Off for a weeks holiday shortly , just wondering if any one can reccomend a few books to take along.
Ive just finished the following books in the last week...
Lessons from the Land of Pork Scratchings: A Miserable Yank Discovers the Secret of Happiness in Britain
Not a bad book , its about a yank who moves over here to take a job on the magazine Maxim...
This from Amazon...
Quote:
|
Although his American TV show seems to have a large--if morbidly humoured--fan base, I have read, I only knew of Greg Gutfeld from Maxim. He was entertaining in his TV appearances, but I otherwise thought of him as a blustery Yank who amused himself by being clever and shocking but had few other tricks to offer. Reading this book changed that appraisal. It's deadly funny and reads fast. It will make you laugh aloud at things you've seen your entire life but never properly processed--or at minimum never processed in the mentally disturbed yet spot-on manner Gutfeld did during his time here. Highly recommended.
|
Nice read , fun to see what an American thinks about the culture and lifestyle while living in the UK..
Next up.....
A Quiet Belief in Angels (Paperback)
As recommended by Richard and Judy
Lets not hold that against the poor lad...
Amazon again....
Quote:
|
Well, I sat up until somewhere past 4.00 this morning, and I finished this book in one sitting. About halfway through I went and made some tea, and I sat quietly for a moment and wondered whether this was in fact the best book I'd ever read. It made me feel how I felt when I read 'To Kill A Mockingbird' for the first time. It made me feel like I'd learned the whereabouts of an old, old friend who I thought I'd lost. It made me feel a lot of things, and now I'm done I want to leave it a little while and then read it again. I don't want to read anything else in between, because at this point I think that anything else would be a disappointment and an anticlimax. I don't know how many emotions I've gone through while reading 'A Quiet Belief In Angels', but even though the book was heartbreaking in places it feels like experiencing all those emotions was necessary. This is just an extraordinarily beautiful and moving book, sometimes violent, sometimes a little disturbing, but overall a magnificent read. It comes with the very highest recommendation.
|
My thoughts , well a great book , one of those that starts slowly and then just takes off , i had worked out who the killer was by half way through , but that didnt spoil the book to be honest.
Well worth the 3.99 most places are charging....
Next up....
Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North (Paperback)
by stuart Maconie (
BBC Radio 2 )
Amazon...
Quote:
|
'My name is Stuart Maconie, and I am from the North Of England. Some time ago, I was standing in my kitchen, rustling up a Sunday brunch for some very hungover, very Northern mates who were 'down' for the weekend. One of them was helping me out and, recipe book in hand, asked "where are the sun-dried tomatoes?" "They're behind the cappuccino maker," I replied. Silence fell. We slowly met each other's gaze. We did not say anything. We did not need to. Each read the other's unspoken thought: we had become those kinds of people, the kind of people who had sun-dried tomatoes and cappuccino makers, the kind of people who did Sunday brunch. In other words: southerners.' A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, Stuart goes in search of The North. Delving into his own past, it is a riotously funny journey in search of where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower, the Bigg Market in Newcastle to the daffodil-laden Lake District in search of his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of Scousers, Scallies, pie-eating Woolly-backs, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.
|
Better than his last book which was funny as hell ( Cider with Roadies ).
Probably more of a book for a northerner i suppose.
Nicely written and my hometown gets a mention...
Workington is a town where if you dont like Oasis you are classed as gay, all the bouncers are on steroids and the towns main bukser drinks petrol in the main streets .....
Anyway , what you reading ?