Leonard Hatred 2:31 Wed Sep 9
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I've got 2 Audible credits I need to use but there's nowt that jumps out at me.
Furnish me with suggestions, including a brief synopsis.
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Takashi Miike
7:08 Wed Sep 9
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A Bun In The Oven by Rusty Lee
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Hammer and Pickle
6:59 Wed Sep 9
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oops 16th century even.
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Hammer and Pickle
6:59 Wed Sep 9
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Q by Luther Blissett
About the scourge of the 17th century catholic establishment in the beginnings of European democracy as we know it. But then everyone's read it.
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Darby_
6:58 Wed Sep 9
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Connie Willis*
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Darby_
6:57 Wed Sep 9
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Mr Anon, Clarke's City and the Stars. Alfred Bester's Tyger, Tyger, Walter M Miller's Canticle of Leibowitz. Connie Wills' Doomsday Book.
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holyhandgrenade
6:49 Wed Sep 9
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Going To Sea In A Sieve - Danny Baker's autobigraphy.
Just midway through it now, Cracking read, well written and honest account of his life so far.
And so what if he is Millwall?
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Mr Anon
6:34 Wed Sep 9
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Haz 6:18 Wed Sep 9
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Really good to hear as I picked it up on a whim yesterday!
Can anyone recommend any good sci fi? Read Clarke's Rama series recently and really enjoyed them
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JustAFatKevinDavies
6:22 Wed Sep 9
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Between a Dott and a hard place
Graeme Dott's autobiography, unbelieveable.
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Haz
6:18 Wed Sep 9
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The Martian by Andy Weir.
The film is coming out soon with Matt 'Jason Bourne' Damon starring. Check out the book though. Un-put-downable!
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cornish
6:09 Wed Sep 9
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Anything buy Conn Iggulden.
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-[Rasta]-
5:44 Wed Sep 9
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Bounce - Matthew Syed
Why are the best figure skaters those that have fallen over the most and why has one small street in Reading produced more top table tennis players than the rest of the country put together.
Two-time Olympian and sports writer and broadcaster Matthew Syed draws on the latest in neuroscience and psychology to uncover the secrets of our top athletes and introduces us to an extraordinary cast of characters, including the East German athlete who became a man, and her husband – and the three Hungarian sisters who are all chess grandmasters. Bounce is crammed with fascinating stories and statistics.
Looking at controversial questions such as whether talent is more important than practice, drugs in sport (and life) and whether black people really are faster runners, the mind-bending Bounce is a must-read for the hardened sports nut or brand new convert.
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Mart O
5:38 Wed Sep 9
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The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi. Stunning book, changed my outlook.
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joe royal
5:13 Wed Sep 9
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the Gormenghast novels by mervyn peake
The cure based a lot of their songs on his writings.
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Monk~koknee
3:55 Wed Sep 9
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A friend gave me a book called Hungry City by Carolyn Steel.
I doubt very much I would ever have bought it myself but it was a fascinating read. It examines the relationship between our cities and the development of food production and distribution practices. May sound dull but it is quite eye-opening and an easy but excellent read.
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WHOicidal Maniac
3:07 Wed Sep 9
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Mark Urban's 'The Rifles'
A 'Factual' Novel based upon the diaries of the Officers and Men of the 95th in the Peninsula Campaign.
Bloody Excellent read.
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Eggbert Nobacon
3:07 Wed Sep 9
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A French writer who came across Oscar Wilde
HE PROBABLY ENJOYED THAT
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Darby_
3:03 Wed Sep 9
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Oscar Wilde by Andre Gide. A French writer who came across Oscar Wilde as a young fella in Paris, before and after his time in gaol.
Five Princes in Amber - A bloke wakes up in a hospital and realises that there's nothing wrong with him and that he's being kept sedated for some mysterious reason. Arty 70s fantasy.
Rendezvous with Rama - typically understated Arthur C Clarke sci fi.
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Bernie
2:55 Wed Sep 9
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Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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lowermarshhammer
2:37 Wed Sep 9
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Trafalgar by Roy Adkins
Author embraces the battle, its prelude and aftermath in a narrative that is at once scholarly and bretahtakingly exciting.
...one arm blown off. then another, then a leg and continues to bark orders propped up by a grain barrel....
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Edinburgh Hammer
2:34 Wed Sep 9
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Judas Pig By Horris Silver if you google the title you will see who its about.
Very graphic...
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