Perhaps not the right section, but hey-ho. Thought this might be a decent place for the boosters to discuss their present reading material. At the minute I'm reading this:



Yet another mediocre Asda 'real life military' yarn, although I do have a slight fetish for military hardware so I always come back for more. :rolleyes: Much along the lines of 'Vulcan 607' if you've read that. It does demonstrate what an unstoppable killing machine the Apache is, and how little chance the Taliban fighters have/had against it in Afganistan. It also explores the feelings of doubt/remorse/guilt the pilots sometimes had/have, when especially being able to see their targets so clearly as the die through the apache's advanced magnification targeting technology, and then again on a plasma screen at the debrief back at base as they review the 'gun tapes'. Interesting in places, but I've read better. 5/10

At the moment I have a stack of books I wanna get through whilst I'm Uni reading free. :lol: I'm currently on Communion by Whitley Strieber that Hadyn lent to me. After that its Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, then The Host by Stephanie Meyer, then a Langston Hughes poetry book, then My Boring Ass Life by Kevin Smith. I'll give my opinions when I've finished them all :)

Finished Communion last night, review on H's thread. Gonna start Kevin Smith's autobiography tonight, need something light and funny after being scared by aliens for a couple of weeks :lol:

Kevin Smith as in Dogma, Mall Rats, Clerks and all that? Awesome films. Let me know how you get on with that!
I've just started: JOINT FORCE HARRIER! ( :rolleyes: x10,000) I keep these ex military/wannabe author types in business I swear...



:lol:

Yep, that Kevin :lol:

Crikey, didnt realise Forrest had such bad cauliflower ears!! :o :blink: :ph43r:

Whats the verdict Ben? :)

I've just started this:

"Notes from the frontline of a hip hop planet"

Definitely one for Hadyn and Stu... in fact, if it wasnt my sister's I'd send it down to Wolvo when I'd finished.

Review:
http://www.spannered.org/books/443/

Ill have to check that one Martin :)

Im currenty sinking my teeth into this:

I finished Kevin Smith's auto-biog when on holiday and it was pretty cool I have to say once I got past exactly how candid it was (I really don't need to know what time the dude goes for a dump.......). Gave me a good few chuckles and it was nice to learn what happened to Jay after he went drug-mad.

I also read 'The Liar' by Stephen Fry and it made me laugh a lot, it was a little pretentious but that was part of the humour so it was enjoyable.

I've just started 'The Time Travellers Wife' as I'd quite like to see the flick but hate not having read the book beforehand so :lol:

After that it'll be prep reading for Uni so lots of SPSS and Critical Social Psychology and other stuff :)

Forrest's book is really funny, not as funny as his performance against Anderson Silva, but funny nontheless :P

DOMINATION :ph43r: :sos:

Got all this lot to get my teeth into:

Let me know what the Tom Holland one is like H, I have another of his books (The Vampyre) and its the mutts nuts. :thumbs:

lol Leaf read that last one dude...

Having a bit of an itunes audiobook-fest atm. Currently on HP Lovecrafts 'The Hound' after reading about the references to his work in Fallout 3.

Amazing the effects video games have on your reading habits isnt it?

Nealy finished Metal Gear Solid - oooooooooooooooh :)

As recommended by Steve Berry (yes, ex TopGear Steve Berry) who gets me to work every morning on Manchester Rock Radio. Supposed to be an excellent 'warts and all' account of the GnR years. Very interesting so far, and only £4.xx is Asda! :thumbs:

I MUST READ MORE!!!!

Re-reading the Adrian Mole books because there is a new one out and I want to buy it but I like to do things in order :lol: I know they're a bit juvenile but they make me proper LOL :rofl:

Got these to get through too:


and

Slash book is epic. Highly recommended. Just been reading about this interview on the Headbanger's Ball when they first released Appetite for Destruction. They'd just touched down in the states after a massive European tour supporting The Cult, and were about to go out on the next supporting Motley Crue. Nice slice of 80s rock n roll history. I love the internet.

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Got the audiobook on my ipod, so its not really reading, like... :unsure:

American Gods- Neil Gaiman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods

As recommended by my buddy Lurky. A wierd one, this.

Just getting into Stephen King's - Under The Dome

Alison's bought me Randy Couture's autobiography.
I'll keep you posted.

jonathan strange and mr norrell

The Real Mcrae

Just finished this too



:thumbs:

Got sent a free, signed copy of this to review for the website.
Truly amazing.
Read it in about 5 hours cover to cover.
The best MMA book I've ever read.

Thanks to Swampy :)

Stigs autobiography, although i'm reading it very slowly at the moment!

Moxyland by Laure Beukes. Future cyberpunk tech-fear 'big brother is watching' type book. 'Sgood.

I really need to read this now after seeing Stann's destruction of Chris Leben the other night :thumbs:

Blimey bro... whats the lowdown on this? Greek myths?

I'm reading Front magazine. :D

I've read the following over the past month or so:

The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birthing-House-Chr...m/dp/0751541710
A psychological horror. This was given to me by a woman I work with as she thought I'd enjoy it. It was a good read to be fair, but towards the end it gets very ambiguous and I'm pretty old fashioned, I like to be told a story, not have to finish a book wondering how the author linked it all together because its not explained fully enough. So, it was enjoyable, but the ending asks a bit too much of the reader, in my opinion. 7/10

The Haunting of James Hastings by Christopher Ransom.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunting-James-Has...11254191&sr=1-1
Another horror by this author, which was in the mini library of left-behind books in the hotel I was in on holiday. As I'd just finished the other one, I thought I'd give it a bash. This one was decidedly more far-fetched than the other, and is about a bloke who looks like a white rapper with peroxide hair (guess who?) so becomes his body double...and all the events unfold from there. Its a bit surreal, but it was an OK read. 6/10

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Alex-Cross-James...11254472&sr=1-1
Yet another addition to the Cross series, and I have to say, I dunno if maybe I've become desensitised to it all, but it isn't a patch on Kiss the Girls or any of the earlier ones. It had its moments of filth and gore, but even so, I barely batted an eye. Still, it was an enjoyable story. 7/10.

Contest by Matthew Reilly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contest-ebook/dp/B...11254749&sr=1-1
This book was AWESOME. The first few pages I was a bit dubious, but then I got into it and 'whoosh!', I'd read it in 4 hours. Its just brilliant. I can't describe what its about without giving away massive pieces of plot...but I could not put it down. Fantastic. Please read it. :thumbs: 9.5/10.

Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spares-Michael-Mar...11254971&sr=1-1
I've read this a million times, its an old favourite. Gruesome and intelligent and mind-screwingly violent. :thumbs: 10/10.

Holy shit! I'm not the only 30 something year old in Wolverhampton to own that book! :o

Lol - we might be the only people in Wolverhampton to own that book!