Ashey Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Any books that are recommended? Looking at buying 'Stalingrad' and 'Sniper One'.. any reviews on these two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickbrown Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Is Stalingrad the one by Anthony Beevors? If so very good, as is Berlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totty Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 The Ice Man, Confessions of a mafia contract killer - absolute gem, much better than the title suggests too, True story of the life and crimes of Richard Kuklinsky - Brutal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffs Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widnes Two Hats Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Martina Cole - Ladykillers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne cramp Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 IVOR GETS STUCK IN THE SNOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted December 10, 2008 Site Supporter Share Posted December 10, 2008 I know he's a c?nt, but the latest Jeffrey Archer novel is a beltin' read. - A prisoner of birth Or The big compendium of almost certainly racist jokes, mainly about the spudpickers and suicide bombers by Alan Crisps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fengshui Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules_darby Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I know he's a c?nt, but the latest Jeffrey Archer novel is a beltin' read. - A prisoner of birth Or The big compendium of almost certainly racist jokes, mainly about the spudpickers and suicide bombers by Alan Crisps Archer may be a bell-end, but the 4th estate remains one of my all time favourites. I normally like novels or biographies of sporting folk, but I'm currently on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion - now there's a fella who likes to ruffle feathers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 The Islamist -Ed Husain http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDispl...1030432,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olispence Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 as a bookseller i believe i will have the best input on this occasion. the business by martina cole is a great book and is selling well. also james patterson's new title. forget the name now but it's in hardback. if its biographys you are after then you are spoilt for choice this christmas with dawn french's dear fatty and Parky's selling the best. if you like clarkson you will love his new title the world according to clarkson volume 3. there are also some good humour books around this christmas such as is it just me or is everything in the world shit volume one and two. if your after a true crime book then the bestseller at the moment is called monster. olispence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Girl_Oral_Explosion Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Any books that are recommended? Looking at buying 'Stalingrad' and 'Sniper One'.. any reviews on these two? Both good reads imo. In the last 5 years there has been a few books written by the ordinary Landser (German foot soldier) who experienced the Eastern front. Up til then this was positvely frowned upon in Germany. The 3 best books imo are: The Forgotten Soldier (written in 73 by a french guy drafted into the Wehrmacht, not recent but being made into a film in 2009 directed by Paul Verhoeven who directed "Zwartboek" or Black Book) Sniper on the Eastern Front In Deadly Combat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widnes Two Hats Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 as a bookseller i believe i will have the best input on this occasion. the business by martina cole is a great book and is selling well. also james patterson's new title. forget the name now but it's in hardback. if its biographys you are after then you are spoilt for choice this christmas with dawn french's dear fatty and Parky's selling the best. if you like clarkson you will love his new title the world according to clarkson volume 3. there are also some good humour books around this christmas such as is it just me or is everything in the world shit volume one and two. if your after a true crime book then the bestseller at the moment is called monster. olispence Oliver I'm pretty sure you're a figment of my imagination so I'm not going to respond or people may think I'm insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 as a bookseller i believe i will have the best input on this occasion................james patterson's new title. forget the name now but it's in hardback. Good input that Oli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted December 10, 2008 Site Supporter Share Posted December 10, 2008 Someone's hacked Oli's sign-in. There's no way Oli would be such a self-righteous prick by starting his article, "As a bookseller I will have the best input." Tell me it isn't really you Oli. Oh, by the way, Clarkson can go f?ck himself. Reprinting his newspaper column does not make his books good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olispence Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 no this is actually me. and for the likes of no-balls the gift by cecilia ahern is excellent. there is also one for you trainee doctors out there called trust me im a junior doctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olispence Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 ohh ye and the host by stephanie meyer is a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWFC777 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Martina Cole - Ladykillers The series on the tv was good of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olispence Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 the patterson title is called cross country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no balls Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 no this is actually me. and for the likes of no-balls the gift by cecilia ahern is excellent. there is also one for you trainee doctors out there called trust me im a junior doctor. Oli love, I've just looked at a write of of this novel after reading this post. Thanks for thinking of me. Now I ask, why the f?ck would I want to read a romantic novel? I saw a film of one of her books once, on a plane, and it made me cry, I shall not do be doing that again in a hurry! But thanks anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widnes Two Hats Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) Don't tell anybody, but I've read all Martina Cole's books however, I thought her last two were particularly lazily written so I've now banned her And the rule of reading is that you must never watch the film/series if you've read the book PS I was taking the p?ss with my recommendation Edited December 10, 2008 by Widnes Two Hats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olispence Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 thought i'd give you a pointer. was that film PS i love you by any chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widnes Two Hats Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) On a serious note Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers is a belter I particularly like Tim Powers though so I may be biased Edited December 10, 2008 by Widnes Two Hats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Bear Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 i can't read so have no input.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widnes Two Hats Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 PS i love you That's very nice of you to say but I'm afraid that sticking ones meat and two veg between one's legs in a mens locker room does not appeal to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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