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[Gary C]

I've been doing a lot of reading lately, and have recently polished off:

Richard Herring's "How Not To Grow Up" (very amusing), Alex Garland's "The Beach" (haven't seen the film, but quite good book) and am currently reading Mark Kermode's "It's only a movie" which I'm loving at the moment.

I did also read a British Film Institute run down of Back to the Future, but it was a bit too high-brow above the eye-brow for me, and contained far too many long words for my liking.

[Keith Lard]

The book thread.

Excellent.

I like to read a murder mystery. I like to know the killer isn't me.

[eagle88]

Anything by Tom Clancy,Dale Brown or Stephen Coonts for me. With a little bit of Lee Child thrownin for variety.

[Keith Lard]

I like the character in the Lee Child book's. Read em all. Got to liking them cos Jack Reacher has a similar knack to me - I can always be very sure what the time is, even after waking up.

Read a couple of Dean Koontz books. Bit wierd for me. Mrs. Lard like's the Odd Thomas ones.

I am currently reading the latest in the Peter James 'Dead...' series. 'Rozzer' Roy Grace based in Brighton. Very good.

Most recently re-read Awaydays / Outlaws / Clubland, all by Kevin Sampson and The Long Firm (brilliant) by Jake Arnott     

[Old Timer]

Just read, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson. Excellent book and far better then the film.

Another excellent read is "Homicide, a year on the killing streets" by David Simon who is the creator of The Wire amongst other things. This book is a insightful and detailed look at the year in the lives of a Baltimore homicide unit. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good thriller and what makes this book even more special is the stories told are actually true.






 

[Silverado]

Me and the lady wife are also heavily into Lee Child and Peter James, together with Harlan Coben and Ian Rankin.

I'm currently reading  "Bleeding Hearts" by Ian Rankin "writing as Jack Harvey" (i.e. a re-issue under his more famous post-Rebus name). It has as its (anti-)hero an assassin who's trying to find out why his unknown paymasters are trying to kill him (boiling up to a nice climax!).

I particularly like the earlier Harlan Coben novels featuring sports agent-cum-detective Myron Bolitar and his psychopathic millionaire sidekick! Well worth a wry read.

We also read a lot of Scarpetta novels, but I can't help thinking Patricia Cornwell is a bit over-hyped these days.

I too have read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (but not seen the film). I thought the book was OK but not great - the Girl gets far less coverage than the guy in the book, and the English title perhaps overplays her importance. The original Swedish title is, though, not as commercially "sexy", translating as "The Man who Hates Women", which is far more to the point. My wife disliked the violence in the book, so we haven't got around yet to reading the two sequels.

[Hudson]

Harlen Coban is brilliant, excellent thrillers!

Currently reading Thomas Harris, not the Hannibal series but one he wrote in 1975! Black Sunday. Once finished, I have the girl who starts fires followed by the girl who kicked the hornets nest! The books are undoubtedly better than the film.

Also a Lee Child fan!

[offtotownonthe8:21]

For a good crime thriller read then you can't go wrong with Mark Billingham. Most of his books feature DI Tom Thorne and his team trying to catch serial killers in North London.
It's best to read them in order, as later books sometimes reference what has happened in earlier ones, but it's not essential.
So far he has written 10 books (I have only read the first 5 though!)
They are: Sleepyhead, Scaredycat, Lazybones, The Burning Girl, Lifeless, Buried, Death Message, In The Dark, Bloodline and From The Dead

[offtotownonthe8:21]

The K PAX trilogy by Gene Brewer is probably my favourite series of books from the last 10 years. Far, far superior than the Kevin Spacey film of the same name.

[Ben]

I read Mark Cavendish's autobiography and its a good read. Being a sprinter/cycling fan I can relate to some of what he says, though he is very outspoken

[Coney]

I read Mark Cavendish's autobiography and its a good read. Being a sprinter/cycling fan I can relate to some of what he says, though he is very outspoken

I can thoroughly recomend Lance Armstrong's AB then. Good insight to cycling as well as the man himself, and what he has been through.

[ozymandias]

Lee Child is an easy read and fast paced, very good. The wife and I like Jeffrey Deaver and have just purchased his new one. A Lincoln Rhyme novel.
I used to be into Stephen King when I was younger, but the last 15 years I don't think he's come up with a good book.
Martin Cruz Smith is great, his Arkady Renko novels are excellent.
And another guy, Thomas Eidson is good with his Westerns. His first St Agnes Stand is to be made into a film by Spielberg I believe, and his second The Last Ride has already hit the screen but named differently.
If you like a good end of the world read I recommend William Prochnau's Trinity's Child. Scared the shite out of me, spooky and atmospheric.

[Keith Lard]

Lee Child is an easy read and fast paced, very good. The wife and I like Jeffrey Deaver and have just purchased his new one. A Lincoln Rhyme novel.
I used to be into Stephen King when I was younger, but the last 15 years I don't think he's come up with a good book.
Martin Cruz Smith is great, his Arkady Renko novels are excellent.
And another guy, Thomas Eidson is good with his Westerns. His first St Agnes Stand is to be made into a film by Spielberg I believe, and his second The Last Ride has already hit the screen but named differently.
If you like a good end of the world read I recommend William Prochnau's Trinity's Child. Scared the shite out of me, spooky and atmospheric.

Was that the Film 'The Bone Collector' ?

[Silverado]

For a good crime thriller read then you can't go wrong with Mark Billingham. Most of his books feature DI Tom Thorne and his team trying to catch serial killers in North London.
It's best to read them in order, as later books sometimes reference what has happened in earlier ones, but it's not essential.
So far he has written 10 books (I have only read the first 5 though!)
They are: Sleepyhead, Scaredycat, Lazybones, The Burning Girl, Lifeless, Buried, Death Message, In The Dark, Bloodline and From The Dead

We are also into Mark Billingham

Have just started reading "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith (Costa 2008 Costa short list for First Novel Award, 2008 Man Booker Prize long-list, Richard & Judy Book of the Month [!]). Set in 1953 Stalinist Soviet Union - nationwide serial killer on the loose - being tracked down by secret policeman. But since there is "no crime" in the Stalinist Workers' Paradise, his bosses are just as anxious to kill him to shut him up as he is to catch the killer. 1953 Soviet society is almost as important a character as the heroes and villains. Looks intriguing.

[Gary C]

Reading "The Football Factory" by John King - I get through a lot of books - and I'm astonished by how poor it is.

I quite liked the film, and was hoping this would be more expansive on the characters, but I've just come out of an entire chapter on someone's day trip to Southend, talking about pirates and going on amusement rides, followed by a chapter entirely on some old dear who works in a launderette... and that's without going into the actual writing style, which looks like someone has jotted it down on a fag packet