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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:30 Post subject: |
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The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
Richard and Judy think it's great and so do I!
x _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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gillworm
Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 21:17 Post subject: |
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Jarhead by Anthony Swofford. recommended by our own che. I was tempted by the dvd in the january sales and he told me that the book was better.
it's a good read, at times blackly funny, also at times touching and illuminating. don't let your son be a marine, people! _________________ (and gillworm! she's so funny!) |
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CiaranMac
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sligeach
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gillworm
Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 17:10 Post subject: |
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ok, onto the next, thanks to our friend Fopp, selling brand new paperbacks for half the cover price...
Interesting Times by Eric Hosbawm.
I've heard his name many times over the years and knew he's a communist, but I'm not sure I've read much that he's written. The cover blurb hooked me: 'Hitler came to power when Eric Hosbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. He saw the body of Stalin, started the modern history of banditry and is (presumably) the only Maxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar...'
how could I resist? very readable style, looks like being an engrossing read altogether. _________________ (and gillworm! she's so funny!) |
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gillworm
Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 17:11 Post subject: |
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Espresso Tales - Alexander Mccall Smith
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I just read Portuguese Irregular Verbs by him too, very funny. Let's hope Oxfam still have the other two books in the trilogy! _________________ (and gillworm! she's so funny!) |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 17:23 Post subject: |
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gillworm wrote: |
ok, onto the next, thanks to our friend Fopp, selling brand new paperbacks for half the cover price...
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I heart Fopp. I don't save money, but buy twice as much. _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 19:21 Post subject: |
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On a non-fiction tip, can I recommend "The End of Oil" by Paul Roberts...
The title is slightly misleading, as it is really about the end of
cheap
oil (+gas, coal etc.). It is really fascinating, and puts a lot you see in the news (Middle East, growth of China, global warming) in context. Not too heavy going either, despite the above. _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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gillworm
Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 20:20 Post subject: |
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I'm revisiting an old favourite, The Boat (Das Boot), written by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, about life on a German U-Boat in the last World War. A bloody good read and totally gripping in its descriptions of the U-boat's attacks on British convoys. The account of the U-boat being bombarded by depth charges from a British destroyer had my stomach in knots!
the author died earlier this year, which is what put it mind that the book should be taken down from the shelf and re-read:
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2308390.ece _________________ (and gillworm! she's so funny!) |
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John Mc
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