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Booney wrote:
mighty hounds wrote:I red Dead by Friday not to long ago. It's about the murder of Carolyn Matthews in her home in West Lakes. Some people are just F'd up


Not the sharpest tools in the shed, were they? Flashing murder contracts around, cuddling up to each other at family shows, hotel check-ins and outs in 3-4 hours.


I was laughing at their stupidity whilst reading it. Can't believe he had his kids find her first and that he thinks he's innocent. He's where he should be
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mighty hounds wrote:
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mighty hounds wrote:I red Dead by Friday not to long ago. It's about the murder of Carolyn Matthews in her home in West Lakes. Some people are just F'd up


Not the sharpest tools in the shed, were they? Flashing murder contracts around, cuddling up to each other at family shows, hotel check-ins and outs in 3-4 hours.


I was laughing at their stupidity whilst reading it. Can't believe he had his kids find her first and that he thinks he's innocent. He's where he should be


I dont read alot to be honest but I couldn't put that one down! Mrs knocked it over in one night and me in about 3. Was almost too stupid to be true.
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Booney wrote:
mighty hounds wrote:
Booney wrote:
mighty hounds wrote:I red Dead by Friday not to long ago. It's about the murder of Carolyn Matthews in her home in West Lakes. Some people are just F'd up


Not the sharpest tools in the shed, were they? Flashing murder contracts around, cuddling up to each other at family shows, hotel check-ins and outs in 3-4 hours.


I was laughing at their stupidity whilst reading it. Can't believe he had his kids find her first and that he thinks he's innocent. He's where he should be


I dont read alot to be honest but I couldn't put that one down! Mrs knocked it over in one night and me in about 3. Was almost too stupid to be true.


yep I was in the same boat. Funny thing was I went to school down the road from where they met at their kids school to talk about the contract.
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Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks. One of Mr McSpaz's favourite authors. He was quite delighted when I asked to read it. I figured, I made him read The Hunger Games so it was my turn to read one of his favourites. :-)
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Start with the virtual reality from The Matrix.
Add the dystopian future from Brazil.
Give it a quest like Lord of the Rings.
Finally mix in as many references to pop culture phenomena from the 1980s as you can fit on each page. Music, movies, video games, they're all there.

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i was given a kindle for my birthday. with the wife being home with bubs it has meant that i have read a lot more on public transport.

here is a list i have read this year:

The Gathering - Anne Enright
The Godfather - Mario Puzo (my favourite book so far)
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Ray
For Whom a Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
In Gold Blood - Truman Capote
Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Adichie (Brilliant read about Nigerian Civil War)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
The Graduate - Charles Webb
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Pictures of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Memoirs of Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Looking Through the Hour Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
Oroonkoo - Aphra Behn
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Choke: A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Pit and Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

thats 27 books this year. i'm going to be pushing for 52 for the whole year :)
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Recently reread the godfather, forgot how good it is.
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mrjbeam1981 wrote:i was given a kindle for my birthday. with the wife being home with bubs it has meant that i have read a lot more on public transport.

here is a list i have read this year:

The Gathering - Anne Enright
The Godfather - Mario Puzo (my favourite book so far)
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Ray
For Whom a Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
In Gold Blood - Truman Capote
Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Adichie (Brilliant read about Nigerian Civil War)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
The Graduate - Charles Webb
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Pictures of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Memoirs of Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Looking Through the Hour Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
Oroonkoo - Aphra Behn
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Choke: A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Pit and Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

thats 27 books this year. i'm going to be pushing for 52 for the whole year :)


I'm reading For Whom the bell Tolls at the moment. Read Naked and the Dead years ago.
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Next week ill get my hands on a signed copy of Michael Husseys "underneath the southern cross". Should be a good read!
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Alex Fergusons autobiography looks like it will be good.

Apparently it comes out on the 24th October.

"Mark Bosnich was a terrible professional," Ferguson wrote in the book.

Ferguson adds in the book, to be officially published on October 24, that he tried to pull out of a deal to sign Bosnich in 1999.

"Mark got off to a real bad start. He turned up for training three hours late. He was overweight," Ferguson added at the press conference.

Ferguson was more effusive when writing about another Socceroo, Tim Cahill.

"Tim Cahill was on the radar and he had a lot of really good qualities.

"He had a terrific career for Everton, scored a lot of goals for them.

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you bring some in that you thought were a benefit to the club, sometimes with players you lose."
In his autobiography, Ferguson also claims the Football Association approached him twice to take over as England manager.

"It didn't take me long to decide, 10 seconds. There was no way in a million years I could manage England.

"Imagine me going back to Scotland after that, dearie me. Of England, it was a great opportunity to relegate them."


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The Organic Guide to Edible Gardens.
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valleys07 wrote:Next week ill get my hands on a signed copy of Michael Husseys "underneath the southern cross". Should be a good read!


Finished- the book went into great detail about Hussey's progression through the cricketing ranks (almost a game by game play)- which can be expected given the man is nicknamed Mr. Cricket. Didnt go into as much detail regarding his life off of the field as what some of the other cricketers (such as McGrath and Gilchrist) have in their books.

All in all a good read- a mighty long wait for the baggy green and many battles (with both the exterior opinion of Hussey as a cricketer and his personal insecurities surrounding whether or not he was good enough) overcome to achieve his goal, which turned into an incredibly celebrated career featuring 19 centuries, a world cup triumph and an ashes victory.
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I got 2 books i'm really keen to get into. The Rise of the Swans, bit of history but mostly focuses on the last 10 or so years... Also got the new steve waugh book, always a good read, legend!
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Pat Farmer- Pole to Pole

Documents his 21,000KM charity run from a few years ago. Legend.
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Spartan Gold - Clive Cussler

Im not really into "adventure" books, but the way this guy writes just makes me keep wanting to read more and more. I was up til 2am the other night reading this bad boy
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Justice League: Mortal

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Screenplay for George Miller's abandoned 2007 movie...
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The Crossroad By Mark Donaldson. Our SAS troop that was awarded the first VC medal. Only half through it but dam its a interesting read
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The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman

Was given this as a present, not normally the sort of book I'd read. Was a gripping novel that had me tearing up at the end.
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The Sceptic's Annotated Bible - Steve Wells
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