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Making inroads into an Alistair MacLean collection. Bit of a jolt following on from John Updike but a change is as good as.
Temeraire by Naomi Novik - an unholy marriage of Ann McCaffrey and Patrick O'Brian, but quite fun.
That's well good innit
Apathy for the devil - Nick Kent's autobiography and I dip in and out of Kenneth Williams diaries.
My boyfriend has given me a book called Ultra Marathon Man. Heard it's pretty good.
http://www.ultramarathonman.com/flash/
He's running 6 marathons in 6 days next year so drawing a bit of inspiration.
Quote: EllieJP @ May 13 2011, 3:29 PM BSTMy boyfriend has given me a book called Ultra Marathon Man. Heard it's pretty good.
Hmmm... I always worry about the type of man that's constantly taking on such physical feats, what exactly are they running away from? Real life? Commitment? Imaginary vaginas with huge, terrifying teeth?
*sucks on pipe*
Quote: EllieJP @ May 1 2011, 11:02 PM BSTFinally catching up on everyone else and reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... about a third of the way through now.
The second and third books are better. I thoroughly enjoyed the trilogy as a whole.
My reading is all over the place at the moment. I've just read Brian Greene's new book on multiple universes followed by Dante's Inferno (pretty heavy going, I think I'll get a commentary before continuing with Purgatorio and Paradiso), then Mark Thomas's book about walking along Israel's wall, "Shut Up!" He Explained - a book on dialogue by William Noble and currently reading Isaac Asimov's collection of Black Widower stories.
Martyn Bedford's The Houdini Girl. Not as good as Acts of Revision, but very good nonetheless.
' Night Train to Lisbon' Pascal Mercier.
A novel of ideas that reads like a thriller; an unsentimental journey that seems to transcend time and space.
Every character, every scene, is evoked with incomparable economy and a tragic nobility redolent of the mysterious hero... uncannily powerful ! 
'Room'. Wondered at first if the book would only consist of the room experience, but it doesn't. Don't want to say more in case anybody else intends reading. Fascinating.
Michael Caine - The Elephant to Hollywood.
Quote: keewik @ May 14 2011, 6:38 PM BST'Room'. Wondered at first if the book would only consist of the room experience, but it doesn't. Don't want to say more in case anybody else intends reading. Fascinating.
Ah yes, I just read that. Glad you liked it too!
I am reading a book called "Didn't You Kill My Mother-In-Law?" by roger Wilmut and Peter Rosengard.
It was published in 1989 and is a fantastic history of the generation of Alternative Comedians who revolutionised comedy from the late seventies to the late eighties.
It is extremely extensive and covers comedians including Victoria Wood, Mayall and Edmonson, Richardson and Planer, French and Saunders, Alxei Sayle, Pauline Melville, Frost and Arden, Ben Elton, Keith Allen, Arnold Brown, Helen Lederer, Jenny Eclaire and many, many others.
It covers shows including "The Young Ones", "Happy Families", "Girls On Top", "The Comic Strip Presents...", "French and Saunders", "Saturday/Friday Live" "Filthy Rich and Catlflap", Victoria Wood's programmes and so many more - an excellent comedy resource.
Just finished this book...
So funny.