OT: books to read

[whos dave]

Hello
I'm off for a week's holiday next week and as there won't be much to do reckon i might need some reading material. Just bought PPC and RR mags but was thinking about actually reading a book!
Not much of a reader see, and i've read 2 books in about the last 11 years (haynes manuals excluded)

So was just wondering if anyone could recomend something half decent to read.

[guz]

owt by Elmore Leonard ?

he wrote the books that films
like Get Shorty, Out of Sight,
Jackie Brown were based on.

Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
is a good 'un too.

search on Amazon for decent
reviews on any book.

[Keefy]

www.dukevideo.co.uk

anything from the book section ;D

[BigWig]

Are you near Brands Hatch? Just go into the book shop there and buy some. You'll be in there for days I'm telling you!

[hairnet]

long way round

into the red

big yin

the barrytown trilogy

[Revolution 9]

I'm into some weird stuff myself, but the best things I've read in the past few years were:

George Orwell - Homage To Catalonia,
"Animal Farm",
"Nineteen Eighty Four" (although I read those two years ago, but I've re read them lately)
"Down and Out in Paris and London"
"The Road to Wigan Pier"
"Keep The Aspidistra Flying"
"Coming Up For Air"

Flann O'Brein - "The Third Policeman" (really really weird and confusing, which is why I liked it! ;D ;D)

Alistair Gray - "Unlikely Stories, Mostly" (also dead weird ;D ;D)

Also I can't remember the names of any but VS Naipaul's books were pretty good, and I've read some really heavy stuff lately, ie Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, but that's hardly holiday reading, for a start a book as massive as anything by Marx would take up most of your suitcase! ;D ;D ;D ;D

[tonycocacola]

anything by edgar allen poe ;D

[hairnet]

tony would like to add that reading a newky brown label is informative and a very good idea

i agree ;D ;D

[rustingdeathtrap]

I read catcher in the rye a while back and hated it.
Trainspottings a cool read, way better than the film. In fact anything by Irvine Welsh gets my vote.
Hunter S Thompson
Dean Koontz
Richard Laymon
And I can highly recomend The Satanic Bible by Anton S LaVey ;D

[tonycocacola]

i read an article that told how the c.i.a used catcher in the rye as a trigger for manchurian candidates.
did you assasinate a world leader once youd finished it? ;D ;D ;D

[rustingdeathtrap]

I was gonna but the guy in the bookshop made me sign a disclaimer. Wouldnt wanna go back on a legally binding document ;D ;D ;D

[Blue850]

Stephen King's Christine

[Paul H]

Blue850 said:

Stephen King's Christine

I second that! So much better than the film too!

(Not to be confused with 'Christine' by Madeline Masson, which is about an unsung heroine of WW2.)