Sea foot Report post Posted October 20, 2017 Sat through the hurricane on Monday and have been without electricity for a day (on and off all week), water for 2 days and no internet until now. Still, had a good excuse to re-read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Wonderful. Just started to re-read American Gods. Always find something new every time I read his books. Wish I could say the same about this site, I'm just about to jump in and catch up with a weeks worth of CFCnet. Wish me luck.😬 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Kelly Report post Posted October 20, 2017 15 minutes ago, Sea foot said: Sat through the hurricane on Monday and have been without electricity for a day (on and off all week), water for 2 days and no internet until now. Still, had a good excuse to re-read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Wonderful. Just started to re-read American Gods. Always find something new every time I read his books. Wish I could say the same about this site, I'm just about to jump in and catch up with a weeks worth of CFCnet. Wish me luck.😬 Read both , both different , both excellent , just finished the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb , excellent fantasy recommended for fans of George RR Martin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blue moon Report post Posted October 21, 2017 On 15/09/2017 at 3:10 PM, Bob Singleton said: "A Dying Breed" by Peter Hanington. First novel. Formerly worked on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, mainly on stories from Afghanistan, Iraq etc., and this book is mostly set there. The main character is a world-weary BBC foreign affairs correspondent on his last assignment before taking a 'voluntary redundancy' that he's not all too keen to take, who stumbles across shady dealings between the British and Afghan governments that everyone would like kept quiet. Once I started reading it I honestly couldn't put it down; I was desperate to get to the final denouement. Thanks for the recommendation, Bob, best page turner for a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob Singleton Report post Posted October 21, 2017 1 hour ago, blue moon said: Thanks for the recommendation, Bob, best page turner for a while. Glad you enjoyed it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Mcculloch Glasgow Report post Posted November 3, 2017 I loved reading "The Kite Runner". Amazing I would say. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Droy was my hero Report post Posted November 3, 2017 13 hours ago, Brian Mcculloch Glasgow said: I loved reading "The Kite Runner". Amazing I would say. Yes very good. I saw the stage version recently, which was just about OK. But book and follow up by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Setting Suns were excellent. The first is a story about males, fathers and sons. The second very much a female viewpoint. But one warning, the version of Taliban Afghanistan it presents is very much a modern US stereo type of what we are supposed to understand. Not the much messier reality. Charlie Wilson's War and anything about the Drug trade tells you a much fuller story. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Mcculloch Glasgow Report post Posted November 7, 2017 On 04/11/2017 at 1:04 AM, Droy was my hero said: Yes very good. I saw the stage version recently, which was just about OK. But book and follow up by Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Setting Suns were excellent. The first is a story about males, fathers and sons. The second very much a female viewpoint. But one warning, the version of Taliban Afghanistan it presents is very much a modern US stereo type of what we are supposed to understand. Not the much messier reality. Charlie Wilson's War and anything about the Drug trade tells you a much fuller story. Yes, absolutely agree with you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ronish Baxter Report post Posted March 19, 2018 Books are my favourite past time and I have read quite a few books over the years. Some that I still cherish are Rusking Bond's 'Writer on the Hills', Kahleid Hossaini's 'The Kite Runner' also I enjoy reading adventure books. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JaneB Report post Posted January 9 Found this book when I was having a sort out the other day. Probably needs to be updated 💙 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites