howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that's the book and the bloke tom, don;t agree with the review though.
wasn't a case of being about who wore the white or black hats, much deeper than that.
Lee Child
Harlan Coben
James Patterson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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read all of those, enjoyable stuff but all 3 don't quite do it for me.
the stories are good just that the characters need more depth in my opinion.
Alec Sheldon
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- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
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I usually have a good browse when I go to the library but last week I was in a hurry so I returned a book and intended walking out again but when I put my returned book back on the shelf two slim volumes caught my eye, "Caring for Dover's Poor" by Derek Leach OBE and "Murder and Crime Series: Dover" by Janet Cameron. I would not have picked them up normally but they just happened to be on the "just returned" shelf as mentioned by Howard so I thought that I would give them a go.
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I have read the Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, book and it was a huge disappointment on the previous ones. Stephanie has read every Nora Roberts and we have both read a few Clive Cussler and David Balducci. Apart from them (and Jodi Picoult's work on Wonder Woman) I tend to read more history books and they do not appear on this list. I would recommend The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz. Max Hasting's account of the Korean War or Stephen E Ambrose's Wild Blue.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thought i would resurrect this thread as people get book tokens and/or kindles for christmas, started reading a book by a chap called daniel silva, not heard of him before but this is his 12th book and has held my attention from the beginning.
standard thriller stuff with security agencies taking on the terrorist networks around the globe but fleshed out characters in the style of gerald seymour.
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Whips and chains by, J R Hartley
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Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing your Children's Future
Author: James Delingpole.
A cracking read and most informative Carruthers.
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Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett.
Plenty of humour in it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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interesting choice alex, never got into his stuff myself. philip caused a surprise there, was expecting something along the lines of "101 things you can do with a dead polar bear cub".
Brian Dixon
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broken window,by chuck.a. brick.quite a good read.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Try:
Any Human Heart & Restless by William Boyd.
Both well televised recently but missing out major parts of stories that make them compelling reading/listening.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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missed that recent one on the box, anything with michael gambon and charlotte rampling in must be of high quality.
looks a good storyline.
Jan Higgins
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- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Restless should still be available on BBC iplayer it was only shown on the 27th Dec, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Local and historical interest.
You may know of this...
"A documentary short film produced by the Great Britain Ministry of Information, released by the Office of War Information, distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry, introduced and narrated by Edward R. Murrow: "On the stamina of residents of Dover, England, during German bombing. Recounts two years of German aerial attacks on Dover and their lessening as England strikes back. Soldiers and citizens express confidences. Shows scenes of destruction and of civilians training to stave off a once-feared German invasion. A Salvation Army band plays in rubbled streets.""
The first 10 minute film is of Dover & Kent...
http://archive.org/details/1942_Dover
Dover to Ostend 1986...
http://archive.org/details/1942_DoverIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for that tom extremely interesting.
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With the entire collection of all the books held in the public libraries across London now accessible to order-up online, any passing fancy can turn into papery reality...
A book has recently been published concerning the 'what if?' idea of us losing WWII. Something which caused a little kerfuffle as he had chosen some real-life characters with which to people his tale. Among the comments it was said that Len Deighton had written such a tale in 1978 called SS-GB, and had made a better fist of it.
So off I pop to the Library this morning to collect my copy. It opens in the office of a two man Scotland Yard Murder Squad.
I'll let you know how Dover fares, if it gets a mention.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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would never have happened tom, mr churchill once opined "we shall fight them on the beaches, on the terraces, in the pub after the match then again at the tube station".
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Well Howard, I'm pretty sure it didn't happen, but that's about all I'm pretty sure of...
http://www.giwersworld.org/wwii/winnie.html
From...
http://www.giwersworld.org/wwii/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.