Jamescorsa97
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NHot recently but a few months previous I have read:
Facing Up - Bear Grylls(Another Everest account)
8/10 Very good but quite short
The Death Zone - Matt Dickinson(another Everest account
7/10 Another good read
The Girl With the Dragon tattoo
7/10 Liked this more than the film
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Ben J
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Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
NHot recently but a few months previous I have read:
Facing Up - Bear Grylls(Another Everest account)
8/10 Very good but quite short
The Death Zone - Matt Dickinson(another Everest account
7/10 Another good read
The Girl With the Dragon tattoo
7/10 Liked this more than the film
Read The Death Zone.
I went through a phase of reading all the Everest books and watching all the docs etc. Would love to do Everest but haven't got the balls.
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Jamescorsa97
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Originally posted by Ben J
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Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
NHot recently but a few months previous I have read:
Facing Up - Bear Grylls(Another Everest account)
8/10 Very good but quite short
The Death Zone - Matt Dickinson(another Everest account
7/10 Another good read
The Girl With the Dragon tattoo
7/10 Liked this more than the film
Read The Death Zone.
I went through a phase of reading all the Everest books and watching all the docs etc. Would love to do Everest but haven't got the balls.
I am exactly the same mate. Ambition is to reach at least base camp in my life time. I've watched every possible doc I can get my hand son and watched all 5 series of Beyond the limit on discovery!
Scanning at the moment for some more books on it lol 
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MoesTavern
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Just started War & Peace. Text is tiny and 1000 pages 
Feel sick.
War & Peace is incredibly hard work, try as I might I've never been able to get into it.
For some reason I never ever enjoy a book that's been translated into English from something else
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Ben J
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Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
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Originally posted by Ben J
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Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
NHot recently but a few months previous I have read:
Facing Up - Bear Grylls(Another Everest account)
8/10 Very good but quite short
The Death Zone - Matt Dickinson(another Everest account
7/10 Another good read
The Girl With the Dragon tattoo
7/10 Liked this more than the film
Read The Death Zone.
I went through a phase of reading all the Everest books and watching all the docs etc. Would love to do Everest but haven't got the balls.
I am exactly the same mate. Ambition is to reach at least base camp in my life time. I've watched every possible doc I can get my hand son and watched all 5 series of Beyond the limit on discovery!
Scanning at the moment for some more books on it lol
I definatley want to do base camp too. Will have to wait until the kids are older and can be left for a week or 2, and then me and the missus can do it.
There was a good series on about the doctors/rescue teams that work from base camp and assist with the emergency situations etc. Was really good. Not sure if that was Beyond The limit???
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Marc
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Originally posted by MoesTavern
War & Peace is incredibly hard work, try as I might I've never been able to get into it.
For some reason I never ever enjoy a book that's been translated into English from something else
I made a list of books that I need to read in my life time. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Hobbit (I've read all these) together with Lord Of the Rings and War and Peace are on my list. As is The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.
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John
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I read to kill a mockingbird and lord of the flies at school.
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Jambo
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Reading all quiet on the western front.
Not really sure what all the fuss is about tbh!
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Balling
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Most recently:
Hunger Games - 7/10
Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 8/10
Hunger Games: Mockingjay - 8/10
All three are easy reads and thoroughly entertaining.
Stephen King's Under the Dome - 9/10
Brilliant!
Currently reading Stephen King's The Wind Through The Key Hole which is the 8th novel in the Dark Tower series.
So far a great addition to a series of the best books I have ever read. Can not recommend the Dark Tower books enough.
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MoesTavern
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I've heard they go to shit after the fourth one?
Also what do you think of Wizard and Glass? It's the one everyone seems to love but I personally didn't enjoy it at all.
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Jambo
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Originally posted by Marc
Just started War & Peace. Text is tiny and 1000 pages
Feel sick.
I forget which author said it. But said it was like a sickness reading it. Mrs Jambo said the same! Was brilliant thogh
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hotel K
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Balling
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Originally posted by MoesTavern
I've heard they go to shit after the fourth one?
Also what do you think of Wizard and Glass? It's the one everyone seems to love but I personally didn't enjoy it at all.
Read 5, 6 and 7 back to back and I loved them. Very different style and some utterly bizarre stuff, but it all works very well. Book 6 is the poorest of the lot. In book 5 you get to meet Father Callahan from Salem's Lot (another fantastic King book) who in my mind is the ultimate bad ass. His back story is awesome.
In book 6 or 7, can't remember which, the characters meet a very special guy from an alternate level of the tower. Very cool stuff.
I loved Wizard and Glass. Rolands tales from his youth is some of the best parts.
If you didn't enjoy Wizard and Glass don't bother with Wind Through the Key Hole. It's more tales. Actually it's a tale within a tale. Very Inception. 
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Marc
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War & Peace taking a step back whilst I read another classic that I should have read by now.
About a quarter of the way through The Great Gatsby. Only 115 pages so should have it finished soon. Plus need to get it read before the film comes out.
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CORSA NUT
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The rise and fall of the Nephilim
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Dave
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* Bit like films and TV shows only you have to imagine what is going on in your head instead of it being projected on to a screen. Sometimes books become films and TV shows.
Any readers on here? I apologise for the above, but I'm getting it in before the "reading seems like too much work", and "its made up so why bother" comments.
Few I have recently read:
The Lovely Bones - Pretty morbid. Centres on a young girl that is raped and murdered and looks down on her family and murderer from heaven. Peter Jackson made it in to a film - 8/10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - About an autistic teenager who sets out to find out who murders his neigbours dog. - 10/10
Now I have decided to read War & Peace. Just felt I had to, was only £1.95. After that Lord of the Rings 
Not sure if this thread will take off!
Curious incident..... is great. There's another good one by same author. Can't remember what it's called.
A Spot of Bother. Didn't find that anywhere near as good as Curious Incident.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel is an excellent read.
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AK
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Currently reading Kill Nation I think its called. Not bad, about the 2nd Gulf War from a reporters perspective.
Just finished 'Amblers Code' - quite good, from the chap that wrote DaVinci code I think.
Before that it was my usual Scottish bias towards Chris Brookmyre and Rankin. I really recommend Christopher Brookmyre - fucking hailarious
Read a couple of the Jack Reacher series from Lee Child - not bad, will prob read more if I can get my hands on them.
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Russ
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Currently reading Kill Nation I think its called. Not bad, about the 2nd Gulf War from a reporters perspective.
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generation kill ?
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AK
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aye, that could be it
white/black/red cover with Marine wearing shades on the front.
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Russ
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it was written by a rolling stones magazine journalist. the TV series that went with it is a fantastic watch too
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Been reading some andy mcnab at the minute. Started with War torn which is fiction and fantastic!
Then read seven troop which is More stories of his real exploits in the SAS, I've also found myself re-reading bravo two zero at the moment, I hadn't even planned it I was just tested the ebooks on the iPad and found myself re-reading it
I think I'll be reading some of the books in here though, I used to read loads in college but I'm properly getting back into it again!
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Marc
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About a quarter of the way through The Great Gatsby. Only 115 pages so should have it finished soon. Plus need to get it read before the film comes out.
Just finished. Little bit disappointed really. Not a lot happened but there was a lot of narrative so thought it might be going somewhere. I was expecting a real shocking revelation or at least something big at the end. Never came really. 5/10
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Jambo
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I've seen the Robert Redford film. Was ok, would have thought the book would be better!
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Marc
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I was just expecting something really sinister towards the end.
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Marc
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Just bought 2 more books:
Life of Pi and Fahrenheit 451
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