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Last top 5 before footie returns

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  1. Alfie

    Alfie Active Member

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    Done Moves (films), Bands, Songs

    How about books?

    A life in football - Bob Harris
    Farewell but not goodbye -Sir Bobby
    Addicted - Tony Adams
    Jack Ryan series - Tom Clancy
    Dark Tower series - Stephen King

    Currently reading - "9/11 Commision Report" for work and boring the bollocks off me.
     
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    Slash's Biograph
    Anthony Kiedes Biograph
    Chopper Vol 1-8(so far)
     
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    VIZ- The Big Pink Stiff One
    VIZ- The Dogs Bollocks
    VIZ- The Spunky Parts
    VIZ- The Pan Handle
    VIZ- The Rusty Sherriff's Badge

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  4. Donkey Toon

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    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    History of the World - J M Roberts
    His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    Someplace to be Flying - Charles De Lint

    Currently reading - The End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry by Paul Roberts. Scary stuff if even a fraction of it comes true. And as his The End of Oil book written five years ago is prooving to be scarily accurate I fear it might. The end is nigh ... we're doomed i tell you, doomed!! :)
     
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    Any 5 by Michael Connelly but especially 'a darkness more than night.'
    Alternatively the 'graphic novel' (i.e. long grownup's comic) The Watchmen is excellent, and the movie didnt do it justice.


    (i hear RIP is a big fan of the 'Spot the Dog' series)
     
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  7. barnaby

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    Any book by James Patterson is worth a read.

    Thank God footie is back.
     
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    Merlin FA Carling Premiership Sticker Album 1993/94
    Merlin FA Carling Premiership Sticker Album 1994/95
    Merlin FA Carling Premiership Sticker Album 1995/96
    Merlin FA Carling Premiership Sticker Album 1996/97
    Merlin FA Carling Premiership Sticker Album 1997/98
     
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    There and Back Again: A Hobbits Tale
    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
    A History of Middle Earth
    Silmarillion
    Other JRR, Middle Earth books.

    ****ing love LotR me!
     
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    Same here :emoticon-0148-yes:

    I even love reading the ones showing the early drafts of his work, explaining how he got to the finished article. Also Letter of JRR Tolkien which is just a collection of letters to and from his publisher and friends talking about the books and explaining various points. Can't get enough of them! :)
     
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    Gonna have to get amongst that one!! Sounds interesting.
     
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    In Cold Blood is an amazing book if anyone's read that.
     
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    I was gonna say good luck getting hold of a copy because it only had a one print hardback release in 1981 and last time i looked was selling for about £200 second hand. But just checked amazon and it was re-released in paperback in 2006 and can be bought for about £7. Luckily I bought it on release so didn't have to take out a mortgage for my copy :)
     
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    Yeah Truman Capote, great book. The film based upon his writing of it "Capote" starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman is pretty good as well if you haven't seen it.
     
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    I read the 'Talksport' book that came out around xmas 2009
    A real eye opener as to the way that staion is run

    Good read

    I've also just got hold of Rob Lee's book 'Come in number 37' anyone know what it's like??
     
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    Need to get round to watching that, heard good things about it.
     
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    The Godfather - Mario Puzo (better than the film)
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    Anything by Roald Dahl, his work for adults or children, all of it is actually genius. He is hands down my favourite writer! The more I learn about creative writing, the better he gets!
    Most things by Roddy Doyle, The Van, The commitments, A star Called Henry - all immense!
     
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    The Iliad by Homer
    God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
    Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
    Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
    Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
    Gallipoli by L A Carlyon
     
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    <ok> Some classics in their overseasToon. Literally in the case of The Illiad :) Find it ironic that these days you say Homer to somebody and they think of the Simpsons. Beginning of the end of culture if you ask me!

    Colossus and Stalingrad both great too. Only recently finished Berlin by Antony Beevor and that was almost as good.
     
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    I've read everything by Antony Beevor and all have been great.

    I'm halfway through Jerusalem: The Biography at the moment and it's a real pleasure to read.

    I'm a bit of a history fanatic and it's all I ever read.
     
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