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Not a jarg new years resolution to read more but an attempt to read some books I'd otherwise completely miss out on.

Recommend me your favourite book/books, no matter whether fiction or nonfiction, and regardless of the genre. A top book is a top book.

I won't influence your suggestions by telling you my favourites. GO.
 

CahillsCornerFlag said:
Not a jarg new years resolution to read more but an attempt to read some books I'd otherwise completely miss out on.

Recommend me your favourite book/books, no matter whether fiction or nonfiction, and regardless of the genre. A top book is a top book.

I won't influence your suggestions by telling you my favourites. GO.
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what about harry potter.
 

In Harms Way

Its about the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis during the second world war

Great book
 
carlos21 said:
what about harry potter.
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Read those Carlos, quality stuff!

noharmdone said:
Gary Abletts book mate.
I'll post it to you if you want.
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Would be boss mate, I know my old man would be keen to read that as well. Though given where I currently live the postage may be a bit steep.

davidloach said:
Zlatan's autobiography. It is a must read. The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series is really good as well
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Currently on the second of that series, brilliantly written and the TV series does largely do them justice.

noharmdone said:
Actually CCF.. You'd enjoy this..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Punt-Steve-Palmers-Betting/dp/1905156839

And this is ace..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bloody-Good-Winner-Professional-Gambler/dp/1905156456
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These look great, I'm bookmarking all suggestions. I suspect at least one gambling one will make it.
 
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin is great if you're into fantasy. Four Kings (boxing in the 80's) by George Kimball is another excellent read
 

Vulcan 607

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 ...April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. And fast. The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive. Yet less than a month later, a formation of elderly British jets launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At its head was a single aircraft, six men, and twenty-one thousand-pound bombs, facing the hornet's nest of modern weaponry defending the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. There would be no second chances ...
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Neal Stephenson well worth reading if you've not already. His books tend to be brilliantly creative and inventive, but a bit baggy. He's not someone who crafts a lean and mean novel - more about letting the ideas hang out there. This has gotten to be a problem, but his earlier stuff is exceptional - Snow Crash or the Diamond Age, cyberpunk genre.

If you're into SF / fantasy then China Mieville is one of the top writers atm. Steampunk sort of feel to his stuff - v productive so not everything he does is a masterpiece, but the Bas-Lag stuff (Perdido St Station, The Scar) is top drawer. No happy endings with China.
 
A little bit different but have a nice day by mick foley is worth a read. If you don't know him he is a famous wrestler but rather than go for all the fake acting bollocks that you expect he trained himself to be beat up and spent a lot of time over in japan and stuff in proper brutal matches beating the hell out of each other.

Its different, and won loads of awards over in the states.

Also any book by dave gorman or yes man by danny wallace are good as well. funny and they are genuinely true stories about them doing random things. Danny spent a year saying yes to everything he got asked and in one of dave gormans books he went round the world meeting other dave gormans.
 

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