2010 Books

By jk67 on May 31, 2010 9:22 PM
Book Club
Greenlion2
"King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild is a great read, will get you about as upset as the Board usually do every season, no, even more angry, but a superb read.
Philip Glourevitch's "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" is as good a read on what happened in Rwanda as you can get. I remember an African doctor telling me that this could easily happen here, read it and you'll see why.
On the fiction front Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" is unbeatable.
I'll check out your previous recommendations.
Oh and I take it you've done the Celtic Mindeds.
C'mon the Hoops!
By blantyretim on May 31, 2010 9:11 PM
GL2
got Bobby Sands; Writings From Prison..

By ulysses mcghee on May 31, 2010 9:49 PM
GL2
I've not long finished Robert Harris's Imperium - Fact/fiction portrayal of Marcus Cicero - Politics at a time of change - I read it during the present day election and some of the observations were scarily precise.
I give it a Philvis two thumbs up...
U
By chris sutton is a legendhttp://www.kerrydalestreet.com/page/Sutton,+Chris?t=anon on May 31, 2010 10:50 PM
gl2,
Book club alert.
Forgive me as I haven't checked back to see your previous perusals. I recommended Christopher Brookmyre in the fiction department last year. I believe you read one of his. Which one was it and how did it go down so to speak?
As for this coming summer, I'd imagine you may have read this already but if not The Last Tsar, the life and death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky is a terrific read.
By garygillespieshamstring on May 31, 2010 10:57 PM
CSIAL
I picked up a Brookmyre after reading about him on here last year.
I read " A tale etched in blood and hard black pencil". Brilliant.
I would say a "must read" for anyone of "a certain age" who has been through the Catholic education system.
ggh
By awalkacrosstherooftopshttp://www.downloadhome.co.uk/thebluenile_dlc/thebluenile.htmlhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4125GVM9JFL._SS500_.jpg on May 31, 2010 10:58 PM
pol1888...

By WizardofOz on May 31, 2010 11:11 PM
Evening folks.
Re the book club...Anything by Nelson de Mille is worth a read.
Concur with csial re Brookmyre's "One fine day in the mddle of the Night"...cracking read, as is "The country of the blind".
Also Lee Child's Jack Reacher series is decent reading, as is the Michael Connolly, Harry Bosch series of books.
Aside from that, have just finished a couple of books I had always planned to get around to. Eventually did.
To Kill a Mocking Bird.....absolutely brilliant and as elative today as it was back then, even if the language is a bit dated.
Of Mice and Men...a classic that everyone, of every age should read.
Only other book I can think of to recommend is Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally....don't let the subject matter put you off, it is very readable and very moving.
Hail hail.
By chris sutton is a legendhttp://www.kerrydalestreet.com/page/Sutton,+Chris?t=anon on May 31, 2010 11:15 PM
Book club again.
My most recent fiction read was Stephen King's Under the Dome. A behemoth of a book but I flew through it. No one does small town Americana like King. He fleshes out the town and its inhabitants so well that you can't help but be drawn into their plight. Well worth a read.
By garygillespieshamstring on May 31, 2010 11:15 PM
Bookclub :
As Good as Gold : Joseph Heller
Roots : Alex Haley
Guerrilla Days In Ireland : Tom Barry (more than a few references to Bandon in here)
My Fight for Irish Freedom : Dan Breen
Ggh
By chris sutton is a legendhttp://www.kerrydalestreet.com/page/Sutton,+Chris?t=anon on May 31, 2010 11:16 PM
WizardofOz,
Agree on Lee Child and his Jack Reacher series. Always enjoyable. I think I've only missed two out of them all so far and I intend to catch up with them.
By MurdochauldandHayhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4870154.stm on May 31, 2010 11:18 PM
True stories
John Grishims first foray into non fiction
An Innocent man
Emotional and compelling
By oneantonrogan on May 31, 2010 11:18 PM
Book Club recommendations - would also recommend A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away by Brookmyre (would recommend everything up to A Tale Etched In Blood and Hard Black Pencil, except Not The End of the World which is basically rubbish. All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses an Eye has a vague Celtic-fans-in-Barcelona subplot, if I remember correctly). Just re-read One Fine Day... recently, thoroughly enjoyed it again second time around.
Am currently reading Mark Thomas' As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture, which chronicles his investigations into the international arms trade. If you aren't familiar with his work, he is ostensibly a stand-up comedian with a sideline in investigative journalism and political activism.
By cardiffbhoy on May 31, 2010 11:37 PM
Bookclub-
Peter Carey - The History of the Kelly Gang.
Anything by Christopher Brookmyre
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night time
JD Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

