# The Book Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [March 10, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169 "2019-03-10T15:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/mike/32/15747_2.png) [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/329 "2022-01-28T22:50:05Z")
I’ve recently got back into the ‘the answer is never’ after a few years, will follow up with The Most Fun Thing once I’m done. Recently read ‘the reason I jump’ written by a non-verbal Autistic boy in Japan a number of years back and am following that up with his second book ‘Fall down 7 times get up 8’ which is a title we should all be familiar with. Really illuminating and a great help in trying to understand my son - from an autistic persons perspective and not a clinical perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/330 "2022-03-03T00:18:02Z")
I got On Chesil Beach from the library the other day. I just finished it and want my money back. A bit too _exquisite_ for me. Think I’ll try Bravo Two Zero next time. ---
**Author:** ![Whatsupbacklip](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/whatsupbacklip/32/377_2.png) [@Whatsupbacklip](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Whatsupbacklip)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/331 "2022-03-03T09:10:47Z")
I really liked it and the previous McEwan book ‘Saturday’. Obviously it’s no Bravo Two Zero, which I hear actually improves with every read. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/332 "2022-03-03T09:22:06Z")
An entire (admittedly tiny) book describing one sex scene was just a _bit_ much. I know it’s all clever dever subtext subtext blah blah but it was a bit of a slog. I really should get into literary criticism. In other news I thought our nursery wasn’t doing the world book day. How wrong I was. ---
**Author:** ![anon16628759](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@anon16628759](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon16628759)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/333 "2022-03-03T10:30:13Z")
Saturday is good. Without giving too much away it’s about a surgeon and his family taken hostage by a criminal ---
**Author:** ![jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/jamjar/32/25349_2.png) [@jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jamjar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/334 "2022-03-03T11:23:43Z")
I quite liked the Cement Garden, but I can’t be arsed with Ian McEwan any more. Too plot-driven and not literary enough for my snobbish tastes. ---
**Author:** ![jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/jimo/32/19796_2.png) [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/335 "2022-03-03T11:47:13Z")
I’m reading Gravity’s Rainbow I’d quite like something plot driven next haha. ---
**Author:** ![judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/judithpriest/32/37_2.png) [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/336 "2022-03-03T12:38:57Z")
Halfway through the brothers karasamov. Really struggling when it gets super religious but promised myself I’d persevere. My resolution was to read 50 books this year. 900 pages is really fucking with this. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/337 "2022-03-03T12:40:29Z")
> [@judithpriest](#): > > My resolution was to read 50 books this year Just read 50 Agatha Christies. Bangers. ---
**Author:** ![judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/judithpriest/32/37_2.png) [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/338 "2022-03-03T12:43:31Z")
I did see a vintage copy of Hickory, dickory dock in BHF this morning, any good? ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/339 "2022-03-03T12:58:20Z")
Not the best Poirot but will be infinitely more enjoyable to read than impenetrable 150 year old Russian literature. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/340 "2022-03-03T13:07:00Z")
This is the best Poirot. ![download (4)](https://uksf-media.lon1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/3X/2/c/2ceaeb59440e2c0bbcea083b5845d9ca27203ae7.jpeg) Just get it and read it. No spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/judithpriest/32/37_2.png) [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/341 "2022-03-03T13:27:59Z")
Fuck it, ordered. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/les_zeppelin/32/26016_2.png) [@Les\_Zeppelin](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Les_Zeppelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/342 "2022-03-03T13:37:35Z")
Life’s too short to endure shit. I think you’ll enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Snurp](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@Snurp](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Snurp)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/343 "2022-03-03T13:41:19Z")
The only Russian author I can get down with is Bulgakov. Master and Margarita and Tales of a Country Doctor both bangers and quite easy reads. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy I find completely unreadable. Don’t why anyone bothers, it’s such a chore. Except maybe Crime and Punishment. ---
**Author:** ![judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/judithpriest/32/37_2.png) [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/344 "2022-03-03T13:46:32Z")
I just decided to ‘tick him off the list’ just to say I’d done it. But yeah, not hating it but I’m not exactly absorbed. ---
**Author:** ![jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/jimo/32/19796_2.png) [@jimo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/345 "2022-03-03T13:46:59Z")
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is great. I love ‘A day in the life…’ and ‘Cancer Ward’ was good too. Read it while in hospital. Proper vibes. Also ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin is good. ---
**Author:** ![jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/user_avatar/ukskateforum.co.uk/jamjar/32/25349_2.png) [@jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jamjar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/346 "2022-03-03T14:12:21Z")
My daughter (16) is obsessed with Dostoyevsky. She loved Crime and Punishment and the Idiot. I should really give him a go. I’ve read Gogol - really liked the Overcoat and the Nose. 19th century French literature is my big comfort read. I can’t recommend the Count of Monte Cristo enough. Ridiculously entertaining. I also love Flaubert and Stendhal. ---
**Author:** ![BDF](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@BDF](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BDF)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/347 "2022-03-03T15:41:02Z")
I cant stand Tolkein for the same reason people hate Dostoyevsky, I just find it really boring drawn out shite. Ive been on a massive Vonnegut binge recently but have dipped in and out of it to read post WW2 nazi hunting stories or SAS histories. Wish I had time to read more but not sure thats going to change anytime soon ---
**Author:** ![anon16628759](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@anon16628759](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anon16628759)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169/348 "2022-03-03T16:32:03Z")
The films are even more drawn out. The Hobbit is a great little book with a clear plot. The film shoves in loads of other stuff and turns it into a 3-movie epic that looks like a video-game. [Previous page](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169.md?page=14) [Next page](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/the-book-thread/169.md?page=16)