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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Geoff Blakesley on March 07, 2019, 02:16:17 pm
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Any other keen readers out there ? What sort of stuff do you like to read ? Some of my recent favourites have been
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
The Harrogate Crime Series by Malcolm Hollingdrake
The Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child
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The british library crime classic reissues from the 1930s are generally very good if you like the golden age of crime.
I've recently finished 'The Moonstone', and previous to that 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins, both of which were very long but excellent reads. The short ghost stories by M.R.James are also very good.
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I love the Flashman books of George Macdonald Fraser.
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The british library crime classic reissues from the 1930s are generally very good if you like the golden age of crime.
I've recently finished 'The Moonstone', and previous to that 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins, both of which were very long but excellent reads. The short ghost stories by M.R.James are also very good.
I have a collection of the M. R. James stories that I read periodically. "A Warning to the Curious" is one of the best ghost stories ever written. It was adapted for TV some years ago and although they changed the plot a bit they really did it justice.
You can watch it on YouTube. Well worth it if you have an hour to spare.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoVu_BRCSS0
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Edward Marston The Railway Detective series set in Victorian times.Ihave read about 8 of these books and always a good read.
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My favourite reading is autobiographies and biographies of people I am interested in.
Generally I buy books about sports people, particularly footballers and cricketers,from charity shops.
I have read others about business people, notably Alan Sugar and Richard Branson.
Currently on Tom Finneys life story.
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The british library crime classic reissues from the 1930s are generally very good if you like the golden age of crime.
I've recently finished 'The Moonstone', and previous to that 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins, both of which were very long but excellent reads. The short ghost stories by M.R.James are also very good.
I have a collection of the M. R. James stories that I read periodically. "A Warning to the Curious" is one of the best ghost stories ever written. It was adapted for TV some years ago and although they changed the plot a bit they really did it justice.
You can watch it on YouTube. Well worth it if you have an hour to spare.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoVu_BRCSS0
Will watch that thanks. Another favourite is John Boyne of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' but my favourite of his is ' Munity on the Bounty' - a fabulous re-telling of the tale. Oh and if you haven't read it ' The Book Thief' by Marcus Zusak is a real classic.
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The best player you never saw , Robin Friday
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I read any book I can find about British History. Some great writers out there who cover everything from the dark ages to WWII.
As for fiction I discovered Matt Haig recently and have read all his books, which are absolutely brilliant.
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The british library crime classic reissues from the 1930s are generally very good if you like the golden age of crime.
I've recently finished 'The Moonstone', and previous to that 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins, both of which were very long but excellent reads. The short ghost stories by M.R.James are also very good.
I have a collection of the M. R. James stories that I read periodically. "A Warning to the Curious" is one of the best ghost stories ever written. It was adapted for TV some years ago and although they changed the plot a bit they really did it justice.
You can watch it on YouTube. Well worth it if you have an hour to spare.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoVu_BRCSS0
A lot of these were adapted by the bbc in the seventies and are available on dvd.
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I read any book I can find about British History. Some great writers out there who cover everything from the dark ages to WWII.
As for fiction I discovered Matt Haig recently and have read all his books, which are absolutely brilliant.
Not read any Matt Haig. Which would you recommend I start with Tommy toes ?
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Hi Geoff
My favourite is 'How to Stop Time'
It's about a bloke who ages very slowly, looks about 40 but is actually 500+ and how he copes with it with the 'help' of a society of people like him.
Apparently Benedict Cumberbatch has bought the film rights and is currently making it.
The Humans and The Radleys are both great reads too.
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Hi Geoff
My favourite is 'How to Stop Time'
It's about a bloke who ages very slowly, looks about 40 but is actually 500+ and how he copes with it with the 'help' of a society of people like him.
Apparently Benedict Cumberbatch has bought the film rights and is currently making it.
The Humans and The Radleys are both great reads too.
Sounds like 'Lost Horizon' by James Hilton, another good 'un.
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Edward Marston The Railway Detective series set in Victorian times.Ihave read about 8 of these books and always a good read.
Each to his own, but I tried to read one of Marstons railway books and it was the most laughably bad old pot boiler I've ever looked at.
From the same genre, Andrew Martins Railway Detective novels aren't bad.
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Started reading Dune yesterday. Never read it before so I'm looking forward to it.
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My favourite reading is autobiographies and biographies of people I am interested in.
Generally I buy books about sports people, particularly footballers and cricketers,from charity shops.
I have read others about business people, notably Alan Sugar and Richard Branson.
Currently on Tom Finneys life story.
One of the best I have read is 'My Father, and other Working-Class Football Heroes' by Gary Imlach. It gives the whole social history of how the life was for footballers before the maximum wage was lifted.
