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I'm currently reading one of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's (famous for the little prince) books about his early plane flights around the Sahara, it's just a short book, I have Mario Vargas Lhosa's The Time of the Hero for after
 
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My late father in law was a P.O.W sent to work on the Burma railway. He didn’t talk too much about it but, when he did, it was shocking. Jap guards throwing sand on prisoners’ open wounds, fed so little that they resorted to killing and eating snakes. He weighed 6 stone when he returned and refused to have anything Japanese-made in the house till the day he died. Spent most of the rest of his life “looking after” some of the “hardest” cons in HMP Peterhead but they turned out to be not so hard.
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There was also sexual abuse and unimaginable tortures. The Japanese did this with orders from above. They were way worse than the Nazis but they somehow don't get mentioned in the same way for their WW2 atrocities - maybe cos we dropped 2 big bombs on the little *&*^ and felt guilty about it. The Rape of Nanking was SO fucked up. Many of their most sadistic top brass were able to enjoy rewarding careers and live normal lives after the war while the Nazis were hunted to the ends of the Earth.

Anyway. Read this and you may learn more about what your pops in law lived through. It's a cracking read. Boy from Aberdeen who was captured by the Japs and worked on the same death railway.

The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific | Amazon.com.br

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Currently reading this by David Goldblatt. Absolutely outstanding and of interest to anyone remotely interested in football across the world in the 21st century. His breadth of knowledge is simply staggering. On the South American chapter at the moment.


His books on the history of the Premier League and his history of world football are also highly recommended.
 
I'll need to let the twins know that Sancho the wee vultures are also book worms and it's classic literature the now.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
I'll need to let the twins know that Sancho the wee vultures are also book worms and it's classic literature the now.
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Then let me recommend the following...

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 1] (100 Books You Must Read Before You Die) eBook : Dickens, Charles, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Doyle, Arthur Conan, Dumas, Alexandre, Eliot, George, Huxley, Aldous, Flaubert, Gustave, Hugo, Victor, Homer, Fo

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 1] (100 Books You Must Read Before You Die) eBook : Dickens, Charles, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Doyle, Arthur Conan, Dumas, Alexandre, Eliot, George, Huxley, Aldous, Flaubert, Gustave, Hugo, Victor, Homer, Forster, E. M., Alcott, Louisa May, Brontë...
www.amazon.co.uk

And

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] eBook : Joyce, James, Tolstoy, Leo, Verne, Jules, Wells, H. G., Wilde, Oscar, Twain, Mark, Stendhal, Tagore, Rabindranath, London, Jack, Shelley, Mary, Sand, George, Kipling, Rudyard, Maugham, William

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] eBook : Joyce, James, Tolstoy, Leo, Verne, Jules, Wells, H. G., Wilde, Oscar, Twain, Mark, Stendhal, Tagore, Rabindranath, London, Jack, Shelley, Mary, Sand, George, Kipling, Rudyard, Maugham, William Somerset, Scott, Walter, Sinclair, Upton...
www.amazon.co.uk
 
Started Men in Love last night, pretty good so far. Seems to begin immediately after the events of Trainspotting. So in chronological order in the Renton/Spud/Sick Boy/Begbie universe: Skagboys > Trainspotting > Men in Love > Porno > The Blade Artist > Dead Man's Trousers.

First chapter with the auld salty seadog offering up shagging advice in the Marksman had me lol-ing!
 
🤔 had a quick gander Doc. The violence on the Eastern Front was off the scale.

The locals hated the Russians the Germans hated the locals the locals then hated the Russians again.

There's a brilliant documentary on YaTube about the Einsatzgruppen with some locals who helped them in their massacres explaining away matter of factly.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
🤔 had a quick gander Doc. The violence on the Eastern Front was off the scale.

The locals hated the Russians the Germans hated the locals the locals then hated the Russians again.

There's a brilliant documentary on YaTube about the Einsatzgruppen with some locals who helped them in their massacres explaining away matter of factly.
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Have you read any Vasily Grossman, Jimmy? He was a Jewish Soviet journalist who reported on the Eastern Front campaign. His two volume fictionalised account of the conflict, Stalingrad and Life & Fate should be up your street. An update of War & Peace and just as long!
 
Doc Shrink said:
I took one of his recommendations “The Kindly Ones” written by an ex SS Officer ( not a real one) and never slept soundly for weeks.
I reckon even Jimmy would struggle with the level of violence contained therein.
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Its horrific and in many ways I wish I never read it.

The sexual depravity as well, though perhaps that element was less shocking for you doc ?

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egb_hibs said:
Its horrific and in many ways I wish I never read it.

The sexual depravity as well, though perhaps that element was less shocking for you doc ?

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I've had that book since it was released but have never got round to reading it. Really not sure I want to...
 
I'll put Grossman on the list mate. I've read some of the soviet soldiers accounts but it reads like Pravda.

Fascist beasts, hitlerites etc etc.

The book I'm reading just now I'm at the chapter about Nemmersdorf and it quotes
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about how they knew they could do what they wanted with any German civilian.

Two mighty isms fighting each other to the death. One as bad as the other.
 
Here is the book I mentioned on the Hibs fans thread.....


www.everand.com

A Thanks to Loneliness by Mary Bridget O'Brien (Ebook) - Read free for 30 days

Are you struggling with feelings of loneliness? Do you feel isolated even when surrounded by people? "A Thanks to Loneliness" is the ultimate guide to overcoming and embracing loneliness. This book is a comprehensive and compassionate exploration of the causes and effects of loneliness...
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EH17 Jimmy said:
I've just purchased Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stokers Dracula, The Brothers Grimm Original Fairy Tales and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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Good collection there Jimmy.
Re-reading them? Or just never got round to it before?
 
