Books

ONeill · October 18, 2011, 11:06:32 PM

Glad to hear that. Did you make sense of the ending?

Tony Baloney · October 18, 2011, 11:35:46 PM

Quote from: Minder on October 18, 2011, 10:20:54 PM
Quote from: ONeill on August 04, 2011, 10:58:43 PM
Anyone read any of the Booker longlist?

Julian Barnes   The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry    On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch    Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt    The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan    Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail)
Yvvette Edwards    A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst    The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman    Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness   The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller    Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick    Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers    The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor    Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)

Started Barry's last week and enjoying it - a view from the British side around the time of the Rising/civil war in Ireland (early on in novel).

Tried to finish The Finckler Question again and bored me rigid.

Julian Barnes win Booker Prize, finished it the other day, very good.

I think you're getting John Barnes and Julian Barnes mixed up.

Hashtag · October 19, 2011, 08:24:01 AM

Anyone ever attempted to write a book. I have 6 ideas for books but don't know if I could pen them over 300 odd pages.

Don Johnson · October 19, 2011, 11:18:15 AM

Anyone recommend any good books about trade unions in the UK or the US?

Just finished Fast Food Nation and it has interested me.

The Iceman · October 19, 2011, 02:31:18 PM

Finished the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Great stuff.

muppet · October 19, 2011, 04:44:12 PM

Quote from: Don Johnson on October 19, 2011, 11:18:15 AM
Anyone recommend any good books about trade unions in the UK or the US?

Just finished Fast Food Nation and it has interested me.

Supersize me is another in the same vein.

Confessions of a Union Buster (USA) is one I have been looking for for years but it is out of print at the moment.

Wasters by Shane Ross (I know) & Nick Webb is actually a very good read even if not quite about unions in either US or the UK.

Declan · October 20, 2011, 10:15:10 AM

QuoteAnother good author is James Lee Burke. Books set around New Orleans and the Louisianan coast

Possibly my fave author in that genre - Dave Robicheaux is a great character.

Just started re-reading the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books- a good giggle

QuoteAnyone recommend any good books about trade unions in the UK or the US?

"The best democracy money can buy" by Greg Palast - brilliant expose of lobbyists etc

Billys Boots · October 20, 2011, 11:00:49 AM

Just finished 'Mercy' by Jussi Adler-Olsen - fantastic, about a grumpy, disillusioned, depressed, slight-psychotic cop. Right up your street Declan - far more believable than Dave Robicheaux (I love the books, but find him to be a fussy, immature person).

Declan · October 20, 2011, 12:48:50 PM

QuoteJust finished 'Mercy' by Jussi Adler-Olsen - fantastic, about a grumpy, disillusioned, depressed, slight-psychotic cop. Right up your street Declan

Cheers Billy - must stick it on the list

Canalman · October 24, 2011, 10:17:54 AM

Halfway through Kimmage's book called Engage. About a young English rugby player paralysed from neck down............... humbling stuff.

Also gives a good insight into the scrum in rugby and Leicester RFC . Not a rugby fan by any means but would recommend the book highly.

Agnes Dipesto · October 24, 2011, 11:10:34 AM

Anyone read George RR Martin's, 'A game of thrones'? I am on book five now of the series, 'A dance with dragons' and have found them all enjoyable. I think anyone who enjoyed Tolkien's, 'Lord of the rings' would be into these.

haranguerer · October 24, 2011, 11:15:24 AM

Quote from: Hashtag on October 19, 2011, 08:24:01 AM
Anyone ever attempted to write a book. I have 6 ideas for books but don't know if I could pen them over 300 odd pages.

Tony Baloney · October 24, 2011, 06:33:05 PM

Quote from: Canalman on October 24, 2011, 10:17:54 AM
Halfway through Kimmage's book called Engage. About a young English rugby player paralysed from neck down............... humbling stuff.

Also gives a good insight into the scrum in rugby and Leicester RFC . Not a rugby fan by any means but would recommend the book highly.

Good writer. Good sports interviews in the Sunday Times too.

leaveherinsir · October 24, 2011, 08:50:26 PM

Miles to Run...Promises to Keep by Ian O'Riordan (writes in Irish Times)
Really enjoyable read

The Iceman · November 02, 2011, 07:43:02 PM

Reading a book called "In the Woods" part of the Dublin Murder Squad series of books.......
Anyone ever read them?