Coincidentally, I'm just re-reading Colin Kirkus's "Let's Go Climbing"Quote:
Originally Posted by monkeynut
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Coincidentally, I'm just re-reading Colin Kirkus's "Let's Go Climbing"Quote:
Originally Posted by monkeynut
Moved on to this one now: "Witchcraft Through the Ages - The Story of Häxan, the World's Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It"
http://www.fabpress.com/vsearch.php?CO=FAB078
:)
i can highly recommend
moods of future joys and thunder and sunshine both by alastair humphreys,they are excellent books about him cycling around the world
have a look here
www.alastairhumphreys.com
Anyone read the Ascent of Rum Doodle? Very funny.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ascent-Rum-D...5231930&sr=1-1
I think I'm developing Forum lassitude!!
:cool:
Another WWII one...
"Agent Zigzag" by Ben Macintyre. About a petty English criminal (Eddy Chapman) who was recruited to be a double agent (for the Brits!). Nice 'staged' picture of Eddy in the book wearing an SS uniform!
Cor, has no one read a book since Feb 22nd? :confused:
Just finished a Wallander mystery ("The Man Who Smiled") by Henning Mankell. You might have seen the TV films they did recently with Ken Brannagh. Bloomin' good stuff, ending was disappointing on this one though.
Still, on to the next Wallander - "The Fifth Woman" :eek:
One's enough for me!
just got More Fire - how to run the kenyan way by Toby Tanser,Looks good will update again in a few days ! :)
Does that mean you'll be running barefoot Freddie? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by FREDDIE
BTW - did you run H'field 10K? Where'd you come?
good effort that jodg !, didnt do Huddersfield, fingers crossed Wilmslow in Three Weeks ;)
Visited Sedbergh today and treated myself to a few books... managed (just) to keep it down to four.
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, George Gamow.
Mr Tompkins in Paperback, George Gamow.
The Eightfold Way, Murray Gell-Mann & Yuval Ne'eman.
The Pilgrim's Progress:rolleyes:, John Bunyan.
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Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Brilliant book.
If you ever get the chance, dine out at 'Rum Doodle' restaurant in Kathmandu, Nepal. A real trekkers hang-out for obvious reasons.
They sell cheap copies of the book there !!
Last month read The Welsh Girl - Peter Davies (slow to start but good), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday (good, but not funny as some of the quotes said), Being Emily - Anne Donovan (good), The Road - Cormac McCarthy (wierd). Currently half way through The Road Home - Rose Tremain (which I'm enjoying).
I don't know what to read next :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by jodg
Well I am doing a lot of reading up on error control coding for my course at the moment :mad: but I need a good novel to read a few pages of afterwards so I don't keep dreaming about Hamming codes and stuff :eek: just not sure what, I've read everything I own.
I'm currently reading Lifetime of Mountains: The Best of A. Harry Griffin's Country Diary
http://www.guardianbooks.co.uk/webap...category_42108
http://www.carlhiaasen.com/images/bo...innydip-pb.gifChaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way�doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn't die in the fall.
Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husband's crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Mick's help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself. As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz's cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of island solitude haven't killed the reckless romantic in him, we're taken on a hilarious, full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride through the warped politics and mayhem of the human environment, and the human heart.
Just finished it - very good - but don;t tell the rest of the book group, they wouldn't approve!!
Read an excerpt from that in one of those Waterstones preview magazines they do from time to time. Couple of years back now. I always thought it sounded good, and did mean to get it. Might try again on the back of your recommendation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
Been meaning to read this for ages. I used to cut out his Guardian Diary pieces and then put them in the relevant Wainwright book. Trainspotter or what :oQuote:
Originally Posted by hopey
Onehillwonder said
I don't know what to read next :confused:
Have you tried any Harlan Coben books?
Great suspense novels
At present I'm reading 'The Luftwaffe Papers' by Edward Thorpe and enjoying it immensely
No might give them a go :)
Just finished River Town by Peter Hessler. Interesting insight into Chinese society.
Rum Doodle, a classic almongst classics.
Still have nightmares about Pong!
Developing typing lassitude, more champagne needed........
It's a great book, well worth looking at.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Yes, I wish I hadn't. I found it totally unfunny. It reminded me of watching 'Keeping up Appearances' - knowing that you're supposed to be laughing but not doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernsoftie
Lance Armstring - Its not about the bike, just awesome :)
A grand book that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinGT
I have just sorted myself a good publisher for the 80s music book...watch this space. One or two forum members contributed to the 'what was the first 12" single you ever bought & what was the story behind it' section when i opened it up last year.
Must see book of the year.
Helmand by Robert Walker. Its a photo album from the 07/08 tour in Afghanistan. It will open your eyes.
Re-read Tim Krabbé's 'The Rider' today. I was inspired by fleeter's 'Motivation' thread quote - thanks Andy; what a great book :cool:
I got a new map yesterday, had a read of that, quite good, Explorer #297, some good bits in :)
Nice area that Ady! ;):cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Hello All,
I'm hoping you can help me;
I'm looking for a book (and I have searched for it) It's about a lad from Norway (or Finland or Denmark or Sweden?) Who tried to sail round Cape Horn? with no experience, he just bought a boat and went for it.
At some point he picked up an American? (maybe in Argentina?) who abandoned ship and then the Scandinavian lad sank but was picked up.
I'm sure the title had the word "Viking" in it, I'll continue to search for it but if someone knows what it is please tell me, or just point me in the direction of the details of the story.
Thanks.
Vincent Densons new book , which by my marks takes me over 200 cycling books
Still ploughing through jodg's history of the Warsaw Rising (Rising '44), but did sneak a quick read of the intro and prologue to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, which I picked up in a Skipton charity shop at the weekend.
Also got Jude the Obscure lined up, which, signature watchers, is where my current signature's from. Almost time for a change, methinks...
2/3 of the way through Barefoot Runner - Paul Rambini its the previously untold story of Abebe Bikila and although I cant really say I am thrilled with the style its a fascinating story
Dug up and rekindled this thread.... because we just don't have enough threads with today's in the title :D
Well I'm currently reading The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan; its a bit hard going but not nearly as hard going as the Thucydides original, a book I also have for my sins. The most telling thing about the Peloponnesian War (fought between Athens and Sparta) is that all the mistakes, grand ideas, atrocities and bog ups they made in 431 BC, we still continually make today.
I've also just recently read yet again Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor - just unbelievable really what both the Russians and the Germans went through there, unbelievable.
And on a lighter note I read the whole Twilight saga, thats Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, over the summer and now know all the answers of what happens and why to Bella, her vampire boyfriend Edward and her shape shifting (into a wolf) other boyfriend Jacob. Can't wait for New Moon to come out at the cinema :D
Inspired by this thread, I've just finished "Dubliners", James Joyce. Very good, particularly the final story "The Dead".
Now its back to "Wolf Hall", Hilary Mantel, for book club, which I've already read, enjoyed and need to prepare for discussion.
My goodness Stolly...a little bit of light reading eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stolly
I am currently looking at the pictures in 'Mr.Bump'
Only joking...
Just finished Timbuktu by Paul Auster. Dipping into The Roughguide to India as I'm off there soon and started 'Crow Country' by Mark Cocker
Wild Swans by Jung Chang going well. Read just over 100 pages. A real epic; nearly another 600 to go :)
Anything by Charlie Connelly.
Anything at all
Utter brilliance.
Wish I could write as well as that !