Another great book which interweaves social history and evolving football tactics and formations is 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson
And another book combining football and its effect on everyday life worldwide is the slightly off the wall but very interesting 'How Soccer Explains the World' by Franklin Foer
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My favourite reading is autobiographies and biographies of people I am interested in.
Generally I buy books about sports people, particularly footballers and cricketers,from charity shops.
I have read others about business people, notably Alan Sugar and Richard Branson.
Currently on Tom Finneys life story.
One of the best I have read is 'My Father, and other Working-Class Football Heroes' by Gary Imlach. It gives the whole social history of how the life was for footballers before the maximum wage was lifted.
Another great book which interweaves social history and evolving football tactics and formations is 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson
And another book combining football and its effect on everyday life worldwide is the slightly off the wall but very interesting 'How Soccer Explains the rWorld' by Franklin Foer
Not read any of those DU, I will scour the charity shops for them.
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The best player you never saw , Robin Friday
Another vote for this
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Does anyone want this.....
'Cricket' by Douglas Jardine. 1936.
It's a sort of tutorial of the game and is full of illustrations of great players of the time.
It's tatty but free to a good home, I'll post it. PM me if anyone wants it.
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PM sent.
Luckily not Theresa May. 😳
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me please tommy/ like a bit of bodyline
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Soz Geoff. Idler got in first. If I come across summat similar you can have that.
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
I had to re read each chapter when I'd finished it. Became lost in it
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Douglas Jardine is one of my favourite cricketers.
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My favourite reading is autobiographies and biographies of people I am interested in.
Generally I buy books about sports people, particularly footballers and cricketers,from charity shops.
I have read others about business people, notably Alan Sugar and Richard Branson.
Currently on Tom Finneys life story.
One of the best I have read is 'My Father, and other Working-Class Football Heroes' by Gary Imlach. It gives the whole social history of how the life was for footballers before the maximum wage was lifted.
Another great book which interweaves social history and evolving football tactics and formations is 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson
And another book combining football and its effect on everyday life worldwide is the slightly off the wall but very interesting 'How Soccer Explains the World' by Franklin Foer
In a similar vein 'The Numbers Game' by Chris Anderson, a look at the statistics of football, explains why we rarely score from corners.
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
I had to re read each chapter when I'd finished it. Became lost in it
I tried it, was enjoying it but I couldn't keep up. May try again 1 day when I've got more time to commit to it.
Game of Thrones are brilliant, if you like that sort of thing. God knows when Martin will release the last 2 but I doubt it'll be anytime soon.
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I've moved away from many of the 'mainstream' writers of late and have been enjoying some 'newer' authors.
The Gray series of books by Alan McDermott are well written and have a sense of realism which I enjoyed.
The Lakeland Murders series of books by JJ Salkeld are also well written, though the last book in the series was crazily out of sequence for some strange reason. I enjoyed these particularly as they are set in the Lake District and took me back to places I visited and walked in my youth.
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My favourite reading is autobiographies and biographies of people I am interested in.
Generally I buy books about sports people, particularly footballers and cricketers,from charity shops.
I have read others about business people, notably Alan Sugar and Richard Branson.
Currently on Tom Finneys life story.
One of the best I have read is 'My Father, and other Working-Class Football Heroes' by Gary Imlach. It gives the whole social history of how the life was for footballers before the maximum wage was lifted.
Another great book which interweaves social history and evolving football tactics and formations is 'Inverting the Pyramid' by Jonathan Wilson
And another book combining football and its effect on everyday life worldwide is the slightly off the wall but very interesting 'How Soccer Explains the World' by Franklin Foer
In a similar vein 'The Numbers Game' by Chris Anderson, a look at the statistics of football, explains why we rarely score from corners.
There is quite a bit about this man in Inverting the Pyramid Wilts, including his influence on many people including Graham Taylor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Reep
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
I had to re read each chapter when I'd finished it. Became lost in it
I tried it, was enjoying it but I couldn't keep up. May try again 1 day when I've got more time to commit to it.
Game of Thrones are brilliant, if you like that sort of thing. God knows when Martin will release the last 2 but I doubt it'll be anytime soon.
I have been a huge Tolkien fan for more than 50 years, so I love the Silmarillion for what it is, showing glimpses of Tolkien's pre- LoTR world. However it was unfinished when he died and his son Christopher put in a colossal amount of work to collate and try to make consistent many decades' worth of his father's notes. The first 90% of the book is deep and brilliant, and then the ending is so abridged and sudden that I was left thinking simply of the tragedy that JRRT died before he finished it.
