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Choose me a book to take on holiday
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Yep. I wasn't being 'picky ' Lee. Just saying it wasn't a ' book' in its own right.
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Just Checking
 Re rims of his books , there have been some really good adaptations:- The Shining The Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile Misery |
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* films
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Went into town yesterday morning charity shop browsing & picked up Four after Midnight for 50p (I'll take it to work to read at lunchtime beats watching tv), came home sat down with a coffee & looked on chit chat. First thread I read was this one. Life in the fast lane or what?
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I do liked shawshank and the green mile, but facts you have to admit there have been a fair amount of SK film stinkers,
The green mile has hanks, that genius could turn the film adaption of me doing a poo into an oscar winner :) (Read the book of that, it's just .. better as a medium, how he can link everything together in the sort of flashback things without confusing you, and .. well .. I've an old mouse in the corner myself :P) |
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I can second the recommendation for CJ Sansom's Shardlake series - a bit of a medieval whodunnit.
I'm currently reading The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie which is excellent. |
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Greatest TV film adaptation of Stephen King book has to be Salem's Lot, starring "Hutch" David Soul. Scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid in the 80's.
Under the Dome is a great book but the tv series made a right f uck up of it! |
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I loved the martian too, but I can understand that some may think it is boring.
I also like the Jo Nesbo books, Steig Larsson, Bill Bryson,Dick Francis, Steven King and others that I cannot think of at the moment. I would also agree about lolita by Nabokov. No one would dare to write or publish it today, unfortunately. I really like threads like this one as I am always on the look out for good books as I don't have a television,so this thread has given me lots of ideas. |
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Where are you going to on holiday Roger?
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Where are you going to on holiday Roger?
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D'oh double posted.
Maybe a book set in your destination might be memorable? |
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While we're on the subject of books, if any of you like history or "war" related stuff, do yourself a favour and read "The guns of August" which is a narrative about how WW1 broke out. It's a fantastic book, won the pulitzer prize, in a style that's a page turner and you'll learn so much. We view ww1 from our viewpoint which in reality was just one corner of one front, this was by an american woman with a more objective viewpoint. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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I can second the recommendation for CJ Sansom's Shardlake series - a bit of a medieval whodunnit.
Two chit chat recommendations. I've been lent his book Revelation from this series, been had putting it off for others, must get on with it. While we're on the subject of books, if any of you like history or "war" related stuff, do yourself a favour and read "The guns of August" which is a narrative about how WW1 broke out. It's a fantastic book, won the pulitzer prize, in a style that's a page turner and you'll learn so much. We view ww1 from our viewpoint which in reality was just one corner of one front, this was by an american woman with a more objective viewpoint. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Have you read Max Hastings' Catastrophe, which sounds like it covers some of the same ground - the first 6 months of the war? I thought it was very good, changed my 'Blackadder Goes Forth' view of the war. |
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Deplasterer 07 Feb 16 13:11
Greatest TV film adaptation of Stephen King book has to be Salem's Lot, starring "Hutch" David Soul. Scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid in the 80's. Under the Dome is a great book but the tv series made a right f uck up of it! Agreed, on both counts. |
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Michael Connelly books are a good read.
Good plot and characters and moves along at a good pace. |
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Just Checking 08 Feb 16 02:13
While we're on the subject of books, if any of you like history or "war" related stuff, do yourself a favour and read "The guns of August" which is a narrative about how WW1 broke out. It's a fantastic book, won the pulitzer prize, in a style that's a page turner and you'll learn so much. We view ww1 from our viewpoint which in reality was just one corner of one front, this was by an american woman with a more objective viewpoint. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Just ordered it |
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Flowermyth, it was I wot seconded the Shardlake books. Revelation is book 4 in the series and I think they need to be read in chronological order to get full enjoyment.
Dissolution is the first book. |
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Thanks Dan, I've just ordered Dissolution - might as well start at the beginning.
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Flowermyth no I haven't. I have read a couple books by hastings though, and he's good. The thing about "the guns of august" is the style/ It's a great big thick book, but you just zip through it, it's history but not stale, it tells a story.
Most of us are wishy washy about ww1, we kind of know it was about a dead duke and that, but there was so much more to it. The political stuff. We basically only went in because of Belgium, not really due to France. And the poor French, some stupidly call them cowards, they threw away a generation in just the first days of ww1 when we'd taken a scratch. Look at a map of europe for a minute and you'll understand it. Russia was important, but we forget it. Churchill, he was involved! We think of him as a ww2 man, he was in ww1 as well, most of you don't even know. It's such a good book :) |
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Well facts we may disagree politically but if you respect my book advice, you can't be all bad :)
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I am pilgrim is an excellent read 10/10.
If you like the books you mentioned then Michael Connelly,lee child peter robinson will all provide what you need. Non fiction then the wolf of wall street is a good read about Jordon Belfort although it reads as fiction,unbelieveable what goes on in the real world or unreal world. |
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08 Feb 16 01:09 Where are you going to on holiday Roger? Parachute, doing something I have never done before (and may well regret) - hiring a motorhome and going on a tour round of the south east coast, starting at Brighton, then Hastings, Margate, Isle of Sheppey, Lowestoft and finishing in Great Yarmouth. Will have nothing to do in the evenings as have small kids that will be in bed (unless there is a tapas bar nearby that could tempt me), so thought I'd have a week of a book rather than shyte tv. Just ordered three books, all thanks to recommendations on this thread: I am Pilgrim Child 44 The Snowman (not Raymond Briggs) First two £3.85 each, third one £7.99, but Amazon doing an offer (seemingly on all paperback novels I think) of three for £10 so saved nearly £6. Even better value obviously if you buy three £8 books - all you book lovers on here should get on and grab some bargains. Thanks for suggestions. |
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Just Checking - Shall add 'The Guns of August' to the list, Max Hastings himself described it as 'dazzling'. Have had a long-time interest in Bomber Command in WW2, Hastings' book on it I've put off reading for so long also on the list.
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Roger, sounds like a great road trip. Hope the weather is kind to you.
All the "trip" books I can think of for the journey is Brighton Rock, but you seem sorted for reading matter. Have you got a kids book (ghost stories maybe) in case you have to read bedtime stories? I'm sure you will find a lot of good restaurants on the way as well. Have a lovely time. |
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read "the science of getting rich"by Wallace d Wattles.
it explained how to get rich,and all you need to know is the rules. When you return from your holiday you can thank me.  |
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Thanks Parachute. Could be a little too cosy if the weather is bad!
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Try Empire by Niall Ferguson, an excellent critique about the British Empire that is not prejudiced one way or another and presents the history in a balanced fashion noting plus and negative aspects.
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