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DB10GOONER wrote:

flash gunner wrote:

SammyDroppedHisShorts wrote:Not sure it has been mentioned by I am half way through

How not to be a professional footballer by Paul Merson...nutter!

Reading it now, very funny book

I read it and thought The Merse came across as a spoiled childish selfish crunt tbh.

Still an Arsenal legend though and a player I worshipped back in the day.

And his ripping the piss out of Glen Johnson makes good reading.

I always thought he was a bit over-rated and wasnt sorry to see him sold. Some of the stories are very funny but i reckon he was a fucker to be around back then

I think he can be referred to as a Dick Head...excellent player yes, but as a person/bloke/team mate...a right knobber.

The film 'Blade Runner' was based on his book Humanoids Dream of Electric Sheep I think? :rubchin

Androids ,but yes that's the man ,minority report ,total recall,loads of others including the recent adjustment bureau ,man was a genius and freaks the fuck out of me and has done since i was a kid !

Herd wrote:

The film 'Blade Runner' was based on his book Humanoids Dream of Electric Sheep I think? :rubchin

Androids ,but yes that's the man ,minority report ,total recall,loads of others including the recent adjustment bureau ,man was a genius and freaks the fuck out of me and has done since i was a kid !

Yes, that's it... Couldn't quite remember the title - read it way back in my teens...W E I R DDDD!....I didn't know he had also written the books that all those others are based on! Wow!...Guys not only clever but must be Loaded!

They make great movies though fair doo's !

Finished the Merson book have to say the second half of the book he comes across as a right money grabbing twat. Spoilt brat when things didnt go his way too Wonder what he would have come too if he wasnt a sportsman?

flash gunner wrote:Finished the Merson book have to say the second half of the book he comes across as a right money grabbing twat. Spoilt brat when things didnt go his way too Wonder what he would have come too if he wasnt a sportsman?

Exactly my impression of him. I was sorry I read it tbh.

Answer to your question = a dead wino in the gutter...

DB10GOONER wrote:

flash gunner wrote:Finished the Merson book have to say the second half of the book he comes across as a right money grabbing twat. Spoilt brat when things didnt go his way too Wonder what he would have come too if he wasnt a sportsman?

Exactly my impression of him. I was sorry I read it tbh.

Answer to your question = a dead wino in the gutter...

me too mate

read a few good history books recently and a few about south africa.

A biography of Simon Bolivar was okayish, not hugely well written though.
Michener's Caribbean was not bad but not as good as some of his others.
A few about the Great Exhibition of 1851, particularly enjoyed Auerbach, and Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth century
if any of you enjoy economic theory or education Christensen's disruptive theory books are fascinating (Innovator's Dilemma and Disrupting Class were the two I read)
Andrew Feinstein's After the Party, only read it because he has the seat behind me at the Grove but was a cracking book, one of the best books about the problems of the post-apartheid* government in SA from a man whose liberal and moral credentials are unimpeachable
Rian Malan's Resident Alien, bit like a South African Rod Liddle. Great read.

Now reading 'como agua para chocolate' and Fukuyama's 'Origins of Political Order', both quite interesting

SWLGooner wrote:read a few good history books recently and a few about south africa.

A biography of Simon Bolivar was okayish, not hugely well written though.
Michener's Caribbean was not bad but not as good as some of his others.
A few about the Great Exhibition of 1851, particularly enjoyed Auerbach, and Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth century
if any of you enjoy economic theory or education Christensen's disruptive theory books are fascinating (Innovator's Dilemma and Disrupting Class were the two I read)
Andrew Feinstein's After the Party, only read it because he has the seat behind me at the Grove but was a cracking book, one of the best books about the problems of the post-apartheid* government in SA from a man whose liberal and moral credentials are unimpeachable
Rian Malan's Resident Alien, bit like a South African Rod Liddle. Great read.

Now reading 'como agua para chocolate' and Fukuyama's 'Origins of Political Order', both quite interesting

ur 17! go watch some porn and smoke some weed

Quite like the Chris Ryan books. "Killing for the company" is my favourite but all of them are good really. "The one who got away" is his version of events about Bravo Two Zero in Iraq. Read that when your having a crap day at work and realise that some jobs are more, shall we say, challenging Andy McNab books aren't all that though, nowhere near as good.

Sven Hassel is a good read to. Bit oddly worded because it's been translated litterally, so sometimes words are used out of order etc. Still a great read though. He's a Dane who joined the SS because Germany was closer than the UK (His words ) but didn't like it so tried to do a runner. He was caught and sent to a penal batallion, fighting on the Eastern front, Berlin and France. Basically, he' s a nutter

There's obviously Fever Pitch, the Adam's book and Merse's (Don't see where people are coming from when they say he's arrogant, I just see it as him sying what happened. Not proud, not ashamed but funny).