Of JRRT's unfinished works published by Christopher Tolkien for me the best is 'The Children of Hurin', a self contained book of an expanded version of one of the many stories in the Silmarillion. Truly brilliant and I would recomend it if the Silmarillion is too hard going.
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
I had to re read each chapter when I'd finished it. Became lost in it
I tried it, was enjoying it but I couldn't keep up. May try again 1 day when I've got more time to commit to it.
Game of Thrones are brilliant, if you like that sort of thing. God knows when Martin will release the last 2 but I doubt it'll be anytime soon.
I have been a huge Tolkien fan for more than 50 years, so I love the Silmarillion for what it is, showing glimpses of Tolkien's pre- LoTR world. However it was unfinished when he died and his son Christopher put in a colossal amount of work to collate and try to make consistent many decades' worth of his father's notes. The first 90% of the book is deep and brilliant, and then the ending is so abridged and sudden that I was left thinking simply of the tragedy that JRRT died before he finished it.
Of JRRT's unfinished works published by Christopher Tolkien for me the best is 'The Children of Hurin', a self contained book of an expanded version of one of the many stories in the Silmarillion. Truly brilliant and I would recomend it if the Silmarillion is too hard going.
I've also got The Children of Hurin and Unfinished Tales, both really good but the layers in The Silmarillion means that you could read it 4 or 5 times and you discover something new each time as it makes more sense when you read it back.
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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
I had to re read each chapter when I'd finished it. Became lost in it
I tried it, was enjoying it but I couldn't keep up. May try again 1 day when I've got more time to commit to it.
Game of Thrones are brilliant, if you like that sort of thing. God knows when Martin will release the last 2 but I doubt it'll be anytime soon.
I have been a huge Tolkien fan for more than 50 years, so I love the Silmarillion for what it is, showing glimpses of Tolkien's pre- LoTR world. However it was unfinished when he died and his son Christopher put in a colossal amount of work to collate and try to make consistent many decades' worth of his father's notes. The first 90% of the book is deep and brilliant, and then the ending is so abridged and sudden that I was left thinking simply of the tragedy that JRRT died before he finished it.
Of JRRT's unfinished works published by Christopher Tolkien for me the best is 'The Children of Hurin', a self contained book of an expanded version of one of the many stories in the Silmarillion. Truly brilliant and I would recomend it if the Silmarillion is too hard going.
Duly noted. Thank you!
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I read any book I can find about British History. Some great writers out there who cover everything from the dark ages to WWII.
As for fiction I discovered Matt Haig recently and have read all his books, which are absolutely brilliant.
You might enjoy a WW2 book I thoroughly enjoyed recently - 'Operation Mincemeat' by Ben MacIntyre. It researches and tells the 1943 true story of the British leaving a dead body with fake ID and fake Allied invasion papers to float near a Spanish beach, where they knew it would reach German Intelligence. The level of detail 'proving' identity etc persuaded Hitler to move forces to defend Greece and Sardinia and leave Sicily far less defended when the Allies invaded there.
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I enjoyed the 1956 film ' The man who never was' about the same event. Well worth watching if you get the chance.
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I read any book I can find about British History. Some great writers out there who cover everything from the dark ages to WWII.
As for fiction I discovered Matt Haig recently and have read all his books, which are absolutely brilliant.
You might enjoy a WW2 book I thoroughly enjoyed recently - 'Operation Mincemeat' by Ben MacIntyre. It researches and tells the 1943 true story of the British leaving a dead body with fake ID and fake Allied invasion papers to float near a Spanish beach, where they knew it would reach German Intelligence. The level of detail 'proving' identity etc persuaded Hitler to move forces to defend Greece and Sardinia and leave Sicily far less defended when the Allies invaded there.
Can I recommend books by Andrew Bamford on military history I've read every one he has written
I proof read for him he's my son ;)
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I read any book I can find about British History. Some great writers out there who cover everything from the dark ages to WWII.
As for fiction I discovered Matt Haig recently and have read all his books, which are absolutely brilliant.
You might enjoy a WW2 book I thoroughly enjoyed recently - 'Operation Mincemeat' by Ben MacIntyre. It researches and tells the 1943 true story of the British leaving a dead body with fake ID and fake Allied invasion papers to float near a Spanish beach, where they knew it would reach German Intelligence. The level of detail 'proving' identity etc persuaded Hitler to move forces to defend Greece and Sardinia and leave Sicily far less defended when the Allies invaded there.
Can I recommend books by Andrew Bamford on military history I've read every one he has written
I proof read for him he's my son ;)
No relation to Patrick Bamford?
He could put a word in.
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keep telling everyone he is my nephew, most believe me