[kompressaur]

I'm reading Readers Digest 'Facts At Your Fingertips' It's great. Whenever i feel confused i pick it up and read about the population decline of Borneo and how much of a bstard britain was in the 1700's I have a Richard Laymont novel there 'Savage' set in Jack The Ripper times.

Anyone got a book at the mo?

[smk415]

comic book called the preacher, not ur ordinary comic book
this has a preacher who's a complete down and out bum, his vampire bum friend, and his ex assassin girlfriend, oh and god, and the saint of killers,
brilliantly wrote, very funny and too bad its not as big as it should be....
has elements of that pile of sh1te called the divinci code in it, but was wrote before it, recommend it strongly, and im not a comic book guy at all.

[Wittmann 44]

I've all the Preacher books (9) but it goes downhill a bit after the first 4. Have to say that the research is a lot better than you get in typical comics. The Irish vampire Cassidy gets stuck in the G.P.O during the 1916 rising and when getting his younger brother out gives Michael Collins a boot in the bollix. Great characters especially the indestrubale Saint of Killers and the unfortunate Arseface.

[Winrew]

Where do i start , read loads lately , i`ll pop onto Amazon for a few reviews

Zone 22.

Book Description
In July 2003 a young Englishman was arrested at Moscow airport. It was the beginning of a journey to hell and back. Zone 22 is the shocking true story of his struggle to survive the brutal, corrupt, almost medieval conditions of a prison camp in Putin's Russia.

A really shocking book , read it in two night shifts , scarey stuff , great read mind.

Child 44.

Read loads of great reviews of this book , so i was expecting it to be crap and over hyped , well it certainly wasnt.

Child 44 is a thriller set in the terror of 1950s Stalinist Russia, a brutal regime that executed anyone who disagreed with its dogma. It proclaimed to be a perfect society. So, when a series of brutal murders take place, no one is permitted to say that these are the work of a serial killer. In a perfect society there can be no crime.
One man, Leo Demidov, a State security agent, a man who has spent his entire career arresting innocent men and women, decides to redeem himself by catching this killer. To do so, he must buck the system, risking his life and the life of everyone he loves.

Reminded me of Martin Cruz Smith ( Gorky Park ) , love all his books btw.

Fourth book by Stuart Macbride , all of them set in Aberdeen.
New ones called Flesh House.
Synopsis
A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite, Dying Light and Broken Skin, set in gritty Aberdeen. Aberdeen is panicking. It's been eighteen years since Grampian Police caught the Flesher -- the notorious serial killer who butchered people all over the UK -- and seven years since he was released from Peterhead prison, his conviction overturned on appeal. But when a container full of joints of human meat turns up at Aberdeen Harbour, it kicks off the largest man hunt in Aberdeen's history. Ken Wiseman is on the run and looking for revenge. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is lumbered with the unenviable task of babysitting Chief Constable Mark Faulds from Birmingham -- one of the original investigation team -- and trying to keep DI Insch from throwing his career away in his obsessive quest to see Wiseman behind bars before he kills again. When members of the team that put Wiseman away in 1990 start going missing, Logan knows that things aren't as straightforward as everyone thinks. More and more human meat is turning up in the food chain. Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light.And the only thing that's certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again.

Ive got all his books , and apart from the second one , i would recommend them all , real gritty stuff , quite violent , but with plenty of humour as well..