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grrr · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 1210 Location: Guildford, UK

The Book of Dave by Will Self.
I would recommend it highly. I don't know how it would work for those unfortunates who don't live in the London area (but I'm not sure if they read books anyway).

Now looking forward to From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France, but it hasn't arrived yet.

sheeponabike · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: France

hey hey - the long awaited book thread Smile

I read On The Road 25 odd years ago and it made a big impression on me. I started to read it again recently and I'd forgotten how much pure energy pours off every page - it seems to move along on adrenalin (and amphetamines) alone. Anyway, i'm about half way through it, and I think i'm going to have to give it up, because i've suddenly come to the conclusion that it might only be a pretentious heap of garbage.
The moral: don't re-read books that you found impressive in your youth.
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paperman · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1295 Location: Ireland

I have it but won't be reading it until I finish In search of Robert Millar, which is very good. I reckon I'll be finished today/tomorrow. I also have Positively false, I just had to buy it!!!!!. I think after reading Walsh' book and being on a forum in love with doping speculation I'll need a break... something to laugh.. at so, The life and times of the thunderbolt kid is lined up.
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grrr · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 1210 Location: Guildford, UK

CapeRoadie · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:59 am Post subject:

Major Taylor's biography.
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Ralphnorman · Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 3962 Location: Dundee

flying scotsman, graeme obree's autobiography.....
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kathy · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

I'm rereading Graeme Fife's Tour de France.

bianchigirl · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 4063

John Pilger's collection of investigative journalism 'Tell No Lies' - dreadful, terrible, magnificent - reminds you exactly why the truth does and should matter
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Sooty · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4864 Location: Dear old Blighty

One advantage/drawback of being in the book trade is I have far too many books put aside to read.... someday.... when I get the time..... They are literally piled up everywhere, sometimes blurring into books which are supposed to be for business. Love it really!

On the Road is a great book, I reread it about 3 years back and it has a wonderful description of Slim Gaillard.....

earth_dweller · Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 216

In the middle of 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America' - a great read on the events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair including a serial killer that preyed on the lonely women coming to the Big City in search of a job and a future.

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shimouma · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 2725 Location: Tokyo

I've been trying to finish off an unabridged version of Les Miserables. I seem to have been reading it for ever...

It had been sitting on one of the bookshelves unread for far too long...
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Mrs John Murphy · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:53 am Post subject:

Marian Pop – Partidul Naţional Român şi Naţional Ţărănesc din Sălaj: Viaţă politcă în nord-vestul României (1869-1948)

The last book I read for pleasure was Graham Greene ‘The Third Man’. I suspect because I read so much for work that I don’t really have time or energy to read for pleasure.

CapeRoadie · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:46 am Post subject:

Mrs. John Murphy is naspa.
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grrr · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 1210 Location: Guildford, UK

pantanifan · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:06 am Post subject:

To be perfectly honest this week I've mainly been reading two guys arguing over the Internet about the effect of political correctness on modern-day Britain Wink

Books that I have read relatively recently: my first Kurt Vonneghut novel (Cat's Cradle) - worth reading but I don't think I'll be searching out his other books... and David Baltacci's "Split Second" - the kind of CIA presidential assassination thriller I usually stay well clear of - but it kept me on the edge of my sofa throughout (though it's not gonna win the Booker Prize - would be nice to get nominated though*).
One of my favourite books and one of the few that I have re-read is Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" - learned more about British history through this than during 5 years at school!
As for James Joyce's "Ulysses", I made several spirited attempts at reading it in my younger days, but sadly never got passed page 65...

* any other Alan Partridge fans on here?

bianchigirl · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 4063

Dubious claim to fame: I used to go out with Steve Coogan in his 'Spitting Image' days and remember him doing Paul & Pauling Calf for me in the back of a taxi whilst they were still in the formative stage...

'Devil in the White City' was great - didn't he also write a book called 'Isaac's Storm' about the storm that destroyed Galveston? That's worth a read too.

Dipping in and out of the Pilger as it makes me too angry - so have broken it up with some Gore Vidal essays, Jasper Foords Thursday Next books and have just started 'Trawler' which is great. Love reading.
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Sooty · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4864 Location: Dear old Blighty