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I can heartily recommend The Cruel Sea for some very engaging and thought provoking reading, if you have a week to spare.Comment
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LOLOriginally posted by DimPrawn View PostYou can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.Comment
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
A Spot of Bother
Life of Pi
These are all great stories that are a bit different, not your formulaic trash.
Bill Bryson fits the light-hearted vein. "Notes from a Small Island", "Walk in the Woods", "Notes from a Big Country" - it's really a bunch of anecdotes thinly disguised as a travel book, so good on holiday.
Pratchett is loved by some and hated by others, if you never tried then take one of the early ones as an experiment. Easy to read anyhow - I recommend "Mort" or "Reaper Man" as good introductions.
Iain Banks is also very good. He writes slightly off-centre novels under that name, and science-fiction as Iain M. Banks - "Player of Games" is my favourite probably.
Although it falls more mainstream, two of Tom Clancey's books are pretty good. Hunt For Redoctober is one, but my favourite is "Rainbow 6".Originally posted by MaryPoppinsOriginally posted by vetranComment
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IT by Stephen King, if you don't read it, it still makes for a handy footrest, stool or paperweight.You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.Comment
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World War Z by Max Brooks, its a zombie apocalypse book which is told in interviews after the war. Its nothing short of amazing and Brad Pitt's production company are making a movie of it.
Incidently Max Brooks is Mel Brooks son but don't think that nepotism is in play here, this is a damned fine book that is the advancement of even some of George Romero's fillms.Comment
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How about a travel guide book on the area you are going to visit ?CC Posted : Anyone got any good recommendations for holiday reading.
This is a good place to start, and I always buy a guide on the place I'm about to visit to learn more about the history, culture, nightlife, bars, etc.
...excluding Slough or Stevenage or Swindon or Swansea obviously...I always buy a guide on the place I'm about to visit
(Note how the really poor UK towns always start with an "S" ?)Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Swansea's alright. Great nightlife; loads of totty; plenty of non-poundland, non-mobile phone and non-charity shops.Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
May I suggest sCumbernauld, sBasingstoke or sGreat Yarmouth instead?
Napoleonics are usually good.Originally posted by Cheshire Cat View Post
C S Forester's Hornblower books.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin books.
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books.
All are fictionalised but based on real events.Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Regardless of your ancestry, it's always good to learn and appreciate other cultures.
Not advised if you are travelling to Iran or other similar states..Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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