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Re: Books
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:21 pm
by Colback's Orange Tufts
I've just read 'the signs were there' about recent disaster on the stock market, cos I'm dead cool like.
Also, despite not being into the genre, read the 'wayfarers' series by Becky Chambers. Its Sci fi but about the societies and cultures in space not pew pew space battles. Reminded me a bit of the council and races of mass effect.
Re: Books
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:56 pm
by overseasTOON
Colback's Orange Tufts wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:21 pm
I've just read 'the signs were there' about recent disaster on the stock market, cos I'm dead cool like.
Also, despite not being into the genre, read the 'wayfarers' series by Becky Chambers. Its Sci fi but about the societies and cultures in space not pew pew space battles. Reminded me a bit of the council and races of mass effect.
You should read Too Big to Fail by Sorkin.
Re: Books
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 7:35 pm
by ALF
Just started reading 'Kill Your Friends' by John Niven. Anyone read it?
Re: Books
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:55 pm
by Diego21
Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:04 am
I read 'A Life too Short', really excellent (and tragic). Also read a few autobiographies, Shay Given's and Jenson Button's were both decent, Kieron Dyer's surprisingly good too. A few of Guy Martin's books are quite good reads.
I'm getting this next:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Evil-Sc ... B0764FLN97
Love books about serial killers, people in prison etc.
If you like this books, maybe you like Dexter books. Obviously, is fiction. But Dexter is the best serial killer in the fantastic world.
Next book I have bought it's the book in the next link. It's about a brazillian serial killer who killed 492 persons... But I don't know if thera are an English version
https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-4 ... tos/272876
Re: Books
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:33 am
by lassassinblanc
Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:04 am
I read 'A Life too Short', really excellent (and tragic). Also read a few autobiographies, Shay Given's and Jenson Button's were both decent, Kieron Dyer's surprisingly good too. A few of Guy Martin's books are quite good reads.
I'm getting this next:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Evil-Sc ... B0764FLN97
Love books about serial killers, people in prison etc.
One of my favorite books. Such an important story and as you say a tragic one too
Re: Books
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:50 am
by bodacious benny
I'm about 1/3 of the way through this now and it's really interesting. It goes into some of the science behind why people do things but without bamboozling you (I have no scientific background since my GCSE grade C in 2001...). It tries to put the reader in the place of people who have done 'evil' things and gets you to ask questions of yourself and what you might have done to other that would be classed by some as a form of evil, and questions how/if committing one act of evil makes you evil for life (or at all) and so on.
Re: Books
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 4:33 pm
by Chappy
Just finished 100 Years of Solitude. Great read but hard to keep track off all the different characters.
Re: Books
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:51 am
by Luna Lovegood
Reading and studying To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf for school.
Re: Books
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:32 am
by bodacious benny
I recently finished 'The Sun Does Shine' about a guy who was on Death Row for 29 years fighting for his freedom. Really excellent read, highlights many of the flaws, failings, injustices, lies, politics and racism in the US Justice System and really makes you think just how many innocent people may have been executed over the years. It's one of the few books that has given be goosebumps reading it, would highly recommend it. There's a lot in it about the people he was on Death Row with, and who the person behind the crimes were and that not everyone is a monster (thought some are!).
Re: Books
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 6:11 pm
by ToonCraig
Read Speedway rider, Tai Woffindens book. Really enjoyed it.
Re: Books
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:36 am
by overseasTOON
So far in the lockdown I've read:
Rock the Casbah - the story behind the Arab Spring
Oil Kings - the story behind his the US and Saudi politics destroyed Iran
The Hidden Empire - how the US hides it's overseas territories
The Euro and its threat to the future of the European Union - how fundamentally the EU has f***ed itself.
Cracking on now with the History of the Holy Roman Empire; 900 pages of very dry writing.
Re: Books
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 11:17 am
by biggeordiedave
overseasTOON wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:36 am
So far in the lockdown I've read:
Rock the Casbah - the story behind the Arab Spring
Oil Kings - the story behind his the US and Saudi politics destroyed Iran
The Hidden Empire - how the US hides it's overseas territories
The Euro and its threat to the future of the European Union - how fundamentally the EU has f***ed itself.
Cracking on now with the History of the Holy Roman Empire; 900 pages of very dry writing.
They all sound great, with the exception of the last one perhaps. I'm about to start 'Israel and Palestine: The Complete History'.
Re: Books
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:23 pm
by ALF
I read The Stand by Stephen King, very good book in my opinion.
Re: Books
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:07 pm
by Valentino's fast feet
For anyone into crime novels, I'd recommend The man on the streets by Trevor Wood. Main character is a homeless veteran that witnesses a a murder, set in Newcastle. I'm not from the area myself, but have visited when I can, even that brief knowledge added a little bit more intrigue to the goings on of the story itself.
Re: Books
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:55 am
by Crowchild
I recommend Carlos Ruiz Zafon series called The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books
Re: Books
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:25 am
by bodacious benny
Re: Books
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:50 pm
by Cushley
CIH wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:07 pm
For anyone into crime novels, I'd recommend The man on the streets by Trevor Wood. Main character is a homeless veteran that witnesses a a murder, set in Newcastle. I'm not from the area myself, but have visited when I can, even that brief knowledge added a little bit more intrigue to the goings on of the story itself.
A hammers fans here, just registered just to thank you for a cracking good read
Re: Books
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 11:05 pm
by Valentino's fast feet
Cushley wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:50 pm
CIH wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:07 pm
For anyone into crime novels, I'd recommend The man on the streets by Trevor Wood. Main character is a homeless veteran that witnesses a a murder, set in Newcastle. I'm not from the area myself, but have visited when I can, even that brief knowledge added a little bit more intrigue to the goings on of the story itself.
A hammers fans here, just registered just to thank you for a cracking good read
Haha you're welcome, I'm sure he'll be glad to know you enjoyed
Re: Books
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:30 am
by gola
just finished virigina woolf diaries. any readers here? to the lighthouse is incredible if were going off novels
Re: Books
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:55 am
by lassassinblanc
Starting the below today after finally finishing Jonathan Wilsons Hungary book
https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Change-Big ... 1785317296
As much as people probably dislike how Red Bull has invested and renamed clubs , they've also done an amazing job in developing players