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Re: BOOKS

Postby Rosebudkid » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:01 pm

Hi Wilf-on the strength of your recommendation I have ordered Frozen in Time. The cheapest source I could find was from http://www.peasknees.com(sic),hard back with dust cover at £11.99 plus £2.75 postage. I remember the winter of 47-brr was it cold!
No central heating in those days and coal was in short supply. Looking forward to a good read. :)
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Ken » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:46 pm

Always try Play.com first. They have it at £11.99 but all their post & packing is free.
Dont forget as well that your local library can order any books in for you to borrow.

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Postby Benny » Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:56 pm

Moth wrote:Philippe Van Parijs’s Real Freedom For All: What (if anything) Can Justify Capitalism? is one of of my favourites” and every time I go back and read parts of the book it makes me think of new and interesting questions.


Yes Moth, I agree the book does ask more questions than it actually answers. I dug it out again a couple of months ago, to try and understand the current global crisis, but I'm not sure the answer was in there.
Still, a very absorbing piece of work.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Wilf » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:06 pm

Hi Rosebudkid, a pity you couldn't get the same sort of deal that Marigold got with Amazon, but I think you'll enjoy the read all the same. '47 was a really bad winter wasn't it, but can you remember the long hot summer that went with it ? :)
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Admin » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:19 pm

The hobbit, It was the first 'serious' book I read at about nine years of age, I recently read it again, and apart from brining back memories of when I first read it I was suprised as an adult at how well written the book was/is. I totally agree with those who say reading is the best aid to education, there is so much to learn from any well written book, shame there is a load of rubbish still getting printed.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Ken » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:10 am

Have you finished Agent Domino yet Admin ?

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Re: BOOKS

Postby Wilf » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:10 pm

Anyone with South Church connections should find Tom Hutchinson's latest book very interesting. It contains a large number of photographs which can be viewed at his exhibition later in the month, together with another hundred or so additional photos which didn't make it into the book.
Display copies are currently held at the sales points listed.
The Discovery Centre in Bondgate is opposite the site of the old OK Bus Depot.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Ken » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:38 am

Thanks Wilf. That`s much appreciated.

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Re: BOOKS

Postby Douglas » Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:52 pm

Good work Wilf.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Wilf » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:50 pm

Re the forthcoming book on South Church. Just thought I'd mention that I was talking to Graham of Etherington's Newsagaents today and he mentioned that he already has quite a list of people who have ordered copies of the book, apart from the number who are expected to call in casually to pick up a copy, so anyone really keen to get one might do well to place an order at one of the sales points listed.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Nortonbeak » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:21 pm

I am currently reading "The Real Global Warming Disaster" by Christopher Booker. What an eyeopener it is. I thought the global warming debate was a scientific discussion. How wrong I am! The book makes it very clear that it is 90% politics and 10% science. We know that there is dispute over the science. However, the intense political pressure means that free scientific discussion is limited. Also, when the various countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol there was some opportunity for manoeuvre. Guess which country manouevred in the wrong direction and made domestic energy requirements potentially very expensive for the future?

Well worth the read. I have my copy from the local library.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Ken » Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:08 pm

Cheers NB. That sounds worth reading.

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Re: BOOKS

Postby Nortonbeak » Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:09 pm

Christopher Booker is one of the founders of "Private Eye" magazine. Thus you can guess that he will pull no punches in his writing. His previous book was called "Scared to Death". In that book, which I haven't read, he investigates the various "scares" that have been so commonplace over the last thirty or forty years or so. He described global warming as one of the scares in that book. He has subsequently enlarged his investigations into global warming in this later work.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Benny » Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:45 pm

I would really love to read a book that details the history of Northern Soul. The whole scene, not just focusing on Wigan Casino, but the clothes, the dancing, the food, the lot.
Anyone know of one?
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Douglas » Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:50 pm

I'm reading a book at the moment that exposes the Moon Landings for the ridiculous fakes that they were. It examines each part of each mission, and explains why it was impossible for man to go to the Moon.

I mean, my goodness, I know some ladies who can't even find their way to Helmsley, and yet people still maintain we went to the Moon.

It's worth a read, if you can find it.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby BHodgson » Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:09 pm

Hi Guys

I read a lot of books both fiction and fact. If I had to pick an author it would be Richard Laymon. I have 32 of the 34 books he wrote (under two names) and I can say that every book was great.
As debatable as it will be, Stephen King and Dean Kootz dont compete. Laymon and Kootz were neighbours and I would imagine thy had some good nights together.
I have also just read Michael Cains biography, he is a man who yes is doing well now, but he earned all he has.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Benny » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:37 pm

I have a bit of an obsession going on at the moment: the Moon and landings thereon. Does anyone know of a definitive book on the subject? Thanks in advance.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Benny » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:46 pm

I have just read an amazing book by Alan Bean, the man who, as most people know, was the fourth man on the moon. Anything in the same vein would be amazing. Thanks again.
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Douglas » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:47 pm

With the greatest of respect Ben, you still have my copy of Andrew Chaikin's "A Man On The Moon", which is deemed to be the definitive account of the Apollo voyages.

You've had it nearly three years too.

Have you read it yet?
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Re: BOOKS

Postby Ken » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:09 pm

If you have a taste for adventure and a strong stomach read "THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER " by Alistair Urquhart. ISBN 978-1-4087-0211-6.
I cant decide wether this guy was very lucky or very unlucky -- perhaps both.
He survived being captured & interned by the Japs. Then was one of the few survivors , having worked on the notorious Bridge over the River Kwai for two years, then survived the Japanese hellship and its torpedoing & sinking. Drifted for days in shark infested waters , survived Typhoid, Cholers , Beri-beri and then was blasted by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki !
What a survivor .

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