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I'm not into fiction.................. it I want that I'd watch the soaps!
I read a lot of autobiographies but mainly music, sport & comedy and sometimes some interesting actors etc
I have lined up "The making of Dark side of the Moon" & James Fearnley's "Inside story of the Pogues"
Any others that would keep me going?
War and Peace, might see lockdown out :hehe:
If you finish that, there is one called The BIBLE, lots of murders and witchcraft in that :hehe:
How to win friends and influence people Dale Carnegie
A must for you
How to win friends and influence people Dale Carnegie
A must for you
Now come on Ian, I know you've missed my wit, humour & all round charm !
OurManFlint II
21-10-20, 10:45
How to win friends and influence people Dale Carnegie
A must for you
:hehe:
the ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell
So you've been publicly shamed - Jon Ronson
StraightOuttaCanton
21-10-20, 10:57
Passion is a Fashion - Story of The
Clash by Pat Gilbert... probably my favourite music book
The Boy on the Shed - Paul Ferris one of the best football books I’ve ever read
The autobiography of Christopher Livingstone Eubank
Champagne Football - The story of John Delaney, former CEO of the FAI
WJ99mobile
21-10-20, 11:09
There's often good old autobiography in such shops as Home Bargains and Poundland
Taunton Blue Genie
21-10-20, 11:28
Sapiens. Non-fiction and the most interesting book I have read this year. A brief history of mankind.
Apologies for self plug, but you might enjoy ‘Park Life’ four seasons of Rhondda football, a revealing account of the fun, football, community and post match pub culture in a South Wales Sunday League
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Park-Life-Seasons-Rhondda-Sunday/dp/1784618101/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.ylolfa.com/products/9781784618100/park-life
Nick Burnells’s trailing clouds of glory - welsh footballs forgotten heroes of 1976 is good as well
Another poster on here (TOBW) has recently released a book about the 1970/71 Cardiff City season, it’s called Real Madrid and all that
life on mars
21-10-20, 11:58
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Selfish-Whining-Monkeys-Narcissistic-Unhappy/dp/0007351275#ace-g3536363283
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Betrayal-Rod-Liddle/dp/1472132386/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/261-6557490-4857457?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1472132386&pd_rd_r=4949d0b3-2ea5-4577-8b84-c8c4feea22e0&pd_rd_w=2NiTU&pd_rd_wg=vsY1C&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=57D181VNJBNHEP6B5383&psc=1&refRID=57D181VNJBNHEP6B5383
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01AFKHZDE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Y16BEM2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
StraightOuttaCanton
21-10-20, 13:15
Sapiens. Non-fiction and the most interesting book I have read this year. A brief history of mankind.
I listened to this on Audible... the narrator was shit.
I’m sure it would have been better reading It myself
Taunton Blue Genie
21-10-20, 15:59
I listened to this on Audible... the narrator was shit.
I’m sure it would have been better reading It myself
Sorry I spoke :hehe:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F7KHJWB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Gulag Archipeligo. It will take anyone beyond the end of lockdown to understand it.
elytillidie
21-10-20, 18:21
War and Peace, might see lockdown out :hehe:
If you finish that, there is one called The BIBLE, lots of murders and witchcraft in that :hehe:
He dies in the end...
elytillidie
21-10-20, 18:25
Passion is a Fashion - Story of The
Clash by Pat Gilbert... probably my favourite music book
The Boy on the Shed - Paul Ferris one of the best football books I’ve ever read
Passion is a Fashion arrived at my house this morning.
The Earth is Weeping, supposedly better than Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee if you like Native American tales.
Nothing to Envy, the craziness of North Korea.
Gulag by Archie Pelago.
The Lone Gunman
21-10-20, 18:31
I read Bring It On Home by Mark Blake a few months ago - a biography of Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant. It was excellent, 10/10, as are two of Blake's other books: Pigs Might Fly - the Inside History of Pink Floyd, and Pretend You're In A War - The Who & the Sixties.
cyril evans awaydays
21-10-20, 18:34
He dies in the end...
Spoiler Alert
Think you will find that we all die in the end in a final Revelatory chapter
SLUDGE FACTORY
21-10-20, 20:16
The Dirt , Motley Crue
Dreadful band and the story of their heroin induced lifestyle
Hammer Of The Gods , great book about led zep
Race , Studs Terkel .......a tour de force series of interviews about black and white America
The World According To Henry Root , the musings and ramblings of a far right daily mail type idiot
Harry Paget Flashman
21-10-20, 20:51
Read the Flashman series.
History, sex, cowardice, comedy; sex and roggering.
Wash DC Blue
21-10-20, 20:57
Read the Flashman series.
History, sex, cowardice, comedy; sex and roggering.
I’d be surprised if it’s still on sale.
A very guilty chortle of an audio listen.
Wash DC Blue
21-10-20, 20:58
One of the best books I’ve read in the last few years has been “I am Pilgrim” by Terry Hayes.
Fabulous book.
Taunton Blue Genie
21-10-20, 20:59
Passion is a Fashion arrived at my house this morning.
The Earth is Weeping, supposedly better than Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee if you like Native American tales.
Nothing to Envy, the craziness of North Korea.
Gulag by Archie Pelago.
Nothing to Envy is up there with Wild Swans, which relates to China under Mao.
Harry Paget Flashman
21-10-20, 21:00
I’d be surprised if it’s still on sale.
A very guilty chortle of an audio listen.
All available on Amazon - I do have them all up in the attic if anyone wants them.
Steve the Tea
21-10-20, 21:00
"The Christ Virus," by Dave Slade (Amazon)
"Is it possible to predict events years before they happen? Many are calling The Christ Virus prophetic because it foretold the outbreak of a deadly pandemic in 2019, the onset of rioting throughout the country, and the election of a wealthy Republican from New York to the presidency in 2016––all years they happened. But just as chilling are the events in the story that are yet to come. Meticulously researched and written, The Christ Virus is an edge-of-your seat thriller that leaves the reader wondering how a book written so many years ago could foretell the future."
StT.
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Harry Paget Flashman
21-10-20, 21:00
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn is another good read.
SLUDGE FACTORY
21-10-20, 22:22
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn is another good read.
Is it true what they said about errol and his tadger ?
elytillidie
22-10-20, 01:24
Nothing to Envy is up there with Wild Swans, which relates to China under Mao.
Wild Swans is excellent. I also loved the book Chickenhawk, about a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz is an amazing true story, though doubts have been cast over it's authenticity in much the same way as Papillon. I fancy Rhinos, Wino's and Lunatics by Deke Leonard, but very hard to find.
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