Big Footy Book Club

[Cruyff14]

Pretty avid reader myself, have amassed a decent collection over the past few years.

Was a massive reader as a kid and then when it became a chore in high school I went right off it until about four years ago. Makes the time pass on the train so quickly.

Really big on true crime and autobiographies.

Favourites include

Ann Rule - A Stranger Beside Me
Philip Carlo - Ice Man: Confessions of a Killer
Bryan Cranston - A Life In Parts
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Dennis Bergkamp - Stillness & Speed
Marcia Clarke - Without A Doubt
Billy Joel - My life
Gary Neville - Red

What are you reading right now? What are some of your favourites?

I'm about 60% through Me by Elton John. Loving it and a great read so far. It's one of those books I'll read again eventually. Can highly recommend.

 

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Favourites include, though aren't limited to:

J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics
Mesut Oezil - Gunning for Greatness
Aaron James - Surfing with Sartre
Kathryn Bonella - Hotel Kerobokan
John Grisham - anything by

Forgive me, but right now I'm just too busy to read much. Open to suggestions here, have a growing list that I'll be chewing through over the Christmas period.

 

[Cruyff14]

Favourites include, though aren't limited to:

J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics
Mesut Oezil - Gunning for Greatness
Aaron James - Surfing with Sartre
Kathryn Bonella - Hotel Kerobokan
John Grisham - anything by

Forgive me, but right now I'm just too busy to read much. Open to suggestions here, have a growing list that I'll be chewing through over the Christmas period.

A Stranger Beside Me is probably the best book I've read, objectively speaking. Can't recommend it enough. It's haunting, confronting, surreal and horrifying all at once.

 

[Billy ray]

Favourites include, though aren't limited to:

J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics
Mesut Oezil - Gunning for Greatness
Aaron James - Surfing with Sartre
Kathryn Bonella - Hotel Kerobokan
John Grisham - anything by

Forgive me, but right now I'm just too busy to read much. Open to suggestions here, have a growing list that I'll be chewing through over the Christmas period.

Like for the freakonomics

 

[Gigantic]

Temple by Matthew Reilly
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

 

[Shell]

A Stranger Beside Me is probably the best book I've read, objectively speaking. Can't recommend it enough. It's haunting, confronting, surreal and horrifying all at once.

Cant wait to read this


Good thread cruff

 

[Cruyff14]

Cant wait to read this


Good thread cruff

It will probably be quite terrifying from a woman's perspective given it goes into a lot of detail what Bundy did to the women. It's pretty graphic.

 

[Shell]

It will probably be quite terrifying from a woman's perspective given it goes into a lot of detail what Bundy did to the women. It's pretty graphic.

Nah the more graphic the better from my POV.

 

[Shell]

And i know already anyway what he did. In detail

 

[Billy ray]

I’m not a huge reader but love all of Chuck Palahniuk’s stuff. Mind *ery

 

[Gameova_]

Rarely read at the minute as I do enough reading with other things. One book I read not.long ago was revival by Stephen King. Was great and crazy. I want to read it again soon

 

[Shell]

Rarely read at the minute as I do enough reading with other things. One book I read not.long ago was revival by Stephen King. Was great and crazy. I want to read it again soon

Plot?

I havent read a Stephen king in years

 

[Shell]

Also if this really is book club where are the nibbles and wine damn it

 

[Gigantic]

Reckon i've bought more than 50 books this year

 

[Gameova_]

Plot?

I havent read a Stephen king in years

Browse through a bit of this.

Revival by Stephen King review – Stephen King returns to the horror genre

Don’t be lulled by the vivid descriptions of ordinary life: this tale of a Methodist minister’s descent into darkness will catch you out, writes Alison Flood

www.google.com

 

[Off The Couch]

Currently reading “Redemption” by David Baldacci.

I’m a big fan of his, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, Lee Child

True Crime -
Ginger Strand “Killer on the Road”,
Tim Tyson - “The Blood of Emmett Till”

Indigenous authors
Claire Coleman
Bruce Pascoe
Anita Heiss

 

[Roobs321]

I tend to average a book a month through the years. Occasionally have a few months when it is almost impossible, but other months I'll read a couple.

Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner) is my favourite novel.

As a kid my favourite book series was Redwall (Brian Jacques) and as an adult it has been Aubrey-Maturin (Patrick O'Brian).

 

[Cruyff14]

I've got Agassi's and Sampras's autobiographies coming for Christmas. Along with a book about BTK and The Green River Killer.

Got my dad Billy Connolly's latest book and he's really enjoying it.

 

[Shell]

BTK was one sick fk.


I gotta read Charles Manson book tho first, then the Ted Bundy one.

 

[atlas1]

BigFooty Book Club

Discuss your favourite (and least favourite) reads.

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Shell]

At a mate's place yesterday waiting to go to a wedding. Instead of putting on the TV, raided her bookshelf instead.



Currently engrossed in "The rape of Nanking- the forgotten Holocaust of World War II".

And i shall continue to treat her bookshelf as my own personal library as long as she lets me, she has alot of great books

 

[Gough]

At a mate's place yesterday waiting to go to a wedding. Instead of putting on the TV, raided her bookshelf instead.



Currently engrossed in "The rape of Nanking- the forgotten Holocaust of World War II".

And i shall continue to treat her bookshelf as my own personal library as long as she lets me, she has alot of great books

Iris Chang was another who checked out early of her own accord.

 

[raskolnikov]

Most of my reading atm revolves around research for my PhD for which I'm currently reading this:



I love nineteenth century literature. Dickens, Dostoyevsky, the Brontes mostly.

 

[GreyCrow]

Like for the freakonomics

Freakonomics - The hidden side of everything

The hidden side of everything

freakonomics.com

podcast

My reading is a lot less lately. Michael Robotham has engaged me lately. Say You're Sorry - is intense

 

[chargers 09]

Reading Death of Yugoslavia at the moment.