Great Reads!

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  1. JerryBB

    JerryBB Noble Member

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    I have one but don't use it much, but my wife uses hers a lot, she recently bought the complete works of Dostoyevsky for 99p.
     
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  2. stevie28

    stevie28 Well-Known Member

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    Read crime and punishment once many years ago. Took some wading through!
     
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  3. JerryBB

    JerryBB Noble Member

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    My wife is a bit more high brow than me, has read many of the classics and is keen on the Russian authors among others, perhaps why she is a professor and I am not!

    I tend to read a lot of military history & as an archaeologist I used to read a lot on the subject, not so much these days.
     
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  4. stevie28

    stevie28 Well-Known Member

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    Did a little bit of soil phosphate chemistry at college within an archaeological context. Great subject!!.
     
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  5. JerryBB

    JerryBB Noble Member

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  6. JerryBB

    JerryBB Noble Member

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    My wife's a specialist in soil micromorphology, though is semi retired these days
     
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  7. Wessa

    Wessa Cruising

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    Had to google that (micromorphology), amazing what you can learn on this forum....
     
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  8. Foxy1

    Foxy1 Crème de la Crème

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    Any Tom Sharpe book, especially the first two. Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure. They were about the police in pre apartheid South Africa. Funniest things I've ever read.
     
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  9. Sprinter

    Sprinter Kinigit

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    I read a couple of his, I just couldn't get it, I understand everyone else thinks he's very funny though.
     
  10. GPT100

    GPT100 Active Member

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    Mat Oxley Stealing speed, good read
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  11. stevie28

    stevie28 Well-Known Member

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    It's on my list!!
     
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  12. JerryBB

    JerryBB Noble Member

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    arrived today

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  13. Danimal

    Danimal Well-Known Member

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    This book is more photos than reading but it’s still one of my favorites

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  14. cliverdee

    cliverdee Well-Known Member

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    Well done for getting through this book ... I have tried reading it 3 times but had to give up with brain ache at the same part about a third of the way into it ... the concept of rider & machine being more than the sum of the parts is very true and makes motorcycling such a positive part of life
     
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  15. stevie28

    stevie28 Well-Known Member

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    One of the most difficult books to Read for me in the last couple of years.
    Had to put it down about 2/3rds through and revisit it after a break.
    Necessary thou!...

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