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Title: Fantastic Book
Post by: guest24 on July 17, 2007, 05:14:16 PM: Just finished reading 'The Cossacks' by Leo Tolstoy. Loved it, recommend it! Anyone else read it? No motorbikes in it, but hey, it had horses, snow, dancing, carousing etc, oh and some cossacks.

I almost feel ready to try 'War and Peace'...eek!
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: guest7 on July 17, 2007, 09:50:50 PM: I've just finished the Mondo Enduro book, describing a world tour on DR350s. Absolutely bloody marvellous stuff as anyone who has seen the documentary of the trip will confirm. Their trip makes the Macgregor/Boorman jaunt look very tame.

Here's a LINK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mondo-Enduro-Ultimate-Adventure-Wheels/dp/1904466281/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-7050164-3220635?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184708711&sr=8-1) to the book's details on Amazon.

Cheers
GC

p.s. as an aside I am stuck into yet another P.G. Wodehouse tome, one of the Blandings Castle stories. Any other Wodehouse fans in the club? I think he's one of the best writers of comic dialogue.
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: squirrelciv on July 18, 2007, 04:45:20 PM: I'm wading through Mondo Enduro too :-) Bloody great!
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: guest24 on July 18, 2007, 09:30:24 PM: I am now reading James Herberts 'ghosts of Sleath'. Not the best thing when you are in bed and its dark outside!!
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: mav617 on July 18, 2007, 10:15:48 PM: Cossack - have to agree "Ghosts Of Sleath" is a top read, in fact I may get a copy and read it again. He has a new one out with a similar title but it didn't flick my switch on a quick read through in the way that GOS did.

Lee Child - any Jack Reacher novel is good, as is James Lee Burke or Elmore Leonard. Currently reading "Just Joey", the biography of one of the greatest, most humble bike racers ever. And whilst on the subject, Steve Hislops book was so good even the missus loved it and she neither knows or cares what a rising rate linkage is!
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: Steve Lake on July 19, 2007, 06:08:59 AM: Well, i'd better get reading i think, must try Hizzies book after that review....don't seem to read much in the summer, but my bedtime read at the moment is 'Bowling for Columbine' ...... a fantastic, if awful look into the american psyche...keeps me awake!......my coffee table read, just finished, is 'Brunel'........... wonderful insight into who i consider (and many others)to be the greatest engineer the world has ever seen.

i'm going to have a go at Ghosts of Sleath too.... not really into novels, but as it come so highly recommended....

also on my list .... graham o'bree 'the flying scotsman' and the book about Tom Simpson 'put me back on my bike'
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: Steffan on July 19, 2007, 06:47:43 AM: I am reading McGuckin's "St Gregory of Nazianzus: an intellectual biography" and bits from and on Plotinus.
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: guest24 on July 19, 2007, 09:47:43 PM: Ghosts of Sleath will be available to the first lucky person who asks for it once I have finished reading it! I got it second hand and I will pay P&P to whoever wants it. Watch this space for when I am done with it!
Title: Re: Fantastic Book
Post by: Richard Marshall on July 21, 2007, 09:17:42 PM: Quote from: Hackbridge Cossack on July 17, 2007, 05:14:16 PM
Just finished reading 'The Cossacks' by Leo Tolstoy. Loved it, recommend it! Anyone else read it? No motorbikes in it, but hey, it had horses, snow, dancing, carousing etc, oh and some cossacks.

I almost feel ready to try 'War and Peace'...eek!

If you like 'The Cossacks' try some Jack London. The former makes me dream of hammering 2WD Urals through the snow.

Richard