[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[Nicks]

Two Brothers by Ben Elton.
Not to bad a read about two brothers at the beginning of 1938 in Germany

 

[Slum_Wolf]

I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa - John Gibler

 

[wunt be druv]

Just started "Under the Wire" it's the wartime memoir of a Spitfire pilot, Bill Ash, shot down over France and captured by the Gestapo and his subsequent attempts to escape from P.O.W. camps.

 

[Gwylan]

I've just finished The Don, the definitive biography of Don Bradman. 699 pages plus 30 odd pages of stats.

Absolutely brilliant.

It describes his career from playing as a child in Bowral NSW, to club cricket, then Sheffield Shield before his international career in great detail.

But the insight into what it was like in the 1920s and 1930s is fascinating. That he had to have a job because cricket didn't pay enough to live on. And the 6-8 weeks it took to get to England for a tour. On tour here they would play 10 county matches (no one-dayers obviously) and often started these games the day after a Test match ended.

I can't recommend this book enough. Indeed if you want my copy (I won't read it again) PM me and you can have it for free (Ex P&P)

Is it a glorifying biography or a realistic one? He was a fantastic cricketer, probably the best there's ever been, but, by all accounts, not so great as a human being.

 

[Nicks]

Just started "Under the Wire" it's the wartime memoir of a Spitfire pilot, Bill Ash, shot down over France and captured by the Gestapo and his subsequent attempts to escape from P.O.W. camps.

Great read

 

[Nicks]

If you like your maritime history I highly recommend "HUNTER KILLERS " best book I've ever read on The Cold War underwater.
And I speak as someone who was never there

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

My girl - Michelle Hadaway
The story of a mother's fight for justice for her daughter Karen, who was one of Russell Bishop's victims in the "Babes in the wood" murders .

 

[Barry Izbak]

Is it a glorifying biography or a realistic one? He was a fantastic cricketer, probably the best there's ever been, but, by all accounts, not so great as a human being.

Interesting. It is definitely written in a positive light. Concentrating (in great detail) on every match he played, but also giving an insight in to his life away from cricket

 

[Beach Hut]

A Cruel Madness - Colin Thubron

 

[Beach Hut]

The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer

 

[Beach Hut]

From Source To Sea - Tom Chesshyre

 

[Beach Hut]

Playing The Moldavians At Tennis - Tony Hawks

 

[Beach Hut]

Around the World on Expenses - Peter Biddlecombe

 

[Don Quixote]

Neuromancer - William Gibson

 

[Beach Hut]

Wild East - Jill Lawless

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Eric Idle's - Always look on the bright side of life : A sortabiography. Eric Idle was always my favourite Python and this is a great autobiography. Very amusing as you would expect from the author and he seems to know anybody who's anybody in show business and there's some quite revealing details about how the Python's got on / didn't get on. He also had a very tough start to life losing his dad at an early age and being bundled off to boarding school which he hated. Certainly a life well lived

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer

enjoyable, not particularly taxing, and mildly amusing.

 

[Beach Hut]

enjoyable, not particularly taxing, and mildly amusing.

Agreed, thought is was pretty good reading

 

[Beach Hut]

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible - Peter Pomerantsev

 

[wunt be druv]

"The Men who flew the Mosquito" by Martin W. Bowman, funnily enough it's about the men who flew the Mosquito during WW.2. it gives compelling and informative accounts of the missions carried out and the aircrew involved.