By I am The Hooded Tim© on May 31, 2010 11:44 PM
Book Club
If ye enjoy the boy Brookmyre, then Carl Hiaasen is a MUST read.
Ye'll be hooked fae start tae finish... guarenteed!
THT
HH
Zzzcsc
By Snake Plissken on May 31, 2010 11:45 PM
Books you should all read:
American Pasteral - Phillip Roth
Underworld - Don Delillo
A Disaffection - James Kelman
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By I am The Hooded Tim© on May 31, 2010 11:52 PM
Guaranteed, even!
Also
Not, not while the giro - James Kelman
How late it was, how late - James Kelman
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
The Organ Grinders - Bill Fitzhugh
THT
By Oglach on May 31, 2010 11:55 PM
Re book club
On Another man's wounds - Ernie O'Malley
The singing Flame - Ernie O'Malley
Enchanted By Dreams- Joe Good
The Rising - Fearghal McGarry
By hairlikespaghetti! on June 1, 2010 12:59 AM
right then maggie - stop flapping your auld gums and tell us all why Celtic should not be chasing Ledley then. Also, if signing new players wont help solve Celtics problems, what in your view is the solution?
regards
an open minded tim
ps my nod for the book club this summer - 'The Fall of Lucifer' by Wendy Alec - just about to read the follow up 'The First Judgement'
By pigalle on June 1, 2010 1:02 AM
By Bloke_109 on June 1, 2010 12:39 AM
Wow.
A gap like the gap Henrik left.. 8:)
On the book front. For anyone interested in getting into serious trouble I would recommend The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.
It's not fine writing - it's just a beautiful daft idea !
Fine writing: The Great Gatsby and no other...........discuss.
Let's hear it for The Great American Novel.
Pigalle
By стахановец on June 1, 2010 1:57 AM
Book Club:
Behind the Curtain by Johnathan Wilson (Football)
You might have come across this already if you have read a few football-related books, but great nevertheless. It covers the game from the former Soviet bloc, stretching from Poland to Azerbaijan. Some great stories from the past, and gives an insight into some of the footballing ethos that was built up over the decades in these parts of the world.
The African Dream by Che Guevara (African Politics)
This covers what was essentially a failed attempt by Cuba to help out the socialist uprising in Congo in 1965, an attempt led by Che Guevara himself. If you don't know much about it, or at least from the perspective of someone who was there, it is worth a read.
If you fancy a wildcard, you should try 'A Canticle For Leibowitz' by Walter Miller. Hard to sum up in a few short sentences, but essentially - it is based in a post-nuclear holocaust world (stay with me), where technology and books have been scorned and abandoned by what little remains of humanity, save for the Order of Leibowitz, a group of Catholic monks who treasure what little fragments of written material they can find. From here the journey of 1800 years begins, the veneration of a naive monk who held a dream to re-ignite the desire for science and tecnology in the world, and coming full-circle to a new space age, with the inevitable threat of human nature ever-ready to cast its shadow.
I don't do book synopsis' for a living, so forgive the last one!
By stevie1 on June 1, 2010 3:25 AM
book club
slam
by nick hornby
genius...
By Strayed Away on June 1, 2010 3:42 AM
Book Club: John McGahern's autobiography "All Will Be Well"
By Dontbrattbackinangerhttp://membres.lycos.fr/troll/carla/Carla001.jpg on June 1, 2010 10:07 AM

