I don’t really do fiction but some I’ve read and liked:
The Kite Runner
The Beach
Anything by Irvine Welsh
Just finishing ‘Yes Man’ by Danny Wallace. Really entertaining and thought provoking
I think I've recommended all of these in the past but here goes:
Another Bloody Love Letter and My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Lloyd
The Corner and Homicide by David Simon & Ed Burns - these two are from the creators of the Wire
The Valley by Richard Benson
Bob Mortimer's autobiography
Pretty sure I read Kill Your Friends years ago but never quite took to it.I'm a big fan of Welsh but don't think his more recent output has been his best.
Would recomend another Scottish author, John Niven.
Kill your friends, the sequel, Kill em all and the fuck it list are top class in my opinion.
We've got music and TV threads, lets have a book one too.
I'm a fiction fan.
I'll start with Shuggie Bain.
Beautiful, brutal, depressing and strangely uplifting.
Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom books the TV series are based on are good (and better than the show imo)
Dennis Lehane Shutter Island
Been recently reading Bravo Three Zero about the SAS which is good if your kind of thing
Dennis Lehanes Joe Coughlin trilogy is superb.
They made a film condensing all 3 books into one movie,it was shite
from a sports point of view, Paul Mcgraths, and Mike Tysons and Gordon Strachans are very good
Thanks, I was meaning to have a look at his other books at some point, so will keep these three in mind.
Quite a few of his books sound like they also could do with Scorsese directing a film adaptation
Think a few have been adapted. Think Mystic river was one of his.
Some of his subject matter is definitely in Scorsese territory
yes pretty much his tenureDoes Strachans cover much of his stints at Coventry?
Will have a lookI’ve recently got back into reading in the evenings before bed.
Obviously depends on taste, but the Bloodsworn Saga by John Gwynne is really good. I’m on book two and it took a little while to get into it, but really enjoying it now.
Recently read his ‘Walking Along the Border’. Really enjoyed it.Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín.
Also: Something non fiction. My knowledge of history, etc is pretty poor and I’d like something interesting to get me into the topic. Not a big war fan, doesn’t really interest me, more general history with some interesting facts thrown in.
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