than you all'. 'Look at me with the eloquence of a small child'. 'Look at me with my celebrity mates'. 'Look at me all disappointed because they wouldn't pay me £120,000 a week'. 'Look at me failing to do anything with England.'

whatever.

are you joey barton's slightly more educated alter-ego ?!

East of Eden - John Stenibeck brillaint book bit long but excellent!

Anniaml Farm - Geogre Orewall - will make you think. It not very long a quick read but good never the less.

Anything by Irvine Walsh my fav is Mallibu Storke really werid. I have all of his books and plays the plays are rubbish to read but the books are brillinat Flith is great, one of the characters is a worm in a chaps bowl really funny.

1984 -  Geogre Orewall - bit depressing but will get you thinking.

I could go on and on but really can't be arsed.

Its George ORWELL!!!Not a difficult name to spell really,and to spell it wrong twice :doh:

George Orewall!!  Class.

  Steady on Larwood....it's quite tricky to spell if you're dyslexic. I think GFM's contribution towards raising the intellectual tone of the forum should be encouraged.

The best book I have read in ages was 'The Shadow of the Wind' cannot remember who it is by though. I would agree that Orwell is very good, and also Hemingway. Have just finished The End of Mr Y, (it was cheap in Waterstones) and whilst it is very good it made my bloody head hurt!

I am getting a bit sick at the moment of reading books where you get to the end and bugger all has happened!

The Stand by Stephen King
Decipher by Stel Pavlou

These are very long engrossing books, will take you a while to read both of these so I'd say they are perfect.

I read this ace Mystery/thriller/adventure which not only had an exciting twisty plot, but some heavy themes like difficult family relationships and class divides. Was pretty mental.

Just a sec. I'll found out what it was called.

Found it....

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kiterunner
the swansea terminal.

i agree with DRS, reading on a honeymoon??

"Engleby" by Seb Faulkes is the best book I've read for a while-totally engrossing.For a football autobiography try Garrincha,about as far removed from the present day "look at me and how great I am"trend.

Anything by Iain Banks (if you're into Sci-Fi it's Iain M. Banks)

Time Traveller's wife by Margaret Atwood

Bernard Cornwell - does historical novels, his take on the King Arthur legend is fucking brilliant - http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2.cfm?page=1&seriesid=4
  

Just god back from hols...

Dark Fire by C.J.Sansom was very good. Set in Henry VIII's time.
Cloud Atlas that I think Legget mentioned by David Mitchell was OK - took a while to get into
Mukiwa by Peter Godwin was good, a real life tale about a white lad growing up in Rhodesia and going through national service etc just before Mugabe
Reluctant Fundamentalist - can't remember the author now
No time for goodbye - Linwood Berclay - very good read

Sorry Sam but I have to agree with DRS on this one. No need to take a book. Surely you should be 'looking after' your new wife?!!

Yes, because I'm going to do nothing but have sex, eat and sleep for the whole duration of the fortnight. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I dont understand why in this day and age where couples live together for years before marrige why it is expected that they will spend the whole honeymoon shagging.

The honeymoon is just another holiday, normally to somewhere better than usual

Completely agree.  If you're gonna spend the whole fortnight just banging your new Mrs just book 14 nights at the holiday inn express in town and save yourself a fortune.  Then once you've had enough of that take her somewhere nice where you can both go and do a bit of sunbathing, site seeing and reading.

"Post Office" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_%28novel%29) by Charles Bukowski. Less than 200 pages long so you'll be through it pretty quick, but that will give her time to recover yes?

Can't believe I haven't thought of this before

"Find your way through Divorce" by Jill Curtis.

you're going to cuba though?

Cheers for the reccomendations, just ordered:

Rich Dad, Poor Dad (friend at work told me about this one)
Breaking Vegas
The Miracle Strain
The Damned United
The Firm
Don't Say A Word

All for a grand total of £6.80 + p&p

where do you get books so cheap?

Birdsong...by Sebastian Faulks a brilliant read.

 Can you get that, cheap?

Nearly missed that Reg...very good mate!!

Its not about shagging its about spending time together as new husband and wife. When we go mon our holiday I sit there reading a book she'll go mad. I'd rather do stuff together like scuba diving. Not everyones cup of tea but doing something together.

Maybe i'm different as I don't get to spend much time with the better half.

