What book are you reading at the moment

shahedz

Robert Peston's Who Runs Britain which is an interesting analysis of corporate finance in the last ten to fifteen years written in layman's terms and acting as a reminder that hedge funds and private equity funds which are now treated as the font of all evil are fairly modern devices that have grown tremendously under the patronage of Tony and Gordon due to their love affair with powerful business men.

When I finish that I have Marcus Trescothick's Autobiography next on the list. As a cricket fan I read a lot of cricket autobiographies and most are immensely boring as anything of interest has been sanitized out of it.

The most charismatic cricketer in recent years has been Shane Warne and his autobiography should have been entitled "It wasn't my fault" but I think that Trescothick's book which deals with his continuing battle against depression should be more interesting

badkarma

James Caan- The real Deal
How to burn fat-Stu Mittleman

i change between the two

jamiesdad

Day by Steven E. Ambrose

A factual account of the D-day landings and allied invasion of Europe.

Tends to put things into perspective a little, I don't know if the youth of today would have the ingredients to carry out the same endeavor.

CTT

Elisabeth Kostavo The Historian

I cant seem to get into it at all

Anyone read it ?

chrisw

Better than Tolkien, but not as good as Covenant IMHO.  The 4th GRRM was a slower than the first 3, but hopefully that's a one off and he's not going the way of Jordan who went downhill after book 6.

However, as one of the earlier posters said there are others equally good as GRRM namely Hobb, Erikson.

chrisw

The Charm School by Nelson DeMille - about a facility in Cold War Russia that teaches Russians to act, sound and think like an American... quite a good read, although a little too much waffle at times. I'd highly recommend Wild Fire by the same author - a very well written thriller with some great dialogue.

jerryfb

I didn't get on with this book either. Just a bit too slow and not really my cup of tea at all, not too sure why though, when everyone else raves about it.

Smurfin

I can really recommend the Shardlake books by C J Sansom.  Set in the reign of Henry the 8th, they are political, legal thrillers based on twists on contemporary policies and issues of the day.  The books in the series are called (IIRC) Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation.  All are real "can't put down" type books, well paced and really well characterised.

Highly recommeded.

Smurfin

I have the first 3 Thomas Covenant books sitting on my shelf, I've always avoided reading it as I know it was written a long time ago....feel like I'm going to be disappointed with it before I start if that makes sense!

emo72

I couldn't get on with Erikson, found it too impersonal and there was too much deus ex machina.

If you want another good read you've simply got to try Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings are sublime

I also have Scott Lynch's first two books - The Lies of Lock Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies.  Only read the first couple of pages of Lies, but it had me hooked, it's like a funny, but equally dark Oliver Twist...brilliant writing.  Just waiting on the third being released before I plough into the series