O/T Holiday reads

SeasideTerrier

SeasideTerrier

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Off on a no flights/car holiday to Northern Italy for about 11-14 days (depends how many trains we miss!) So if anyone can recommend a decent read or two, it i much appreciated.
To give an eclectic focus (sic) the Kindle is already loaded with:-
  1. Football
    1. How not to run a family business as a corner shop whilst assume turnover is money for escourts, Slazenger shirts and tennis balls.
    2. Clough Gold (anecdotal short)
    3. The Good the Mad and the Ugly (Andy Morrison)
  2. New Reads
    1. The Gospel of the Eels
    2. No BalletShoes in Syria (recommended to me by a ten year old boy)
    3. Climate Change: Facts and Remedies (Just in case I encounter Trump-a-likes)
  3. Reflections and rereads
    1. The Great Gatsby & Tess of the D'Urbivilles (A level reads that I thought I need to read to understand rather than just pass the exams
Apple/Amazon and all other reading platforms haven't got a copy the PhilTrois' biog "Three Times a miserable bastard" by Commodore Publications. Blame Appleton.

Thanks for any suggestions
 
What is to be done - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn.

The Crossman Diaries - Richard Crossman.
 
I bought ‘And Away‘ by Bob Mortimer for our Easter holiday , but never got round to reading it yet.
It’ll come in handy for our weeks stay near York next week ( as my better half has been weather watching and informs me it’s going to rain ).
 
1966_and_all_that said:
What is to be done - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn.

The Crossman Diaries - Richard Crossman.
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Great suggestions - Read 'One Day in the Life of...' post A-Levels - my father called me a communist. When I asked why, "its by a Russian!" My response of, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of your favourite films wasnt my best response for family harmony.
 
SeasideTerrier said:
Great suggestions - Read 'One Day in the Life of...' post A-Levels - my father called me a communist. When I asked why, "its by a Russian!" My response of, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is one of your favourite films wasnt my best response for family harmony.
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I am working my way through the Danny Trejo autobiography "Trejo, my life of crime, redeption and Hollywood", which despite the spoiler in the title is full of surprises.
 
Do you like history?

Bit left field this, but what the heck. It was the first historical novel I ever read and I still rate it as probably the best.

The Golden Warrior by Hope Muntz. Basically about the time of Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy, culminating of course in the Battle of Hastings.

It was written just after WW2. What sets it apart is an amazing level of research, gripping stories and characters filling out the spaces between the known bits, but more than anything the style in which it's written. A really Middle Ages style in the written action and dialogue, which just makes it ooze class and believability.

Can't recommend it enough. The only problem is it's often out of print, so copies can be expensive. No idea how that might or might not affect availability on Kindle as I don't have one.
 
If you're into music biographies I listened to Dave Grohl's "Storyteller" and Anthony Keidis's "Scar Tissue" recently when away...the letter was fantastic....what he did by the age of 12, many grown men won't have done in their lifetimes!
 
1966_and_all_that said:
What is to be done - Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn.

The Crossman Diaries - Richard Crossman.
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Did my school project on Vladamir Ilyich Ulyanov back in the day when others were doing King Henry XIII etc. Wrote to the Soviet embassy and got an absolute parcel back. Included rare photos of him with his mother when he was a kid.

We were supposed to get the project back....everyone else did.

Same thing happened with my geography project which included the biggest piece of galena said to come out of the lead mines for many a year.

Got neither back, but got 100% in both, Twats.
 
Hope you have a good trip ST, will you be able to attend the Swansea game (don't know when you're going)?

I would download the Bernie Gunther books by Philip Kerr, absolutely brilliant reads all of them
He's a Berlin detective at the outbreak of WW2. The books are dark and gruesome at times, but also laugh out loud funny as the main character is very witty, he's also a survivor as he has to be because most of the Nazi's in the book hate him.
Excellent story lines, Brilliantly written.
 
