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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: SydneyRover on February 24, 2020, 11:50:05 am
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Reading Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson.
Must admit it's been a while since I read fiction, started a few but couldn't get into any of them. I thought I'd read this years ago years ago but either I did and have forgotton it or maybe not at all.
Am about halfway through and he's just getting into Retford.
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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
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ACCA - Audit & Assurance.....its a riveting read! :zzz:
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Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
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The History Of Glue. I can't put it down.
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Elton John's autobiography. What a lad he was.
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Just read a book about how to join two pieces of metal together using 'metal fasteners'.........It was riveting.
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Have a Bleeding Guess by Paul Hanley
Its the story about the recording of Hex Induction Hour by The Fall.
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DR and Quinch's Guide to Life for probably the 5th/6th time since I was a kid. Great stuff.
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Battle of Normandy by Anthony Beevor.
Destroys the myth that the best german units and the fighting being far more fierce on the eastern front.
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I've also just started Algebra to Calculus by Mike Goldsmith.
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Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
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The Templars by Dan Jones.
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'David Bowie - A life ' by Dylan Jones
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The Beano Annual.
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'A Game of Birds and Wolves' by Simon Parkin
A book about secret wargames played in the UK during WW2 which led to changes in tactics for escorting convoys against U-boats which tipped the Battle of the Atlantic in our favour. Military Operational Analysis in its infancy.
Having organised and participated in wargames for real for a couple of decades, and having met a variety of reactions from military officers from automatically believing anything a computer says to believing no analysis whatsoever it was personally very interesting to see the same human reactions 50 years earlier.
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Last in the tin bath, David Lloyd.
I was lent it to read on holiday in Goa but never took it. I do feel obliged to read it though and now it's almost finished.
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Last in the tin bath, David Lloyd.
I was lent it to read on holiday in Goa but never took it. I do feel obliged to read it though and now it's almost finished.
Last book I received in those circumstances was 'Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot' by Ken McGoogan.
I started it reluctantly and then loved it. In the middle of the 19th Century, unlike all other explorers in the region, he befriended the Eskimos and by using their survival techniques was able to go far further than others, especially Franklin. He then found the remains and explained the failure of Franklin's doomed expedition, and that it had ended in cannibalism. This was his undoing as Franklin supporters smeared him, and his work was unrecognised until well after his death.
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Tombland - C J Sansom
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Michael Foot by Kenneth Morgan
Leonard Cohen - A Remarkable Life by Andrew Reynolds
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre.
War of the Worlds by Niall Ferguson.
Both very sobering.
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My diary from 1969.
I can’t believe I did all that.
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Have a Bleeding Guess by Paul Hanley
Its the story about the recording of Hex Induction Hour by The Fall.
Same here,signed. :) Read the Big weekend before that,also signed. If only I could get MES signed!
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100 years of the NFL
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Reasons to be Cheerful....Mark Steel
The Body....Bill Bryson
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Lustrum by Rober Harris, I read Imperium a few years ago, so I assume Dictator in a few years to complete the trilogy.
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Dresden by Sinclair McKay
There's a reason why Winston never mentioned Dresden in his memoirs. The book is very thought provoking and highly recommended
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Have a Bleeding Guess by Paul Hanley
Its the story about the recording of Hex Induction Hour by The Fall.
Must get hold of that. His brother Steve's account of life in The Fall was an excellent read.
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Reading Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson.
Must admit it's been a while since I read fiction, started a few but couldn't get into any of them. I thought I'd read this years ago years ago but either I did and have forgotton it or maybe not at all.
Am about halfway through and he's just getting into Retford.
Finished, very enjoyable easy read and at nearly 30yrs still quite relavent, I don't suppose I can tell any of you very much about the real BB except that as an american with a full blown understanding of irony that loves your country as much as you do what's not to like. He takes you on a rollicking roll around the UK by foot, bus, train, taxi and reluctantly sometimes drives himself.
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The History Of Glue. I can't put it down.
Obviously the book is of local interest the "foreward was written by de Mulders
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Got 2 books for my birthday yesterday so just about to start them:
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What The Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships by a couple of Google employees haha
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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DR and Quinch's Guide to Life for probably the 5th/6th time since I was a kid. Great stuff.
MIND THE ORANGES MARLON
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How Britain Really Works by Stig Abell.
Feels strangely out of date.
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Got 2 books for my birthday yesterday so just about to start them:
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What The Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships by a couple of Google employees haha
Read the 12 Rules and really enjoyed it. Some of it can be tough going though.
Example;
“I’ve got some good news … and I’ve got some bad news,” the lawgiver yells to them. “Which do you want first?”
“The good news!” the hedonists reply.
“I got Him from fifteen commandments down to ten!”
“Hallelujah!” cries the unruly crowd. “And the bad?”
“Adultery is still in.”
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Haha, yeah from watching plenty of Peterson's material online I expected the book to be a bit of a slog in places. Decided to leave that one until later and started on A Billion Wicked Thoughts over the weekend...which is turning into a truly fascinating read.
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The Face of Battle. John Keegan. Penguin.
BobG