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Post by davy on May 10, 2009 10:12:17 GMT 1
I always have a book in the taxi and some nights i would rather read than watch some of the crap on TV, just wondering what books the Keelies would recommend , My favorite book was The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett ,it was a book i couldn't put down, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth Great result Tam, but sat back too much in the second half. Try, A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole. One of the best books I,ve ever read.(3 times). He committed hari-kari because no one would publish it. His mother got it into print some years later. [/b]
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Post by pitbull on May 11, 2009 22:03:20 GMT 1
I can if it is written in brail... ya big bassart ye ye,ve got an answer for everything SMARTASS
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Post by Waverley on May 11, 2009 22:11:35 GMT 1
Well ye did ask Jackie... ;D
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Post by anniebums on May 12, 2009 13:01:23 GMT 1
I've read hundreds of books but some of my favourites are all the Harry Potter's (read them twice) and "The Five People you meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom he also wrote "Tuesdays with Maurey" which was made into a film. Charlie I think you would like the Mitch Albom books. Everyone who borrowed Five People loved it. It makes you realise how people (even strangers) can shape your life.
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Post by pitbull on May 12, 2009 19:07:04 GMT 1
a good book for you patrick, a stone for danny fisher , by harold robbins.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2009 20:18:08 GMT 1
a good book for you patrick, a stone for danny fisher , by harold robbins. . Hi Jackie, Do you know what Film was based on " A Stone For Danny Fisher" ? ? ?
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Post by pitbull on May 12, 2009 23:45:13 GMT 1
a good book for you patrick, a stone for danny fisher , by harold robbins. . Hi Jackie, Do you know what Film was based on " A Stone For Danny Fisher" ? ? ? was it to do with a boxer andy ;D
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Post by pitbull on May 12, 2009 23:49:22 GMT 1
king creole correct thats the wan well done there patrick (jack)
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 7:52:52 GMT 1
King Creole it was
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Post by norrie on May 13, 2009 8:23:31 GMT 1
River God by Wilbur Smith, didn't want the book to finish, there is a follow, Seventh Scroll,? I read more when I was on night shift but now I am retired I read on holiday or the garden ;D
Just finished Exit Music by Ian Rankin, took me ages but I enjoyed it. Bye for now, norrie
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Post by Beth on May 13, 2009 8:44:18 GMT 1
Wilbur Smith. Have read all his books except the last Assegai. I found his earlier books much better, but mab=ybe I am biased as they were about early pioneering days in Africa. Where the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder, all the Courtney books. Found them more enjoyable. He also wrote a book called Cape of Starms about the Whaling ships and love across the Colour Bar in the old apartheid days. Love Ian Rankin and Rebus also. Read Exit music early last year and cannot believe it will be the last Rebus Book. Have most of his books, or should I say had. I am furious with Allan. he gave a "Friend" the load of more than ten of them, including exit music that I paid nearly R300 for. Still waiting to get them back!!! Have you read any of John Gordon Davis Books? He wrote amongst others Hold My Hand I am Dying. Also Apartheid Africa Fiction. He also wrote Leviathan about the whalers. LKate for work again, N=Bye
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 9:26:34 GMT 1
Hi Beth,
I have all the Rebus books .
When I visit Embra I always call into " The Oxford "
Nothing like the Bar described in the book. No couthy interesting characters drinking .
Full of middle class twits and tourists. Many Japanese call, take hundreds of foties then leave.
Last time there was a large American who loudly insisted on buying evryone a drink. I politely declined.
One time Ian Rankin stood beside me at the Bar. I did not bother him nor say I recognised him. Simply passed the time of day.
Good looking Barmaid !
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Post by justjoe on May 14, 2009 0:02:54 GMT 1
One flew over the cuckoo's nest is my all time favourite.
For a good laugh, I love Sue Townsends stuff. I've followed Adrian Mole since he was a boy.
Lynda La Plantes murder stories are better in print than the TV, and I like them on the telly.
Good Glasgow writer I like is Louise Welsh.
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Post by Waverley on May 14, 2009 12:25:45 GMT 1
One flew over the cuckoo's nest is my all time favourite. I remember when it first came out but I could never get into it but loved the film. The Choirboys was the same I never took the first couple of chapters in and then I saw the film which I loved and then went back to read the book which was even funnier than the film.
