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Its Up 4 Grabs Now wrote:

DB10GOONER wrote:haha - good spot.

NoLifeSlop.

I fixed the original but left it in your quote to help your post. You need it, mate.

Why don’t you just ban me then you fucking wanker? Or do you have to get permission first you class monitoring bastard?!

Which one of you .con spazzers has hacked Grabslop's account?

Can't believe nobody mentioned yet one of best music autobiographies ever:

John Lydon - No dogs, No Irish, No blacks
Absolute quality.

As for fiction...

John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
Albert Camus - Outsider
Erich Maria Remarque - Arch of Triumph

...and anything ever written by Charles Bukowski and Hubert Selby jr



Also, Erich Fromm wrote some fantastic books about human nature in general, Anathomy of Human Destructiveness being my favourite work of his...

2 books I read on holidays last year:

Child 44 and The Secret Speach by Tom Rob Smith, thoroughly absorbing and extremely well researched. Maybe a bit of a heavy read for some but once you start to read very hard to put down.

I'm currently reading ,anyone who liked boardwalk empire would like this



I recommend this from the same author



Two of the best music books ive read






My favourite book of all time

Perryashburtongroves wrote:Dynamo- Defending the Honour of Kiev. A true tale of how the team took on the Nazis and beat them.

Perry Groves' book and Patrick Vieria's are both decent if you haven't read them.

Have a week in the sun planned for May, will give this book a go then.

finished both in a couple of days ,excellent





currently half way through this ,not bad but not a patch on factotum or post office

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Good read.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... eview.html

Just finishing up “The Good Soldiersâ€

goonersid wrote:

Perryashburtongroves wrote:Dynamo- Defending the Honour of Kiev. A true tale of how the team took on the Nazis and beat them.

Perry Groves' book and Patrick Vieria's are both decent if you haven't read them.

Have a week in the sun planned for May, will give this book a go then.

Just got back, enjoyed the book, but as much an account of the German occupation of Kiev as anything else. It did however dispel the myths surrounding what actually happened and how that myth was preserved for political reasons. 6/10

Heres an idea...

Never read Brave New World started it today, 3 chapters in. And its quite dark isnt it. But enjoying it.

Can I also recomend. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell, The Swap by Anthony Moore and Mad Dogs by James Grady.

Re-reading Dispatches by Michael Herr. Read it back in the 80s and I'd forgotten what a truly brilliant piece of reportage it is. No book about the Vietnam war has come close since for telling it like it is and being able to put you right in there with the blood, guts and insanity of it all. Incredible read.

Unbroken is indeed a good read.

Simon Kuper is coming out with another football book soon which I'm looking forward to.

Reading Steven Tyler's autobiography the man is as mad as Wenger - but thats probably due to the vast amount of columbian marching powder he has taken over the years.

storrmin571 wrote:Reading Steven Tyler's autobiography the man is as mad as Wenger - but thats probably due to the vast amount of columbian marching powder he has taken over the years.

yeah im sure Tyler has taken some over the years too