"Off Piste" with your books...

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Stalker62

Stalker62

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I have always enjoyed a book.

However, if you look at my shelves, then I am fairly boring predictable.

Hunting.
Shooting.
Fishing.
History.
Military.
Crime.
Diving.



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However, having recently listened to a program on Radio 4 (are there any other stations?), I went and bought the following two books.


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Well now.

What a treat.

Osman very funny.

Angelou very powerful.

Just a couple of books that (in the normal course of events) I would have never read.

So, my questions.

What books are on your 'bucket list'?

Why have you not yet taken the leap, that takes you out of your 'comfort zone'?
 
+1 Jungle book an absolute treat one Christmas long before interwobble came along.
Lord of the Rings and the hobbit pure escapism, and the classic "All quiet on the Western front ".
The 39 Steps another timeless classic by the aforementioned Buchan.
And " we were soldiers " Col Hal Moore telling it as it happened.
 
The 39 steps classic film, one of favourites never read the book.
The free wheelers of....... and the rabbit shooting scene!
 
Having watched the film the Martian a read a bit more from Andy Wier - The Martian book was fantastic and Project Hail Mary was also an interesting read.

I heard Annie Jacobsen on a Joe Rogan video on YouTube. Thoroughly recommend Area 51 which is an interesting tale of the development of the USAF and CIA spy planes.
Surprise Kill Vanish which is a history of special forces and CIA operations throughout the cold War and war on terror. The Vietnam sections are particularly interesting - especially the plan of deploying a team of Green Berets with a man portable nuclear bomb to destroy a chunk of the Ho Chi Min trail! Operation paperclip which covers the recovery of Nazi scientists to the West and their use in the space programme.

Michael Palin, Erebus. Picked up a copy that someone left at work. Again military and history but I'd say a little read section. I found it really interesting as I didn't know a huge amount about artic and antaric exploration and the Franklin Expedition.

Niel Gaimen - American gods. One of my favourites books and its quite different to most books I read.
 
@Stalker1962 - can't see if you have it, but 'Dead Center' by Ed Kugler is an excellent read.
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Also - any Peter Senich books on sniping? Worth a look if you can find them.
 
Nice collection, hours of endless enjoyment - just a tad surprised that the absolute classic - Hesketh Prichard’s “Sniping in France” does not feature. Just saying….
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This is all double-stacked, and I have to cull them once in a while. I try and alternate a French one and an English one.
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The disappearance of commuting and the appearance of children has seriously reduced my reading rate though. I love to browse a bookshop and pick something I've not heard of that takes my fancy. Sometimes it's a revelation. Quite often, as now, it isn't... But I don't want to just keep to safe bets. I love Terry Pratchett for instance but he's gone, you have to move on and find something else.

When I've finished reading everything I suppose I'll have to start writing my own. Then somehow forgetting what I wrote so I enjoy reading them.
 
Hmmm. This really is an interesting thread - sadly probably only to anyone of a certain age! Can you even imagine any of the sub-40 year olds even being able to read having a book never mind a book collection? And as for a bookcase………
Pity really.
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