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Post by pitbull on May 14, 2009 17:21:51 GMT 1
sunbird by wilbur smith was another good yin
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Post by peggy on May 15, 2009 16:09:42 GMT 1
The last book I read was the memoirs of a Geisha and then I went to see the film I was so disappointed in the film as the book was so much better but that was a while ago.
My daughter bought her dad the book Rangers 11s its quite funny some of the things in this wee book it fairly made us laugh, its not just trivia its got some interesting info in it just thought I would mention this as well.
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Post by marquis44 on May 18, 2009 22:39:21 GMT 1
They belonged to Glasgow by Rudolph Kenna and Ian Sutherland. Amazing!
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Post by priscilla on May 19, 2009 0:38:15 GMT 1
Anything by Catherine Cookson and Jessica Stirling for me!!!
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Post by taxicab02 on Jun 2, 2009 16:29:09 GMT 1
I love biographies and non fiction mostly. The gulag archipelago and one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Soltzinetzyn are harrowing,but gripping. Just started Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
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Post by Beth on Jun 2, 2009 20:13:42 GMT 1
Long Walk to Freedom, a good book about a great man, This is a pic of cave in the limestone quarry where they worked. It was in this cave apparently that the political prisoners educated themselves. The heat and glare are unbelievable. Should rather have said, the educated, educated the uneducated
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Post by brownlee on Jul 1, 2009 18:30:18 GMT 1
There is an overkill on books about modern day gangsters. If you've read one, its pointless reading another.
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Post by mcgoo on Jul 1, 2009 20:21:25 GMT 1
"Kelman wins Scottish Book Award Glasgow author James Kelman won the Booker Prize in 1994 A book charting the life of a young boy in post-war Glasgow has
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Post by Beth on Jul 1, 2009 20:44:52 GMT 1
jist ordered it. No well heeled, oor library disnae even know how tae spell it ;d
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Post by mcgoo on Jul 1, 2009 20:49:35 GMT 1
Never thot youd even get in S.Africa Beth,
ah had tae spell it oot tae Beth.. Still its an unusal title isnt it
gote a call today theyve got in already
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Post by Beth on Jul 1, 2009 21:00:28 GMT 1
ah'll hauld yoo risponsible ye auld thing ye
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Post by ixus2 on Jul 6, 2009 8:33:48 GMT 1
Just been loaned a book "Glasgow Curiosities" by Carol Foreman. Great wee stories about people like Maggie McIver, The Glincher, Cranstons tearooms,Doges Palace, A train crash at St. Enochs and many more.There is also a quiz with 100 questions about Glasgow I recommend it Ixus2
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Post by palaisgirl on Jul 6, 2009 9:30:10 GMT 1
I am in the middle of a book called "Handstands in the Dark", it is an autobiography of Janey Godley, a stand up comedienne and actress (I had never heard of her), who was brought up in Shettleston, then went on to live and work in a pub called the Nationalist Bar in the Calton. It really depicts life back in the 70's and highlights how bad prostitution and drugs were then in the area. I know some of you will say it still goes on, but I never encountered any of it then (maybe I lived a sheltered life). Still a good read.
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Post by pwm437 on Jul 6, 2009 13:22:14 GMT 1
I am in the middle of a book called "Handstands in the Dark", it is an autobiography of Janey Godley, a stand up comedienne and actress (I had never heard of her), who was brought up in Shettleston, then went on to live and work in a pub called the Nationalist Bar in the Calton. It really depicts life back in the 70's and highlights how bad prostitution and drugs were then in the area. I know some of you will say it still goes on, but I never encountered any of it then (maybe I lived a sheltered life). Still a good read. Yes Carol I've read it. Harrowing account of her child sex abuse, but I've nothing but admiration for Janey, coming through everything she did, and being so public about it. Quite a woman.
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Post by brownlee on Jul 7, 2009 17:48:38 GMT 1
One very good read.
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Post by tammccann on Jul 7, 2009 20:37:44 GMT 1
I think the most disturbing story i read Patrick was Dave Pelzers- A child called it. its Dave Pelzers own story of how he was starved and tortured by his mother.
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