Books - What are you reading?

Have you read Touching the Void by Joe Simpson?

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/joe+simpson/sir+chris+bonington/touching+the+void/5069927/

No good shout, saw the film a few years back - book good?

^ ahhhh - not on Kindle :(

So good. A friend recommended it to me. Wish I was a private detective.

Hello, forum. My good friend has just had a babby and I'd like to buy them a children's book for when she's old enough to read. Her name is Autumn. Are there any classic (or contemporary - I'm not fussy) books about the seasons or autumn in general?

Ta muchly.

ah. not on Kindle - anyone got any good mountain book reccos?

some good uns here 8b > http://www.boardmantasker.com/site/previous_winners.htm

deep play by paul pritchard is very good, its follow up, totem pole is disturbing yet inspirational

anything perrin writes tends to be a notch above the rest too.

boardman and tasker's the shining mountain is very good > http://www.klimmen.com/webshop/product.php?productid=11&cat=7&page=1

and you must have read ken wilson's the games climbers play? > http://www.klimmen.com/webshop/product.php?productid=200&cat=0&page=1 < some real sweaty palm / dry throat narratives!

^^I'd recommend this. It's tons of fun, but the last book (Oh The Places You'll Go) is full of incredible, genuine advice for little kids. It honestly makes me fill up a bit every time I read it and I've even been tempted to get a tattoo of the main character, I find it that inspirational.

^ cheers RG - someone else mentioned Deep Play to me - must have a look

Just read Savage Continent by Keith Lowe

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savage-Continent-Europe-Aftermath-World/dp/067091746X

Europe 1945-1948.

Absolutely brilliant compelling read if somewhat dark.

Helps explain what Europe is today and why Eurosceptics are irrational and wrong.

ah. not on Kindle - anyone got any good mountain book reccos?

james salter - solo faces is good.

Hello, forum. My good friend has just had a babby and I'd like to buy them a children's book for when she's old enough to read. Her name is Autumn. Are there any classic (or contemporary - I'm not fussy) books about the seasons or autumn in general?

Ta muchly.

The Hobbit.
Peter Pan.
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear.

^^I'd recommend this. It's tons of fun, but the last book (Oh The Places You'll Go) is full of incredible, genuine advice for little kids. It honestly makes me fill up a bit every time I read it and I've even been tempted to get a tattoo of the main character, I find it that inspirational.

I did an edited reading of Oh The Places You'll go at a friends wedding.. Fabulous book. Was a great twist to their ceremony.. Not a dry eye in the house

#stoletheshow

Here's my review of a great book, Unthology 3

[URL="http://rumandreviews.com/2012/11/19/unthology-no-3/"][/URL]

finished the life of pi this morning by yann martel
really nice read, bit slow to start but once the main event in the book happens it begins to shock and impress and humour in equal measure with some pretty amazing twists in the plot

would recommend

I just read this:

The Art of Fielding: Amazon.co.uk: Chad Harbach: Books

Disclosure that it is published by my employers, but it is a really excellent novel. Well worth a read.

Just finished...

Very, very good.

Great Expectations.. My first flirt with Dickens and it is FUCKING BRILLIANT.

A Thousand Sonds by Graham McNeill, the story of the pre-Heresy Thousand Sons legion, includes the momentous victory parade on Ullinor and the Council of Nikea

Storm of Iron was a good one by McNeill....

Just finished Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway, tempted to move onto some more China Mieville stuff now. Had a serious deficiency in his writing style recently and need to get my monthly hit.

Great Expectations.. My first flirt with Dickens and it is FUCKING BRILLIANT.

Negged for being so poorly read.

More like G-re-AY-t Expectations amirite???

No.

Great Expectations.. My first flirt with Dickens and it is FUCKING BRILLIANT.

Negged for being so poorly read.

Nonsense. Better late than never. Unless you're talking about the film here?

My girlfriend bought me 1Q84 by Murakami for my birthday. Looking forward to reading it!

Negged for being so poorly read.

Whatever..