I agree with the earlier comment about "Fatherland", bloody amazing book

mikeyb772001 wrote:

SWLGooner wrote:read a few good history books recently and a few about south africa.

A biography of Simon Bolivar was okayish, not hugely well written though.
Michener's Caribbean was not bad but not as good as some of his others.
A few about the Great Exhibition of 1851, particularly enjoyed Auerbach, and Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth century
if any of you enjoy economic theory or education Christensen's disruptive theory books are fascinating (Innovator's Dilemma and Disrupting Class were the two I read)
Andrew Feinstein's After the Party, only read it because he has the seat behind me at the Grove but was a cracking book, one of the best books about the problems of the post-apartheid* government in SA from a man whose liberal and moral credentials are unimpeachable
Rian Malan's Resident Alien, bit like a South African Rod Liddle. Great read.

Now reading 'como agua para chocolate' and Fukuyama's 'Origins of Political Order', both quite interesting

ur 17! go watch some porn and smoke some weed

DarylAFC wrote:Quite like the Chris Ryan books. "Killing for the company" is my favourite but all of them are good really. "The one who got away" is his version of events about Bravo Two Zero in Iraq. Read that when your having a crap day at work and realise that some jobs are more, shall we say, challenging Andy McNab books aren't all that though, nowhere near as good.

Sven Hassel is a good read to. Bit oddly worded because it's been translated litterally, so sometimes words are used out of order etc. Still a great read though. He's a Dane who joined the SS because Germany was closer than the UK (His words ) but didn't like it so tried to do a runner. He was caught and sent to a penal batallion, fighting on the Eastern front, Berlin and France. Basically, he' s a nutter

There's obviously Fever Pitch, the Adam's book and Merse's (Don't see where people are coming from when they say he's arrogant, I just see it as him sying what happened. Not proud, not ashamed but funny).

I agree with the earlier comment about "Fatherland", bloody amazing book

Huge Sven Hassel fan too!

I thought I was the only one tbh!

DB10GOONER wrote:

DarylAFC wrote:Quite like the Chris Ryan books. "Killing for the company" is my favourite but all of them are good really. "The one who got away" is his version of events about Bravo Two Zero in Iraq. Read that when your having a crap day at work and realise that some jobs are more, shall we say, challenging Andy McNab books aren't all that though, nowhere near as good.

Sven Hassel is a good read to. Bit oddly worded because it's been translated litterally, so sometimes words are used out of order etc. Still a great read though. He's a Dane who joined the SS because Germany was closer than the UK (His words ) but didn't like it so tried to do a runner. He was caught and sent to a penal batallion, fighting on the Eastern front, Berlin and France. Basically, he' s a nutter

There's obviously Fever Pitch, the Adam's book and Merse's (Don't see where people are coming from when they say he's arrogant, I just see it as him sying what happened. Not proud, not ashamed but funny).

I agree with the earlier comment about "Fatherland", bloody amazing book

Huge Sven Hassel fan too!

I thought I was the only one tbh!

Not alot of us, went into Waterstones and asked if they had any of his books and the woman just stared blnkly for a few seconds before saying "What's one of them?"

DarylAFC wrote:

DB10GOONER wrote:

DarylAFC wrote:Quite like the Chris Ryan books. "Killing for the company" is my favourite but all of them are good really. "The one who got away" is his version of events about Bravo Two Zero in Iraq. Read that when your having a crap day at work and realise that some jobs are more, shall we say, challenging Andy McNab books aren't all that though, nowhere near as good.

Sven Hassel is a good read to. Bit oddly worded because it's been translated litterally, so sometimes words are used out of order etc. Still a great read though. He's a Dane who joined the SS because Germany was closer than the UK (His words ) but didn't like it so tried to do a runner. He was caught and sent to a penal batallion, fighting on the Eastern front, Berlin and France. Basically, he' s a nutter

There's obviously Fever Pitch, the Adam's book and Merse's (Don't see where people are coming from when they say he's arrogant, I just see it as him sying what happened. Not proud, not ashamed but funny).

I agree with the earlier comment about "Fatherland", bloody amazing book

Huge Sven Hassel fan too!

I thought I was the only one tbh!

Not alot of us, went into Waterstones and asked if they had any of his books and the woman just stared blnkly for a few seconds before saying "What's one of them?"

There's a great bookstore in Dublin called Chapters and the staff are friendly and very knowledgeable. Obviously all readers. Contrast to Oireland's biggest book retailer Easons where a staff member once rolled her eyes to the heavens because my bro asked her to check a book's availability on her computer. Needless to say the bro let the bitch know what he thought of that!

Recently read the life and lines of Brandon block, pretty interesting read for any interested in dance music/Dj culture, or anyone who loves cocaine!

Also class of 88 by wayne Anthony about the acid house scene is pretty darn good.