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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Worthy4England » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:41 am

P.O.S. wrote:Strangely omitted were those details! But, like I said I much more enjoyed the travelling side of things to the stuff at the start. If I want yarns about crews steaming into other crews, Ill wait for "Walking Down The Manny Road"!
They were no better abroad. Same scallies, different location. All thought they were better than Arfur Daley at the latest scams, but you heard about most of the scams, because they were so fcuking dense that they usually got caught. Half the time they were scamming their own. Pikey, Manc bastards.

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by P.O.S. » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:49 am

Worthy4England wrote:
P.O.S. wrote:Strangely omitted were those details! But, like I said I much more enjoyed the travelling side of things to the stuff at the start. If I want yarns about crews steaming into other crews, Ill wait for "Walking Down The Manny Road"!
They were no better abroad. Same scallies, different location. All thought they were better than Arfur Daley at the latest scams, but you heard about most of the scams, because they were so fcuking dense that they usually got caught. Half the time they were scamming their own. Pikey, Manc bastards.
But they all come across as such young and intrepid globetrotters!

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Worthy4England » Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:08 pm

P.O.S. wrote:
Worthy4England wrote:
P.O.S. wrote:Strangely omitted were those details! But, like I said I much more enjoyed the travelling side of things to the stuff at the start. If I want yarns about crews steaming into other crews, Ill wait for "Walking Down The Manny Road"!
They were no better abroad. Same scallies, different location. All thought they were better than Arfur Daley at the latest scams, but you heard about most of the scams, because they were so fcuking dense that they usually got caught. Half the time they were scamming their own. Pikey, Manc bastards.
But they all come across as such young and intrepid globetrotters!
Inter-rail tickets for about £100 (iirc) lasted at least a month they cover a shitload of Countries...They still do, but cost a bit more now. :-)

The scallies used to use the overnighters, generally after ripping off some unsuspecting shop for beer, food and tabs and be in a different Country before anyone had chance to react.

Used to get the rest of us a fine reputation. Wankers.

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by P.O.S. » Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:18 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
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Worthy4England wrote:
P.O.S. wrote:Strangely omitted were those details! But, like I said I much more enjoyed the travelling side of things to the stuff at the start. If I want yarns about crews steaming into other crews, Ill wait for "Walking Down The Manny Road"!
They were no better abroad. Same scallies, different location. All thought they were better than Arfur Daley at the latest scams, but you heard about most of the scams, because they were so fcuking dense that they usually got caught. Half the time they were scamming their own. Pikey, Manc bastards.
But they all come across as such young and intrepid globetrotters!
Inter-rail tickets for about £100 (iirc) lasted at least a month they cover a shitload of Countries...They still do, but cost a bit more now. :-)
The scallies used to use the overnighters, generally after ripping off some unsuspecting shop for beer, food and tabs and be in a different Country before anyone had chance to react.

Used to get the rest of us a fine reputation. Wankers.
Tell me about it, near enough £300 I shelled out for my last one!

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Lord Kangana » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:42 pm

I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods at the minute.

Usual good stuf from the man.
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Post by Harry Genshaw » Mon May 02, 2011 10:08 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods at the minute.

Usual good stuf from the man.
Love his stuff. Always a good read full of interesting side stories linked to wherever he is. Enjoy.

Currently reading Frozen in Time - the investigation into Franklins missing expedition of the NW passage. Fascinating stuff.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by P.O.S. » Mon May 02, 2011 10:11 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods at the minute.

Usual good stuf from the man.
Love his stuff. Always a good read full of interesting side stories linked to wherever he is. Enjoy.

Currently reading Frozen in Time - the investigation into Franklins missing expedition of the NW passage. Fascinating stuff.

The first few chapters of "Short History of Nearly Everything" taught me more about Earth and the Universe than I ever learnt in years at school!

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue May 03, 2011 10:25 am

Lord Kangana wrote:I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods at the minute.

Usual good stuf from the man.
Has he met the dog yet?
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Lord Kangana » Tue May 03, 2011 1:30 pm

No. If we're talking about an actual dog.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by hisroyalgingerness » Wed May 04, 2011 9:57 pm

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Post by General Mannerheim » Thu May 05, 2011 12:38 pm

Verbal wrote:Re-read Mark Haddon's 'Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime' yesterday.

Still my favourite ever book, I think.
ordered this upon reading that post, it arrived yesterday, thought id have a quick shufty through but haven't been able to put it down since!

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Post by HMX » Thu May 05, 2011 9:02 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:
Verbal wrote:Re-read Mark Haddon's 'Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime' yesterday.

Still my favourite ever book, I think.
ordered this upon reading that post, it arrived yesterday, thought id have a quick shufty through but haven't been able to put it down since!
Yeah, really enjoyed that book :)

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Worthy4England » Thu May 05, 2011 9:27 pm

Just about to embark on Terry Goodkind's

Wizards First Rule.

It has a lot of pages and not many pictures...

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Post by thebish » Fri May 20, 2011 12:37 pm

at christmas my oldest son bought me the book of these website cartoons... the guy has exactly the same storyboard for every cartoon - 2 dinosaurs - everything exactly the same - and just changes the captions...

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php (there are hundreds of them)

anyway... one of the strips was this one:

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and from this - avid readers sent in stories that could be in such a book... the authors added a few more - which resulted in this book:

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which I will now be reading as he bought it for my birthday!

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by hisroyalgingerness » Fri May 20, 2011 1:42 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:All Quiet on the Western Front
Nearly finished. This book is brilliant

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by William the White » Fri May 20, 2011 2:56 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:
hisroyalgingerness wrote:All Quiet on the Western Front
Nearly finished. This book is brilliant
Sure is... the best from WW1.

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by keveh » Thu May 26, 2011 7:49 am

So I am going on my honeymoon is just over a week and I need some books to take with me.

I went on a bit of a wander around WHSmiths last night, but all I could seem to find were books about crime and murder.

I want something a bit more uplifting, entertaining.

Anybody got any recommendations?
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by hisroyalgingerness » Thu May 26, 2011 8:10 am

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor or Choke

That's it really, I've read a lot of books about crime and murder recently

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by keveh » Thu May 26, 2011 9:33 am

I may get one crime book, but don't want my entire holiday to be full of doom and gloom.

So if you want to recommend one of them that would be useful.

Ta!
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by General Mannerheim » Thu May 26, 2011 10:51 am

Verbal wrote:Re-read Mark Haddon's 'Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime' yesterday.

Still my favourite ever book, I think.
have you read Verbals favourite ever book? tremendous!

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