Books - What are you reading?

Finished the Fausto Coppi book by William Fotheringam recently - a great read.

Good advice.
Write some seedy stories, Seed - then sell them to me.
A tip - people seem to like stories about bumming.
Don't know why.

It's only people on here, and it's because they like fixed-gear bikes, as well. They're up for anything perverse.

Good advice.
Write some seedy stories, Seed - then sell them to me.
A tip - people seem to like stories about bumming.
Don't know why.

I have written a seedy story about bumming. Three pages long (slightly stained on pages two and three).

£15

I've also just finished True History of the Kelly Gang it's really good there's a complete lack of punctuation or grammar which I thought I'd find tiring but you get used to it within a couple of pages. Recommended for Platini.

i wonder how many times this has been posted in this thread but I've just finished Lance Armstrong - it's not about the bike.

now reading Will Self - The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Just finished this:

now onto this:

Now reading the second Anne Mustoe book, after swapping the first one with Fluff.
am only dipping in and out at the moment, but its lightweight and a good bedtime read, plus it also has some useful practical stuff about long distance cycling.

What's 'The Prodigy' like Hobo? I've only read Siddartha and I read it again, twice.

I'm reading Akenfield at the moment, incredible stuff, unputdownable. Think I might have read it before but its the klind of book where it doesn't really matter if you just dip in and out. Thes old dudes talking about working with a team of horses, ploughing, at the age of 8! One of them was saying last night (and I have to imagine a strong Suffolk accent when I read it) 'Nowadays people are always playing at this or that, football or rugby. I never played anything in my life, only pleasure was a bit of singing while I worked, and some rest when I sleep. And they've all got to have money these days, haven't they? We never had nothing! Lived on nothing. But we always had a cooked meal every day ... now you hear the paper packets being opened, five minutes later its ready, they say its a meal?! That's not what I call a meal.'

You get the idea. Makes me think that we're pretty ignorant of what our formothers and forefathers did to get through life, and where their priorities lay in contrast to what we call 'happiness' now. I feel very lucky to be here now.

This is good. Beautifully written, great characters. Anyone read 'Silk'?

Just started Susan Sontag's 'On Photography'. So...

Currently on to Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Math as a religion, very interesting basis for a book.

Also on the go Air by G Willow Wilson. As it's a comic it'll go on and on. Not a superhero comic, deals with hyperpraxis. Starting to run through 100 Bullets (on 4th TPB) Now moving away from the original notion of the book to build a far bigger story although I don't doubt that Azzarello will revisit it in the future.

As I missed the first editions of Kickass, I'm hoping the first TPB will be out before the movie. looks to be a good anti-superhero movie.

i wonder how many times this has been posted in this thread but I've just finished Lance Armstrong - it's not about the bike.
I've read that, really enjoyed it so now have his first book (Every Second Counts) in my "to read" pile.

Just started on Bradley Wiggins' autobiography, only a couple of chapters in but it seems pretty good.

Who's read the best book in the world ever?
Three men in a boat.

Best movie ever...
Three men and a baby.

Fucking love Tom Selleck.

Just started Susan Sontag's 'On Photography'. So...

That's awfully good.

Just started on Bradley Wiggins' autobiography, only a couple of chapters in but it seems pretty good.

It's not a bad read. Shame so much has happened in the 1 year or so since publication!

Just starting this:

^Clicky^ Not bad for £3 new.

It's not a bad read. Shame so much has happened in the 1 year or so since publication!

Just starting this:

^Clicky^ Not bad for £3 new.

He dies.

Oops.

Sorry for spoiling it...

Uh-huh

Biography of George Lansbury by John Shepherd and We saw Spain die [about journalists and journalism] in the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston and Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls.

He dies.

Oops.

Sorry for spoiling it...

As does Tom Simpson but there are two good bigraphies and his death is a painful part of the book as is with Pantani

As does Tom Simpson but there are two good bigraphies and his death is a painful part of the book as is with Pantani

Well it's hardly going to be a bit of a giggle, is it?

Who's read the best book in the world ever?
Three men in a boat.

oh yes,
I picked up a copy of "The idle thoughts of an idle fellow" by J.K.J,
it is again, laugh out loud funny. 1901.
sure that Tom hodgkinson, "Idler" got half his ideas from that book.

oh yes,
I picked up a copy of "The idle thoughts of an idle fellow" by J.K.J,
it is again, laugh out loud funny. 1901.
sure that Tom hodgkinson, "Idler" got half his ideas from that book.

Always liked the idler.

I'll be getting a copy of "The idle thoughts of an idle fellow" as soon as, m.f.
Ta for the tip!

It's not a bad read. Shame so much has happened in the 1 year or so since publication!
I have the "updated to include the 2009 Tour de France version". Not sure how much further into 2009 it goes, not got that far yet.

Next to read is Every Second Counts, LA's recovery from cancer. Really liked his second book, so hopefully this will be a good read too.
Then I have Put Me Back on My Bike, a Tom Simpson biography, but it's still in the post :(

i've just finished the millenium trilogy, its pretty damn good. i'll wait for the films to come out here now, although i heard a nasty rumour that are going to be dubbed into english!!

i was going to buy the dvd's when i was over in sweden last week, but it didnt have english subtitles

just ordered brief history of time by stephen hawkings. wish me luck