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Jan 17, 2015, 09:55 PM
#1
Recommend some books
One of my New Year's resolutions was to read more. I am just finishing up A Grand Complication by Stancy Perman (about the Henry Graves Supercomplication that sold recently). I need some interesting books to read. So give me some recommendations.
What I would like
Books about watches
Books about cars and racing
Fiction books that I should read before I die
Don't recommend
Sci-fi
Books about WWII (I have an absolutely massive stack of them)
What you got?
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Jan 17, 2015, 10:02 PM
#2
Dinger of Hum
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Jan 17, 2015, 10:04 PM
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"Longitude" by Dava Sobel, if you haven't read it already.
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Jan 17, 2015, 10:10 PM
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Very short novel called Closely Observed Trains, written in Czech in the Sixties. I'm sure the reviewers on amazon say more intelligent things about it than I would manage so.... 
Edit: reader's review on Amazon (the best of a less wonderful bunch than I had expected)
It is easy to miss the signifance of this little book. It is a quick read and it is only right towards the end that the reader discovers the significance of the "closely observed trains" and who is observing them, with what consequences. Up until then it is a rather curious tale of a young man's coming of age struggle in war torn Czechoslovakia. But that is the whole point - the contrast between the ordinariness of his dilemmas of how he becomes a man and the far from ordinary times in which he lives. Bohumil Hrabal gives us an all too brief a glimpse of small town life in occupied Europe towards the end of WWII. He produces a unique and compelling mix of the bland, the surreal and the dramatic that occupy a young man's thoughts as he goes about his business as a junior railway official employed at an isolated, but important junction near the Russian front. The small things of life do matter and Hrabal has produced a brief, bittersweet way to remind us why.
http://www.amazon.com/Closely-Observ...asin=349101256
Last edited by Der Amf; Jan 18, 2015 at 07:56 PM.
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Jan 18, 2015, 05:08 AM
#5
Ready Player One. Really fun read, especially if you're a child of the 80s.
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Jan 18, 2015, 10:18 AM
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Angelmaker.
Quite apart from being one of the best fiction books I have read in many decades, this one has got it all, including the all important clockwork doomsday device.
Read this review and tell me it hasn't got it all for a WIS who is in the mood for some readin'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ay-review.html
It's got to be the first time ever that I've changed watches to read a book!
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Jan 18, 2015, 01:19 PM
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How about 50 Shades of Grey? I never read it myself but it's a popular read i hear. 
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Jan 18, 2015, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by
Matt
Angelmaker.
Quite apart from being one of the best fiction books I have read in many decades, this one has got it all, including the all important clockwork doomsday device.
Read this review and tell me it hasn't got it all for a WIS who is in the mood for some readin'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...ay-review.html
It's got to be the first time ever that I've changed watches to read a book!
I've heard really good things about Harkaway, need to check him out
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Jan 18, 2015, 02:12 PM
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Read all the Jason Bourne books a good action compilation 10 books in al
Lots of old watches, ex mwc vet -Ceud mile failte
, CWC ,,Longines Legend diver ., Omega Geneva & Seamaster 300 GMT, Seiko King Seiko plus,, Tudor black bay 58, Tissot Titanium Chronograph. Seiko miscellaneous.
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Jan 18, 2015, 02:14 PM
#10
We should probably start a book club
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