Oops forgot to put I got them for the twins as they are starting to like the Gothic stories.

They are fourteen (both of them in case yous are wondering) and avid readers.
 
I've no read the Brothers Grimm one. But I'll borrow it from them and have a read.
 
Me and Mr Jones by Suzi Ronson.

Micks wifes book. Behind the scenes with Bowie on the Ziggy/Aladdin tours.

Bowie's coke addled paranoia. They way the Spiders from Mars were stabbed in the back.

Micknand Suzi meeting Ian Hunter and touring with Mott the Hopple and the jealousy involved.

Meeting Dylan and going on the Rolling Thunder tour.

Interesting read about Tony DeFries and Mainman.
 
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Pawn Shawl Ick said:
There was also sexual abuse and unimaginable tortures. The Japanese did this with orders from above. They were way worse than the Nazis but they somehow don't get mentioned in the same way for their WW2 atrocities - maybe cos we dropped 2 big bombs on the little *&*^ and felt guilty about it. The Rape of Nanking was SO fucked up. Many of their most sadistic top brass were able to enjoy rewarding careers and live normal lives after the war while the Nazis were hunted to the ends of the Earth.

Anyway. Read this and you may learn more about what your pops in law lived through. It's a cracking read. Boy from Aberdeen who was captured by the Japs and worked on the same death railway.

The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific | Amazon.com.br

Compre online The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific, de Urquhart, Alistair na Amazon. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Urquhart, Alistair com ótimos preços.
www.amazon.com.br
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I read that a while back mate, if memory serves me right, I'm sure the poor guy never harmed anyone or used his rifle in earnest at all during his time in the army.
 
Ulysses by James Joyce. I've tried three times now to get through it.
I think I made the mistake last time of reading it alongside a study guide which explained all the references in the text. Eventually, it became a chore and was hardly enlightening anyway.
Quite honestly, you'd learn more about the human condition from a good spy novel.
 
Heretoday said:
Ulysses by James Joyce. I've tried three times now to get through it.
I think I made the mistake last time of reading it alongside a study guide which explained all the references in the text. Eventually, it became a chore and was hardly enlightening anyway.
Quite honestly, you'd learn more about the human condition from a good spy novel.
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I tried a couple of times to read that about 30 years ago and gave up.
 
Reminder to self: read the first post in a thread before posting.

Book I've given up on: Infinite Jest. Fuck me.
 
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Oh and GamesMaster: The Oral History. Not cos it was shite per se, just a wee bit, boring.

However I've been watching a Youtube series on the show and it's been funny as feck (recommended if you were a GM watcher) so I'm going to pick it back up again.

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Oh and GamesMaster: The Oral History. Not cos it was shite per se, just a wee bit, boring.

However I've been watching a Youtube series on the show and it's been funny as feck (recommended if you were a GM watcher) so I'm going to pick it back up again.

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Best Gamesmaster moment ever?

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Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident

The legendary moment in television history when the man who had the rep of being one of the best games players in the country (and was also a genuine sex sym...
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Hibee Kev said:
Best Gamesmaster moment ever?

www.youtube.com

Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident

The legendary moment in television history when the man who had the rep of being one of the best games players in the country (and was also a genuine sex sym...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Undoubtedly!

The YouTube dude I linked above is onto series 5 now, and hes just done the episode where Dominik Diamond married Whigfield.. Not up there with the best, but defo the weirdest! Been enjoying the nostalgia trip immensely.
 
Hibee Kev said:
Best Gamesmaster moment ever?

www.youtube.com

Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident

The legendary moment in television history when the man who had the rep of being one of the best games players in the country (and was also a genuine sex sym...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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I will add though that I've learnt a lot more about what DD and others on the show were like with DP, and it seems he was, well, bullied a bit. Not that cool and detracts somewhat from that clip (he may or may not have been stitched up slightly on the challenge) but nah, still the best bit of the lot 😀
 
After a recommendation on here I purchased this book.

The Delaneys of Edinburgh.

I have just bought and sent a copy to my pal over in Canada as she has visited Little Ireland lots of times she has visited.

Anyway whilst ordering said book I seen there is a follow up book called....

Little Ireland: An Irish Emigrant Family's Life in Nineteenth Century Edinburgh


Little Ireland tells the story of one family from County Monaghan in Ireland, who emigrated to Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century and settled in the Old Town, in the Irish ghetto of 'Little Ireland'.

It is also the story of the Irish diaspora who settled there, both before and after the 'Great Famine', whose lives revolved around the church of St. Patrick in the Cowgate and it's charismatic priest, Canon Edward Hannan, who founded Hibernian Football Club.

It tells of the exiled Irish community's involvement in the politics of their homeland and their fight for Independence for Ireland through their achievement in having the Freedom of Edinburgh awarded to Charles Stewart Parnell.

It also tells of the part played by 'Little Ireland' born James Connolly, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which led, in time, to the formation of the Irish Free State.

But most of all, it tells of the joys and sorrows of one family who emigrated to Edinburgh seeking a new life, of their achievements, the tragedies that befell them and how some of them were forced into onward emigration to Canada and America.

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Just purchased Face It the Debbie Harry story.

Read it over the weekend.
 
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