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« on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 10:36:24 » |
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Ive just finished Dead Men Risen, about the Welsh Guards in Afghan, very good read. and now started a short history of England by Simon Morton, slow going but well worth it.
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Sad to say, i must be on my way
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 10:50:56 » |
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I've taken a liking to self-help/improvement type books recently. I'm just re-reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad which makes a lot more sense now that I'm a few years wiser.
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pauld
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 10:58:48 » |
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Soccernomics as a follow-up to The Numbers Game, both variations on the theme of applying statistical analysis/econometrics to football. It's good in places, and a bit Observer Magazine "Oooh, isn's this fascinating?" (no) in others
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 10:59:42 » |
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The Selfish Gene. Again.
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Red Frog
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 10:59:56 » |
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Ive just finished Dead Men Risen, about the Welsh Guards in Afghan, very good read. and now started a short history of England by Simon Morton, slow going but well worth it.
Then you might like the one I'm reading at the moment, called War by Sebastian Junger, a journalist shadowing an elite US unit in Afghanistan, but mainly about getting under the skin of what combat is like, and what it does to the minds of people who engage in it. He made the documentary Restrepo on the same topic. Fascinating analysis of how people cope with and even get addicted to the brotherhood and adrenaline surge of war. |
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sűr ŕ propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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wiggy
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:09:53 » |
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Reading a collection of plays from the 60's at the moment, all classic "Angry Young Men" stuff by the likes of Wesker, Arden, Bond, Orton and Osbourne.
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:12:49 » |
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pauld
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:19:41 » |
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:29:29 » |
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It's not a bad read to be fair (I read it a good few years ago now).
You still in Australia BBJ? No new books on the horizon?
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:30:42 » |
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I know. I need a new set of golf clubs.
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Berniman
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:51:16 » |
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Well it's out of stock so that could be a good thing or a bad thing. Sold out because of demand? Sold out because no stock is required? |
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius
When somebody shouts STOP! I never know if it's in the name of love, if it's HAMMER TIME, or if I should collaborate and listen...
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Foggy
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 11:58:05 » |
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I fancy some classics next, maybe sophies choice or catcher in the rye?
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 12:09:56 » |
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Just finished a biography of an interesting Wiltshireman, John Aubrey. Written by Aubrey Burl, entitled John Aubrey and Stone Circles: Britain's First Archaeologist.
Aubrey lived an interesting life at an interesting time, and was very much a man of that time...an enquiring gentleman polymath, who spunked away the family fortune, on poorly chosen ladies, wine, and the endless pursuit of knowledge.
The Restoration had provided a window of opportunity through which the likes of Aubrey and fellow travellers like Edmund Halley, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and the daddy Isaac Newton could climb through producing a golden age, documented by the likes of Samuel Pepys.
Ultimately history has judged Aubrey as something of a dilettante...he wrote copiously on a wide variety of subjects, but was rarely organised enough to publish anything. Even the book most notably associated with him, the somewhat salacious Brief Lives, was compiled from his notes left to the Bodleian Library. Much of his Wiltshire archaeological stuff is still kicking around in note form somewhere in the Bodleian.
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 12:10:58 » |
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I have just got into the quick reads section at my local library, the last one i read was the grey man by Andy McNab, the next book i have to read is Odd Appocolypse by Dean Koontz. I also have 3 more quick reads as well, 2 by Andy McNab & 1 by James Patterson.
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pauld
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 12:17:07 » |
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Aubrey lived an interesting life at an interesting time, and was very much a man of that time...an enquiring gentleman polymath, who spunked away the family fortune, on poorly chosen ladies, wine, and the endless pursuit of knowledge.
Sounds like a man after your own heart Reg! |
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