Book recommendations............

Currently listening, whilst driving to "Mr Wilman's Motoring adventure" narrated by himself.

An absolute must for fans of Top Gear and The Grand Tour. Andy Wilman has had a very interesting life and it's very entertaining.
 
Sooty59 said:
Just read the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy part 1 2 & 3 not yet started 4. It's insanely clever & still stands up having been published in 1979
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Part 4 of the trilogy is 'So long and thanks for all the fish'. I wouldn't say it's as good as the other three but then I'm not a whale who'se about to learn of his existence shortly before splatting himself to death on the planet Magrathea.
 
Macseasider said:
Currently listening, whilst driving to "Mr Wilman's Motoring adventure" narrated by himself.

An absolute must for fans of Top Gear and The Grand Tour. Andy Wilman has had a very interesting life and it's very entertaining.
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The Richard Porter book is decent as well.

And On That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of TOP GEAR eBook : Porter, Richard: Amazon.co.uk: Books

And On That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of TOP GEAR eBook : Porter, Richard: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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I’m currently reading daughters of night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, set in 18th century London, a really good historical thriller recommended by my other half, very enjoyable it is too.
 
5000 weeks by Oliver berkeman.
Never thought about it before 5000 weeks is the average the average person is on planet earth
Man has been on it for 250,000 years.
Projected to be here for another 1.5 billion🤔thoughts Lala?
 
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What sort of books do you like?
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Ive gone a bit off the boil after reading a lot in the 80s/90s and up to 2010. I loved Archers books back in the day but read all sorts, Biographies, Reacher, Mcnab, Grisham, Dan Brown. and someone gave me The housemaid last week which was very predictable and would rate it 6.5/7 . Reading is very subjective and appreciate all the replies and have some ideas after pouring over the thread Halifax suggested above.
 
As_time_goes_bye said:
Ive gone a bit off the boil after reading a lot in the 80s/90s and up to 2010. I loved Archers books back in the day but read all sorts, Biographies, Reacher, Mcnab, Grisham, Dan Brown. and someone gave me The housemaid last week which was very predictable and would rate it 6.5/7 . Reading is very subjective and appreciate all the replies and have some ideas after pouring over the thread Halifax suggested above.
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If you want something different and if like me token initial look and thought "Hmmm I don't think so" I would recommend Haruki Murakami books, they are really hard to describe but they just draw you in and make you think. Beautifully written, a bit surreal but page turning. My normal pulp fiction is Child, Dawson, Sansom, McCullum, King, Hurwitz, John Connolly & McDonnell.
 
As_time_goes_bye said:
Ive gone a bit off the boil after reading a lot in the 80s/90s and up to 2010. I loved Archers books back in the day but read all sorts, Biographies, Reacher, Mcnab, Grisham, Dan Brown. and someone gave me The housemaid last week which was very predictable and would rate it 6.5/7 . Reading is very subjective and appreciate all the replies and have some ideas after pouring over the thread Halifax suggested above.
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I don’t read many novels these days, so it’s mainly autobiographies and other non fiction. Just finished ‘You can’t libel the dead’ by Neil Benson about his life in Journalism, which I would recommend.
 
Currently listening to audiobook “Calamity of Souls” by David Baldacci. Set in 1968 in Virginia, the year Martin Luther King was killed, it’s a story of the ongoing segregation in that part of America, despite federal law banning it. I was26 in that year and remember it well, but almost 60 years on, the hatred and violence was shocking.

These people weren’t immigrants, they were the descendants of slaves, forcibly taken from Africa to work in poor conditions with little or no pay. It’s well worth a read, or listen.
 
Matesrates said:
Currently listening to audiobook “Calamity of Souls” by David Baldacci. Set in 1968 in Virginia, the year Martin Luther King was killed, it’s a story of the ongoing segregation in that part of America, despite federal law banning it. I was26 in that year and remember it well, but almost 60 years on, the hatred and violence was shocking.

These people weren’t immigrants, they were the descendants of slaves, forcibly taken from Africa to work in poor conditions with little or no pay. It’s well worth a read, or listen.
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My dad used to like Baldacci’s books, I think I’ll give them a go. He used to love the swashbuckling Raphael Sabatini books too, I remember buying them for him when he had cancer as he had read them when he was young
 
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