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Re: OT: What book are you reading at the moment?
furriner wrote:Still reading it, Quite amusing.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25492/25492-h/25492-h.htm
Gutenberg has any number of gems.
Surely it's not better than his Police Academy work?
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I've just bought "The subtle art of not giving a f*ck".
Hope to read it over the next week while on holidays.
Hope to read it over the next week while on holidays.
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Sequel/prequel to the best spy book ever written.
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Spies-John-Carré-ebook/dp/B06XG32NJM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1504861521&sr=1-1&keywords=john+le+carre
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Spies-John-Carré-ebook/dp/B06XG32NJM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1504861521&sr=1-1&keywords=john+le+carre
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Fine writer. Duly added to my list.
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You might have to reread the Spy that Came in from the Cold first.
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Always found le Carre to be a bit dry for my taste but i might give it a try.
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I am not a fan of his later stuff but as this explains some of the earlier works it is fascinating.
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taipan wrote:I am not a fan of his later stuff but as this explains some of the earlier works it is fascinating.
It seemed to me that the more he wrote and, presumably, as it got easier for him to write, the quality of his novels declined.
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The Golden Age (set in Perth in the 1950s during the polio epidemic) for work, and oddly a tome relating to the Moorgate Tube disaster, which is fascinating.
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taipan wrote:You might have to reread the Spy that Came in from the Cold first.
Wow. the new book goes back that far. Have read it several times but not for ages. Suspect I still have a copy down the beach.
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horace wrote:taipan wrote:You might have to reread the Spy that Came in from the Cold first.
Wow. the new book goes back that far. Have read it several times but not for ages. Suspect I still have a copy down the beach.
Basically it's the backstory of the events leading up, but also references characters from Tinker, Tailor etc.
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taipan wrote:horace wrote:taipan wrote:You might have to reread the Spy that Came in from the Cold first.
Wow. the new book goes back that far. Have read it several times but not for ages. Suspect I still have a copy down the beach.
Basically it's the backstory of the events leading up, but also references characters from Tinker, Tailor etc.
Definitely on the Must Read List and tomorrow am I happen to be meeting someone at my favourite bookshop.
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Read The Grade Cricketer. The sequel isn't available in India yet but I'll pick it up once it gets here,
Pretty good book, but I felt it portrayed Australian grade cricket as a grim, almost joyless landscape for the most part. Perhaps the novel exaggerates the environment of hyper competitive, cliquish misfits who are fast losing any enjoyment they must have once derived from playing the game.
Even if I were good enough to play third or fourth grade, which I'm not and never was, it didn't sound like something I'd want to take on. English club cricket, briefly contrasted in the novel itself, felt a lot more fun to play.
Perhaps Australian forummers can comment. embee, aren't you an umpire in grade cricket?
Also, folks, I'm not starting on a cricket book reading spree, can someone point me to the relevant thread on FB, apart from this one?
Pretty good book, but I felt it portrayed Australian grade cricket as a grim, almost joyless landscape for the most part. Perhaps the novel exaggerates the environment of hyper competitive, cliquish misfits who are fast losing any enjoyment they must have once derived from playing the game.
Even if I were good enough to play third or fourth grade, which I'm not and never was, it didn't sound like something I'd want to take on. English club cricket, briefly contrasted in the novel itself, felt a lot more fun to play.
Perhaps Australian forummers can comment. embee, aren't you an umpire in grade cricket?
Also, folks, I'm not starting on a cricket book reading spree, can someone point me to the relevant thread on FB, apart from this one?
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Have just finished The Woman in the Window by a debut novelist A.J. Finn. It is a psychological thriller with Hitchcockian overtones and there is virtually a catalogue of noir cinema in parallel to the narrative. It's a bit twisty too but he uses conventional literary tropes well.
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Ethics? The Gall! wrote:just finished the big aussie thriller cum crime novel everyones raving about. the dry by jane harper
for once the product justifies the hype. its a stunner
Good book. Wouldn't call it a 'stunner' but it works.
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furriner wrote:Ethics? The Gall! wrote:just finished the big aussie thriller cum crime novel everyones raving about. the dry by jane harper
for once the product justifies the hype. its a stunner
Good book. Wouldn't call it a 'stunner' but it works.
