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'Harry's War - The Great War Diary of Harry Drinkwater'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harrys-War-Harry-Drinkwate...
Superb. I have read a few books about the Great War, most of them good, but this stands out. Nothing else has got me this 'close' to the trenches and the whole experience. Highly recommended.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harrys-War-Harry-Drinkwate...
Superb. I have read a few books about the Great War, most of them good, but this stands out. Nothing else has got me this 'close' to the trenches and the whole experience. Highly recommended.
The Three by Sarah Lotz - thoroughly enjoying it, bought yesterday, 50% complete already.
Has an accompanying website too... http://www.thethreebook.com/
Has an accompanying website too... http://www.thethreebook.com/
King Herald said:
About once every five years I pull out my dog eared copy of 'Lucifers Hammer' and give that a good read. It is nostalgic to go back to a book you've owned for 30+ years. I seem to remember first reading it as an apprentice in the 70's or early 80's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer
Great book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer
had ham said:
The Three by Sarah Lotz - thoroughly enjoying it, bought yesterday, 50% complete already.
Has an accompanying website too... http://www.thethreebook.com/
What is it about? Has an accompanying website too... http://www.thethreebook.com/
Just finished "Vanishing Point" by Val McDermid, pretty good story but not if you don't like stuff that jumps forwards and backwards every few pages. A little predictable towards the end, I though, but readable.
I've just started "The Avenger" by Frederick Forsyth. So far there's a bit of Vietnam stuff in it, still waiting to get to the part where he tells the dramatic story of designing a mid-range family saloon car.
I've just started "The Avenger" by Frederick Forsyth. So far there's a bit of Vietnam stuff in it, still waiting to get to the part where he tells the dramatic story of designing a mid-range family saloon car.
Currently reading "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein. I have to say that I'm fairly conventional in my outlook on life, but Klein really does have a way of presenting humanist subjects in a way that makes you think about what you've been told as being "the truth". It's well researched, eye opening and in some ways an abhorrent look at Friedmanism. Highly recommended.
I've been reading Somewhere Different by Duncan Ridgley.
Duncan gave up the 7:45 to King's Cross one day and started out on a two year adventure with his family - first around the Balkans, then to Egypt and finally planning to spend some time on a piece of land he'd purchased which was going to be paradise.
Nature had a different idea when he and the family arrived on Christmas Day, 2004, on the east coast of Sri Lanka, they never saw their plot of land in paradise, because when they got up the day after they arrived..... well suffice to say "Somewhere Different" became "Something Quite Different"!
I wouldn't say it was particularly well written, although I would say it seems to come from the heart and enters a world of internal struggle to be able to make a difference to his family, while dealing with the unexpected, the scary, the funny and the downright mundane struggle of plumbing in an old american RV. Couldn't put it down - even before I got to the heartstopping moments of Boxing Day 2004. highly, highly recommended as "Something Different" to read.
silverthorn2151 said:
Nezquick said:
Just got back from holiday and whilst there I read a 6 book series called "Arisen" which is basically about a zombie apocalypse. If you like such books, i'd thoroughly recommend this series as it's non-stop action from page 1 and through all 6 books. The seventh is currently being written.
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Like the sound of those and the first two are about £2.00 for the pair on my Kindle, so I'll give 'em a go!.
Started reading this:
but found it a little tedious so put it down. Picked up this instead:
Wow. What a fantastic thriller, I couldn't put it down. About a dysfunctional female DI tracking down a serial killer who's MO is to imprison two friends/colleagues/lovers with nothing but a gun with a single bullet.
Championed by many on PH, I am now onto this:
but found it a little tedious so put it down. Picked up this instead:
Wow. What a fantastic thriller, I couldn't put it down. About a dysfunctional female DI tracking down a serial killer who's MO is to imprison two friends/colleagues/lovers with nothing but a gun with a single bullet.
Championed by many on PH, I am now onto this:
Legend83 said:
Started reading this:
but found it a little tedious so put it down. Picked up this instead:
Wow. What a fantastic thriller, I couldn't put it down. About a dysfunctional female DI tracking down a serial killer who's MO is to imprison two friends/colleagues/lovers with nothing but a gun with a single bullet.
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By a startling coincidence I did exactly the same with the same two books.but found it a little tedious so put it down. Picked up this instead:
Wow. What a fantastic thriller, I couldn't put it down. About a dysfunctional female DI tracking down a serial killer who's MO is to imprison two friends/colleagues/lovers with nothing but a gun with a single bullet.
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Except I wasn't finding The Goldfinch tedious at all, I was just too lazy to make the effort.
I hate myself for being lazy. I enjoyed Eeny meeny as a cheap thriller but four or five weeks later when I read your post I had to google it to check if I had read it whereas I know if I had made the effort with the other one I would remember it for years.
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