Blackbird Book Club ?

[Steve66]

With long winter nights approaching shall we start a book recommendation thread ? I'm currently reading "The Looming Tower. Al-Qaeda's road to 9/11"
by Lawrence Wright.

It's fantastic, if that's the right word for such a book? Riveting and very illuminating. I can't recommend it highly enough, only problem is that I'd hoped it would last me a couple of weeks, it's not going to g0nn3 !!!

 

[mick the knife]

Sounds like a good idea.

I`m in the middle of a series of books by the same author at the moment, looking forward to book No12 ....... Peter and Jane go fishing...

 

[Samster]

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton

Thumbs up.

 

[gerryc]

Any thing by Ian Rnkin :bow:

and most from Iain Banks but Complicity and the Crow Road are defo the two best total page turners

 

[derek kelly]

anything by james patterson, clive cussler, james herbert,

 

[BlackBirdBaz]

An Insight into Pain & Suffering

Prof David Blake and others.........




By your copy from me at ?19.99 :bow:

 

[Bogieknight]

Unsettling Welfare: the Reconstruction of Social Policy by G.Hughes & G. Lewis (eds)....

Fookin' rivettin'.

 

[Steve66]

Bogeyknight brain box !!

Wow ! Sounds a great read !!! You must post the ISBN no so we can all enjoy ! Previously read that your study ends in October, any finals? If so good luck.

From your avatar I guess you're ex RN. I was in from 69 to 77. p0pc0rn41

 

[Bogieknight]

Course exam, not exactly finals. Got another 4 years worth of OU study before I get liberated.

Ex-FAA. 84-90. I was a career matelot until I married a Danish bint I met on detachment. She wasn't sympathetic to the UK/RN lifestyle so that put paid to my naval career. I left the Mob and then she facked off 6 months later. Nice. Did me a big favour actually.

I'm still a matelot at heart though :yo:.

I'm guessing that you're a ex-cod gob. Like DK. h1d1ng2

If you like the previous title then you should also try Forming Nation, Framing Welfare by G. Lewis (ed).....Farkin amazin'.

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[Steve66]

Bogies book list !

Just got in off of nights, but I'll be straight up and down to Waterstones to get some of those titles !! h1d1ng2

I was also FAA , a LA (AH) but can't claim to have liked the Andrew that much, so no lamp swinging from me !

Danish Pastry with a bitter taste then !!! Personally, I have a thing about Russian women, and yes, theres a story bl4hbl4h

 

[derek kelly]

OMG not another wafu.

 

[Bogieknight]

Steve, sorry about the cod gob insult; Good to here you were part of the better end of the Navy (i.e not a fishead ba5tard), even though you were a chockhead. No offence like.

Time for me to hit my scratcher too. I hate nightshift.

 

[Jaws]

For those in to Sci-Fi, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

This is the synopsis on the back:

My name is Private Mandella. I have been conscripted to guard humanity againt the tauran menace on some lonely outppost of the galaxy.

The only way to get back home is after a combat tour-which, because of the collapsar jump, could last a century or two.. I'll be a few months older, but I won't recognise Earth. So I'll re-enlist.. And by the time I return as a veteran, they won't even speak my language.

Personal review.

This book was fist published in 1975 and is a Hugo winner as well as winning the Nebula Sci Fi award.. It has been out of print twice and twice been reprinted due to demand.

It is the most compelling book I have ever read
I have now read the ruddy thing 4 or 5 times which sounds daft, but like any good story I have yet to tire of it.

Haldeman has brought to life a future that is both chilling and full of hope for humanity.
It has humour, action ( by the bucket load ) and even a love story threaded through the chapters..

There is just enough physics involved in the story to make it all very believable too, which for me is a key factor.

The ISBN number is 0-86007-882-5

 

[Centaur]

I'm a tight old git so...

I read and reread a lot of the books I buy but the ones I have reread most are James Clavell's Tai-Pan and Shogun. Find summat new every time.....who says having a bad memory doesn't have it's advantages.

 

[Rods]

Persian Fire by Tom Holland


Very accessible history of the first ever world empire, and East versus West War (ie Darius / Thermopolyae etc). Gives us an idea of how the Crusades came from, and therefore has some relevance to the problems of today. Thoroughly recommended for the history buff, or someone who just wants an interesting read.

ISBN 0-349-11717-9 ?9.99 Paperback

Pompeii by Robert Harris is also fantastic.