For the book club of excellent CQNer GL2;
'I Predict a Riot', by Bateman, set in Belfast it's a comedy thriller in the style of Hiaasen or Brookmyre.
The Jack Reacher books by Lee Child are also good holiday fare, the literary equivalent of opening a can of Pringles.
'Black Lands' by Belinda Bauer is an excellent thriller about a serial killer but done with a refreshingly new approach.
For something altogether more moving and thought provoking then I thoroughly recommend 'Selling Your Father's Bones' by Brian Schofield. It concerns the epic trek of the Nez Perce in an attempt to find a new life in Canada, while being pursued by the US Army. In addition it shows what the Americans have done to the land and rivers since.
It was the best book I read last year and I've not read anything better since.
At the end you are just lost in admiration for what the Nez Perce did; these were men, real men.
By thomthethimhttp://o-9o.0.olp.l0op/ on June 1, 2010 10:08 AM
steelica on June 1, 2010 8:53 AM
Last night on the CQN Book Club,I posted "Invictus" by John Carlin. It is not a big book, but it is extremely well written and maintains interest throughout.
It tells the story of South Africa's transformation to a Democratic state through the story of Nelson Mandela's vision.
It is set against the backdrop of the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the pivotal part that the event had on reconciliation between the opposite factions.
A highly recommended read for anyone with conflict resolution interests.
By strutter_bubblehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdxgNPb5xWo&playnext_from=TL&videos=Cl2QcIHaCD4 on June 1, 2010 10:46 AM
CNQ Book Club
Just finished Knockemstiff by Donlad Ray Pollock - classic American deadbeat short story fiction.
Anything by Jim Thompson but especially The Killer Inside Me - read it before the new film adaption comes out.
The best historical fiction I've read this year is C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake novels Dark Fire, Dissolution, Sovereign and Revelation - superb.
I'm just about to start The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor and I'm sure it'll be as good as everything else he's written.
By Dontbrattbackinangerhttp://membres.lycos.fr/troll/carla/Carla001.jpg on June 1, 2010 10:49 AM
Strutter- CJ Sansom also wrote' Winter in Madrid' which is set during the Spanish Civil War.
By The Battered Bunnet on June 1, 2010 10:52 AM
For the CQN book club
Patrick Redmond.
By nantes93 on June 1, 2010 10:57 AM
For the CQN book club
Anything by James Lee Burke.
By Henriks Sombrerohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowtKYP9oFg on June 1, 2010 11:01 AM
CQn Book club.
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Cary
American Rust - Philipp Meyer
Mort
I'm currently reading The Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston.Well worth a read.
Strutter- I enjoyed it; I also enjoyed the Shardlake novels.
[I don't know as much about either Spain or Catholicism as C1st- that may be the reason! I gnorance is bliss ;/)]
I read the Antony Beevor book on D-Day and Normandy and couldn't finish it, although I'd read his previous books on Stalingrad and Berlin.
The best popular history on WW2 that I've read this year is Donald Miller's book on the Eighth Air Force.
By Celticbhoy on June 1, 2010 11:21 AM
Mort on June 1, 2010 11:11 AM

I know what you mean about Beevor's style of writing, altough I enjoyed the book you are reading I didn't find myself able to finish 'Berlin - The Downfall.
By Bradford Bhoy on June 1, 2010 11:27 AM

