rossafc92 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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 Link to comment
Dynamo Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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 Link to comment
daytripping Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Sci fi. LOL. How many books would you say you read in a week pal?? Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 How many books would you say you read in a week pal??One pwobably 1 Link to comment
daytripping Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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. 1 Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 A gold plated endorsement there. Like the FBI seal, priceless. 1 Link to comment
daytripping Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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. 1 Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 We've been a world class double act for years min. Like amorcome and wise but without the straight man; no deadwood. 1 Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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. Link to comment
E-P-K Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Books recommend by fellow posters arrived Link to comment
Sonoftherock Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 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. Link to comment
ChutneyLove Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 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. Link to comment
phoenix Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 We are all sub-atomic. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hc7S9gYtL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg Link to comment
phoenix Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 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 Link to comment
The Boofon Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Books recommend by fellow posters arrived How you getting on with the WW2 ones I gave you? Link to comment
Henry Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 One pwobably Bluto is Jonathan Ross, can't believe it. Link to comment
granite sheep Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 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. Link to comment
granite sheep Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 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. Link to comment
tup Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 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? Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 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? Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 currently reading this. Link to comment
tup Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 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. Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 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. Link to comment
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