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Post by carpslayer on Apr 5, 2021 9:55:42 GMT
my wife reads day and night.
me very occasionally will I read.
my wife takes around a week to read a book I do it in to days.
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Post by redshank on Apr 5, 2021 10:04:29 GMT
Recently read Brave New World,fantastic read and makes me wish we had stoma.Always have a few books on the go and like the old Greek writers.I have been reading Plato The Republic and am not surprised life then was like it is now,everyone searching (and failing) for the perfect system to live under.
Just purchased the Jungle Book from Lidl,an absolute joy to read.
I listen to audio books on you tube,the latest is The Steppenwolf,easier to listen to than read.
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Post by sidmouth on Apr 5, 2021 10:37:54 GMT
Recently read Brave New World,fantastic read and makes me wish we had stoma.Always have a few books on the go and like the old Greek writers.I have been reading Plato The Republic and am not surprised life then was like it is now,everyone searching (and failing) for the perfect system to live under. Just purchased the Jungle Book from Lidl,an absolute joy to read. I listen to audio books on you tube,the latest is The Steppenwolf,easier to listen to than read. I think I like the old Greek writers too. Just finished Nana Mouskouri’s autobiography. Also enjoyed one by a Greek food writer called ‘Smash the Plato’. |
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Post by redshank on Apr 5, 2021 10:49:22 GMT
Give the Odyssey by Homer a go,I am sure you will enjoy it.Has anyone else read it.
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Post by dohnut on Apr 5, 2021 11:52:01 GMT
Kindle paperwhite for me. Clear screen, even on sunny days, portable. Great batter life. And regular good offers. Mrs DOh has one too.
I tend to find authors and their characters that I like and work my way through their collection.
Ian Rankin, Rebus - good crime stories
Kathy Reichs, Temperence Brennan for those who like the scientific analysis of bones in crime solving
Lee Child, Jack Reacher, ex military cop helping people in trouble stuff
R D Wingfied + Others. The Jack Frost series. Crimes solved by a scruffy, disrespectful but clever cop
Patricia Cornwall, Kay Scarpetta. A clever woman who uses science to help solve crimes
Ruth Rendell. Inspector Wexford. Laid back but tough copper
Michale Connelly. Tough investigator Harry Bosch
Plus an odd collection of biographies, school books that I read to help the grandchildren, like Of mice and men, Jekyll and Hyde and An Inspector calls, all excellent reads
Getting to grips with Faith Martin, crime stories
D S Butler. DS Jack Mackinnon crime. Only done 1 so far.
Lee Child books are mostly good, though the last couple have been a tad boring. Not living up to earlier efforts, I guess all the good ideas have been used up. Read them now out of habit
For those with a scientific mindset the Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwall books are fascinating and written with a great deal of technical knowledge. Some gorey details. The bones TV series is based around Temperence Brennan I think, doesn’t transfer well to the small screen in my opinion.
Just love the sarcasm and wit in the Jack Frost books.
Ian Rankin too tells a good story.
Best thing about the Kindle is the special offers. If you do around often enough you can pick up some really good reads for 99p. Better still, you can download a sample, saved me shedloads when searching out new stuff, can tell very quickly if I ain’t going to like them. Books have to grab me in the first chapter. More patient if I know the characters. Bit like meeting up with an old friend.
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Post by FargO on Apr 5, 2021 11:53:38 GMT
Give the Odyssey by Homer a go,I am sure you will enjoy it.Has anyone else read it. Not me - I'm homerphobic |
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Post by redshank on Apr 5, 2021 12:23:39 GMT
My first book in school was At Old Lobs.The star was Percy,the bad chick.
