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Millhouse May 19th 2013 1:13 am

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by britexpat76 (Post 10714944)
I have replaced 'shit' reading with the mobile these days. I always had a Jeremy Clarkson book next to the toilet years ago.

Yeh, true. That is what BBM is for.

OleJanx May 19th 2013 1:16 am

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by britexpat76 (Post 10714944)
I have replaced 'shit' reading with the mobile these days. I always had a Jeremy Clarkson book next to the toilet years ago.

Well at least you had a ready supply of shit sheets to hand, as it were...

Theseus May 19th 2013 1:39 am

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by britexpat76 (Post 10714944)
I have replaced 'shit' reading with the mobile these days. I always had a Jeremy Clarkson book next to the toilet years ago.

I used to have a book on the history of modern art next to the loo. :blink:

OleJanx May 19th 2013 1:49 am

Re: What are you reading?
 
O.K , I have a stack of books in the 'to read' pile.

Dark tourist: Dom Joly
Experience : Martin Amis
Hello, Dubai : Joe Bennett
Edge Of
Darkness : Troy Kennedy Martin
A Man In Full : Tom Wolfe

Will keep me out of mischief for a few days...

Meow May 19th 2013 2:17 am

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by OleJanx (Post 10714995)
O.K , I have a stack of books in the 'to read' pile.

Dark tourist: Dom Joly
Experience : Martin Amis
Hello, Dubai : Joe Bennett
Edge Of
Darkness : Troy Kennedy Martin
A Man In Full : Tom Wolfe

Will keep me out of mischief for a few days...


I read that Hello Dubai book a few weeks ago. Not bad. Some poetic licence, but he does get a fair bit right.

OleJanx May 19th 2013 2:38 am

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by Meow (Post 10715029)
I read that Hello Dubai book a few weeks ago. Not bad. Some poetic licence, but he does get a fair bit right.

From what I've glimpsed, he seems to understand Barracuda...

silversilver May 19th 2013 7:43 am

Re: What are you reading?
 
When it comes to reading I'll read anything and everything - from being a lover of trashy tabloids including the good old 'Scottish Sun' to the broadsheets and really, anything that takes my fancy - actually Weasel De Central I need to get a copy of your book!
Loved Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts - bit of a tome but a page turner from beginning to end and would highly recommend it to anybody who has not read it.
For light reading and the 'weep' factor - Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes - it was tears and runny nose all round for me after that.
For fascinating reading - Hotel K by Kathryn Bonella
Reading Steve Jobs The Man Who Thought Different Just Now - boy what a man he was!

The Dean May 19th 2013 8:10 am

Re: What are you reading?
 
Some factual Middle East/Arab history books.............

Eugene Rogan's 'The Arabs: A History' is good, plus anything by Prof Bernard Lewis.......

Cypselos May 19th 2013 5:46 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by OleJanx (Post 10714904)
They may be all the same, but the first, Wilt, still makes me laugh out loud.
Dunno if you've seen it, but the film, with Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith is one of the few few ' films from books' that is true to the book.

I assumed he was talking about Bernard Cornwell, but the point stands for Tom Sharpe. In neither case are they any the worse for it, ain't broke, don't fix.

mentalist May 19th 2013 6:23 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 10714932)
I find reading an utter waste of time.

:eek::(:ohmy:

Bahtatboy May 19th 2013 6:51 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by OleJanx (Post 10714904)
They may be all the same, but the first, Wilt, still makes me laugh out loud.
Dunno if you've seen it, but the film, with Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith is one of the few few ' films from books' that is true to the book.

Is he still going? Last time I read one of his must be more than 10 years ago.

Bahtatboy May 19th 2013 6:52 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by britexpat76 (Post 10714944)
I have replaced 'shit' reading with the mobile these days. I always had a Jeremy Clarkson book next to the toilet years ago.

I have never, ever read while on the toilet. I just don't get it. :confused:

Millhouse May 19th 2013 7:00 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 10715871)
I have never, ever read while on the toilet. I just don't get it. :confused:

not even emails on the blackberry?

Bahtatboy May 19th 2013 8:03 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 

Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 10715876)
not even emails on the blackberry?

No.

britexpat76 May 19th 2013 8:11 pm

Re: What are you reading?
 
Send a text on the khazi?


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