Books - What are you reading?

[Goaty Bill 2]

andy_s said:

whitesocks said:

I must admit, as an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, I hav'nt read a lot of Asimov.

Have another

[droopsnoot]

I've just finished "The end of the world running club" by Adrian J Walker. An interesting tale, Earth has been struck by many asteroids and things aren't looking good, the main character gets split from his family and has to get from Edinburgh to the south coast to find them. Not bad, though I did think it fizzled out a bit towards the end.

[PushedDover]

In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :




Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.

I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)

[andy_s]

PushedDover said:

In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :




Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.

I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)

Goggins is nuts, [he's got his own book too iirc] and there's a great interview with Itzler on Joe Rogan about it all that had me in stitches.

https://youtu.be/1_LUggiIeUg

Edited by andy_s on Sunday 16th August 08:37

[MC Bodge]

PushedDover said:

In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :




Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.

I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)

I had a look at reviews and there were some suggestions that Goggins' book might be better from a training point of view. Any thoughts?

[PushedDover]

MC Bodge said:

PushedDover said:

In line with two of the above (failure is not an option & the end of the world running club) - I blitzed through :




Assuming all verbatim - astonishing.

I heard Chris Evans talk about this on his show a while back and found it on my kindle.
(apols if mentioned on before -not a regular on this thread)

I had a look at reviews and there were some suggestions that Goggins' book might be better from a training point of view. Any thoughts?

Hmm I hadn’t heard and would t want to know about SEAL himself prior to reading.

It read well to me that way.

As for a ‘training’ point of view. No idea- totally not applicable to me
I just enjoyed the read, hence post.

[p1doc]

droopsnoot said:

I've just finished "The end of the world running club" by Adrian J Walker. An interesting tale, Earth has been struck by many asteroids and things aren't looking good, the main character gets split from his family and has to get from Edinburgh to the south coast to find them. Not bad, though I did think it fizzled out a bit towards the end.

really enjoyed it-there is a sequel of sorts from his wife's point of view

[K12beano]

Having a re-read:




I know it’s going to be quite a treat.... like finding an old friend. Just 5 chapters in so far.

[TheJimi]

K12beano said:

Having a re-read:




I know it’s going to be quite a treat.... like finding an old friend. Just 5 chapters in so far.

Absolutely brilliant. Remains one of the few books I've read twice.

[zygalski]

I can't remember reading a more atmospheric book.

[andy_s]

Never heard of it - my turn for the May kindle it for some quarantine reading.

[epom]

K12beano said:

Having a re-read:




I know it’s going to be quite a treat.... like finding an old friend. Just 5 chapters in so far.

No way, my Dad just gave me that book at the weekend, said it’s amazing. It’s the first time he’s said to me he wants a book back

[unrepentant]

Just finished this. Outstanding, the best Macintyre that I’ve read (and they’re all good).

[IanA2]

unrepentant said:

Just finished this. Outstanding, the best Macintyre that I’ve read (and they’re all good).

Agreed, very good. Looking forward to Agent Sonya.

[SistersofPercy]

A staggering 14 years too late to this party, but probably the best titled autobiography I've read.

[paulguitar]

Revenge thriller series in a sort of 'Netflix episode' format. Absolutely riveting:

[andy_s]

Looks good ^



Not quite sure what to make of this so thought I'd have a deeper dive into it.

[Stan the Bat]

An interesting guy, Mr Wolfram.

[miniman]

[Legend83]

epom said:

No way, my Dad just gave me that book at the weekend, said it’s amazing. It’s the first time he’s said to me he wants a book back

Not to raise expectations too high but it is probably one of my favourite books ever.

Fermín Romero de Torres is one of the best novel characters of all time.