Today's book

[Anorak]

Anyone read the Ascent of Rum Doodle? Very funny.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ascent-Rum-D...5231930&sr=1-1

I think I'm developing Forum lassitude!!

Brilliant book.
If you ever get the chance, dine out at 'Rum Doodle' restaurant in Kathmandu, Nepal. A real trekkers hang-out for obvious reasons.
They sell cheap copies of the book there !!

[George]

Last month read The Welsh Girl - Peter Davies (slow to start but good), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday (good, but not funny as some of the quotes said), Being Emily - Anne Donovan (good), The Road - Cormac McCarthy (wierd). Currently half way through The Road Home - Rose Tremain (which I'm enjoying).

[OneHillWonder]

Cor, has no one read a book since Feb 22nd?

I don't know what to read next

Well I am doing a lot of reading up on error control coding for my course at the moment but I need a good novel to read a few pages of afterwards so I don't keep dreaming about Hamming codes and stuff just not sure what, I've read everything I own.

[hopey]

I'm currently reading Lifetime of Mountains: The Best of A. Harry Griffin's Country Diary

http://www.guardianbooks.co.uk/webap...category_42108

[Boy Wonder]

Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way�doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn't die in the fall.

Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husband's crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Mick's help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself. As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz's cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of island solitude haven't killed the reckless romantic in him, we're taken on a hilarious, full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride through the warped politics and mayhem of the human environment, and the human heart.

Just finished it - very good - but don;t tell the rest of the book group, they wouldn't approve!!

[southernsoftie]

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Read an excerpt from that in one of those Waterstones preview magazines they do from time to time. Couple of years back now. I always thought it sounded good, and did mean to get it. Might try again on the back of your recommendation.

[Derby Tup]

I'm currently reading Lifetime of Mountains: The Best of A. Harry Griffin's Country Diary

http://www.guardianbooks.co.uk/webap...category_42108

Been meaning to read this for ages. I used to cut out his Guardian Diary pieces and then put them in the relevant Wainwright book. Trainspotter or what

[Epocian]

Onehillwonder said

I don't know what to read next

Have you tried any Harlan Coben books?

Great suspense novels
At present I'm reading 'The Luftwaffe Papers' by Edward Thorpe and enjoying it immensely

[OneHillWonder]

No might give them a go

[Wheeze]

Just finished River Town by Peter Hessler. Interesting insight into Chinese society.