'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

Dinah93

Just finished 'Not buying it' last night, I'm so glad its over! Far too heavy for bedtime reading. So it's gone on RISI, which doesn't really help me since it'll just add a new unread book to the pile!

Suz1988

Wow been reading this thread over the past couple of days and its great :T I love books and settling down with a good read, i just dont do it often enough. You have all inspired me to go to my local libary as i haven't been there for ages but it makes sense to kill 2 birds with 1 stone... go to look for books and save money. So i would like to join in please I am currently reading Home truths by Freya North. I think i only have about 20 undread books but i will have a count up and let you all know.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a true story book but not an autobiography? that would be great as i really fancy reading something a little different as i normally just read chick lit and i love love love the twilight books

lilian1977

Suz1988 wrote: »

Does anyone have any recommendations for a true story book but not an autobiography? that would be great as i really fancy reading something a little different as i normally just read chick lit and i love love love the twilight books

If you want something light I'd recommend Mike Gayle - The To Do List. It's non-fiction as he genuinely did try to complete his to do list, but reads like a fiction book because that's what he usually writes.

I also love books like McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy or Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawks.

Or if you like the swooning romantic nature of Edward Cullen, how about Desperate Romantics - The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites by Franny Moyles? Kind of a biography but their lives were so insane that it will read like a novel!

Tete_en_l'Air

I loved Round Ireland with a Fridge so funny - particularly when he took the fridge surfing!

InaPickle

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

I loved Round Ireland with a Fridge so funny - particularly when he took the fridge surfing!

I loved that as well! And I bought 'A Piano in the Pyrenees' as he bought a house not far from where I lived on my year abroad in France. It was quite good fun, but I think the fridge's adventures were even better!

Tete_en_l'Air

I've never fancied that one Pickle for some reason, although I've lived in France too so would probably identify with a lot of it (as with the Fridge one I have a lot of Irish friends so maybe appreciated it more than most?)

lilian1977

You should definitely read the McCarthy's Bar books if you liked that, they're even better!

poddle911

lilian1977 wrote: »

If you want something light I'd recommend Mike Gayle - The To Do List. It's non-fiction as he genuinely did try to complete his to do list, but reads like a fiction book because that's what he usually writes.

I also love books like McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy or Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawks.

I haven't read The To Do List, but I quite like Mike Gayle's fiction - so true! (I think I'll put this on my list )

The other two books are very enjoyable. Have you read anything by Dave Gorman or Danny Wallace? The Googlewhack Adventure and Yes Man were both proper laugh out loud books for me and I didn't think I was a fan of 'stupid boy projects ' like this. (But according to this post, I may be wrong...)

I've just finished Invisible by Paul Auster which was great, although I'm still trying to digest it BUT about 20 pages from the end the pages were misprinted and sort of stuck together - NOT PRISTINE AT ALL :eek: It looks like it may be from where two rolls of paper joined at the printers and two one-sided pages are badly glued together, boo!

Luckily, all the words were there and now I'm torn between complaining to the publisher and just accepting its uniqueness and adopting it into my ever-growing brood :rotfl:

setmefree2

Originally Posted by belfastgirl23
Talking of which is anyone a Stephen King fan - I hesitate to ask because I do think there's a bit of a snobbery around him but he is also one of my total comfort reads...

Hi belfastgirl

I've never read any Stephen King books but I love the film The GREEN MILE (with Tom Hanks) and that is based on a Stephen King book. Fantastic.

lilian1977

poddle911 wrote: »

I haven't read The To Do List, but I quite like Mike Gayle's fiction - so true! (I think I'll put this on my list )

The other two books are very enjoyable. Have you read anything by Dave Gorman or Danny Wallace? The Googlewhack Adventure and Yes Man were both proper laugh out loud books for me and I didn't think I was a fan of 'stupid boy projects ' like this. (But according to this post, I may be wrong...)

Haven't read either of those but I did get Random Acts of Kindness by Danny Wallace which I love - I love Danny's column in Shortlist as well.