Stagtime Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 Autobiographies and History. Book I couldn’t put down was The Great War For Civilisation by Robert Fisk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob The Badger Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 7 hours ago, Stagtime said: Autobiographies and History. Book I couldn’t put down was The Great War For Civilisation by Robert Fisk. Why, dod you tweak your back or something? Stagtime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggins Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 I saw John Hurt on a TV adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in the late 1970's. It haunted me so much that I read the novel in tandem with the series. What a book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 10 minutes ago, Miggins said: I saw John Hurt on a TV adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in the late 1970's. It haunted me so much that I read the novel in tandem with the series. What a book! You shouldn't have lent it to the EFL though Miggins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 I enjoy autobiographies of any kind really, have read so many I forget them all, but focused on topics I enjoy, so on climbing- 127 hours, Touching the Void, cycling - Lance Armstrong, The Secret Race, football - Paul McGrath, Paul Merson..and anything about film/TV eg Errol Flynn, Derren Brown. DesertRam and BrudeRAM 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertRam Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Have you read " The Moons a Balloon" by David Niven, has some of the funniest stories i've ever heard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sufferingfool Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 12 hours ago, DesertRam said: Have you read " The Moons a Balloon" by David Niven, has some of the funniest stories i've ever heard! Yes many years ago very good Bring on the Empty Horses is also very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Scandal at Dolphin Square. Don't read it if you believe the British establishment are good guys........you may be disappointed. https://www.waterstones.com/book/scandal-at-dolphin-square/simon-danczuk/daniel-smith/9780750997140 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 33 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said: Scandal at Dolphin Square. Don't read it if you believe the British establishment are good guys........you may be disappointed. https://www.waterstones.com/book/scandal-at-dolphin-square/simon-danczuk/daniel-smith/9780750997140 Danczuk was the guy that skewered Cyril Smith wasn’t he? Not literally of course, he was a bit too old for Cyril. Rev and uttoxram75 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Just started a new job publishing popular science books for Penguin. Where is the love for the greatest of all nonfiction genres in this thread? Where would we be without On the Origin of Species or The Selfish Gene or, though I say it myself, the magnificent Cosmos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 18 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: Just started a new job publishing popular science books for Penguin. Where is the love for the greatest of all nonfiction genres in this thread? Where would we be without On the Origin of Species or The Selfish Gene or, though I say it myself, the magnificent Cosmos? I bought that Cosmos book, looking forward to reading about Pele, Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto, et al. Bloody rubbish it was, going on, and on, about science and civilization. Still waiting for my refund. Carl Sagan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrudeRAM Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Non-fiction not as much my area as fiction but would highly recommend the secret race -despite not having a huge passion for cycling- and Bill Bryson’s travel diaries are hilarious Chester40 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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