Books

[Bluto10]

Sci fi.

 

LOL.

[rossafc92]

I finished 'Railway Man' by Eric Lomax recently. A fantastic & vivid account of life as a PoW under the Japanese kosh. I've never been choked up reading a book before but there was a passage in there that did it for me.

Well worth your time reading "The Forgotten Highlander" by Alistair Urquhart if you enjoyed Lomax's account.

[Bluto10]

My latest in a long line of coffee table purchases is banksys wall and piece pictorial Almanac.

 

Sits nicely alongside my burgeoning collection of beer book in the granscale of useful reading matetial

[Dynamo]

I've been reading this book for like months. I read a book a year on average.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mafia-State-Reporter-Became-Brutal/dp/0852652496

[daytripping]

Sci fi.

[daytripping]

Sci fi.

 

LOL.

 

How many books would you say you read in a week pal??

[Bluto10]

 

How many books would you say you read in a week pal??

One pwobably

[daytripping]

One pwobably

 

I tend to find one the perfect quantity of book for a week, none and you're not reading enough, two and you're reading too much and in danger of becoming a geek (unless it's small books), I too am in the one camp, splendid choice sir.

[Bluto10]

A gold plated endorsement there.

 

Like the FBI seal, priceless.

[daytripping]

A gold plated endorsement there.

 

Like the FBI seal, priceless.

 

Top posting from a man at the top of his game.

 

Have a plus 1.

[Bluto10]

We've been a world class double act for years min.

 

Like amorcome and wise but without the straight man; no deadwood.

 

[StandFree1982]

I read a book a week.

 

 

Glad to hear it.

 

 

 

You should've mentioned it.

 

 

 

 

 

Easy to read a book a week when your in bed by 7pm.

[E-P-K]

 

Books recommend by fellow posters arrived

[Henry]

Half way through this:

 

[Sonoftherock]

Does anyone know of a website with a reasonable library of free (illegal downloads) ebooks? I recently acquired a kindle, but I don't fancy paying for any books.

[ChutneyLove]

If Rocker still has a look in, I eventually got round to starting that Roth book, Sabbath Theater. Good so far, will read more of his stuff when I finish it.

[phoenix]

We are all sub-atomic.

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hc7S9gYtL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

[phoenix]

Does anyone know of a website with a reasonable library of free (illegal downloads) ebooks? I recently acquired a kindle, but I don't fancy paying for any books.

Any of these your cup of tea , 'rock?

 

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/the-harvard-classics-download-all-51-volumes-as-free-ebooks.html

[The Boofon]

 

Books recommend by fellow posters arrived

 

 

How you getting on with the WW2 ones I gave you?

[Henry]

One pwobably

 

Bluto is Jonathan Ross, can't believe it.

[granite sheep]

Just finished reading Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell, good medieval combat book about an archer fighting on Henry V's army during the campaign that culminates in The Battle Of Agincourt. Decent read, old Bernie is always reliable for historical war books, Sharpe is and always will be his best but he's done The American Civil War, King Arthur, and Alfred The Great's campaigns against the Vikings. The latter series of books, also known as the "Saxon Stories" are getting filmed by the BBC for release some time through the year, gonna be called "The Last Kingdom" and is intended as a Thrones - beater.

[granite sheep]

Have been doing The Horus Heresy books, for you sci fi fans, if ye ken of the 40k universe, the first 4 books are required reading if you want to find out just why the setting is a crap sack universe.

Am currently reading Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly, complete madness, basically Indy Jones reimagined as if it's in the style of COD Modern Warfare. Brilliant reading.

[tup]

I can never be bothered to read the last part of any book I've read recently.

 

I find myself becoming annoyed about 3/4 of the way through a book, whereupon I tend to find the ending inevitable, like I've read it before, and I then find it tedious to read on.

 

Is there something wrong with me?

[Bluto10]

I read a book a week.

[Henry]

Currently reading this:

 

[looksgoodinred]

I can never be bothered to read the last part of any book I've read recently.

 

I find myself becoming annoyed about 3/4 of the way through a book, whereupon I tend to find the ending inevitable, like I've read it before, and I then find it tedious to read on.

 

Is there something wrong with me?

 

lack of focus? perhaps the onset of male menopause?

[looksgoodinred]

currently reading this.

 

[tup]

 

lack of focus? perhaps the onset of male menopause?

 

Hardly, I can focus to read the first 3/4 of the book.

 

I get this nagging feeling that I've seen/read it all before. And I sometimes get that in real life too.

[looksgoodinred]

do you generally read the same kind of books all the time? sticking to mysteries? or romantic novels? or sci fi? or somesuch?

 

maybe you need to expand your range of experiences, so that they don't seem so familiar?

if you always go to the same places, do the same things -- and always read the same genre of books -- it's bound to happen.

 

my advice is to change things up a bit, Tup.

[Bluto10]

Sci fi novels.