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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Darth Loo-knee on 27 July 2009, 21:42:09
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A partner in Crime has given me the idea to post this thread ;)
So here are a few of my fav's :y
George R R Martin - Song of Ice and Fire
Bernard Cornwell - The Grail Quests
David Gemmell - The Drenai Novels
Jeffrey Archer - A Matter of Honor
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Beano and Dandy Anuals. ::)
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Clapton the autobiography .
Gilles Villenueve- by Ian Donaldson.
Joey Dunlop - by Jimmy Walker
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Four stroke performance tuning - Graham Bell. :y
I don't really do fiction. ;D
Kevin
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Dialectecal materialism and its relevance in a post modernist neomarxist society- by I.B pretentious. ;) :D
Or Joey Dunlop-by Jimmy Walker.
Gilles Villenueve- by Maurice Hamilton.
A brilliant one if you like sport is "Its not about the bike" Lance Armstrong :y
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At the moment as I'm starting to look at the Morris Minor on the trailer I'm reading pleanty of http://www.mig-welding.co.uk along with 'Tuning the A-Series' by David Vizard and 'The Original Morris Minor' by Ray Newell ;D ;D
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I hate sport,just love motorsport. ;D ;D :y
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My favourite fiction book is by L Ron Hubbard and is called Battlefield Earth. :)
It is a fantastic read, sadly the film they made of it was absolutly pathetic, >:(and did the book no justice. Sadly this is true of many films made from books.
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At the moment as I'm starting to look at the Morris Minor on the trailer I'm reading pleanty of http://www.mig-welding.co.uk along with 'Tuning the A-Series' by David Vizard and 'The Original Morris Minor' by Ray Newell ;D ;D
Much easier to drop in the B series engine and box as fitted to Marina/MGB. ;D
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I read The Bourne Trilogy loved the books but prefered the Films, its a first though I must admit :)
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Chronicals of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen Donaldson
Choice of Kipling Verse made by T S Eliot
As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee
Home From The Hill - Hilary Hook
My Turn at The Bully Pulpit - Greta van Susteren
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Fiction:
No Highway - Neville Shute
On The Beach - Neville Shute
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Partner - John Grisham
Bomb Run - Spencer Dunmore
The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
Blackpool Highflyer - Andrew Martin
A Metropolitam Murder - Lee Jackson
The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
The Railway Detective - Edward Marston
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Non-Fiction:
Churchill: A Life - Martin Gilbert
Elizabeth The Queen - Allison Weir
Queen Victoria - Elizabeth Longford
Trafalgar - Tom Pocock
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
To Destroy A City - Hermann Knell
The Longest Day - Cornelius Ryan
Battle of Britain - Derek Wood & Derek Dempster
The Battle of Britain Then and Now - Winston Ramsey
Jutland 1916 - Nigel Steel & Peter Hart
Titanic Voices - Donald Hyslop, Alastair Forsyth & Sheila Jemima
MacMillan - Alistair Horne
Plus many, many more, especially numerous railway history publications 8-) 8-) ;) ;)
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A partner in Crime has given me the idea to post this thread ;)
So here are a few of my fav's :y
George R R Martin - Song of Ice and Fire
Bernard Cornwell - The Grail Quests
David Gemmell - The Drenai Novels
Jeffrey Archer - A Matter of Honor
Who might that be then Loo knee???
Seriously though 'song of ice and fire' is a fab book! Sadly you won't have to pay me for it now! ;)
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A partner in Crime has given me the idea to post this thread ;)
So here are a few of my fav's :y
George R R Martin - Song of Ice and Fire
Bernard Cornwell - The Grail Quests
David Gemmell - The Drenai Novels
Jeffrey Archer - A Matter of Honor
Who might that be then Bog Roll???
Seriously though 'song of ice and fire' is a fab book! Sadly you won't have to pay me for it now! ;)
Told you it was good :y I have started reading them again myself now after telling you :-*
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'The Secret Seven' and when I get older I will read the 'Famous Five' :y
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fiction
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Stephen King - The Stand
Raymond E. Feist - The Magician
Clive Barker - Weaveworld
Frank Miller - The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller - Batman: Year One
Frank Miller - Daredevil run in the early 80's
Alan Moore - Watchmen
Art Spiegelman - Maus
non-fiction
Steven D.Levitt & Stephen J.Dubner - Freakonomics
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman - How Not To Write A Novel
David Niven - The Moon's A Balloon
John McCabe - Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy
John O'Farrell - An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge
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My favourite fiction book is by L Ron Hubbard and is called Battlefield Earth. :)
It is a fantastic read, sadly the film they made of it was absolutly pathetic, >:(and did the book no justice. Sadly this is true of many films made from books.
I thought it was quite poor
Much prefer the classic authors such as Clark & Asimov
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Classic for you all Fly fishing by J.R HARTLEY he he :P :D :D :D :D ::) ;)
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fiction
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Stephen King - The Stand
Raymond E. Feist - The Magician
Clive Barker - Weaveworld
Frank Miller - The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller - Batman: Year One
Frank Miller - Daredevil run in the early 80's
Alan Moore - Watchmen
Art Spiegelman - Maus
non-fiction
Steven D.Levitt & Stephen J.Dubner - Freakonomics
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman - How Not To Write A Novel
David Niven - The Moon's A Balloon
John McCabe - Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy
John O'Farrell - An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge
Fantastic book! :y
Have you read the other books in the "Riftwars" series? Read them all a year or two back and found them impossible to put down.
Just about anything by Wilbur Smith is a top read too. :y
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anything by jack ketchum.
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Mine are:
Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage II Destination Brain
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
Jules Verne - 20000 Leagues Under the Sea book series
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Mine are:
Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage II Destination Brain
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
Jules Verne - 20000 Leagues Under the Sea book series
Just got hold of a copy of that one, but have'nt started reading it yet. ::) ::) :D
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Mine are:
Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage II Destination Brain
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
Jules Verne - 20000 Leagues Under the Sea book series
Just got hold of a copy of that one, but have'nt started reading it yet. ::) ::) :D
It's a good one. You should finish the reading Lizzy. I loved it :y
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agreed. better than the da vindi code. just watched the movie (angels and demons) pretty good imo. :y
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only book ive read since i left school in 1976 is the guvnor, lennie mclaine.
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Chronicals of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen Donaldson
Choice of Kipling Verse made by T S Eliot
As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee
Home From The Hill - Hilary Hook
My Turn at The Bully Pulpit - Greta van Susteren
Agreed!
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On the Road - Jack Kerouac
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Beowulf!
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agreed. better than the da vindi code. just watched the movie (angels and demons) pretty good imo. :y
Agreed :y Much better than the da vinci code! Haven't watched the movie yet. Will sure do it VERY soon :D :y
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only book ive read since i left school in 1976 is the guvnor, lennie mclaine.
Very good book Ritchie if you like that try "King of the Gypsies" about Bartley Gorman they were supposed to fight but didn't.
Another good one "Stop the ride I want to get off" about Dave Courtney that had me in stitches :y
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anything by Terry Pratchett especially if its got rincewind in it
Stephen King _Christine
Stephen king_ The Langoliers
Sven Hassel_ Mount Casino
Clive Cussler_Raise The Titanic
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The seven pillars of wisdom :)
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Beowulf!
Our local Wetherspoons had a guest beer a few months ago called "Beowulf." It was a pale bitter and must have been ok as I had about 8 pints of it one Sat evening! ;D ;D
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A tale of 2 cities - Charles Dickens - brilliant-from the hoof of the horse to the head of the man!