Cqn book club

"Revolution In
The Head"
I dont have the book at hand and cant remember the author but this book is a must for all Beatles fans especially musicians,every song is catalouged and gives lots of info on the musical and recording aspects of the songs as well as a social commentary on the times,how they were inspired and the inputs of the band in each song and much more.
A must read.
By Rod Stewart on June 1, 2010 11:28 AM
allgreen, mort
Hugh Thomas is 'the authority' on La Guerra Civil -its all coming back to me now from Uni !!
One of my favourites from a fiction persepctive - Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell) tells story through eyes of a soldier - excellent read.
Good luck !
By Celticbhoy on June 1, 2010 11:40 AM
Mort
Can I suggest on a football theme these books all of which I have read and re read
He Always Puts It To The Right: A History of the Penalty Kick by Clark Miller
The People's Game: History of Football Revisited (Mainstream sport) (Paperback) by James Walvin is a fiver on Amason
Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football (Paperback)
by Phil Ball
Play Up Corinth: A History of Corinthian Football Club [Illustrated] (Paperback)
by Rob Cavallini - They beat us 4-0 in an ill-tempered match.
By Morthttp://www.southderrycsc.com/ on June 1, 2010 11:44 AM
Celticbhoy
On a football theme, Football against the Enemy by Simon Kuper is excellent (it even has a chapter about Celtic, although it does mention some other team aswell) and Dynamo bu Someone Duggan (Alex?) about Dynamo Kiev players during WW2. (This one combined 2 of my main interests, WW2 and footy).
Mort
By thomthethimhttp://o-9o.0.olp.l0op/ on June 1, 2010 11:45 AM
Book Club.
I repeat my selection of last year, as probably some of our cyber tacticians haven't read it yet. :>)
"Inverting the Pyramid", by Jonathan Wilson.(I think)
By Gold Coast Tomhttp://hokum-balderdash.blogspot.com/ on June 1, 2010 11:53 AM
Best football book I ever read was David Peace's "The Damned United".
By Moonbeams Wet Dreamhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DCWcWS5ZOgM on June 1, 2010 11:54 AM
Mort
Robert Harris - The Ghost.
By serge on June 1, 2010 11:56 AM
best football book read - my name is stan.
By Celticbhoy on June 1, 2010 11:57 AM
By Mort on June 1, 2010 11:44 AM
I follow those up thanks
Have you read Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II?
By Henriks Sombrerohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowtKYP9oFg on June 1, 2010 11:58 AM
Mort - American Rust by Philipp Meyer. About small town America once the Mills have gone and two young lads from different backgrounds who get into a spot of bother.
True history of the Kelly Gang - A fictional account (I think) of the life of Ned Kelly as written by him in some letters to his daughter.
Both excellent books and easy reading.
By Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnellyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyvshOYelU on June 1, 2010 11:59 AM
By Mort on June 1, 2010 11:50 AM
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd fits your requirements
By allgreenhttp://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/2008/04/1998-team-our-postlisbon-touch.shtml - comments on June 1, 2010 11:59 AM
A few football books I've enjoyed recently.
Behind the Curtain. Some very interesting stories about the game from behind the Iron Curtain.
Outcasts!The Lands that FIFA forgot by Steve Menary. The story of some regions and areas who FIFA don't recognise and how the game in these aras has developed. ncludes Gibralter, the Cahnnel Islands and the Vatican!
Tor, the story of German football.
By Irving Washinton on June 1, 2010 12:02 PM
Mort,
Try out a fraction of the whole by Steve Toltz, I'm half way through it myself its quick to read and can be very funny, quite similar in humour to my favourite book catch 22 by Joseph heller.
By Dontbrattbackinangerhttp://membres.lycos.fr/troll/carla/Carla001.jpg on June 1, 2010 12:04 PM

'Inverting the Pyramid' , on the history of football tactics, is very good. It features the great Celtic side of the 60s but astonishingly can find no place for Wattenaccio.
'The Ball is Round', is a good history of World football. Again it confirms the suspicion tha the dastardliness of the Darnel is not a new phenomemon, and extends beyond the arrival of the Ulster shipyard workers at the beginning of the 20th century.
Gary Imlach's book on his dad's life and career' My Father and other working class Football Heroes' is very revealing on life as a pro in the 50s. Imlach senior played for Forest when they won the FA Cup in 1958, and he also went to Sweden in 1958 with Scotland for the WC.
The David Peace book on Clough at Leeds['The Damned United' is brilliant; and there is a more cconventional biography of the great man called ' Provided You Don't Kiss Me'.
And if anyone on here hasn't read the Willie Maley biography by David Potterthen you should be ashamed of yourselves. A great book about a great man.

