I tend not to read about cars, unless it’s on a need to know basis, so I own
very few car books, other than various Haynes manuals built up over the years.
Bedside books for me recently have been…
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Doughnut Economics
Music, Clothes, Boys ( autobiography of Viv Albertine, guitarist with band…, The Slits )
My bedtime reading falls into three categories, car mags, boating mags as we have a river cruiser and music being a guitar player.
I’m currently working my way through the entire series of the Ian Fleming James Bond books, in chronological order of the original publications - not the subsequent film releases.
I was brought up on the films of course, and still love them to this day. It’s very interesting to discover how the films differ from the books. The books, quite naturally, some having been written over sixty years ago, are of a different age, and the language is totally different than if they had been written today, but I have no problem with that, and it’s rather refreshing to read something that is obviously not 21st century PC.
Recommended reading in my view, but then I am a dinosaur !
They’re on my shelf! Read them first in the early sixties! Only saw one film - “Dr. No” - was so annoyed and disappointed that it was SO different from the book I never saw another!
Some Bond books are better than others. Won’t say which in case you haven’t read the ones I don’t like.
I also read the Tom Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith. The Talented Mr Ripley and Ripleys Game are both movies too. Both movies and books are good I think.
Got a fair collection of car books. Especially American stuff and muscle cars.
Any books on MX5 out there?
Never seen one !