discussion My Last Book...

[Guest]

Yep!!


Maybe some of you notice that I have been for a while without build anything!


It was just... I need to do something different, so read is my other hobby....oh my God! I have been reading a lot! One book per week


Now I'm here again!! Plastic is calling me...so I've been starting with a little tank to search the mojo.


Of course, I will continue reading...but this time it will be different.... Now I'm a moderator and I have to express and write quite better!


So my next book will be, well...is in English


I know a book don't solve anything, but slowed, and step by step it will help me a lot!


Is like the modeling...no one build a super mega great diorama first time


Will be interesting (I don't read in English since school..).


The victim is "The Silkworm" by Robert Galbraith!


Anyone has read it? You have good references?


Well, if now, on my posts, talking about modeling appears some words related with murders or similar....you will know the reason


Regards


Polux

 

[Ian M]

A very good idea Polux. I did a similar thing to help learn Danish..


Rather than novels, I went for hand books. The first book I read in Danish was a book on how to tie fishing flies!


I found it good to pick a subject you know about and find some books on it.


You would do well to read some books on modelling or land rovers. The knowledge you have helps a lot in understanding things better.


Ian M

 

[Guest]

Good idea Ian!


I have about thirty english books about Land Rover


This time I will pay more attention than only the photos

 

[Guest]

Good idea Polux. I have found many times that reading can straighten out the mind. There is little frustration in reading. All mine reading is non fiction and mainly WW11. I love the autobiographies of Naval and Air men. Some really terrific stories which would not bear belief if in a fictional work.


When I am coming to the end of a book I get excited about what to read next. Very relaxing.


At the moment i am reading Max Hastings "Finest years". Basically all about Winston S Churchill as a war leader. Very fascinating book with a good number of revelations. Hastings has done a lot of research. Always the problem read another and their are conflicts what is the truth.


So back to the model.


Laurie

 

[aaron]

"Escape from O.G.P.U prison". Sven Hessel. My last book I read and before that it was a forced reading of "The secret"

 

[Guest]

before that it was a forced reading of "The secret"

Intrigued Aaron. Forced reading. Was that a boring book but with essential information ? I sometimes feel that I have to do that.


Laurie

 

[aaron]

The wife made me read it Laurie.

 

[Guest]

The wife made me read it Laurie.

Did she have to help you with the big words

 

[Guest]

The wife made me read it Laurie.

Take care mate...maybe the next one will be Grey and her shadows....

 

[Snowman]

I read the "Game of Thrones" series by George RR Martin, a really enjoyable read. Another series I enjoyed was Patrick Tilley's "Amtrack Wars" and Sussanne Collins' "Hunger Games" for a bit of light reading.

 

[Guest]

My fave book, (apart the classic's ones like "The Princess Bride" "Neverending Story",...) is the "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness. Amazing story, excellent scripture and very descriptive. Simply a genial book (is a trilogy).


If you like something with more "action" you can try "The Tomb of Hercules" by Andy McDermott. Is exactly the same to see a superproduction movie it remember me James Bond!!!


If you want to "see" a battle between a mega truck (mine's one) and tanks, or a ship sailing on the inner rivers of a city...this is your book

 

[Guest]

Ok, I admit, im a bookworm...... Read to many good books to mention them all, so will list a few that stick in my head.


Historical...


Antony Beevor.... Stalingrad, the siege 1942-43


Max Arthur.... The Forgotten Voices Series... The Great War, WW2, The Somme and Holocaust.... All told by the people who fought.


Factual


Bill Bryson.... A Short History of Nearly Everything... Superb


Thriller.


Stieg Larssson..... Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy


Jo Nesbo.... The Harry Hole series


John Connolly..... The Charlie Parker Series


And would recommend anything by... David Baldacci, Vince Flynn, Karen Slaughter, Stuart McBride..... And if you want to switch your brain off and have an easy read.... Lee Childs (Jack Reacher series... 6ft 6" in the book and built like a brick s#*¥ house, played by Tom Cruise in the movie)

 

[Guest]

Amos what is the Antony Beaver Stalingrad thing like. Read just recently the Normany Landing book he wrote. Found it a bit slow and wandered off the subject a bit. But still worth reading.


Laurie

 

[Guest]

Amos what is the Antony Beaver Stalingrad thing like. Read just recently the Normany Landing book he wrote. Found it a bit slow and wandered off the subject a bit. But still worth reading.
Laurie

Few years ago that i read it... but i remember it being well written and researched, gave me all the information and understanding i was looking for on the subject..... Its definitly worth a read.


And if you havent tried the Forgotten Voices series, i cant recommend then highly enough..... No waffle, Just short transcipts taken from the people who lived and fought the wars.... Heros each and every one of them.

 

[takeslousyphotos]

I read a lot too....... I just finished "Unbroken" ........ The biography of Louis Zamperini . WWII Pilot captured by the Japanese ....... A superb account of endurance and the horrific treatment of the POW's ........ and before that, "Unseen Academicals" by the late, and very talented ..... Terry Pratchett.

 

[yak face]

I must admit i dont read that much ,I can barely find time to get in the shed!! Saying that though , the last book I read was a thesis on the social history ,politics and policies of the USSR throughout the cold war years , 10,000 pages .


Bazinga! Not really , actually it was 'a street cat named Bob' !! Seriously though, it was . Before that it was 'Starman ', the story of Yuri Gagarin , and 'The Night Witches' by Bruce Myles - the amazing true story of russian women pilots during the second world war , the infamous Nacht Hexen. See , so I arent tortally ineducated !! tony