Books

[rumpus]

I read a book a week

I do too when working. Don't read so much as one page when at home.

[The Boofon]

Them. Another belter from Ron Jonson although I didn't realise it was so old a book when I bought it.

[buchanskii]

Reading a book about Che Guevera and Fidel Castro just now, but it's dragging on a bit now. it goes into excruciating depth about how both grew up.

 

Also bought Samuel Peyps diary on a whim but it's some size - might just display it on the bookcase to look cultured

[rumpus]

The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo

 

Way above 98% of people on here's intellect, but I was engrossed.

[Henry]

A Decent Ride: Irvine Welsh

 

 

is what I'm currently reading.

[amancalledbuck]

A Decent Ride: Irvine Welsh

 

 

is what I'm currently reading.

I wouldn't bother.

 

It's not very good.

[Bluto10]

I read a book a week

[looksgoodinred]

just picked up When Breath Becomes Air. will start on it this weekend.

 

 

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

 

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

[robbojunior]

Them. Another belter from Ron Jonson although I didn't realise it was so old a book when I bought it.

Is that his latest book? Fits it about?

[Poodler]

Harper Lee deed. One hit wonder. My mate read it in a week

[Misers Hill]

I read a book a week

Peoples Friend?

[rumpus]

White Gold: Eugine Costello

 

True story- Operation Klondike about a drugs bust on the west coast back in the day.

 

Can't decide if it was an excellent book or absolute horse poop.

[caledonia]

I read a book a week

 

bar menus do not count

[KidCreole]

The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo

 

Way above 98% of people on here's intellect, but I was engrossed.

Was it him that did the Stanford experiment if so he is awesome I try to site his work when when justifying my contempt for authority, Kept meaning to buy it is it any good I have seen a few lectures by him

[Ke1t]

just picked up When Breath Becomes Air. will start on it this weekend.

 

 

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

 

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

 

 

Oocha... that sounds deadful.

 

You going to read The Diary of Anne Frank to cheer yourself up after reading that?

[Jigot]

I read Cornwell's first 3 books in his Starbuck series and just found out that the 4th book had been released so I intend to source a copy as I enjoyed the earlier books.

 

 

Does anybody else feel a bit sad when they finish a book, like they've lost a friend or am I just a daftie?

[King Street Loon]

I read Cornwell's first 3 books in his Starbuck series and just found out that the 4th book had been released so I intend to source a copy as I enjoyed the earlier books.

 

 

Does anybody else feel a bit sad when they finish a book, like they've lost a friend or am I just a daftie?

I was sad when I read that Chewbaccca died from a moon hitting him in Vector Prime.

Written by R A Salvatore.

Thankfully he lives since Walt and Co rewrite the canon and Han is dead instead.

[The Boofon]

I was sad when I read that Chewbaccca died from a moon hitting him in Vector Prime.

Written by R A Salvatore.

Thankfully he lives since Walt and Co rewrite the canon and Han is dead instead.

 

 

Cheers you prick. I've not watched it yet.

[BWG]

I read Cornwell's first 3 books in his Starbuck series and just found out that the 4th book had been released so I intend to source a copy as I enjoyed the earlier books.

 

 

Does anybody else feel a bit sad when they finish a book, like they've lost a friend or am I just a daftie?

 

How does it compare to Sharpe?

[KidCreole]

 

How does it compare to Sharpe?

some major differences

[Poodler]

Just bought 'first aid and wilderness medicine' to combine two of my favourite pastimes. I don't like to speak about them though

[Bluto10]

You ever read wainwrights pictorial guide to the fells poodley min?

[The Boofon]

You ever read wainwrights pictorial guide to the fells poodley min?

 

 

Not sure how one would read a pictorial guide to be honest.

[Jigot]

How does it compare to Sharpe?

I've only read the one, Sharpe's Fury. I prefered the Starbuck books as I like shit about the American civil war.

 

Cornwell's Azincourt is the canine's clackers as is Vagabond.

[Jigot]

Not one for Detective type books but started on Lee Child's "Hard Way" last night and was still reading it at half 3 this morning.

[looksgoodinred]

 

 

Oocha... that sounds deadful.

 

You going to read The Diary of Anne Frank to cheer yourself up after reading that?

 

it's not dreadful, but i've not yet found it particularly "uplifting" either.

i've put it to the side for now and moved onto something quite a bit lighter.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/books/review/longbourn-by-jo-baker.html?_r=0

[StandFree1982]

 

 

Not sure how one would read a pictorial guide to be honest.

Probably explains how he gets through a book a week.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

The Diary of Anne Frank

Ach that diary gets really "samey" after a only a few entries:

 

Monday - Hid

Tuesday - Hid

Wednesday - Hid

Thursday - Hid

Friday - Hid

Saturday - Hid

Sunday - Hid

[The Boofon]

Ach that diary gets really "samey" after a only a few entries:

 

Monday - Hid

Tuesday - Hid

Wednesday - Hid

Thursday - Hid

Friday - Hid

Saturday - Hid

Sunday - Hid

 

 

You'd have been shagging her every day if you were hiding with her given she was old enough to have started periods.

[Bluto10]

I read a book a week