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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #115: Aug 06, 2009 03:32:34 pm
      A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre.

      Great book.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #116: Oct 16, 2009 06:29:42 pm
      Only just started it today, but found Homicide - A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon.

      I can see were one or two characters from The Wire came from!
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #117: Oct 19, 2009 08:45:14 pm
      Haven't read a book in a while, just can't be arsed buying them! Need to get myself a good, gang type, one. Well into them!
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      Reply #118: Oct 19, 2009 08:53:10 pm
      Forever and Always by Patricia Scanlan. A really good story about 3 different people in the same town and how there lives change dramatically over a short amount of time.

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      Reply #119: Oct 19, 2009 08:54:04 pm
      Haven't read a book in a while, just can't be arsed buying them! Need to get myself a good, gang type, one. Well into them!

      Don't remember the author, but I thought "The Westies" was pretty good. They were an organized crime unit in NYC's Hell's Kitchen. I'm not one to shop in the True Crime section, but I did enjoy this.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #120: Oct 28, 2009 05:57:11 pm
      Finally bought "44 years with the same bird" by Brian Reade. Haven't finished it yet and left it in college over the mid term!::) Great read anyway!
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      Reply #121: Oct 29, 2009 05:39:17 pm
      The Game - Neil Strauss

      This is probably the best book I've ever read and one that I genuinely had trouble putting down.
      Neil Strauss is an auther, ghost writer and journalist for the New York Times who has written biographies for the likes of Marilyn Manson, Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Mötley Crue. He was once approached by someone asking him to investigate a 'clan' of pick-up artists and write a report on them. He repeatedly ignored the request until he eventually decided he had nothing better to do.
      On meeting these 'artists', he was soon fascinated with the idea that you could learn routines that would enable you to pick up women from all different classes, from all over the world. In time, Neil himself became regarded as one of, if not THE best Pick-up Artists around and went by the name of 'Style'.
      In the book, Strauss details this journey, the people he meets, the tricks he learns, his own transformation and the pit-falls of this new lifestyle. Along the way he meets Tom Cruise, Courtney Love, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears amongst others and you get a great insight into what they are really like.
      The book can be seen as an autobiography, a journalistic report, a training guide or a story but either way, it is an incredible piece of writing and at times, extremely funny.
      Don't be put off by the subject matter, it may seem a little seedy but you'll be fascinated, whether you're male or female. Some of you may even be tempted to try the techniques described! There is also a twist at the end that I didn't see coming.

      I would urge anyone with the slightest interest in books buy this, you'll get it to your door for around a fiver.  ;)
       
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #122: Nov 01, 2009 03:22:52 pm
      The Burnt House - Faye Kellerman
      Bones To Ashes - Kathy Reichs
      Israel  a History - Martin Gilbert
      The Chocolate Lover's Diet - Carole Matthews
      Severed - Simon Kernick
      Bomber Boys - Patrick Bishops
      Soldier the Autobiography - General Sir Mike Jackson
      Cobra 405 - Damien Lewis
      Nothing To Fear - Karen Rose
      Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
      Daddy's Little Earner - Maria Landon
      Sniper One - Sgt Dan Mills
      Heath Ledger - John McShane
      Undead & Unworthy - Mary Janice Davidson
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #123: Nov 21, 2009 09:08:08 pm
      Blind mans bluff about American subs after the second world war very good
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #124: Nov 22, 2009 02:42:26 pm
      Torres El Nino.Great read.Took me two days start to finish(its that good).
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #125: Nov 22, 2009 02:44:18 pm
      Torres El Nino.Great read.Took me two days start to finish(its that good).

      Now I know what I want in my stocking this Christmas.  ;)
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      Reply #126: Nov 23, 2009 08:23:39 pm
      Recommend the ragged trousered philanthropist great book and the author is from Liverpool
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #127: Nov 23, 2009 08:45:02 pm
      Read Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden whilst on holiday. Also read Trace by Patricia Cornwell. Excellent forensic thriller.

      Currently reading Dan Brown's new one, The Lost Symbol. About 15 chapters in, getting good now.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #128: Nov 23, 2009 10:20:49 pm
      Read Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden whilst on holiday.

      Haven't read that one, but his other book about Pablo Escobar is boss.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #129: Nov 23, 2009 11:36:12 pm
      Haven't read that one, but his other book about Pablo Escobar is boss.

      I'll have to look into that.

      It's a boss read. Even better once you've read the last chapter or two explaining how he pieced it together. I knew it was a true story but f*ck me he went in depth. Got copies of the communications between teams and choppers.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #130: Nov 24, 2009 05:56:18 pm
      I'll have to look into that.

      It's a boss read. Even better once you've read the last chapter or two explaining how he pieced it together. I knew it was a true story but f*ck me he went in depth. Got copies of the communications between teams and choppers.

      Just had a look on Wiki cos I couldn't remember the title - Killing Pablo, which is being turned into a movie in 2011.
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      Reply #131: Nov 24, 2009 10:38:14 pm
      Just read ABDUCTED written by the two girls that were taken in 1999.Charlene Lunnen & Lisa Hoodless.Gripping but NOT for the faint hearted.Thought I'd send 25 copies to the fellow inmates of Alan Hopkinson.Anyone know what prison he's in?
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #132: Nov 27, 2009 07:48:25 pm
      Skin Privilege - Karin Slaughter 
      Broken -Shy Keenan
      Wednesday At Four - Debbie Macomber
      Six Days (How the '67 war shaped the middle east) - Jeremy Bowen
      Mister Teacher - Jack Sheffield (read in one sitting last Sunday funny from start to finish)
      The Final Reckoning - Sam Bourne  (better than anything that Dan Brown can write)
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #133: Nov 29, 2009 08:56:07 pm
      Blind mans bluff about the American submarines since the sixtees, bad people the Americans
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #134: Nov 29, 2009 08:57:54 pm
      Want to re-read the Hobbit and all three LOTRs before the first Hobbit film comes out in 2011. Love the books. Probably my favourites.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #135: Nov 29, 2009 09:00:40 pm
      Biff and Chip  :f_tongueincheek:
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #136: Nov 29, 2009 09:12:01 pm

       :lmao:

      That brings back memories from Primary school.  Floppy the dog was so cool. ;)

      I'm re-reading 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series again by George RR Martin.  A Storm of Swords in that series is the best book I have ever read.
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      Re: The Best Book You have read recently
      Reply #137: Nov 30, 2009 02:58:58 am
      I'm re-reading 'Feet Of Clay' by Terry Pratchett.

      Classic.

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