Leonard Hatred 12:18 Fri Oct 17
Book recommendations.
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I've recently signed up to AUDIBLE, an audio book download app.
A good thing for folk ON THE MOVE who don't have time to actually sit down and read a book.
Done the new Bobby Moore biography (excellent) and a new Dave Gorman book (shite).
You get one free credit per month, but the good bit is, if you don't like summat, they'll give you a free credit. So really it's unlimited.
Anyway, recommend me a good book.
Cunts.
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daveyg
8:26 Fri Oct 17
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Holding the Zero.
By GERALD SEYMOUR
Know's his subject matter like know one else.
A great read and gives an insight into the Kurd's situation together with the troubles in Iraq,Syria and Turkey. Although this was written in 2000.
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Dwarf McDougal
7:28 Fri Oct 17
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Just finished BIrd Box by Josh Malerman. Wasn't expectingi that much but thought it was excellent. Very dark and foreboding. Heard it's going to be made into a film too..though as so much of the story relies heavily on your imagination I'm not sure how well that will work.
Also the two Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling) detective books are very good and well worth a read.
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ironsofcanada
5:47 Fri Oct 17
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Reading Anatoly Liberman's blog on the Oxford UP site reminds me that his book, Word Origins and How We Know Them is a good and interesting book for most people.
The blog are good too.
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Agent Scud
5:15 Fri Oct 17
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The Bible.
*** Spoiler Alert. ***
The Jews did it.
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Brussels Sprout
4:59 Fri Oct 17
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Just read Us - the new novel by David Nicholls. An enjoyable, easy read.
Not as good as One Day, but still quite funny.
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Eggbert Nobacon
4:41 Fri Oct 17
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rarely discussed?
There's about 50 books and films about it!
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Morpheus
4:40 Fri Oct 17
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THE GOLDFINCH - Ok, but far too long with fairly unlikable characters, there is probably a decent story there but after 800 pages you just don't care any more.
I AM PILGRIM - Fantastic book about an ex spy called back into the fray to halt a lone gun terrorist, it reads like a more intellectual Reacher novel.
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Northern Sold
4:39 Fri Oct 17
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RH.... Ok one!
and....
`Let me say a few things up front: I have never set foot on a racetrack, I have watched the Kentucky Derby maybe twice on TV and I have little interest in jockeys, horse trainers or horses in general. For those who think this is a book about a racehorse, think again. It is a wonderful, descriptive work about the underdog, about triumph over adversity, about personality in animals and, most importantly, about a rarely discussed slice of America`.
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Mr Kenzo
4:29 Fri Oct 17
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Roger and Rip
It might be a bit too advanced for you Len
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simon.s
4:27 Fri Oct 17
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A Spy Among Friends.
Jolly good read.
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RH
4:24 Fri Oct 17
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"you won't find a bad review"
Yes you will
"A struggle to read, innundated with statistics and irrelevant details in the first third of the book. It improved slightly but not enough for a recommendation."
I assume you have to have some interest in Horse racing to be remotely interested. So that will rule me out
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Northern Sold
1:35 Fri Oct 17
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Not even remotely funny you turd
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Eggbert Nobacon
1:32 Fri Oct 17
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Northern Sold wrote...
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Best book I have read by a country mile is Soggybiscuit (3 Men and a Digestive)... in fact I am half way reading it through now for the 4th time... you won't find a bad review..
fixed the typos for ya NS
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Northern Sold
1:30 Fri Oct 17
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Best book I have read by a country mile is Seabiscuit (3 Men and a Horse)... in fact I am half way reading it through now for the 4th time... you won't find a bad review...
http://www.amazon.com/Seabiscuit-True-Story-Three-Racehorse/dp/0007167040/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413543916&sr=1-1&keywords=seabiscuit+three+men+and+a+horse
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Ilford Hammer
1:08 Fri Oct 17
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You definitely need to get I, Partridge as an audio book. Fucking hilarious.
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Darby_
1:06 Fri Oct 17
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I saw the film but didn't remember much of it, so the audiobook was mostly fresh to me. I listened to a BBC dramatization which sounded like it'd been made in the 50s and I thought it was great. Lots of atmosphere and dry humour.
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WHU(Exeter)
1:01 Fri Oct 17
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Darby_ - the big sleep was the last book I finished - only really got it, to tie up a couple loose ends from the film. Wasn't that taken with it tbh - maybe because I knew how it ended, lost it's suspense...
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BRANDED
1:00 Fri Oct 17
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rogue male
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Darby_
12:52 Fri Oct 17
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The Log of a Cowboy
Orphans of the Sky
The Unknown Ajax
The Big Sleep
The Chrysalids
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Phils White Gloves
12:39 Fri Oct 17
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Dave Gorman is the single most unfunny cunt ever to become famous.
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Alan
12:36 Fri Oct 17
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The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
Cracking book.
"Historical fiction just doesn't get any better than this. A riveting, fast-paced story...Magnificent!" - Jeffery Deaver, author of the bestselling The Kill Room and Edge
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