Any book recommendations for lockdown?
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?
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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:
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How to win friends and influence people Dale Carnegie
A must for you
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olderblue
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 !
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olderblue
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
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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
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The autobiography of Christopher Livingstone Eubank
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Champagne Football - The story of John Delaney, former CEO of the FAI
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There's often good old autobiography in such shops as Home Bargains and Poundland
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Sapiens. Non-fiction and the most interesting book I have read this year. A brief history of mankind.
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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-S...=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
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Taunton Blue Genie
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
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StraightOuttaCanton
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:
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The Gulag Archipeligo. It will take anyone beyond the end of lockdown to understand it.
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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...
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StraightOuttaCanton
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.
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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.
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elytillidie
He dies in the end...
Spoiler Alert
Think you will find that we all die in the end in a final Revelatory chapter
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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
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Read the Flashman series.
History, sex, cowardice, comedy; sex and roggering.
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Harry Paget Flashman
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.
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One of the best books I’ve read in the last few years has been “I am Pilgrim” by Terry Hayes.
Fabulous book.
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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.