SeasideTerrier said:
Off on a no flights/car holiday to Northern Italy for about 11-14 days (depends how many trains we miss!) So if anyone can recommend a decent read or two, it i much appreciated.
To give an eclectic focus (sic) the Kindle is already loaded with:-
  1. Football
    1. How not to run a family business as a corner shop whilst assume turnover is money for escourts, Slazenger shirts and tennis balls.
    2. Clough Gold (anecdotal short)
    3. The Good the Mad and the Ugly (Andy Morrison)
  2. New Reads
    1. The Gospel of the Eels
    2. No BalletShoes in Syria (recommended to me by a ten year old boy)
    3. Climate Change: Facts and Remedies (Just in case I encounter Trump-a-likes)
  3. Reflections and rereads
    1. The Great Gatsby & Tess of the D'Urbivilles (A level reads that I thought I need to read to understand rather than just pass the exams
Apple/Amazon and all other reading platforms haven't got a copy the PhilTrois' biog "Three Times a miserable bastard" by Commodore Publications. Blame Appleton.

Thanks for any suggestions
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The subtle art of not giving a f@ck by Mark Mason
A very easy read but really makes you think about yourself!!!!
 
fcblackpool said:
Did my school project on Vladamir Ilyich Ulyanov back in the day when others were doing King Henry XIII etc. Wrote to the Soviet embassy and got an absolute parcel back. Included rare photos of him with his mother when he was a kid.

We were supposed to get the project back....everyone else did.

Same thing happened with my geography project which included the biggest piece of galena said to come out of the lead mines for many a year.

Got neither back, but got 100% in both, Twats.
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I bought What Is To Be Done from an antiquarian bookshop in Leeds, where I read Politics. A complete yawnfest. Admittedly, it was a call to arms pamphlet but he wasn't a great writer our Vlad.
 
Slow Horses by Nick Herron which is the first of a series of books about an MI5 off shoot for shamed agents. The first book has been dramatised on Apple TV starring Gary Oldman and is absolutely brilliant as are the books,
 
Dave62 said:
Hope you have a good trip ST, will you be able to attend the Swansea game (don't know when you're going)?

I would download the Bernie Gunther books by Philip Kerr, absolutely brilliant reads all of them
He's a Berlin detective at the outbreak of WW2. The books are dark and gruesome at times, but also laugh out loud funny as the main character is very witty, he's also a survivor as he has to be because most of the Nazi's in the book hate him.
Excellent story lines, Brilliantly written.
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I'm there on Saturday and will ask @bleach51 to curb his behaviours (nothing new)
 
Earlier this year on holiday i read Dave Grohl's autobiography which is a really good read, the weird thing is Dave is telling his life story with Tyler Hawkins still very much alive even though he had died when i was reading the book.
 
Dave62 said:
Hope you have a good trip ST, will you be able to attend the Swansea game (don't know when you're going)?

I would download the Bernie Gunther books by Philip Kerr, absolutely brilliant reads all of them
He's a Berlin detective at the outbreak of WW2. The books are dark and gruesome at times, but also laugh out loud funny as the main character is very witty, he's also a survivor as he has to be because most of the Nazi's in the book hate him.
Excellent story lines, Brilliantly written.
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Just purchased 1st 3 👍
 
Making my way through Patrick Radden Keefe's stuff at the moment; a tremendous investigative journalist. His book on the Troubles, 'Say Nothing', is a must-read if that period is of interest. And I just finished his 'Empire of Pain' on the US opioid crisis and the Sacklers, which was very good. Although dense they're very readable. I just picked up his new one, 'Rogues', too.

Fiction - enjoying anything by Willy Vlautin at the moment. Really easy to get through, but can be quite bleak story-wise.
 
Dave62 said:
Hope you have a good trip ST, will you be able to attend the Swansea game (don't know when you're going)?

I would download the Bernie Gunther books by Philip Kerr, absolutely brilliant reads all of them
He's a Berlin detective at the outbreak of WW2. The books are dark and gruesome at times, but also laugh out loud funny as the main character is very witty, he's also a survivor as he has to be because most of the Nazi's in the book hate him.
Excellent story lines, Brilliantly written.
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Agreed great books ,was it a trilogy?
Another good shout are the Jo Nesbo books and Martin Cruz Smith Renko books - start with most well known ,Gorky Park
 
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