Book thread.....what you reading ?

[red pisces]

what are you reading at the moment??
im reading-marine sniper,93 comfirmed kills-the true story of gunnery seargent carlos hathcock who in the vietnam war used to stay hidden in the undergrowth for long periods of timepicking off the viet cong,and as the title suggests got 93 kills which as far as im aware is a record to this day,
its good reading.

[simaozinho200]

James bond novel from russia with love next book dr. no

[red pisces]

do you know what,of all the spy novels ive read , ive never read a james bond book,are they a novelisation of the movies or the actual books the movies are based on??

[MUMUFMUFCOK!]

Perry Boys - Ian Hough (account of football casual culture in the 80s focused on United's perry boys)
The Hanging Garden - Ian Rankin (standard crime novel)

Wouldn't reccomend either TBH.

[lionel]

Big Bang by Simon Sing

[kennethlindheim]

The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King.
Weird, but good reading.

[russe||]

Thermopylae: The Battle for the West

As the title suggests it is about the Battle of Thermopylae but it is also about the whole that particular Greco-Persian War. Good book, interesting read. If you saw the film 300 thought it was a bit rubbish but wanted to know how much of it was true (or thought to be true) then give this book a read. It's quite surprising how little of Frank Miller's story is original and how much is either true or long standing myth/speculation around events.

If you like reading about history, reading about the Greco-Persian Wars or just the Spartans alone is really interesting.

[Ben_W]

Originally Posted by red pisces

do you know what,of all the spy novels ive read , ive never read a james bond book,are they a novelisation of the movies or the actual books the movies are based on??

The early films are based on the books; later films use the same titles but are only loosely based on the book, or not at all and the later films have had novels written around them by other writers. I like the Fleming Bond books.

Currently reading Death in Venice and other stories by Thomas Mann.

[Diabolico]

The original Ian Fleming Bond books (which came before the movies, as Ben said) are quite interesting and probably different from what you'd expect. So far I've read Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, and From Russia with Love. They're much darker and much stranger than you'd expect if you've only seen the movies (especially the recent ones). The writing is also much, much better than you may expect-- it's sometimes excellent in fact-- but Fleming is also prone to the occasional dumb metaphor (I'm thinking of a passage where someone's hands on a casino table were compared to "pink crabs"...).

Also be warned that they are very much a product of their time, with a level of sexism and racial stereotyping that was culturally acceptable at the time but is rather embarrassing by modern standards.

As for what I'm reading right now... I'm bad about reading, I'm usually halfway through about three books at once. The one that I will probably finish first is a novel called The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. It's not (yet?) about detectives at all; it's about the last two proponents of a doomed underground literary movement in Mexico. It's extremely melancholy in small, everyday ways. I don't like to recommend things until I've finished them, but so far this has been brilliant.

[simaozinho200]

definatlify the sexisim is wrong in modern times but it works great with the novel and flemings way of being very discritive in his surrondings and background is what makes him a great author

[red pisces]

The Godfather-Mario Puzo(again)

far better than the film,although to be fair theres not much in it.

[DavidMc]

Originally Posted by red pisces

The Godfather-Mario Puzo(again)

far better than the film,although to be fair theres not much in it.

try the other Mario Puzo books.

The Sicilian, the last don, the family etc

excellent books, if you like the godfather, you will like these 8)

[alansmithy14]

The Team That Shouldnt Have Won i forgot the author but its about the 1986 Mets who won the World Series

[red pisces]

Originally Posted by alansmithy14

The Team That Shouldnt Have Won i forgot the author but its about the 1986 Mets who won the World Series

pardon my ignorance ,but what sport is that?

admitdley im not clued up when it comes to foriegn teams etc etc..

[alansmithy14]

Originally Posted by red pisces

pardon my ignorance ,but what sport is that?

admitdley im not clued up when it comes to foriegn teams etc etc..

oh its baseball, and it was fine to ask a lot of people dont know whenever i go to Ireland nobody even knows wat it is