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One of the best books i have ever read gotta be Musashi: https://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Epic-Nov ... 156836427X
About a Japanese Samurai that goes through life in a different matter than the normal Samurai. It is a brick of a book with 984 pages but it is a book that is hard to put down.
Absolutely recommend this one.
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Norseman wrote:
Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:18 am
One of the best books i have ever read gotta be Musashi: https://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Epic-Nov ... 156836427X
About a Japanese Samurai that goes through life in a different matter than the normal Samurai. It is a brick of a book with 984 pages but it is a book that is hard to put down.
Absolutely recommend this one.
His 'book of five rings' is worth keeping a copy of aswel
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If you like your Carp fishing then Terry Hearns In persuit of the latgest.

He has a 2nd book out now too. Through the mist I think its called. Met him at a carp fishing festival once with the Korda team. He's a good crack and a good read.
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Nom wrote:
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His 'book of five rings' is worth keeping a copy of aswel
I will definitely keep that one in mind for the future.
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Used to b a right book worm , got loads of books , love reading but then the growroom , kids , life , work , animals and just not enough hrs in a day took over lol
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i read every day , and love historical fiction , just read alexander kents 24 book series, following a midshipman in the navy from 12 years old all through his long career great action and based on true characters in time and the navy records , recommended
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Ghost_In_A_Jar wrote:
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Bravo Two Zero. First book I ever read. Never forgotten it. Never read another book since.
My first books would have been Janet and John. I am surprised that Bravo Two Zero is the first book for anyone to read.
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I struggle to remember what I read a few minutes ago with books, so I gave them up.

I like comics though and have a decent collection of Peanuts/Snoopy books from the 60s and 70s.

Encyclopaedias are cool to flick through too.

I also liked the women's underwear section of the Littlewoods catalogue back in the 80s.
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I love reading , used to read loads now not enough hrs in a day though , will read just about anything if it grabs me


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A few I loved or was inspired by:
1984 - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg
Hothouse - Brian Aldiss
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web - Jeff Lowenfels
Noam Chomsky - World Orders Old and New
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Open Society & Its Enemies - Karl Popper
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators - Paul Drummond
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - Joe Boyd
Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain - Andy Roberts
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland
High Rise - J.G. Ballard
The Invisibles - Grant Morrison (graphic novel)
Concrete - Paul Chadwick (graphic novel)
Palestine - Joe Sacco (graphic novel)
MAUS - Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)
Black Hole - Charles Burns (graphic novel)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Hara
Wing Chun - Yip Chun
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
Western Lands - William Burroughs
PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story - Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
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