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brod wrote:

Magpiespower wrote:

Enjoy it Magpie? I really did

Read this one earlier this year too.
Enjoyed it, but seemed a bit like an unfinished jigsaw with some Hughes and some of the other principal players refusing to give their perspectives

The Rise and Fall of Apartheid by David Welsh
Looks at apartheid more from the view of the various political parties involved rather than the on-the-ground atrocities, which it mentions but doesn't go into too in-depth.
Bit dry and text-bookish, but overall very good.

Footy Smart wrote:Ben Cousins Auto biog

Been a good read so far. It starts at when he realised how out of control his partying was (the point he left his old boy in a bus shelter while he scored drugs) and then started from the his child hood.

Reading this at the moment. Pretty good. Feels like they are his words, not overenhanced by a writer. Found some of his childhood stuff interesting, a little different to perhaps what I expected.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

The titles pretty self explanatory, but its a look at how the American Constitution has been legislated against through the history of the United States to allow police forces to act more and more like a military organisation.

It starts by explaining what the Constitution actually says, and what that means in terms of what the police can and can't do. It looks into all of the politics over the years and the "war on drugs, war on terrorism, etc" that the government uses to gain support for taking away their own citizens rights.

I'm about halfway through, and it is very interesting. Especially with what is currently happening in Ferguson, Missouri. I started reading it about a week before that whole thing kicked off.

It is not an "anti-cop" book, but more of a precautionary book about what could eventually become a police state, driven by the government.

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop- ... 1610392116

Gozu wrote:The Most Dangerous Animal Of All: Searching For My Father...And Finding The Zodiac Killer by Gary L. Stewart with Susan Mustafa

Just finished this and found it a really interesting read and from what I know of the unsolved Zodiac Killer case Earl Van Best Jr (Gary Stewart's biological father) probably was the most likely.

Have just acquired a copy of Lenny Hayes' bio, from a work colleague.

Looking forward to reading over the weekend.

The other day I got 62 Goosebump books on my Kindle.

Takes me back to my childhood.

Right now Im reading The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.

HH3 wrote:The other day I got 62 Goosebump books on my Kindle.

Takes me back to my childhood.

Right now Im reading The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.

Brilliant.... I was also a fan of the 'choose your own adventure' books, with the different story lines depends on the page you choose to go to next.

Im currently into the 3rd Hunger Games book. Had no intention of reading them until i saw a 3 minute snippet of the movie on TV. it looked quirky but interesting so i got into the books. Haven’t watched the movies yet and will do once i finish reading the books

Booney wrote:

pels wrote:

Booney wrote:"Young Blood" - The story of the family murders.

Is that the one The detective wrote?
Disturbing read, Unfortunately the truth will never come out.

Bob O'brien.

Brilliant book.... its chilling reading the areas mentioned in the book and ebing able to picture them ie the plaza, o'connel street, the areas/roads some of the bodies were dumped.

HH3 wrote:The other day I got 62 Goosebump books on my Kindle.

Takes me back to my childhood.

Right now Im reading The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.

So good!

Favourite HH3? Mine was The Headless Ghost.

valleys07 wrote:

HH3 wrote:The other day I got 62 Goosebump books on my Kindle.

Takes me back to my childhood.

Right now Im reading The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.

So good!

Favourite HH3? Mine was The Headless Ghost.

Heaps. The Curse of Camp Cold Lake was really good.

A Night In Terror Tower as well...

So many good ones. And I used to read multiple books a day when I was about 9 or 10.

I may do the same. I have an urge to read goosebumps books now, haha!

I read Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings over the weekend.

Its the book by Michelle Knight, one of three girls kidnapped and held for 11 years by Ariel Castro in Cleveland.

What he did to those girls was so ****** up! I had already read a fair bit about it, but the book just opens it right up.

HH3 wrote:

valleys07 wrote:

HH3 wrote:The other day I got 62 Goosebump books on my Kindle.

Takes me back to my childhood.

Right now Im reading The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.

So good!

Favourite HH3? Mine was The Headless Ghost.

Heaps. The Curse of Camp Cold Lake was really good.

A Night In Terror Tower as well...

So many good ones. And I used to read multiple books a day when I was about 9 or 10.

that's my fav one as well..............

not really
masked avenger I think its called was my fav

when are you blokes starting this children classic series?

The plot was a bit complex, but the twist at the end was very good.

4 denta-bones out of 5.

I used to read those choose your own adventure books, but I kept getting lost.................................................ZING!

Footy Smart wrote:Im currently into the 3rd Hunger Games book. Had no intention of reading them until i saw a 3 minute snippet of the movie on TV. it looked quirky but interesting so i got into the books. Haven’t watched the movies yet and will do once i finish reading the books

I read the first Hunger Games book sometime last year, I think ... I loved it to bits. Within 2 weeks I had bought and watched the movie, and read the other two books.

While the first book was brilliant, Catching Fire left me a bit disappointed. I did not like the plot element by which Katniss & Peeta were forced back into the Hunger Games arena. This seemed contrived to me. However the actual games (once they were in the arena) was rather well done. I saw the movie in May and this helped my appreciation of the second book.

Mockingjay was crap. The plot stretched credulity a bit too far for my liking. Happenings were arbitrary and poorly fleshed out. "Hey, we need to rescue Peeta from the Capitol" - then turn the page, and bingo, he's been rescued. How? Where are the details, Suzanne Collins?

Pseudo wrote:

Footy Smart wrote:Im currently into the 3rd Hunger Games book. Had no intention of reading them until i saw a 3 minute snippet of the movie on TV. it looked quirky but interesting so i got into the books. Haven’t watched the movies yet and will do once i finish reading the books

I read the first Hunger Games book sometime last year, I think ... I loved it to bits. Within 2 weeks I had bought and watched the movie, and read the other two books.

While the first book was brilliant, Catching Fire left me a bit disappointed. I did not like the plot element by which Katniss & Peeta were forced back into the Hunger Games arena. This seemed contrived to me. However the actual games (once they were in the arena) was rather well done. I saw the movie in May and this helped my appreciation of the second book.

Mockingjay was crap. The plot stretched credulity a bit too far for my liking. Happenings were arbitrary and poorly fleshed out. "Hey, we need to rescue Peeta from the Capitol" - then turn the page, and bingo, he's been rescued. How? Where are the details, Suzanne Collins?

Agreed first book was the best, and i havent been overly impressed by the movies in all honesty. Seconds book started slowly but i liked once they announced they were heading back into the games. The details of the Peeta rescue were thin, but I dont think it would have added that much to the book apart from stretching it out IMO. Hoping that the third movie is better than the others. Not sure why they have made it 2parts though. flogging a head horse a bit.

Since the Hunger Games ive just finished reading The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson after some good reviews by others on here. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Now need to find something else. Anyone have any suggestions.... happy to read anything.

"One River". The story of Richard Schultes, Ethnobotanist, and his exploration of the flora of the Amazon in the 1940s. In particular, he researched the biology of the varieties of Rubber trees and the various Coca varieties. He was prone to sampling the product of the latter with the natives too.