Hat Book Club What You Reading?

[dervish]

Attention is at a premium just now. So what has everyone been reading aside from pandemic data?

[Parklife]

I've just started re-reading Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh. 

Not been reading as much as I used to. Need to get back to doing it daily. 

[Bluto10]

read a book a week

[Parklife]

26 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

Fucked up book.

Aye. A good escape from reality at the moment though. 

[Fridge]

Lord of the rings. Not actually reading it obviously. Watching the film.

[Bluto10]

:Laughing:

[Parklife]

7 minutes ago, Fridge said:

Lord of the rings. Not actually reading it obviously. Watching the film.

Reading champion. 

[Poodler]

A former lover got in touch recently. Speaking away, she advised me to get this book of poems by a late pal of hers, Sean Bonney.

it arrived the other day. Poems mean fuck all go me, it's shit

if anyone wants it it's heading to a recycling bin in Rosemount 

[Misers Hill]

15 minutes ago, Poodler said:

A former lover got in touch recently. Speaking away, she advised me to get this book of poems by a late pal of hers, Sean Bonney.

it arrived the other day. Poems mean fuck all go me, it's shit

if anyone wants it it's heading to a recycling bin in Rosemount 

Obviously failed.....you failed pleasuring her miserably imho??

Shes sending a message from the dead..?

Sean boned her better than you??

???

 

[Henry]

A book exchange club through the post would be good ?

Except we’d need to give out addresses ?

[Parklife]

4 minutes ago, Henry said:

A book exchange club through the post would be good ?

Except we’d need to give out addresses ?

@Captain Caveman

[frankie_mac's_4]

3 hours ago, Parklife said:

I've just started re-reading Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh. 

Not been reading as much as I used to. Need to get back to doing it daily. 

I mind reading it years ago but don't think I finished it - disjointed pile of shite I seem to remember. But I don't rate Irvine Welsh on the whole - over-hyped, trying too hard to be gritty 

[Parklife]

1 minute ago, frankie_mac's_4 said:

I mind reading it years ago but don't think I finished it - disjointed pile of shite I seem to remember. But I don't rate Irvine Welsh on the whole - over-hyped, trying too hard to be gritty 

Each to their own. I like his writing. Probably go back to The Acid House after this. Also just bought Allan Bisset's new(ish) book. Loved his "Boy Racers" when I was young and he's always been a good guy when I've bumped in to him in the pub. 

Looking forward to that one. 

[Simply Red]

7 minutes ago, frankie_mac's_4 said:

I mind reading it years ago but don't think I finished it - disjointed pile of shite I seem to remember. But I don't rate Irvine Welsh on the whole - over-hyped, trying too hard to be gritty 

I mind reading it years ago and thinking it was one of his best. Laughing out loud reading it. 

[Bluto10]

had the first print of traindpotting book

smart cover with silver shiny skeletons 

really enjoyed reading it (in a week)- less so his 2nd book 

[Don Fonte]

33 minutes ago, Henry said:

A book exchange club through the post would be good ?

Except we’d need to give out addresses ?

Just send it to the CC car park. Get a book shelf there to keep them on.

[Simply Red]

6 minutes ago, Bluto10 said:

had the first print of traindpotting book

smart cover with silver shiny skeletons 

really enjoyed reading it (in a week)- less so his 2nd book 

Me too. Xmas present from my ma when it came oot (wtf is this i remember thinking, few years before the film)great book (obvs)

[Fridge]

50 minutes ago, Don Fonte said:

Just send it to the CC car park. Get a book shelf there to keep them on.

Would be carnage. Last page ripped out and a massive cock drawn whenever there was a cliffhanger in a chapter. I’m in.

[dervish]

5 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said:

I'd be all for a book club. 

Attention is cunt for now.

 

Forgotten lessons are still true. Read rather than watch. Weird times.

[BrianFaePerth]

10 hours ago, Parklife said:

I've just started re-reading Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh. 

Not been reading as much as I used to. Need to get back to doing it daily. 

Read that years ago, liked it at the time. Thing with Welsh’s books are they either grab you straight away or as RS says, you labour through them.

Porno has to be my favourite. 

[alscotoz]

Have most of Welsh's books. Can't go past trainspotting. So 'fresh' when it came out. Like reservoir dogs in the movie world.

 

[The Boofon]

11 hours ago, Henry said:

A book exchange club through the post would be good ?

Except we’d need to give out addresses ?

Been done already. Sent a few away a while back to an angry man from up North who no longer posts. Also swopped out several with few other folk on here.

[BrianFaePerth]

4 hours ago, The Boofon said:

Been done already. Sent a few away a while back to an angry man from up North who no longer posts. Also swopped out several with few other folk on here.

Freemasonry for beginners

Conquer your fear of flying you wimp

[styrofoamplates]

16 hours ago, Parklife said:

Each to their own. I like his writing. Probably go back to The Acid House after this. Also just bought Allan Bisset's new(ish) book. Loved his "Boy Racers" when I was young and he's always been a good guy when I've bumped in to him in the pub. 

Looking forward to that one. 

I loved 'Boy Racers' when I read it about 20 years ago. Need to download that again and give it a re-read. 

Currently reading the new Stewart MacBride. Can't beat a good Scottish author. Been devouring Doug Johnstone's back catalogue recently which can be hit and miss. Big fan of Irvine Welsh and John Niven knocks out some good books. 

[The Boofon]

4 minutes ago, styrofoamplates said:

I loved 'Boy Racers' when I read it about 20 years ago. Need to download that again and give it a re-read. 

Currently reading the new Stewart MacBride. Can't beat a good Scottish author. Been devouring Doug Johnstone's back catalogue recently which can be hit and miss. Big fan of Irvine Welsh and John Niven knocks out some good books. 

He's an awful author.

[styrofoamplates]

I like him. Opinions. Arseholes. Etc. 

[The Boofon]

9 minutes ago, styrofoamplates said:

I like him. Opinions. Arseholes. Etc. 

Yeah of course. He's a prick in real life too. He did a book reading at the wife's school which I was unfortunate enough to attend.

 

A sanctimonious arsehole would be an able description of him.

[The Boofon]

What he was good for was stringing Tup along for a while as I said I was in contact with him and could put forward the children's books that Tup has written forward for publishing.

 

Halcyon days on the hat.

[Zeus]

John Burridge's autobiography 

99p on the kindle. 

It's arite. 

Haven't read a fictional book since school tbh 

[styrofoamplates]

3 minutes ago, The Boofon said:

Yeah of course. He's a prick in real life too. He did a book reading at the wife's school which I was unfortunate enough to attend.

 

A sanctimonious arsehole would be an able description of him.

Is he really? 

Must say, he strikes me as that type. Reminds me a bit of the old poster from here 'A Don in Oz' they look very similar. Probably has a sex dungeon too. 

As you say, he's never going to win the Booker Prize, but I think I like his books because they are set in Aberdeen and it's a nice easy read.