Best book you've ever read?

[sky tot]

the hobbit-just a great story.

 

[barryo]

HowTo Stop Worrying and Start Living....Dale Carnegie.

Its not about worrying, its about life. it changed mine.

This from the man who rushed down to CoMS or Carrington at the first whiff of a new signing? WTF were you like before you read it!

Bwahahha I was wondering myself how the book might have affected or somehow influenced him to drive to COMS that day

Johnny come latelys.......FFS get with the programme.

Since when did I drive to COMS ?

Thats called chinese whispers

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

HowTo Stop Worrying and Start Living....Dale Carnegie.

Its not about worrying, its about life. it changed mine.

This from the man who rushed down to CoMS or Carrington at the first whiff of a new signing? WTF were you like before you read it!

Bwahahha I was wondering myself how the book might have affected or somehow influenced him to drive to COMS that day

Johnny come latelys.......FFS get with the programme.

Since when did I drive to COMS ?

Piece of advice mate - never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

[barryo]

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Piece of advice mate - never let the facts get in the way of a good story.[/quote]


Cheers Johnny.......I'll try to remember that

 

[Bluesince1979]

the sett by ranulph fiennes

 

[Matty]

I don't read a great deal, but I remember The Hobbit being superb. I also really enjoyed A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson. In fact most of Bill Bryson's stuff is excellent.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Anything by Fyodor Dostoevsky,especially The Brothers Karamazov.
Anything by Albert Camus,especially The Plague.
Anything by Graham Greene,especially The End Of The Affair.

For an overview of world politics,anything by Noam Chomsky or Robert Fisk.

 

[blue47766]

I've read a lot of excellent books but one that really stands out is The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell especially the chapters about Wigan its self. Yes I do have connections with Wigan, half my family came from there and my girlfriend lives there, hope I don't have to start ducking hahaha. Anybody who is interested in Social History this is a brilliant read.

 

[blueandy1mac]

Can't believe no-one has mentioned 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Harper Lee. Which incidentally is also a classic film.

Absolutely anything by Dickens, Thomas Hardy, PG Wodehouse (great fun) Scott Fitzgerald...... s..t there's too many. Then again thats the beauty of reading over any other medium - your own imagination

 

[blueandy1mac]

Hemmingway, how did I forget him ?

Sorry not titles but there are far too many.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Shantaram is a classic. Well worth a read,

 

[alib]

Underworld by Don Delillo

THE best book of the last 50 years

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Shantaram is a classic. Well worth a read,

Very good holiday read indeed,sdavros,despite being longer than John Holmes' todger!

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Shantaram is a classic. Well worth a read,

Very good holiday read indeed,sdavros,despite being longer than John Holmes' todger!

and just like said todger it's riddled with diseases..

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

Underworld by Don Delillo

THE best book of the last 50 years

I had that somwhere, never completed it .... wtf happened to it?

 

[alib]

Underworld by Don Delillo

THE best book of the last 50 years

I had that somwhere, never completed it .... wtf happened to it?

you mean the baseball?

 

[Knight1979]

Anything by Fyodor Dostoevsky,especially The Brothers Karamazov.
Anything by Albert Camus,especially The Plague.
Anything by Graham Greene,especially The End Of The Affair.

For an overview of world politics,anything by Noam Chomsky or Robert Fisk.

NJ have you read anything by Kevin Phillips? if you like Noam check him out, brilliant mind........he used to be an advisor to Nixon but has gone the other way, big time.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Anything by Fyodor Dostoevsky,especially The Brothers Karamazov.
Anything by Albert Camus,especially The Plague.
Anything by Graham Greene,especially The End Of The Affair.

For an overview of world politics,anything by Noam Chomsky or Robert Fisk.

NJ have you read anything by Kevin Phillips? if you like Noam check him out, brilliant mind........he used to be an advisor to Nixon but has gone the other way, big time.

Only Reckless Finance,Knight,(which kinda sums up my fiscal policy generally,sadly)!
I like his take on the North/South divide as well as his economic theories,but maybe,given his past misdemenours with the Nixon (mal)administration,it proves that even the most wretched of sinners can be redeemed.
Which reminds me - not heard from Pokomoke for a while...!

 

[glyncity]

batavias graveyard by mike dash
In 1629, the Dutch merchantman Batavia grounded on a desolate atoll near Western Australia. Of the 200 survivors, 115 were subsequently murdered, in coldest blood, by a group of the ship's sailors and their psychopathic leader, Jeronimus Corneliszoon. Batavia's Graveyard is Mike Dash's unnerving, measured account of the incident. The victims included children, babies, and pregnant women; the crimes took place over a period of several months. Though the killings make a substantial, chilling tale in themselves, Dash adroitly places the shocking spree in larger context with illuminating discussions of 17th century medical practices, religious heresy, global politics, and shipboard sociology and daily life. Additionally, he draws dozens of portraits of the participants in this ghastly drama, most fascinatingly that of Corneliszoon, who emerges as a grotesquely charismatic predecessor of the likes of Charles Manson and Ted Bundy. Batavia's Graveyard, a skillful melding of accessible scholarship and evenhanded narrative and of overview and telling detail, is a welcome achievement. --H. O'Billovitch

history,true crime and seafaring what more could you wish for ?

 

[Knight1979]

Anything by Fyodor Dostoevsky,especially The Brothers Karamazov.
Anything by Albert Camus,especially The Plague.
Anything by Graham Greene,especially The End Of The Affair.

For an overview of world politics,anything by Noam Chomsky or Robert Fisk.

NJ have you read anything by Kevin Phillips? if you like Noam check him out, brilliant mind........he used to be an advisor to Nixon but has gone the other way, big time.

Only Reckless Finance,Knight,(which kinda sums up my fiscal policy generally,sadly)!
I like his take on the North/South divide as well as his economic theories,but maybe,given his past misdemenours with the Nixon (mal)administration,it proves that even the most wretched of sinners can be redeemed.
Which reminds me - not heard from Pokomoke for a while...!

don't jinx it jinsky!