Recommend just one book to Read,and sell it to us .

[chrismpw]

@chrismpw seems someone is after some advice.

Ummm ... build a nook. Learn to read?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Ummm ... build a nook. Learn to read?

I enjoy reading your about projects and the updates. It's been to long.

 

[Dharma]

Every motorcyclist on the forum will know what an incredible and humble human this amazing woman is.

 

[Cameron Manning]

The Got book club thread is a great source for choosing books to read and I regularly pick my next read from there.I have always read,but more so now as I realised the amount of rubbish I was reading on my phone.

"One flew over the cuckoo's nest" by Ken Kesey, is my #1 read.
An absolute treat of a book, I would imagine many people would have seen and loved the film. I'd claim the book is better, it's written through the eyes of "Chief" so it puts a whole new angle on the story and is very descriptive, a marvellous read.

What one book would you recommend?

Think most books are better than the film, even The Godfather which is a terrific film, but if you hadn’t read the book you wouldn’t have recognised Al Nero as one of the principle people and disciple to the Corlenni(sic) family. He appears near the end of Godfather 1 getting dressed as a policeman, which he was, before joining the family as a replacement for Luca Brasi who was assassinated by a rival Godfather gang, and he becomes the main hit man for the family and appears in all three Godfather films as the silent assassin doing the bidding of Vito then even more loyal to Michael when Michael becomes the Don of the outfit.

 

[chrismpw]

I enjoy reading your about projects and the updates. It's been to long.

Nothing exciting really.

Started half heartedly building a go-kart for my 3 Yr old grand daughter. Half heartedly, because her other grand parents are stupidly wealthy and as a 3 year old she already has a predilection to new shiny and disposable. Im fairly sure that what I do won't hold her attention for more than a few seconds before she returns to her latest newest expensive toy with flashing lights. So that's kind of discouraging.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Nothing exciting really.

Started half heartedly building a go-kart for my 3 Yr old grand daughter. Half heartedly, because her other grand parents are stupidly wealthy and as a 3 year old she already has a predilection to new shiny and disposable. Im fairly sure that what I do won't hold her attention for more than a few seconds before she returns to her latest newest expensive toy with flashing lights. So that's kind of discouraging.

insure it and mot it in your name, so you can sell it after.

 

[Kurt.]

Think most books are better than the film, even The Godfather which is a terrific film, but if you hadn’t read the book you wouldn’t have recognised Al Nero as one of the principle people and disciple to the Corlenni(sic) family. He appears near the end of Godfather 1 getting dressed as a policeman, which he was, before joining the family as a replacement for Luca Brasi who was assassinated by a rival Godfather gang, and he becomes the main hit man for the family and appears in all three Godfather films as the silent assassin doing the bidding of Vito then even more loyal to Michael when Michael becomes the Don of the outfit.

I don’t read a lot of fiction to be honest, prefer biographies/autobiographies, but I’ve read a couple of Puzo’s books. Coincidentally I have just finished reading (again) The Last Don. The book is enjoyable but I also have seen the low budget film which leaves a lot to be desired

 

[Kurt.]

Nothing exciting really.

Started half heartedly building a go-kart for my 3 Yr old grand daughter. Half heartedly, because her other grand parents are stupidly wealthy and as a 3 year old she already has a predilection to new shiny and disposable. Im fairly sure that what I do won't hold her attention for more than a few seconds before she returns to her latest newest expensive toy with flashing lights. So that's kind of discouraging.

If you build it, they will come

 

[Cameron Manning]

I don’t read a lot of fiction to be honest, prefer biographies/autobiographies, but I’ve read a couple of Puzo’s books. Coincidentally I have just finished reading (again) The Last Don. The book is enjoyable but I also have seen the low budget film which leaves a lot to be desired

After reading the Godfather when it first came out I got another book by Puzo about crime, fictional, and it was a real fairy tale— absolute rubbish!

 

[Kurt.]

After reading the Godfather when it first came out I got another book by Puzo about crime, fictional, and it was a real fairy tale— absolute rubbish!

The Fortunate Pilgrim was another of his

 

[RufusCat]

Nothing exciting really.

Started half heartedly building a go-kart for my 3 Yr old grand daughter. Half heartedly, because her other grand parents are stupidly wealthy and as a 3 year old she already has a predilection to new shiny and disposable. Im fairly sure that what I do won't hold her attention for more than a few seconds before she returns to her latest newest expensive toy with flashing lights. So that's kind of discouraging.

Stick with it, you may be right in the short term but in the long term likely to be more appreciative of something made for her than something bought.

 

[Cameron Manning]

The Fortunate Pilgrim was another of his

I’ll give it a go if it’s in my local library.

 

[LostLegend]

It really shows the power of McCarthy as a writer, when the ending of a book can have such a profound effect on you.

I know in the States his books are studied at degree level and if they ever added his books to the curriculum over here, I’d be sorely tempted to go back to night school and do my English lit again,

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?”
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. “Getting up this morning”, he said

Still one of the hardest lines ever written

 

[Groucho]

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote.

Yours for £2.

 

[tonyhorne]

Precipice by Robert Harris.

Have really got into Harris's books, many of them thoughtful fictionalisations of historical events. This one revolves around a rather scandalous intimate relationship between prime minister Herbert Asquith and a young aristocrat Venetia Stanley. It is based on the surviving letters she received from Asquith and much of the book is told through Harris's imagining her replies. This "friendship" is told against the backdrop of the apparently inevitable decent into the first world war. Harris has said he was uncertain whether there was any physical component to their relationship until he saw the size of the car Asquith always used for them to meet up ...