Eco 3,008 Posted June 9, 2017 Author Share Posted June 9, 2017 2 minutes ago, nudge said: I love historical fiction and sea novels in particular (although more nautical adventures like Jules Verne), so I've been enjoying this so far There's a lot of investment in nautical detail though, so it can get a bit exhausting sometimes due to all the terminology, descriptions of the ships, maneuvers, etc. Yes, I can only imagine. I had to read Moby Dick and the amount of information that any non-whale enthusiast has to go over is nauseating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted June 9, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 9, 2017 2 minutes ago, Eco said: Yes, I can only imagine. I had to read Moby Dick and the amount of information that any non-whale enthusiast has to go over is nauseating. Haha, I'm not a fan of Moby Dick myself, it's a tough read... My personal genre favourites are definitely Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Jack London's The Sea Wolf and Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie 240 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 44 minutes ago, nudge said: Haha, I'm not a fan of Moby Dick myself, it's a tough read... My personal genre favourites are definitely Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone through Deathly Hallows I agree Nudge you have very good taste wouldn't you agree @Eco? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted June 9, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 9, 2017 1 minute ago, Saturdays Are For The Boys said: I agree Nudge you have very good taste wouldn't you agree @Eco? I'd only ever post such a thing in the guilty pleasures thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie 240 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 15 minutes ago, nudge said: I'd only ever post such a thing in the guilty pleasures thread. Liking a work of art isn't a guilty pleasure nudge. I'm not embarrassed to like Hamlet which is almost on par with Harry Potter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted June 9, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 9, 2017 4 minutes ago, Saturdays Are For The Boys said: Liking a work of art isn't a guilty pleasure nudge. I'm not embarrassed to like Hamlet which is almost on par with Harry Potter. You might have a point there, compared to other popular modern series like Twilight or 50 Shades, Harry Potter is practically a literary masterpiece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carefreeluke 722 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 2 hours ago, Cannabis said: Really enjoying it mate, I've just finished the chapter that Cristiano Ronaldo wrote and he's got so much respect for Carlo its unreal. It'd be nice if they could work together again somehow as he seemed to really want him to stay at Madrid. The Chelsea chapter was great although it didn't paint Roman Abramovich in a good light, he comes across as a crazier version of Florentino Perez which I half imagined would have been the case before reading. You can see that the writing was on the wall for him after slipping up against Mourinho's Inter. I love how Ancelotti has stuck to his guns throughout his career thus far, he's been challenged about his laid back leadership style but I commend him for sticking to his roots and remaining true to who he is as a person. More managers should be like him. Yeah mate he's a don, the best football we ever played in the Roman era so far was under Ancelotti. The positive words in the book that come from not only some of the best football players in the game but some of the biggest personalities really highlight how great a manager he is, the fondness the players have for him in the book really is quite striking, the likes of Ronaldo, Ibra, Terry etc. Yeah, the book seems to challenge people's general perceptions of leadership which I like also. I don't know if you've read it yet but the part about Bale, Bale's agent and Perez is very interesting as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panna King 1,012 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 (edited) Edited June 9, 2017 by VanPanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,644 Posted June 9, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 9, 2017 https://talkfootball365.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgnisExcubitor 678 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Finished reading Gillian Flynn's Dark Places. I somehow liked it more than the brilliant Gone Girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco 3,008 Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 So far, very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Large 141 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Just finished Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn. If you like a bit of Clancy, Baldacci, Childs, etc. then you'll enjoy this. I did. Next up is Family: Life, Death and Football by Michael Calvin. His account after spending a the full season with Millwal from day one of pre-season of 2009/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots 607 Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Finished The Dark Tower Vol: 3 the waste lands by Stephen King. I think it's really good but a slightly lesser book than book 2. Now 3/4 through Bernard Cornwall's The Flame Bearer which is ok but you can tell he's just churning these out now. The last two or three could have been 1 book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted June 28, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 28, 2017 9 hours ago, Teso Dos Bichos said: This looks very interesting, a comprehensive account of physics! A tough read though, I think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Large 141 Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Finished Family by Michael Calvin which I thought was a really good insight into Millwall. Worth a read. Also finished The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi [thanks for the recommendation @nudge]. Really enjoyed it and will be adding him to my reading list now. Was quite humorous without becoming a comedy and reminded me of L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth books. Next up is The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted July 13, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted July 13, 2017 6 minutes ago, Large said: Finished Family by Michael Calvin which I thought was a really good insight into Millwall. Worth a read. Also finished The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi [thanks for the recommendation @nudge]. Really enjoyed it and will be adding him to my reading list now. Was quite humorous without becoming a comedy and reminded me of L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth books. Next up is The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin. Glad you liked it; I love his style of writing, in particular that subtle, not-over-the-top humour! Currently reading Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land by Henry Kamm, a concise history and in-depth analysis of 30 years civil war and genocide, events that led to it and the consequences as well as future outlook. Bought it from one of the book sellers in Phnom Penh while drinking beer on the riverside, a good deal for just a couple of $ and a good read so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted July 13, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted July 13, 2017 On 6/29/2017 at 6:12 PM, Teso Dos Bichos said: Yeah its tough at first but i love math. Im definitely taking my time reading it and being careful not to miss important details. If you ever get a chance to read it, let me know. Will do! I'm still going through Feynman's Lectures on Physics and Christoph Schiller's Motion Mountain to refresh my knowledge on fundamentals of physics, so I will move on to something more complex, preferably engineering after that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted 1,776 Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 I'm a decent chunk into The Rights of Man and, embarrassingly, I genuinely laughed at how much Paine slags Edmund Burke's criticism of the French Revolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toinho 2,210 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 The Moaning of life by literary heavyweight Karl Pilkington. Next is: The Art of People by Dave Kerpen. Basically a book about people skills and getting everything you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted August 16, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted August 16, 2017 Will be starting this now: I'm a sucker for "big history", even considering its limitations, so I'm quite excited about this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted 1,776 Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 (edited) Just finished The Mixer by Michael Cox, and I really enjoyed it. Once I got into it I found myself absolutely firing through it and losing all track of time. I especially enjoyed reading about the long stretch of the PL that I was too young to see. Now im about 100 pages into this: It's quite ambitious in that it's pretty much an attempt at a social and economic history of global Imperialism over a fairly active stretch of time, but so far I'm enjoying it, and even though it jumps from things like the increasing use of household appliances like telephones, to shipping trends, to politics, it seems to work. Edited August 20, 2017 by Inverted 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie 240 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 playboy..... for the articles.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Subscriber RandoEFC+ 7,644 Posted August 30, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted August 30, 2017 @Cannabis reading loads of football biographies just so he can post in the "What are you reading?" thread and feel really smart for doing so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry 1,437 Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 David Baldacci - the forgotten Robert Jordan - The lord of chaos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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