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Just reading a great book called Jungle Soldier. All about a guy who spent a few years behind the japanese lines in malaya doing a lot of sabotage and ambushing of jap soldiers and convoys.
Bloody incredible.
- 06-01-2010, 13:47 #1982Senior Member
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might have to give that a go then
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- 06-01-2010, 13:59 #1983
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Hidden Debt to Islamic Civilisation By S. E. Al-Djazairi,
An engrossing read with lots of long words, a great book to read on the train and look all intellectual and that ..
- 06-01-2010, 14:00 #1984Senior Member
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Just read Eric Newby's Love and War in the Appenines.
Very excellent.
- 06-01-2010, 14:13 #1985
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"Devils Guard" by George Robert Elford again after tracking a copy down on fleabay, result
Mr. Chard Sir! Patrol has come back, Zulus have gone, all of 'em. It's a miracle! If it's a miracle Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry, point 45 caliber miracle. And a bayonet Sir! With some guts behind it!
- 06-01-2010, 14:27 #1986Senior Member
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My old fella gave me a bag full of books and there were loads of them by Jack Higgins, most are enjoyable, easy reads especially the Sean Dillon series
- 06-01-2010, 14:43 #1987Senior Member
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Not long finished The Lost Symbol...
Fcuk me, where do I start; the "plot" if you can call it that, makes DaVinci Code look plausible. The bad guy wins the Dr Evil Award for Worst. Plan. Ever. The major plot twist revealed at the end of the book is obvious half-way into the story to anyone with an IQ in double figures.
The book is at least 50 pages too long, and any semi-intelligent reader can figure out what's happening long before the supposedly hyper-intelligent hero, Langdon.
Never in the field of literature has one author made so much money out of so much bullsh1t.
JK Rowling writes a load of cr@p as well, but at least she does'nt pretend Hogwarts is real...Democracy is not for the people.
- 06-01-2010, 14:58 #1988Senior Member
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i might have to raid ebay for books maybe lol
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- 06-01-2010, 15:06 #1989
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Meditations In An Emergency.
- 06-01-2010, 15:18 #1990Senior Member
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Just finished Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton; master of the London 1940s novel... tale of besottedness for a vicious but beautiful woman by a schizoid no-hoper... (hang on a minute!)
Hamilton is a better observer than McEwan by some way..."As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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