November_rain Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 GREY.My sister bought a cheap version of that book but she didn´t realize it was the version in English so she gave it to me. Whether I like the story or not it´s pretty cool to read it in its original language because a lot of hints and little details are always lost with the translation to another language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 "The Strat in the Attic, Thrilling Stories of Guitar Archaeology" by Deke Dickersonif you are into guitars you will drool over the stories of vintage guitars the author found under peoples beds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrShankly Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 The Establishment. Anyone else read it? Anyone have any thoughts on Owen Jones, the author? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orsys Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrGood read. Won the Pulitzer Prize some year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 The Establishment. Anyone else read it? Anyone have any thoughts on Owen Jones, the author?Heart in the right place, but too much faith in the Labour party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandallFlagg Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Poetry and letters concerning world war 1 from the british perspective, never stopped learning about it since a level literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracii Guns Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Finally reading A Short History of Nearly Everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetterDay7 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Finally reading A Short History of Nearly Everything.I'm currently reading The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 I've read all of Bryson's - I'm a huge fan. He has a new one out about Britain, a sequel of sorts to Notes from a Small Island. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetterDay7 Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 I've read all of Bryson's - I'm a huge fan. He has a new one out about Britain, a sequel of sorts to Notes from a Small Island.Wanted to see the film A Walk in the Woods on Saturday but friend wanted to go to theatre the instead. Shame cos play was rubbish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 I read the one about Australia the other day. Bryson that is. I keep buying books like Libra by Delillo and temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mashima and can't read them. Drinking too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Bill Bryson is great!On the last book about Richard Sharpe now. Set to Chile a few years after the Peninsular War. Not the best fo far.Also reading a historical treatment of the redjackets. I was suppose to read it in parallel to the Sharpe novels, but as it turned out, I preferred the action of Sharpe to the more academic presentation, and the book is only just started. I will finish it when Sharpe is done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) Notes on a Small Island. He goes to Stonehenge and cant get in so he has a coffee. In the Australia one he's more a cold beer guy. All his books put me off travel. Has he been to pyramids. It's ghastly. Broken glass and trash everywhere. Camels chasing you and renegade "guides" trying to rip you off. Taxi drivers worst ever for triple charging and fighting. My friend almost threw one of them off this over pass because he stopped and wouldn't move til we gave him money. So we got and before I knew it our man had him up against this railing. There was a small skuffle and I lost my hat i got in thailand. Must be in the back seat. Should be horrific holiday story thread or something. Stay vigilant people. Edited October 14, 2015 by wasted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won a Referendum, But Lost Scotland by Iain MacWhirter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won a Referendum, But Lost Scotland by Iain MacWhirter. Is that the latest Mills & Boon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won a Referendum, But Lost Scotland by Iain MacWhirter. Is that the latest Mills & Boon?It's the new Encyclopaedia Britannica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 i'm just glad that this thread finally got a pinned status over here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) If you wanna know how the SU GULAG worked, then read this Edited October 19, 2015 by Strange Broue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Mao II - DeLillo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 The Murder House by James Patterson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfriend Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 The Art of Fisting by Uma Handstinks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooting Star Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Started "Our Culture, What's Left of It" by Theodore Dalrymple 2 days ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Danny Baker memoirs part 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Finished "Sharpe's Christmas" yesterday, a book with two short stories set to different times in the life of Richard Sharpe. Sharpe and Harper have fought their last battle, no more books to read.I turn to Saul David's "All the King's Men", the aforementioned historical treatise on the British redcoat. Right now I am reading about the Independence war in North America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I have Saul David's book on the Zulu War on my bookshelf. It is good from what I can remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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