Think I bought that for someone last Christmas. Let me know what it is like as I may have a 'borrow'...
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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Think I bought that for someone last Christmas. Let me know what it is like as I may have a 'borrow'...
I've nearly finished it, would recommend if it's the kind of book you enjoy. I read it to improve my betting - next up is Born To Punt.
Yeah the betting angle drew me to it too...I'll tell them to wrap it back up & give it back to me this year. Cheers.
A few other titles that I have read in a similar vein that you may enjoy Tarpon (in order of goodness):
The Signal and the Noise - Silver
Innumeracy - Paulos
Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan - Taleb
The Drunkards Walk - Mlodinow
Will have a look at them - cheers.
Napier's Knee
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Can thoroughly recommend two excellent sports books by Duncan Hamilton....
Harold Larwood - superb biography of the body line bowler
The Footlballer Who Could Fly - for any dad who goes to the Albion with their son/daughter and excellent insight into why football is so incredibly important in Newcastle. Good evocation of Newcastle too - for a split second almost made me me want to live there again.
Harold Larwood - superb biography of the body line bowler
The Footlballer Who Could Fly - for any dad who goes to the Albion with their son/daughter and excellent insight into why football is so incredibly important in Newcastle. Good evocation of Newcastle too - for a split second almost made me me want to live there again.
The Paulos book is very good: small, insightful and entertainingly written. I started the Silver but it's a bit daunting and stands on my shelf unread, but I'm going to give it another go this summer.
This is a really great sports book: you can see why it won the William Hill prize for the best of the year but it's sad to read how such top-class player got so shabbily treated. Just imagine what rewards he'd get now
theboybilly
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Thanks Gwylan, did you finish that book on William the Conqueror, and if so what was your verdict?
William the Conqueror? (thinks what that could be, I don't remember reading any about him - though that's not to say I didn't, I have a memory like a sieve these days)
theboybilly
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Probably my mistake.... I saw a post in this thread a while ago saying that we owed that monarch a great deal. I like a bit of English history too
I do read quite a bit of history but don't recall one on Bill the ******* - it may have been someone else who was reading it
EDIT. Ha, ha.. it edited out his name Guillaume le Batard
Don Quixote
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The Wizard by Gene Wolfe
Marshy
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Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
Enjoyed it for the most part, can see a sad end coming however - its the book she wrote before Gone Girl
Enjoyed it for the most part, can see a sad end coming however - its the book she wrote before Gone Girl
Man of Harveys
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Christopher Hibbert's biography of George IV. Absolutely brilliant: genuine LOLs at some of the antics - the great man puking up during fancy balls, him and his brother impersonating a mad George III behind his back when they're not shagging everything that moved, the lot. I can't remember a more enjoyable history book.
I have another Paulos book which I haven't read yet - A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
If you thought the Silver book was daunting don't bother with the Taleb ones!
Not sure if it features but just finished http://www.amazon.co.uk/Journeyman-odyssey-through-leagues-football/dp/1849548544
I believe Ben is our under 18's assistant manager.
Decent read about the unglamorous side of lower league football. Really enjoyed the tales featuring big fat Steve Evans
I believe Ben is our under 18's assistant manager.
Decent read about the unglamorous side of lower league football. Really enjoyed the tales featuring big fat Steve Evans
Yes, that's good too. JAP is worth following on Twitter - he posts some interesting stuff
KZNSeagull
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I'll look out for that one. Have recently read "1000 years of annoying the French" by Stephen Clarke. That's rather entertaining as well.