Sounds like you'll make a lovely husband :)

women by bukowski sounded pretty good from the couple of pages i flicked through:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0863697313/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217934379&sr=8-3

any recommendations in philosophy? my mate nicked my copy of the bhagavad gita.

 If it's a novel you want rather than a text book, then John Paul McG Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy is rather fine. 

has anyone ever read any james lovelock? dude who started gaia theory

Reading / letching at 18 year old hotties in the pool counts as spending time together, as long as she's sat next to you :D

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ace. particularly bananfish and the title story.

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anyone read this? a million little pieces by james frey, about him attending rehab for alcohol, coke, and crack addiction. i couldn't put it down. original writing style. now want to read Tao Te Ching.

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after running out of books, i was releived to find this in a hotel. how wrong i was. it was crap; more a combination of chemistry analogies and fashion than anything to do with football or thuggery.

Im off soon and hacve 5 bookes to read, currently reading Powder Wars which is ok but Crack House was better.  I cant sit still for 2 minutes let alone read while on holiday so may be fucked really

Is that the one which caused a shit storm in America when it turned out that he hadn't actually lived through most of the things in the book? South Park did an episode based on it (what happened, not the book), but it's one of the weakest South Parks ever.

Who would of thought Bens cartoon loving life would update his ability to discuss current affairs

could be, theres a note at the start assuring that its true. the dentist who he claims did root canal surgery without anaesthetic deny it. i may do some research on his credibility later.

I'm sure there was a big scandal thing. Oprah had reccomended it in her book club and then got him on live telly and ripped into him about it being all made up. I think he tried to point out that it was still a good book, but she was having none of it.

Of course I might be getting confused with something else.

just read east of eden by stenibeck. Turley a life changing book. Followed in up with another steinbeck book called tortilla flat another ace book. When the pirate final brought his candle stick i have to admit i have to admit I had a tear running down my cheeck Read these two books and I promise you will not be dissapointed

 Yeah I liked this one...a sort of Camusesque parody of goalkeeping, cocaine snorting and  a steady decline into terminal insanity playing for an obscure non league football club.

Wild Swans by Jing Quang is a great read if you're interested in Chinese history cica Mao TseTung - ni fact its just a good read. Stephen Lawhead for a bit of historical fantasy is good as is JV Jones. For a bit of sci fi / fantasy then Edund Cooper and Jack Vance take some beating.
For football then both the Rogers and /Trollope biographies are good as is Clough. Stanley Matthews, Clough and Gazza -althuogh with the last you can guess the punchline in a few weeks / years time. 

Don't know why anyone would want to go on holiday to Reading

 I got a bird from Reading back to mine Fri night/Sat morning...she kept on going on about  Reading this, Reading that....I thought fuck this and paid for a taxi to get her home, not to Reading but some WNW Swindon location  :bye:

Reading is a shit hole. I thought Swindon town centre was bad until I went to reading at night.

Go in the day. It's just as bad as Swindon.

When you go to a place to visit why do most judge it by the centres....Reading and Swindon are great places to visit if you take away the crappy town centres,In Reading you have the Thames at Caversham and Sonning.....In Swindon there is Lydiard, Coate,and many people outside of Swindon really like Old Town,i cant remember the last time i went in the Town centre its a joke,but Swindon and Reading are good compared to alot of Horror places i get to see.

I read Anna Karenina whilst on holiday,was very enjoyable and a surprisingly easy read.

Currently reading Lipstick traces by Greil Marcus.Its about Punk and how it has its past and influences can be traced far back in history,finding it quite exciting.Want to read Q by Luther Blissett next  :nod:

my friend read that book on holiday recently too. i couldnt have done the whole lot but read a few chapters here and there and found it alright. ooh vronsky!

Only just seen this post arriba, but I bought them all on Amazon. They advertise second-hand books on there. Most of them cost just £0.01 plus p&p.

cheers sam.i forgot all about it.

Is it weird to read a book twice? I am just starting to read stuart a life backwards again. Brilliant book

I have many books I've read 2 or more times. Some books I read every year or two.

 Five Go Off in a Caravan, is ace. 

never gets old.

Sebastian Faulks latest "Engleby" is great. I've read it within the last 36 hours.

My brain isn't good enough to read or understand anything good anymore so I'm listening to the Harry Potter audio books as read by Stephen Fry. Good times.

There is a nice audiobook of that damned united read by John Simm.  Its probably been mention already on this thread but its a dramatisation of Brian Cloughs time at leeds united.  Fantastically sweary and makes you hate Leeds even more!