twentysix by twentyfive
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Got the pipe and cardy too Accy?
Read any good books?
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Gillstay
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I noticed that with Chicken hawk and bought 6 copies just in time for them to re print it and the prices to plummet. I look at them on the shelf and suck my teeth occasionally to remind myself about what happens to investments.
Drago
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Tom Clancy.
Andy McNab.
Lee Child.
Wilbur Smith.
What more does a red blooded man need?
Andy McNab.
Lee Child.
Wilbur Smith.
What more does a red blooded man need?
BoldonLad
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I enjoyed The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old. Can be a bit depressing, if you are nearing that stage of your life, but, generally, amusing 
Currently reading A Promised Land, Barack Obama, I reserve judgement, only about 20% of way through it.
Recently read Peter James, Inspector Grace books, in order, good "holiday read", but, a lot of cut and paste repetition.
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Currently reading A Promised Land, Barack Obama, I reserve judgement, only about 20% of way through it.
Recently read Peter James, Inspector Grace books, in order, good "holiday read", but, a lot of cut and paste repetition.
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I'd have had you down as the author of that.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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- Over the Hill
Currently reading "The Man who Cycled the World". Mark Beaumont's account of his (then) record breaking ride. Surprisingly well written and interesting despite the potential for repetitious "I rode the road" stuff although I guess there is some of that it doesn't seem to distract.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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- Over the Hill
Question for @Fnaar I think.
swee'pea99
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Jane Austen?
Drago
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz, by Denis Avey. Mind boggling and frightening.
swee'pea99
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Recently read the Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn - best writing I've come across in years, and I read a lot of books. Now following up with John Updike's Rabbit series - again, the writing is astonishingly good.... "...since Pop passed on, after holding on without Mom for a couple of years, doing all the yardwork and vacuuming and meals by himself until his emphysema just got too bad and you’d find him sitting in a chair all curled over like a hand sheltering a guttering candleflame from the wind."
BoldonLad
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Read the Tattooist of Auschwitz. Hard to call such a book “enjoyable”, thought provoking is more appropriate, perhaps.
I was suspicious of this book's inaccuracies while reading it and later read this article in the Guardian which lays out just what a work of fiction it probably is.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...tacked-as-inauthentic-by-camp-memorial-centre
BoldonLad
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Yes, I didn’t think it was verbatim
It's probably a struggle to get a 100% accurate account of anything from WWII if you're writing a book now and relying on interviewing eye witnesses.
If you read Damien Lewis's books from that period he always has a disclaimer at the start to say he's filled the blanks in as he imagines it, or made up bits if you want to look at it another way.
If you read Damien Lewis's books from that period he always has a disclaimer at the start to say he's filled the blanks in as he imagines it, or made up bits if you want to look at it another way.
