Book recommendations...

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Originally posted by steved:
"Electrical Engineering 101 2ND edition.
Everything you should of learned at school...
but probably didn't".

.....presumably the difference between "of" and "have" is in the 3RD edition !!

STEVE D

You are correct of course - "HAVE" not "OF"

I should "of" listened more and paid attention instead "of" detention.

Cheers, Steve

Extra ordinary debut novel written in the new literature style but superb nevertheless.

A beautiful book documenting the cover art of ECM Records

I want it!

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
I want it!

It's 40 quid. Best price I found was in Waterstones for 34.99. Be careful, they have it on their system at both 40 and the 34.99. Also make sure you get English version as it has also been released in German.

I've just finished reading this book -



Frankie Boyle, for those who don't know, is one of the panellists on "Mock The Week", a satire show on BBC.

The book itself is quite shameful. It pokes fun at all areas of society including religion, the Royal Family, the Scots etc., in a most unpleasant and vile manner. It drips with offensive smut and gratuitous swearing and covers such unsavoury topics as paedophelia with a complete disregard for normal human sensibilities.

Me, I laughed my socks off!

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Originally posted by Paper Plane:
Smallcreep's Day by Peter Currell Brown

Well worth a read.

steve

Great album too!

Regards

Stephen

A splendid journey..

Great choice mongo.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this as I usually don't enjoy Booker winners

This for tomorrow and Monday.

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Originally posted by mongo:
This for tomorrow and Monday.

I enjoyed that one a lot.

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:

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Originally posted by mongo:
This for tomorrow and Monday.

I enjoyed that one a lot.

I'm looking forward to it. Hope it is as good as The Ancestors Tale.

This is a wonderful story wonderfully told by a fine writer thoroughly engaged with his task. My best book for a long time

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Originally posted by mongo:
This is a wonderful story wonderfully told by a fine writer thoroughly engaged with his task. My best book for a long time

I think this looks like my cup of tea,, thanks for the heads up.

Hi Voltaire. I'm sure you'll enjoy it, the writer's obvious delight with the stories told is quite infectious.

This is a book so enjoyable and compelling it should have been ten times as long.

Mr Fortey's books read as easily as any books I've ever read and are all open mouth admirable. Should be compulsory reading in schools and colleges.

My third time for this one.

Christopher Moore, "A Dirty Job"

Lightweight and lots of fun.

Instead of reading highly technical work related material, trying to relax with the following for bedtime reading:



A great example that Booker winners can write entertaining books too.

I read this again week before last and still giving it some thought. Superb storyteller.

Last year, or a little earlier, I bought and read this masterpiece.

Within six weeks i had obtained and read the other nineteen in the series.

I have never read any other novel which was so entirely and intensely realistic;
superbly characterised and researched.

I'm going through them all again. This is armchair adventuring at it's very, very best.

Should you get the chance, it's quite impossible not be smitten i believe.

"An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen ‘warriors’ from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.

Over the course of forty years of writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea or air) – and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples sixteen people from different nationalities in modern history – including Napoleon’s ‘blessed fool’ Baron Marcellin de Marbot (the model for Conan Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard); Sir Harry Smith, whose Spanish wife Juana became his military companion on many a campaign in the early 19th-century; Lieutenant John Chard, an unassuming engineer who became the hero of Rorke’s Drift in the Zulu wars; and Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the ‘dam buster’ whose heroism in the skies of World War II earned him the nation's admiration, but few friends.Every army, in order to prevail on the battlefield, needs a certain number of people capable of courage beyond the norm. In this book Max Hastings investigates what this norm might be – and how it has changed over the centuries. While celebrating feats of outstanding valour, he also throws a beady eye over the awarding of medals for gallantry – and why it is that so often the most successful warriors rarely make the grade as leaders of men."

Extraordinary man, and an exceptionally good, very well written tale. A different world, same people. Superb escapism.

I have recently very much enjoyed Wolf Hall - I'd recommend it
SJ

PS I just ordered the Caesar recommendation. Thanks Mongo