Recent Books / DVD's youve read/seen and recommend.

The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell

English Archers kick arse

read jarhead, not a bad book

BOOK:

Stasiland by Anna Funder-

real life stories from the berlin wall

DVD

Bullet Boy

Brid- Sideways is an excellent film, you will deffo enjoy it

I've just bought "The Traveller", by a mysterious author named John Twelve Hawks, which is supposed to be a very good thriller (haven't started it yet). The author of the book has kept his name a secret as it's part of the mystery surrounding the book itself - apparently the publishing company don't even know his real name and profits from sales are paid into a mystery company account???

DVD - Tarnation, well recommended..

Haven't read anything for a while, being back at uni kinda kills the need..

Book- Alex Garland, The Coma

Same who wrote the beach and the tesseract

The story about a guy in a coma, his thoughts, dreams etc

Totally sureal, but really good! Its very short but l loved it!

It's honestly been about a year since I last read a book that I thought was good.

They all seem to be either interminably dreary or written by some american who fancies a hollywood cheque, and basically publishes a film script.

I'll check some of these out though

Book reads at the moment



Chomsky - Imperial Ambition (which is awesome)
Bill Bryson - A Brief Guide To Everything
Jason Burke - Al Qaida (not really putting much effort into this one)
Stephen Hawkins - Brief History Of Time

going to reread 1984 again this week



havent watched any amazing films recently but i did watch Harald & Kumar Get The Munchies last night which was absolutely shite

I read (well, tried to understand) Universe in a Nutshell by Hawking when I was doing A level physics...

It's an awesome book, properly thought provoking and challenging. Really enjoyed it. Keep meaning to read a brief history of time.

its nowhere near as complicated as i thought it would be


was proper blowing my mind at one point

Then you opened it? :laugh:

picked up 'The Tent' by Margaret Atwood on saturday and nearly finished it by sunday. It is a collection of short stories all brilliantly penned, perfect travel reading.

and if like me if you missed Crash at the cinema, i implore you to watch the DVD, a simply stunning script tackling modern day racism.

Struggling to think of any worthwhile books to recommend, but then haven't read many that arn't related to my degree!! However, i know they're nothing new or particularly intellectual but....

....anything by Robert Harris (especially Fatherland) is well worth it for an easy, gripping read. Plus any books written by John Simpson (the BBC journalist) give a very interesting insight into life as a journalist in a war-zone and why we are fucking lucky to have the BBC as an (arguably) impartial news medium. Very few other country's have such a luxury with such a widespread network of reporters.

DVD wise cannot recommend Hotel Rwanda enough - managed to retain a great story whilst dealing with an issue (the Rwanda Genocide) that was shockingly under reported in the West.

American History X is a stimulating look at the race issue in the US, if rather 'Hollywood' in its style.

Finally, on a lighter note I recently re-watched Live Forever: The story of Britpop. and it was fucking hilarious. Even if you're not that keen on Oasis, Blur, Massive Attack, Pulp etc it's fantastic comedy. Liam and Noel in particular are superb and it's great to look back on the positivity of the mid-1990's.

I've always preferred non-fiction books myself. I'm reading a book about the roman empire at the moment too, from the library


proper fascinated by the romans & greeks :chill:

Bit of a vikings man myself

Got a nutter of a lecturer who i'm certain is one of those loons that join a society so they can dress up as vikings and recreate battles!!

Top fella though

I can't seem to get any further than a few chapters of a noddy book (for the little one) at the moment. I got loads of books for Christmas and have only read a couple which were not worth writing home about.


However i have just bought a lighter read .... The comic book 'V for Vendetta' by Alan Moore. The film is out soon too !!!!
Although i can't comment myself yet, they both come highly recommended ......

If people havent read it yet, which im sure you will have, then get 'Life Of Pi'


amazing if you can handle the first 98 pages of god-squaddingness

If anyone has seen the film "Rain Man" there's a good documentary on tonight about Kim Peek, the guy they based the film on. He's an autistic savant with an incredible ability to memorise anything and everything. Could be worth watching, or last least recording to watch at a later date...