Off Topic Chazz's Book Club

I got it for a fiver off Amazon, bargain

 

Ive read it 4 times n00b. You ever think that Disney getting Star Wars from Lucas was the opposite of the hunt? Where the IOI actually saves OASIS from Halliday?

My copy is in paperback, going to get a hardback first edition and add it to my syfy first edition collection that I have been building for a while.

 

She has a tablet now CT which has increased the number she reads. She is currently reading' MAO' by Yung Chang/Jon Halliday.(720 pages). I am on a re-read of ' Cry, The Beloved Country' by Alan Paton.

 

I reread this book on a regular basis. "How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers won the FA Cup". Ridiculous plot but Oh so funny. Difficult to get hold of, but worth the effort.

 

That's a great book by Alan Paton BMB. My wife also recommends his "Too Far the Phalarope". That "MAO" sounds like a hefty read...is that one of the 4 Mrs BMB reads every week...she must be a speed reader!!

 

Time to bring this on board (keep that jealous Chazz happy) - but I think this could be worth reading and it'll be good to see a coupla reviews.

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It was brilliant. i'd urge all to read it. Really opens your eyes to what goes on.
There's a chapter on the Brentford chairman and how he looks at players. He says he doesnt even look at how many goals a centre forward scores it doesnt matter. Its how the team does when that particular player plays up front!!! Roo dont read it it'll kill ya.

I'm just reading a book on Regis Cunningham and Batson at WBA. You forget what it was like for black players in the 70's. Disgraceful that it went on.

 

Downloaded 3 Cadfael books on Kindle a couple of days ago 'cos they were 99p each.

Read 17% of the first one.


It's about wars between Stephen and Maud.

It's set in Shrewsbury.

It's pronounced Cadvile apparently.



Who knew?

 

They're turning The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell into a TV series, starts next week on Beeb.

The latest book in the series has just come out as well.

 

Keith Richards autobiography

 

Speed writer and speed reader CT. We have both read all the Paton books. No TV in South Africa when we were there for a couple of years in the mid 60's!
I was into the Zulu culture and loved books like 'Sharka Zulu' and' The Washing of the Spears'. Also 'Zulu Rising' which told the story portrayed in the the film 'Zulu' which we had both seen prior to leaving England.

 

Have any of you ever been to any of these in London?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseypippin/london-library-bars#.pvBPNg7v7

 

Ditto on Beevor. The Fall of Berlin was an excellent book. Paris After the Liberation was also a good read.

I am in the second book of Shelby Foote's masterful 3-volume narrative history The Civil War. I am at the aftermath of Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg (which occurred a day apart, for those not familiar with the details).

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I picked up a first edition hardback of Armada today its by the same guy who wrote Ready Player One.

 

Have you read Armada yet? I think its far better than Ready Player One. Obviously its about a different style of video game and popular culture but I liked it a lot better as there was basically nothing in it that I didnt remember from back in the day.

Uh, did you ever find the easter egg in Ready Player One? It took me a lot longer than it should have.

I have found 2 easter eggs in Armada.

 

Although I have a Kindle, which I use quite often, I get quite a lot of books from charity shops my latest read, and also quite an enjoyable read at that is Alan Sugar - What you see is what you get. 50p hardback edition, most of my Dan Brown books, although paperback, cost 50p but his latest, Inferno, is hardback and that was £1.50

 

I have to admit though I have failed in my attempts at reading the 'Classics' War and Peace for example just simply wore me down after 35 pages I just couldn't read anymore. Nicholas Nickleby was another where I had to give up.

 

Bit poncey for me Ell. Scarfe Bar looks the best to me.

 

I like book stores, especially cool used book stores. There is one a couple towns away from me that is steampunk themed. The nicest one I have been was this one in Argentina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ateneo_Grand_Splendid

 

Ye me too. That one's beautiful.