nicodemolga
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I'm just finished with "Mugabe" by David Smith & Colin Simpson (1981).
What book are you reading now?
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Poignard
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"Behind the Bar" by A.E.Bowker. The autobiography of a barrister's clerk.
Boomshanka
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Dan Brown - The lost symbol 
doug748
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Just finished The Mary Deare by Hammond Innes, a grand sea thriller of the old school.
If I remember correctly Innes made a packet out of this book and it gave him the cash to build an offshore racer called - Mary Deare.
If I remember correctly Innes made a packet out of this book and it gave him the cash to build an offshore racer called - Mary Deare.
sarabande
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Molecular Gastronomy by Hervé This, and The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham.
Presents to help keep my mind off grimmer things.
Presents to help keep my mind off grimmer things.
SAWDOC
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Voyages of a simple sailor by Roger Taylor
Excellent book -very well written, moves along at a cracking pace and leaves one with a head full of questions afterwards!
Excellent book -very well written, moves along at a cracking pace and leaves one with a head full of questions afterwards!
purplerobbie
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Legend. David Gemmell.
Rob
Rob
Dyflin
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Lost Voices of the Royal Navy: Vivid Eyewitness Accounts of Life in the Royal Navy from 1914-1945, Max Arthur.
Very enjoyable accounts, different times!
Very enjoyable accounts, different times!
machurley22
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The Boys' Book of the Sea. "21 true stories chosen by Nicholas Monsarrat"
Qwghlm
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A Race Too Far by Chris Eakin.
Story of the 1968 Golden Globe, harrowing enough for me to have to put it down near the end of the book for a day or so before I could finish it...
Submarine : an anthology of first-hand accounts of the war under the sea, 1939-1945 / edited by Jean Hood.
First hand accounts of what it was like to be a submariner, of all nations, during the second world war. Just started this, but what a breed apart those guys were/are.
Steve
Story of the 1968 Golden Globe, harrowing enough for me to have to put it down near the end of the book for a day or so before I could finish it...
Submarine : an anthology of first-hand accounts of the war under the sea, 1939-1945 / edited by Jean Hood.
First hand accounts of what it was like to be a submariner, of all nations, during the second world war. Just started this, but what a breed apart those guys were/are.
Steve
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highandry
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Just finished..A Rumor of War ( American spelling obviously)
Author Philip Caputo..ex US Marine (Infantry)officer Vietnam 1965.
From well intentioned patriotic youngster to disillusioned haunted 'old man' (early 20's) in sixteen months!!
Recommended
Author Philip Caputo..ex US Marine (Infantry)officer Vietnam 1965.
From well intentioned patriotic youngster to disillusioned haunted 'old man' (early 20's) in sixteen months!!
Recommended
jhr
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If you enjoyed A Rumor of War, try "A Bright Shining Lie" by Neil Sheehan. I can't help feeling that those currently involved in pursuing the war in Afghanistan would benefit from reading a book about someone who "....was critical of the U.S. military command, ..... and their inability to adapt to the fact that they were facing a popular guerrilla movement while backing a corrupt regime" (Wikipedia).
Those that do not learn from the lessons of history are fated to repeat them ...
Algol
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Seconded. It manages that rare thing of teaching you all about the history of a country while seeing it from the point of view of one real person (who happened to have been involved at all the major turning points, IIRC). A really good read
Koeketiene
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Three on the go at the moment
- John Otterbacher - Outrageous Grace
- Keillor Robertson - A bear called Euston (the evil twin)
- John Grisham - Ford County stories
- John Otterbacher - Outrageous Grace
- Keillor Robertson - A bear called Euston (the evil twin)
- John Grisham - Ford County stories
michael_w
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Europe by Norman Davies.
A history of Europe from Stone Age to the end of the Cold War. I'm only up to the Roman Empire, very readable and never dull. Get someone to give it to you for Christmas. Miles better than the celebrity trash you'll get given instead.
A history of Europe from Stone Age to the end of the Cold War. I'm only up to the Roman Empire, very readable and never dull. Get someone to give it to you for Christmas. Miles better than the celebrity trash you'll get given instead.
machurley22
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Not recommended.
RobBrown
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Sailing Days by Adlard Coles
Published c 1947.
Superb account of how it used to be!
Here's an excerpt, which is now hard to credit, despite the spirit remaining the same, about the 1939 ROI:
"Humble yachts and expensive yachts, large yachts and small, fast and slow compete in the one great race , and all stand a chance of a prize; the handicappers see to that. Nearly eighty yachts cross the starting line, providing perhaps the finest yachting spectacle of the year."
Entrants 2009 1779!
Published c 1947.
Superb account of how it used to be!
Here's an excerpt, which is now hard to credit, despite the spirit remaining the same, about the 1939 ROI:
"Humble yachts and expensive yachts, large yachts and small, fast and slow compete in the one great race , and all stand a chance of a prize; the handicappers see to that. Nearly eighty yachts cross the starting line, providing perhaps the finest yachting spectacle of the year."
Entrants 2009 1779!
guernseyman
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The End of Time, Julian Barbour - an independent physicist who has a theory that time does not exist. I'm sympathetic: it is surely in short supply, at the very least.
Storms and Wild Water, Dag Pike.
Storms and Wild Water, Dag Pike.
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StoneRoad
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Recent Reading
I read a great deal, and at some speed (must be something to do with being a librarian!)
In the recent past I have read - for leisure purposes.
All the Ransom "swallows and amazons" series
Most of the Alexander Kent novels
All of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey series
and I am currently working my way through the "Sharpe" series by Bernard Cornwall.
Workwise - well, that varies a lot! and is not that appropriate here! But as a sample;things like the instructions for making the weirder bits in Excel work properly, British Standard for paint colours, Suppliers of bespoke brass castings by the lost wax process.
I read a great deal, and at some speed (must be something to do with being a librarian!)
In the recent past I have read - for leisure purposes.
All the Ransom "swallows and amazons" series
Most of the Alexander Kent novels
All of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey series
and I am currently working my way through the "Sharpe" series by Bernard Cornwall.
Workwise - well, that varies a lot! and is not that appropriate here! But as a sample;things like the instructions for making the weirder bits in Excel work properly, British Standard for paint colours, Suppliers of bespoke brass castings by the lost wax process.
Ehbendisdonc
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A Fraction of the Whole (Steve Toltz). First 100 pages were a blast. Another 100 in and I'm a little less sure. Check it out if you've a slightly twisted sense of humour. (Edit - Finally finished it, and sorry to say it never really regained its initial momentum. Time to get back to some sailing autobiographies).
Also, I'm reading North U Trim by Bill Gladstone. My sailing club only presented prizes for 1st places this year so all those 2nd places counted for nought :-( . The pressure is on for 2010.
I've been saving Bill King's Dive and Attack for my Christmas read. I just had it signed by the great man himself at our Laying Up Supper; at 99 years old he even had a boogie on the dance-floor. If you've never read any of his books, I recommend you track down a copy of 'Adventure in Depth' on Ebay or Amazon for stunning writing about his submarine career and Golden Globe / circumnavigation adventures.
Also, I'm reading North U Trim by Bill Gladstone. My sailing club only presented prizes for 1st places this year so all those 2nd places counted for nought :-( . The pressure is on for 2010.
I've been saving Bill King's Dive and Attack for my Christmas read. I just had it signed by the great man himself at our Laying Up Supper; at 99 years old he even had a boogie on the dance-floor. If you've never read any of his books, I recommend you track down a copy of 'Adventure in Depth' on Ebay or Amazon for stunning writing about his submarine career and Golden Globe / circumnavigation adventures.
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