so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 06:46:57
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went off to bed about midnight last night and couldnt sleep so i finished the new prattchet (wintersmith) quite good i thought though written for a younger audience. it has the mac feegles in it so is a laugh. that took me till 2am. still wasnt tired, thought if i read a bit more am sure to drop off soon enough.
so after having a wratch about i decided to start The long way round by ewan mcGreggor and charley boorman.................big mistake! at 6.25 this morning i finished it..couldnt put it down.I have seen the TV show and could envision the places they were talking about.... it was kinda like sitting and listening to a couple of mates telling you about their adventures whilst on holiday.
an excellent read it was ..... now i have nowt to read till the next biking travel book turns up. Way to go its called. about a bloke from ireland who decides to buy an enfield in india and ride it home. not gonna even start that till the weekend, assuming it arrives by then, or i will never get any sleep!
so anyone else have any books they can recomend, what you all reading?
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so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 06:55:55
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reading that long way round is inspiring too . whilst i couldnt afford to do what they did i am now looking into doing the end to end run through the ironbutt assoc.
you get a bdge and a certificate from em if you do 1000 miles in 24 hours. now J.O.G. to L.E is about 850 miles but with a bit of tinkering with the route i should be able to get at least 1000 miles out of it and get a saddlesore award or if i stretch it to 1500 in 36 hours it becomes a bunburner award + an end to end patch.
anyone fancy it? thinking mid summer.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 08:49:15
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hmmmmm do i fancy a bumburner? i sure hope we r still talking bike riding here lol .......... answer either way is no i don't BUT i will gladly be your drink and grub and washroom and sleep facilities in the middle ish of England bear.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 08:51:38
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oh and on the reading score ......... i don't read books i hate it, i have this stupid fear that i will die in the middle of reading it ......... so i always have to read the last chapter first just incase so i could at least know how it ends!!!!
Mark reads these great big monster books on various computer stuff, so i'm guess that won't be a good read, but the last non computer book he read was Jeremy Clarksons. Its all his coloumns he does in the newspaper so its like individual storys. Mark was p*ssing himself reading that and he never put it down.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 11:40:49
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that's outrageous roebs!!! i read all the time too and could never look at the end first, it would just ruin it. by the way, did you read the queen and i by sue townsend years ago about the royal family living in a council flat? it was hilarious. anyway the sequel is out called queen camilla or something. just thought i'd recommend it.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 20:15:17
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At the moment Dale Browns Dreamland Nerve Centre fiction about Aircraft and Richard Laymon`s Beware, freaky thing about voodoo style magic and killings.
Not yet got the new Pratchett book yet, but thats on my next to buy list.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 20:57:06
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I'm a big fan of Iain Banks...the Crow Road, The Wasp Factory etc.
Got my daughter on them now and she thinks they're great too
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 21:31:03
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do they still do famous 5 books? does anyone remember them?
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 22:14:07
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I used to save up my pocket money to buy them Froog...I had the whole set lol!!!!
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-17 01:37:17
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I've just started reading Uncle Jack by Tony Williams and Humphrey Price.
I have also read all of Clarkesons books.
I must admit I do like books about people. People like Hitler, Churchill, various mass murderers and world dictators. I find it interesting to see what made them click.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-17 08:33:51
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factual with a twist are my kinda books too..The Historian is the most recent buy.read a bit . Now someone else has started reading it! As they have run out of things to read .Holiday reading is my best time.
so much for an early night! - Posted on 2006-11-16 06:46:57
