Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:33 am
I like this thread alot. Made it a sticky and renamed it. Please list any great books you've read and add a brief synopsis or description.
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GREAT book.g88ner wrote:A Season with Verona, by Tim Parks.
A chap who lives in Verona and spends a dramatic season following Hellas Verona home and away games through a Serie A season.
It's a great insight into Italian fans, and their mentality, as well as part travel book as he visits Rome, Milan, Turin, Sicilly, Florence, Bari, etc. all in the name of watching football.
Loved it, and if you don't know the outcome of the season, then it turns into something of a page turner!
Good man. Great book and interesting philosophy.brazilianGOONER wrote:
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
from wikipedia: "Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. As indicated by its working title The Strike, the book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity; with their strike these creative minds hope to demonstrate that the economy and society would collapse without the profit motive and the efforts of the rational and productive."
that's my favourite one
Come on Swale...at least try and make it difficult.Swale_Gooner1985 wrote:Has anyone read any of the Danny Wallace books?
Join me, Friends like these, Yes Man? He is a very funny and clever writer and all his books are good!
I got his latest one yesterday 'awkward situations for men' and the forst couple of chapters are very good
anyone else into his books?
GREAT thread!DB10GOONER wrote:I like this thread alot. Made it a sticky and renamed it. Please list any great books you've read and add a brief synopsis or description.
I read more historical non fiction than fiction but I do love a good novel. Two of the best I ever read were;RaM wrote:GREAT thread!DB10GOONER wrote:I like this thread alot. Made it a sticky and renamed it. Please list any great books you've read and add a brief synopsis or description.
Can't believe I haven't noticed it before. Reading is one of my biggest pastimes apart from watching sport. Mind you I have strong opinions about what i consider "rubbish" commercial novels...so any of that Twilight/Harry Potter rubbish will not be tolerated - unless you're younger than 16.
Just some of my favourite novels, in no order:
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Bliss - Peter Carey
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A lot of Stephen King novels.
As well as the various short works of both Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.
Am i being stupid for not knowing what the hell you are on about here?marcengels wrote:Come on Swale...at least try and make it difficult.Swale_Gooner1985 wrote:Has anyone read any of the Danny Wallace books?
Join me, Friends like these, Yes Man? He is a very funny and clever writer and all his books are good!
I got his latest one yesterday 'awkward situations for men' and the forst couple of chapters are very good
anyone else into his books?
YesSwale_Gooner1985 wrote:Am i being stupid for not knowing what the hell you are on about here?marcengels wrote:Come on Swale...at least try and make it difficult.Swale_Gooner1985 wrote:Has anyone read any of the Danny Wallace books?
Join me, Friends like these, Yes Man? He is a very funny and clever writer and all his books are good!
I got his latest one yesterday 'awkward situations for men' and the forst couple of chapters are very good
anyone else into his books?