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The GOT Book Club

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

Fascinating book that's brilliantly written. Cba doing a long review but google 'unindicted coejaculator'. Literally couldn't believe what i was reading in the chapter containing this phenomenon.
 
Reading the book the gangs of liverpool by michael macilwee at the minute dealing with liverpool gangs from back in the 1800's.decent book so far anyway.
Finished off the book young blood last night.it is a follow up book to the cartel by graham johnston.thought they were 2 good books.
 
Haven't read for a couple of months after finishing Timmy Cahill book. Picked up my missus book 'The Ice Twins', the other night, and it's not bad. Going to read Roald Dahl biography next, and got Steve Coogans book for Father's Day. Trying to get back into reading instead of staring at my phone before sleep.
 

RIP Michael Herr.

Author of Dispatches, the book I've bought the most times in my life (mainly because I lend it out and never get it back).

If you have never heard of it or him, the Martin Sheen voiceover on Apocalypse Now is his, as is the co-written screenplay for Full Metal Jacket.

There was a map of Vietnam on the wall of my apartment in Saigon and some nights, coming back late to the city, I’d lie out on my bed and look at it, too tired to do anything more than just get my boots off. That map was a marvel, especially now that it wasn’t real any more. For one thing, it was very old. It had been left there years before by another tenant, probably a Frenchman, since the map had been made in Paris. The paper had buckled in its frame after years in the wet Saigon heat, laying a kind of veil over the countries it depicted. Vietnam was divided into its older territories of Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China, and to the west past Laos and Cambodge sat Siam, a kingdom. That’s old, I’d tell visitors, that’s a really old map.

If dead ground could come back and haunt you the way dead people do, they’d have been able to mark my map CURRENT and burn the ones they’d been using since ‘64, but count on it, nothing like that was going to happen. It was late ‘67 now, even the most detailed maps didn’t reveal much anymore; reading them was like trying to read the faces of the Vietnamese, and that was like trying to read the wind. We knew that the uses of most information were flexible, different pieces of ground told different stories to different people. We also knew that for years now there had been no country here but the war.
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atrottel said:
RIP Michael Herr.

Author of Dispatches, the book I've bought the most times in my life (mainly because I lend it out and never get it back).

If you have never heard of it or him, the Martin Sheen voiceover on Apocalypse Now is his, as is the co-written screenplay for Full Metal Jacket.
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Think I'll investigate him further, cheers.
 
atrottel said:
RIP Michael Herr.

Author of Dispatches, the book I've bought the most times in my life (mainly because I lend it out and never get it back).

If you have never heard of it or him, the Martin Sheen voiceover on Apocalypse Now is his, as is the co-written screenplay for Full Metal Jacket.
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I bought this and never read it. No idea where it is
 

I'm by no means any fitness-crazed individual, but this is a great "back of the toilet" book if you want some insight into trying to stay in shape. It is basically a series of questions
  • Should I exercise when I'm sick?
  • Do I need strength training if I just want to be lean and fit?
  • What role does my brain play in fatigue?
  • Will running barefoot help me avoid injuries?
  • To lose weight, is it better to eat less or exercise more?
  • How should I adapt my workout routine as I get older?
  • Does it matter what I'm thinking about when I train?
  • Will drinking coffee help or hinder my performance?
  • Should I have sex the night before a competition?
  • Is there such thing as a "runner’s high?"
(and about 50 more) that are answered in about 1-2 pages. But the author reviews all the latest peer-reviewed studies from exercise-science journals--they are not just his (or someone else's) opinion.

Good stuff.


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Just finished the Wayward Pines Trilogy - Pine / Wayward / The Last Town.

Superb if you like Scfi Horror Armageddon books.

FBI Agent Ethan Blake wakes up in a strange town after a car crash and things aren't quite what they seem !

Highly recommend.
 
Simon Schama's book, Rough Crossings, a few years old now, about slavery in America against the backdrop of the American War of Independence. Astonishing book, so interesting to read, had no idea that one of the triggers of the War itself was the large number of black slaves fleeing their owners to side with the British and loyalists in return for what they thought would be their liberty.
 

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