All booked up

[teddy]

Deeamcatcher -Stephen King. His usual gripping style and over 600 pages long. An alien invasion takes place. Aliens, but not as we know them Jim. Another must from the master of horror.

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[White Knight]

Seamus Heaney {translator}--​Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition

 

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A Good Year - Peter Mayle

Anyone who enjoyed A Year In Provence will enjoy this novel. An Englishman is left an old house and small vineyard in his uncles will. Gentle storytelling with lots of detail and an obvious love of village lfe in France

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[White Knight]

Howard Blum--Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

 

[cwarchc]

Alan Bennett - Writing Home

 

[teddy]

The Green Mile - Stephen King

A very good film and a very good book. Originally written as an experiment to see whether a chapter book would be as popular now as when Dickens was alive.

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[White Knight]

Lynne Olson--Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh and America's Fight Over World War 2, 1939-1941
C.J. Sansom--Dominion

 

[teddy]

The Love Beach by Leslie Thomas

A man leaves his family in Wales and journeys to the South Seas as a salesman, only to discover that his wife was having an affair and is unlikely to join him. Full of eccentric characters and situations. An entertaining read as you would expect from Leslie Thomas.

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[White Knight]

Bart D. Ehrman--Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

 

[White Knight]

Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Epstein--The New Anti-Semitism

 

[teddy]

The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

apart from a cracking story Wyndham puts forward some interesting ideas regarding society and arguments regarding long term verses short term benefits to the human race. Thankfully he avoids his blessed deus ex machina in this book

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[White Knight]

Andy Weir--The Martian

 

[White Knight]

Thurston Clarke--JFK's Last Hundred Days
Poul Anderson--The Horn of Time
Frederick Pohl--Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories

 

[teddy]

Roadwork by Stephen King, writing as Bachman. A study of a man who is pressing the self destruct button, and keeping his finger on it. Reminisent of Road to Samarkand.

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[teddy]

The Running Man by Stephen King writing as Bachman.

Very different from the film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lots more running and hiding, and intercommunicating with various people he meets rather than all the violence of the film.

Good ending with a bit of a twist.

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[White Knight]

Jack Cheevers--Act Of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, And The Capture Of The Spy Ship Pueblo
Jack Vance--Tales Of The Dying Earth

 

[White Knight]

Perusing the following books in order to research and decide upon my next tattoo, which shall be on my right arm:

A.C. Fox-Davies--A Complete Guide to Heraldry
J.M. Bergling and Charles Dexter Allen--Heraldic Designs

 

[White Knight]

Herman Melville--Moby Dick
Carlo D'Este--Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

 

[Mat]

I'm finishing The Apocalypse Watch by Robert Ludlum. Quite an interesting story. I just found out it was made into a movie as well. Might look it up soon.

 

[teddy]

Roots by Alex Hayley
A black American traces his roots back to his ancestor who was taken to Americe as a slave. Fascinating read and a must if you want to know what the American slave trade was really like.

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