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SydneyRover

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What book\s are you reading?
« on February 24, 2020, 11:50:05 am by SydneyRover »
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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selby

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #1 on February 24, 2020, 12:12:28 pm by selby »
  The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

rtid88

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #2 on February 24, 2020, 12:13:50 pm by rtid88 »
ACCA - Audit & Assurance.....its a riveting read!  :zzz:

Dagenham Rover

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #3 on February 24, 2020, 12:19:06 pm by Dagenham Rover »
Mudlarking  by Lara Maiklem

Bentley Bullet

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #4 on February 24, 2020, 12:24:24 pm by Bentley Bullet »
The History Of Glue. I can't put it down.

Nudga

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« Reply #5 on February 24, 2020, 01:16:07 pm by Nudga »
Elton John's autobiography. What a lad he was.

Bentley Bullet

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« Reply #6 on February 24, 2020, 01:20:11 pm by Bentley Bullet »
Just read a book about how to join two pieces of metal together using 'metal fasteners'.........It was riveting.

DN8ROVER

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #7 on February 24, 2020, 01:50:30 pm by DN8ROVER »
Have a Bleeding Guess by Paul Hanley

Its the story about the recording of Hex Induction Hour by The Fall.

MachoMadness

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #8 on February 24, 2020, 02:26:48 pm by MachoMadness »
DR and Quinch's Guide to Life for probably the 5th/6th time since I was a kid. Great stuff.

Prez

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #9 on February 24, 2020, 02:57:13 pm by Prez »
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.

SydneyRover

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #10 on February 24, 2020, 04:25:20 pm by SydneyRover »
I've also just started Algebra to Calculus by Mike Goldsmith.

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« Reply #11 on February 24, 2020, 04:31:28 pm by Crowle Rover »

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James

silent majority

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« Reply #12 on February 24, 2020, 04:39:58 pm by silent majority »
The Templars by Dan Jones.

foxbat

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« Reply #13 on February 24, 2020, 04:44:06 pm by foxbat »
'David Bowie - A life ' by Dylan Jones

scawsby steve

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« Reply #14 on February 24, 2020, 04:49:45 pm by scawsby steve »
The Beano Annual.

Dutch Uncle

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #15 on February 24, 2020, 04:56:30 pm by Dutch Uncle »
'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.

idler

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #16 on February 24, 2020, 05:12:21 pm by idler »
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.

Dutch Uncle

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« Reply #17 on February 24, 2020, 05:42:16 pm by Dutch Uncle »
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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« Reply #18 on February 24, 2020, 05:42:45 pm by ravenrover »
Tombland - C J Sansom

wilts rover

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« Reply #19 on February 24, 2020, 05:48:42 pm by wilts rover »
Michael Foot by Kenneth Morgan
Leonard Cohen - A Remarkable Life by Andrew Reynolds

BillyStubbsTears

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« Reply #20 on February 24, 2020, 06:24:54 pm by BillyStubbsTears »
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre.

War of the Worlds by Niall Ferguson.

Both very sobering.

drfchound

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« Reply #21 on February 24, 2020, 06:30:06 pm by drfchound »
My diary from 1969.
I can’t believe I did all that.

Iberian Red

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« Reply #22 on February 26, 2020, 02:52:36 pm by Iberian Red »
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!

Ldr

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« Reply #23 on February 26, 2020, 07:43:41 pm by Ldr »
100 years of the NFL

tommy toes

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« Reply #24 on February 27, 2020, 08:44:58 am by tommy toes »
Reasons to be Cheerful....Mark Steel
The Body....Bill Bryson

Hounslowrover

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #25 on February 27, 2020, 09:16:42 am by Hounslowrover »
Lustrum by Rober Harris, I read Imperium a few years ago, so I assume Dictator in a few years to complete the trilogy.

TommyC

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« Reply #26 on February 27, 2020, 10:17:05 am by TommyC »
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 

The Red Baron

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #27 on February 27, 2020, 11:16:46 am by The Red Baron »
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.

SydneyRover

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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #28 on February 27, 2020, 10:05:20 pm by SydneyRover »
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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Re: What book\s are you reading?
« Reply #29 on February 28, 2020, 04:36:08 pm by Colemans Left Hook »
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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