By Corrib 04http://www.tinyurl.com/ on June 1, 2010 12:10 PM
Mort,
I really enjoyed
'Pompeii' by Robert harris
and 'The whereabouts of Eneas McNulty' Sebastian Barry
Both are in the thriller genre but evocative and historically informative and fascinating.
By OttoKaiser on June 1, 2010 12:13 PM
Mort, a couple for you:
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Agent-Zigzag-Wartime-Chapman-Betrayer/dp/0747587949)
The Moon's A Balloon - David Niven (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moons-Balloon-David-Niven/dp/0140239243/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1275390680&sr=1-1)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways - Errol Flynn (http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Wicked-Ways-Errol-Flynn/dp/1845130499/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c)
The Flynn book in particular is one of the best books I've ever read. Talk about a life well lived!
By jockybhoy on June 1, 2010 12:51 PM
I hope we don't sign Ledley King - the fact that his body can't stand up to the rigours of the game in the EPL doesn't bode well for the "industrial" nature of many SPL teams.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an awesome book - by Dee Brown btw. And it was made into an award-winning HBO mini-series (or movie?) so it ticks the box of the posters colleague's boyfriend. Two thumbs up (to wipe away the tears...)
By serge on June 1, 2010 12:51 PM
bazzabhoy
have you read Celtics Lost Legend - The George Connelly Story & Dan Doyle - The Life & Death Of A Wild Rover. I think you'd enjoy them if you havent already read them. 2 great books.
By strutter_bubble on June 1, 2010 1:42 PM
From last thread regarding books
My post should have read Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock - curse of the sausage fingers strikes again.
Celtic_First & Mort - thanks for that - I will certainly bear that in mind. I'll maybe look elsewhere for a start on the SCW. The immpression I get of the SCW is it's still very much an emotive subject so I will need to be careful in selecting books on the subject.
allgreen - have added the Paul Preston book to my reading list, cheers.
DDBIA - have added the Donald L. Miller book to my reading list as well, cheers.
Rod Stewart - ditto the Hugh Thomas book, cheers.
Mort - how about Para Handy Tales by Neil Munro for some light reading.
By strutter_bubble on June 1, 2010 2:53 PM
Cadizzy - Raymond Carr added to the ever growing reading list, cheers.
Mort - another book worth checking out is True Tales Of American Life edited by Paul Auster - it's quite a read.
PJBhoynyc on June 1, 2010 11:44 PM
Book Club
Interested in Woody Allen?
Read anything by S.J. Perelman.
He is the 'original' Woody Allen....
Who entertained and more than influenced the young Konigsberg
not that Woody would admit to it.......
bankiebhoy1 on June 2, 2010 12:03 AM
PJ
Re Mr Konigsberg - noted.
Have you tried his " Mere Anarchy" tho'?
(Just don't read it on the subway.)
HH
SwanseaBhoy on June 2, 2010 12:49 PM
BOOK CLUB
Anyone read Alan Kellys' The Tar Factory or Help Me Rhonda by the same Coatbridge author?
Just ordered both from Amazon.
Tarmac_the_carpark on June 2, 2010 1:04 PM
Books to read
Famine- liam o'flaherty
Down a road all rebels run- mogue doyle
By bazninja on June 2, 2010 9:17 PM
Is the Charlie Tully book any good?
By serge on June 1, 2010 12:51 PM
bazzabhoy
have you read Celtics Lost Legend - The George Connelly Story & Dan Doyle - The Life & Death Of A Wild Rover. I think you'd enjoy them if you havent already read them. 2 great books.
By strutter_bubble on June 1, 2010 2:53 PM
Cadizzy - Raymond Carr added to the ever growing reading list, cheers.
Mort - another book worth checking out is True Tales Of American Life edited by Paul Auster - it's quite a read.
By the mighty atom on June 2, 2010 10:09 PM
Anyone fancy reading a controversial Stephen Fry Tome called -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tish-Pish-Speakingness-Collection-Gorgiosities/dp/1840244666

By nantes93 on June 2, 2010 10:56 PM
setting free the bears. Also read The Road,actually read it one sitting,didnt think it transferred well to the big screen very bleak.Try No Country For Old Men.I would also recommend Rain Gods and The Tin Roof Blowdown by James lee Burke.
By setting free the bears on June 2, 2010 11:10 PM
gl2
Some poster, sorry can't remember, recommended the John McGahern autobiography to your list, and I might just look that out for the holidays.
By setting free the bears on June 2, 2010 11:14 PM
nantes 93
I read the James Lee Burke books but I preferred his historical novels. I'd recommend "White Doves at Morning" set in the American Civil War.