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The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry » Topic: What book have you just read? http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 02:05:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php StephenJames on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/13#post-289163 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:20:39 +0000 StephenJames 289163@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I have just finished 'Them - Adventures with Extremists' by Jon Ronson. It was utterly fascinating. Quite heavy going with all the bigots and extremists and conspiracy nutbags, but fascinating, just the same. I'm now indulging a guilty pleasure and re-reading The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. keith69 on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/13#post-289039 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:26:46 +0000 keith69 289039@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I just read 'the secret of crickely hall' by james herbert. cant make up my mind to read either no comebacks by freddy(forsyth) or brazil by that rather interprid explorer michael palin. I love rading very good intellcutal activity, read the importance of being earnest and it was so funny. AlieSmith on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/13#post-288749 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:49:39 +0000 AlieSmith 288749@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ My last one was John Templeton's "Discovering Laws of Life". Diplomat on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/13#post-288029 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:28:31 +0000 Diplomat 288029@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Keith Richards - Life, great read. John on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/13#post-287861 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:36:50 +0000 John 287861@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Forgive me if this sounds too ass-kissy, but I just finished "The Fry Chronicles." However, it's what led me to seek out this website and join the forum. Now I'm on to "Moab," which I should have read first but it arrived four days after Chronicles. At any rate, I'm happy to be amongst fellow Fry lovers. MaryG on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/13#post-287427 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:04:08 +0000 MaryG 287427@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ My last book would be "Zahir" by Paolo Coelho. Actually I haven't finished it yet. Loke it very much as this book gave me a lot of things to think about. TheKeyAuthor on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-284285 Tue, 15 May 2012 12:42:06 +0000 TheKeyAuthor 284285@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ My own of course, "The Key?", which was influenced by Lady Meyer's book "They Are My Children Too". "Madeleine" and Sir Meyer's book "DC Confidential" both had a role to play. nejsen on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-284117 Wed, 09 May 2012 20:11:24 +0000 nejsen 284117@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I am nearing the end of a wonderful book. It's by an norwedian author called Tom Egeland, the book itself is called Lucifers Evangelium or "The gospel of Lucifer". It's about an archeologist who makes a remarkabel discovery, in the hands of a dead munk, from the 13-hundreds, he finds the gospel of Lucifer. He is then thrown out on a wild race, because a mad group of ideologists called drÂculsÂngers, is killing everyone he knows, and now they're after him. A wonderful book for anyone who likes a thrill <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> Nitro on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-283493 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:35:26 +0000 Nitro 283493@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ "Eleanor of Aquitane" - Alison Weir Some of this book was OK, but as a historical writer I don't think she did a very good job. I expected to read about Eleanor in detail and instead read too much about the various other 'players' in her life. Just barely drawn into Eleanors head at all; only superficially. Not only that, the author repeatedly throughout the book makes judgement calls on Eleanor that, imho, an really great historical never does because it's necessary. The reader should decide what they think of someone based on the biography. Overall, a pretty disappointing book. Desideria on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-283147 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:56:24 +0000 Desideria 283147@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I have just finished "The Ode less travelled", and now I'm reading several books at the same time. The first is "Phantom" by John Nesbo which was given to me as a Christmas present. I understand that there have been 8 previous books of the series about a rather unfortunately named guy called Harry Hole. I have not yet made up my mind about the book. Second one is Mr. Fry's history of music which I'm very much enjoying. I was able to track down a piece of classical music which I had never been able to find the name of. Thanks to this book and a tiny remark in a short sentence I knew immediately that this was exactly what I was looking for. <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" /> Made me insanely happy. No. 3 is "Moab .." which I have read many, many years ago in a translated version. I'm now treating myself with the original as an audio book read by Stephen Fry himself (obviously). Pure bliss. Frazzy on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-283137 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:54:03 +0000 Frazzy 283137@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Just finished "1Q84" - Haruki Murakami, not quite as holy-shit-awesome-must-read-this-again-RIGHTNOW as some of his other stuff, but still very good. Now staring at a pile of books trying to decide what to read next, so many, I suspect they are breeding. Stefi on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-283095 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:42:09 +0000 Stefi 283095@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ The Novice (The second book of the Magican's guild triology). Trudi Canavan writes so beautifully subtle, and so LOGICAL. The Characters don't have those magical deduction powers that either make a misunderstanding impossible or vital for the plot. I just love that. And I love fantasy books. Popeye on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-283091 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:20:33 +0000 Popeye 283091@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Just finished reading 'Rescuing The Spectacled Besr - A Peruvian Diary' by a certain Mr. Stephen Fry and have to say it did leave my slightly intrigued, but for the wrong reason. I can't stop thinking about the diary entry, about his recurring diarrhoea, where he says and I quote: "Oh God. It's back. The exploding stomach..... Shall I tell you about the lack of control and the bed linen? I shall spare you that....." etc. I mean it just makes me think of images from that scene in 'Trainspotting' - Does it remind anyone else of that? (Sorry Stephen, I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near that bad.) <img src="http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_redface.gif" title=":oops:" class="bb_smilies" /> AC on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-281311 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:35:42 +0000 AC 281311@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Just finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Dense but interesting. I'm also now reading Julian by Gore Vidal, which is quite good. Frazzy on "What book have you just read?" http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/what-book-have-you-just-read/page/12#post-281271 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:43:35 +0000 Frazzy 281271@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I'm in the middle of "Blindness" - José Saramago. Can barely put it down.