AmandaJR
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Almost finished The Chimp Paradox and then Bounce is next on the armchair. I was bought a "Nook" e-reader but not sure yet about it!
What books are you reading these days?
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Big_Rick78
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I do love a bit of Jack. Tom Cruise he aint though!! Read all of them.
Im currently reading Liberation day, book 5 of Andy McNabs Nick Stone series.
Doon frae Troon
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Trying to read Hank Haney's book on Tigger but I keep falling asleep after a couple of pages.
Recently read bill Bryson's Home which annoyed my wife as I kept waking her up by saying 'huh I never knew that'. Very good read.
Best book last year for me was Black Watch by Tom Renouf. He was in my Dads regiment and I was able to follow his times in WW2. Like many my dad never talked about the war but I knew he made sergeant and had a spell as a sniper. I was in tears for much of the book as it was written in basic but graphic terms. The regiment were first acress the Rhine and first into Germany, liberating Belsen on the way.
One line stays with me from Renhoulf. Something like .....'Here I am a killer and a murderer, who would have thought that 18 months ago when I was a Murrayfield boy scout and regular church member. I would think nothing of cold bloodily killing an black uniformed SS trooper surendering with his hands up.
Recently read bill Bryson's Home which annoyed my wife as I kept waking her up by saying 'huh I never knew that'. Very good read.
Best book last year for me was Black Watch by Tom Renouf. He was in my Dads regiment and I was able to follow his times in WW2. Like many my dad never talked about the war but I knew he made sergeant and had a spell as a sniper. I was in tears for much of the book as it was written in basic but graphic terms. The regiment were first acress the Rhine and first into Germany, liberating Belsen on the way.
One line stays with me from Renhoulf. Something like .....'Here I am a killer and a murderer, who would have thought that 18 months ago when I was a Murrayfield boy scout and regular church member. I would think nothing of cold bloodily killing an black uniformed SS trooper surendering with his hands up.
richart
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Juast finished the latest 'Harry Bosch' Michael Connelly.
Big_Rick78
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Are they any good?
richart
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Yes I have read them all. If I was going to read them though I would start with the first book, and work my way through them.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Are you learning to keep your Chimp under control while utilising your computer and human on the golf course?
Khamelion
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Someone at work, keeps saying he's going to let his inner chimp out, has it got anything to do the the chimp book that is mentioned?
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
It does. The basic premise of the book is that you have 3 parts to your brain. The Chimp, The Computer and The Human.
The Chimp is the emotional part, The Computer is your memory store/filing system and the Human is Logical/Reasoning etc. My wife heads a team of Mental Health practitioners for the NHS in Leeds. She has the book at her bedside table. My nickname for her is Chimp.:lol:
The Chimp is the emotional part, The Computer is your memory store/filing system and the Human is Logical/Reasoning etc. My wife heads a team of Mental Health practitioners for the NHS in Leeds. She has the book at her bedside table. My nickname for her is Chimp.:lol:
Midnight
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Just finished reading all the Charlie Owen books for the 10th time and started one called Shadow Unit 1 (free on Kindle) which is like the program Criminal minds.
AmandaJR
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I'm getting there. Chimp (aka Ian) gets the occasional bit of exercise but within reason, and I at least know when he's in control now!
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deanobillquay
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Currently, the new search for the perfect golf club by Tom wishon, very interesting read from a knowledgable guy.
Read all the jack reacher books, can recommend Stephen leather, cracking author.
Favourite has to be fidel Castro - my life. Brilliant book.
Read all the jack reacher books, can recommend Stephen leather, cracking author.
Favourite has to be fidel Castro - my life. Brilliant book.
Fader
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I read alsorts have read all the Andy McNabbs, Chris Ryan's, Dan Browns and Jack Reachers. As well as most of Cornwells And Clancys
Just literally bought a new book in way home from work when I popped into Asda, It's Called The Yard, a thriller based in days past about tracking a killer.
I'll read almost anything, a book over TV anytime
Just literally bought a new book in way home from work when I popped into Asda, It's Called The Yard, a thriller based in days past about tracking a killer.
I'll read almost anything, a book over TV anytime
bobmac
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Delia
Liverbirdie
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I've never read any other Wilbur Smith's outside of the Egyptian series - River God,seventh scroll, Warlock although the fourth one (the quest) was shockingly bad compared to the first three which were great. I've just never fancied the other ones.
Just finished a book called "A line in the sand" which is about how Britain and France divided up the middle east, after the break up of the Ottoman empire. It is written with the help of new documents released over 60 years later. It includes Lawrence of Arabia, Winston Churchill, De Gaulle and others and also the machinations of civil servants, ambassadors and how truly shocking Britain and France badly treated the locals, as well as each other from 1914 up to and after the end of the Palestine mandate.
It mentions France backing Jewish terrorists/freedom fighters against the British, at the same time that we were trying to liberate France from the nazis.
Just started the 2nd book of the century trilogy in Ken Follett's "winter of the world" - "Fall of giants" was the first and was brilliant, which took it up to the late 1920's. This has just started in 1933 with Hitler seizing power in Germany.
It follows various families from America,Britain, Russia and they are all slowly intertwining over different generations, against the backdrop of the social barriers coming down within Britain,Russian revolution WW1, WW2.
If anyone can suspend belief enough, and fancies reading books that are like watching an Indiana Jones movie - read seven sacred stones and the follow ups from Matthew Reilly. Quite far fetached, but he interlinks religious objects/sites with a rip-roaring page turning storyline.
sydney greenstreet
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Just started Under the Dome by Stephen King.
stevie_r
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not been reading much recently but slowly working my way through Pete Townshend - who am I?, with Keith Richard's autobiography to go after that
drawboy
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I've got David Dalglish'es half orc series on the old Kindle at the moment. I'm a fantasy kinda guy!
For my shame haven't sat and read anything non golf related in a long time.
Hank Haney - The big miss