Think it is a bit over-hyped Furriner. I guessed the perpetrator halfway through; it wasn't hard. I read her second novel Force of Nature and it was okay, but certainly not wonderful.
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furriner wrote:Read The Grade Cricketer. The sequel isn't available in India yet but I'll pick it up once it gets here,
Pretty good book, but I felt it portrayed Australian grade cricket as a grim, almost joyless landscape for the most part. Perhaps the novel exaggerates the environment of hyper competitive, cliquish misfits who are fast losing any enjoyment they must have once derived from playing the game.
Even if I were good enough to play third or fourth grade, which I'm not and never was, it didn't sound like something I'd want to take on. English club cricket, briefly contrasted in the novel itself, felt a lot more fun to play.
Perhaps Australian forummers can comment. embee, aren't you an umpire in grade cricket?
Also, folks, I'm not starting on a cricket book reading spree, can someone point me to the relevant thread on FB, apart from this one?
I have fun in grade cricket
some of it is boring dull shit ...I dont know about the inner politics of clubs too much but I know which clubs are more likely to be qunts on the field
I stamp out shit sledging and provide positive examples of what they should say
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embee wrote:furriner wrote:Read The Grade Cricketer. The sequel isn't available in India yet but I'll pick it up once it gets here,
Pretty good book, but I felt it portrayed Australian grade cricket as a grim, almost joyless landscape for the most part. Perhaps the novel exaggerates the environment of hyper competitive, cliquish misfits who are fast losing any enjoyment they must have once derived from playing the game.
Even if I were good enough to play third or fourth grade, which I'm not and never was, it didn't sound like something I'd want to take on. English club cricket, briefly contrasted in the novel itself, felt a lot more fun to play.
Perhaps Australian forummers can comment. embee, aren't you an umpire in grade cricket?
Also, folks, I'm not starting on a cricket book reading spree, can someone point me to the relevant thread on FB, apart from this one?
I have fun in grade cricket
some of it is boring dull shit ...I dont know about the inner politics of clubs too much but I know which clubs are more likely to be qunts on the field
I stamp out shit sledging and provide positive examples of what they should say
Cheers embee.
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embee wrote:furriner wrote:Read The Grade Cricketer. The sequel isn't available in India yet but I'll pick it up once it gets here,
Pretty good book, but I felt it portrayed Australian grade cricket as a grim, almost joyless landscape for the most part. Perhaps the novel exaggerates the environment of hyper competitive, cliquish misfits who are fast losing any enjoyment they must have once derived from playing the game.
Even if I were good enough to play third or fourth grade, which I'm not and never was, it didn't sound like something I'd want to take on. English club cricket, briefly contrasted in the novel itself, felt a lot more fun to play.
Perhaps Australian forummers can comment. embee, aren't you an umpire in grade cricket?
Also, folks, I'm not starting on a cricket book reading spree, can someone point me to the relevant thread on FB, apart from this one?
I have fun in grade cricket
some of it is boring dull shit ...I dont know about the inner politics of clubs too much but I know which clubs are more likely to be qunts on the field
I stamp out shit sledging and provide positive examples of what they should say
You ask them if they went to a good school
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I am reading this. Interesting if you are a rugby follower.
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Wind-Life-Carwyn-James-ebook/dp/B075GZFV1V/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1522848643&sr=1-5&keywords=Carwyn
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Wind-Life-Carwyn-James-ebook/dp/B075GZFV1V/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1522848643&sr=1-5&keywords=Carwyn
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Another book on the Kennedy assassination. For the comedy value.
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Interesting read.
https://www.amazon.com/Grade-Cricketer-Dave-Edwards/dp/192212981X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529830300&sr=8-1&keywords=the+grade+cricketer
https://www.amazon.com/Grade-Cricketer-Dave-Edwards/dp/192212981X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529830300&sr=8-1&keywords=the+grade+cricketer
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Great autobiography from arguably the best tennis writer around.
https://www.amazon.com/Roving-Eye-Reporters-Affair-Politics-ebook/dp/B071G464BY/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1531643539&sr=1-2&keywords=The+roving+eye
New Rebus out in October.
https://www.amazon.com/Roving-Eye-Reporters-Affair-Politics-ebook/dp/B071G464BY/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1531643539&sr=1-2&keywords=The+roving+eye
New Rebus out in October.
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A Mountbatten biography.
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Dick pics for Asians: A helpful guide
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