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Post by brentwoodo on Apr 5, 2021 15:38:56 GMT
I collect old Rupert Bear annuals and Biggles books from my childhood. Some of which are pretty un pc in today’s climate. Can’t keep me out of a bookshop, especially second hand ones. There’s something comfortable about a good old fashioned paper book. Thought about getting a kindle but I spend all day working on a computer screen, using a PC or iPad at home and I do need a break from a computer. Had all of the Biggles books, but recently threw them all out when doing a spring clean Some of them are worth quite a bit now. I still occasionally read them and they still are a good read even as an adult even if many are over seventy years old. |
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Post by brentwoodo on Apr 5, 2021 15:50:19 GMT
....I collect old Rupert Bear annuals and Biggles books from my childhood. Some of which are pretty un pc in today’s climate... Do you have some juicy quotes? "The little woman at home" or. "johhny foreigner" even "cockney pickpocket". I do love a 1930s stereotype. I got hold of a 1946(?) annual in a charity shop for 99p. It was actually worth between £99-250 as the first story was called ‘Rupert on Coon Island’ where he lands on an island full of natives. It was never reprinted because of that, hence its value. Loads of un pc references in the old books, but they were just books of their time and over seventy years old. Google the name of the story and you’ll see. I still don’t know how to put photos up. oh...and a book that changed my life? Probably the ‘Good Beer Guide’. Seriously. |
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Post by redshank on Apr 5, 2021 16:19:10 GMT
I have a second edition James Bond Live and let die.Great read.Also some 1953 Dandys,although I preferred the Beano.
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Post by disoriented on Apr 5, 2021 19:38:02 GMT
Give the Odyssey by Homer a go,I am sure you will enjoy it.Has anyone else read it. Yes, many times and the Iliad. |
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Post by MungO on Apr 6, 2021 9:16:15 GMT
Just had this pop in the inbox. A reminder of the new Michael Calvin book that is due out on the 19th April. www.amazon.co.uk/Whose-Game-Anyway-Football-Life-ebook/dp/B08WRVXY2GFootball has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League, and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway?, Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, the book is a thought-provoking, deeply personal account of the role sport – and particularly football – plays in everyday life. Part memoir, part manifesto, it takes the reader on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter, covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali, Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa, this is sport as you've never seen it before. |
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Post by redshank on Apr 6, 2021 9:52:16 GMT
Not for me,just someone else making money out of football fans.Wait till it is in the charity shops or boot sale for 25p.I get most of my sports books that way.Last year a Scyld Berry cricket book that was £25 for £2.Almost as big as the old telephone directories.
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Post by disoriented on Apr 7, 2021 23:07:39 GMT
Charity shops are full of good sporting books, especially autobiographies.
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Post by redshank on Apr 8, 2021 11:34:19 GMT
Have a few of them,all cricket,from Colin Cowdrey to Ian Botham.Harold Larwood was the best I ever read.I have the Essex CCC histories as well.
Did you know the first England cricket game was played in front of 10000 people in 1744 in London.The pitch they played on was a military barracks and it is still there.Lords was just a nursery at that time.The opposition was the men of Kent who won the match.I think the prize was 1000 guineas.England was sponsored by a Lord with a farmer as captain and the team drawn from all classes.
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Post by redshank on Apr 8, 2021 11:36:19 GMT
Dis,what book did you enjoy most The Iliad or The Odyssey.With me it was the latter.
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Post by MungO on Apr 8, 2021 12:45:51 GMT
Finished the latest Stephen King book called Later. Was ok. For King it was like a short story and nowhere near his usual 600+ pages.
Now on to one of Jeffrey Archer's.
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Post by osoldguy on Apr 8, 2021 13:22:40 GMT
Finished the latest Stephen King book called Later. Was ok. For King it was like a short story and nowhere near his usual 600+ pages. Now on to one of Jeffrey Archer's. like reading Nelson Demille books. Just finished the Lion. He must have some good contacts for the technical aspects of the book. |
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Post by disoriented on Apr 8, 2021 19:45:55 GMT
Dis,what book did you enjoy most The Iliad or The Odyssey.With me it was the latter. Yes, the same for me. Like the Trojan War, the Iliad gets bogged down in a stalemate. The Odyssey was incredibly exciting, well-crafted and made you empathise with its hero. Stirring stuff. |
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Post by redshank on Apr 9, 2021 9:59:36 GMT
All that time on a paradise island with a goddess and left to get home to his wife Penelope.It was indeed stirring stuff.Agree with the Iliad as well,so many names on the same page,amazing descriptions of death of the smitten.
Thanks for the reply.
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