| Book recommendations 2020. 12:15 - Jan 3 with 8230 views | runningman75 |
I am currently reading The Boy on the Shed by Paul Ferris. Interesting autobiography about a Northen Irish guy who went on to be the youngest player to play for Newcastle. Seems a very interesting guy and not the usual sporting biography. Anyone else got recommendations for the year ahead. | | | |  |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 16:12 - Mar 20 with 1982 views | Pikey |
An interesting book by John Honney. ...Always in Motion about his trials and tribulations as an amputee of running the 6 major marathons.
John is a QPR fan and tells a great story that will have you laughing cheering and crying at various stages of his story.
A good football related one a guy played for reading called Johnny Sherwood and was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 2nd world war called Lucky Johnny | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 16:14 - Mar 20 with 1979 views | Pikey |
Of Course the Alan Johnson books especially his first "this boy" about growing up in Ladbroke Grove in the 50s and being an rs fan | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 09:12 - Mar 21 with 1936 views | Fearless |
For those that like the Bourne films, you might like the Gregg Hurwitz Orphan X series | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 17:21 - Mar 21 with 1895 views | DannyPaddox |
Gonna have another crack at this one.
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| Book recommendations 2020. on 17:37 - Mar 21 with 1890 views | CiderwithRsie |
Pretty much anything by Dalrymple is worth reading. The bastard is the bloke I'd like to be.
Peter Hopkirk on espionage in those parts (e.g. The Great Game) is a good read too. | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 02:26 - Mar 22 with 1842 views | PlanetHonneywood |
I picked up Dalrymple’s weighty tome ‘The Anarchy’ when I was back at Christmas.
Initially I thought: when will I have the time to read a big 600 page book? Turns out I’m pretty free until Septemberish and now I’m more worried about reading it too quickly. | |
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| Book recommendations 2020. on 08:11 - Mar 22 with 1827 views | wombleR |
I very much enjoyed McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy. A very amusing writer who died tragically young.
McCarthy wryly described his school education by the Christian Brothers as "carrot and stick without the carrot".
Another with a London Irish slant is Falling Angels by John Walsh. Describes in a very amusing way his Catholic Irish upbringing in Battersea.
Both defintely ones to take back off the shelf for second readings. | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 09:46 - Mar 23 with 1764 views | robith |
I think that Wolf Hall is a better piece of writing than BUTB, but as the latter is told in a more linear fashion with less ephemeral writing and is therefore easier to understand the plot, it's a more exciting book | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 09:48 - Mar 23 with 1762 views | robith |
If anyone's in to a bit of light fantasy a la ASOIAF, Joe Abercrombie's stuff is great. The First Law trilogy is over 6,000 pages so it will keep you buys, but it's just released the first in a follow up trilogy, A Little Hatred, that picks up the story 28 years later that is quite snappy.
He also wrote a YA trilogy, The Shattered Sea, that's immensely readable, and has a delightful twist in it | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 07:05 - Aug 28 with 1575 views | OutWestR |
Just finished reading this, having let it sit on the shelf for a few months. Fascinating book, a cliche I know, but I couldn’t put it down and also finished it in three days. Not a subject I knew a lot about, but it’s made me want to learn more. | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 07:10 - Aug 28 with 1564 views | Northernr |
Nearing the end of All Played Out/One Night In Turin which looks at English football, the hooliganism, journalism and politics around it, in the run up to Italia 90 and then the tournament itself. Would recommend. | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 11:25 - Aug 28 with 1479 views | distortR |
remember that from years back, very good book.
I don't often read anything football related as my interest in football is very niche and I don't read books i regard as poorly written, but I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Just finished a mad French book called Vernon Subutex, will get the follow ups.
I read a couple of Don Winslow books on recommendation from this site, also good.
Currently reading 'The buried giant' by Kazuo ishiguro, it's captured me!
Alas, my l.a keeps cutting the local libraries budget.
Edited out random rant [Post edited 28 Aug 2020 11:40]
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| Book recommendations 2020. on 11:36 - Aug 28 with 1472 views | robith |
While the book is well written the reason he seems to have such access is the author basically using all of Ed Moloney's "A Secret History of the IRA" uncredited. | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 12:25 - Aug 28 with 1441 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Just finished re-reading 'Team of Rivals' by Doris Kearns Goodwin, and it's a beaut of a book.
It's a biography of Lincoln but also a study in how he befriended his political rivals and made allies of them and how together they won the Civil War and ended slavery.
He's a remarkable figure, and the book is an antidote to these Trumpian times. Can't recommend it enough. | |
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| Book recommendations 2020. on 12:59 - Aug 28 with 1422 views | MrSheen |
Antidote to these times or a warning? War, riot, military tribunals, detention without trial...
I've read a lot around that period, but never got round to that one. | | | |
| Book recommendations 2020. on 14:14 - Aug 28 with 1389 views | BrianMcCarthy |
It was an antidote for me in that it made me believe that ethics in political human beings was and therefore is possible! | |
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