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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby octavia » Tue May 05, 2015 2:31 pm

currently reading Oor Wullie.......... apparently a favourite choice of siamese twins..
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri May 08, 2015 3:48 pm

"Star Wars: Scoundrels" by Timothy Zahn.

It's Star Wars does Ocean's 11, with just a dash of Mission: Impossible.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun May 17, 2015 1:34 pm

Just finished "The Ides of April" by Lindsey Davis. A mystery/detective yarn set in late 1st century AD Rome.

And now starting "Hyddenworld: Spring" by William Horwood. First in the "Hyddenworld" fantasy quartet.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby RDR » Sun May 31, 2015 6:54 pm

Robert E Lee by Brian Holden Reid
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Jun 04, 2015 2:33 pm

Prior to punting them to a charity shop, I've been re-reading some of my old Star Trek novels.

And, for the most part, they're pish. Leaving me to wonder why the hell I bought them in the first place.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Boxer6 » Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:38 pm

A non-Rebus Ian Rankin novel entitled "Blood Hunt". Ok so far, still prefer the Embra boy though.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby dimairt » Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:53 pm

George Melly's three-part autobiography: Scouse Mouse; Rum ,bum and concertina and Owning Up. Good read.

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Jun 04, 2015 6:00 pm

"Shadow of the Hangman" by Edward Marston.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby dimairt » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:06 am

Robert McCrum's list of the 100 greatest English-language novels, published weekly in the Observer, came to an end yesterday with "The True Story of the Kelly Gang."
It was an interesting series which made me read classics I'd ignored and re-read old favourites.
Well worth a look.

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:56 am

"Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby dimairt » Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:28 pm

Is that the WW2 story that was made for tv? Absolutely brilliant, I thought. Is the book good?

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:00 pm

That's the one, yeah. The book is very good, there's quite a few wee "moments" that didn't make it to the screen.

My favourite being the guy who had his throat slashed by an SS prisoner he was guarding, survived, recovered, and was thereafter "excused tie" on parade. Subsequently, Gen. Patton shows up to inspect the regiment, sees this guy without a tie and has a shit fit over it.
The guy then produces a letter from the doctor regarding his wound, and Patton buggers off still fuming. :)
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby RDR » Fri Aug 21, 2015 9:53 am

The Creeping Spleen wrote:That's the one, yeah. The book is very good, there's quite a few wee "moments" that didn't make it to the screen.

My favourite being the guy who had his throat slashed by an SS prisoner he was guarding, survived, recovered, and was thereafter "excused tie" on parade. Subsequently, Gen. Patton shows up to inspect the regiment, sees this guy without a tie and has a shit fit over it.
The guy then produces a letter from the doctor regarding his wound, and Patton buggers off still fuming. :)


Patton, would have probably fitted pretty well into the Wehrmacht, instead of the American army, if he had been born in Germany....great soldier, fantastic general but some of his personal views were slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun!

I've got most of Stephen Ambrose's books, and can recommend all of them, including his stuff on native Americans. Sadly he passed away a few years ago now.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:10 pm

The only Ambrose books I own are his D-Day trilogy, "Band of Brothers", "Pegasus Bridge", and "D -Day".

But I've read a fair few of his other works, "Citizen Soldiers" for example.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby RDR » Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:49 pm

The Creeping Spleen wrote:The only Ambrose books I own are his D-Day trilogy, "Band of Brothers", "Pegasus Bridge", and "D -Day".

But I've read a fair few of his other works, "Citizen Soldiers" for example.


If you haven't read it yet, try 'Wild Blue' (about an American Bomber squadron).
His book on the battle at the Little Big Horn, 'Crazy Horse' & Custer' is also excellent
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