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Title: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on January 15, 2009, 11:28:01 AM: Just been sent a £10 Amazon voucher. Any good book suggestions?
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 11:33:24 AM: There is no such thing as a bad book IMHO ~ Soooooooo ~ Anything you haven't already got, but hurry up because they have a sale on and you might be able to get two books for your voucher.

This looks interesting

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/052166473X/ref=s9qpick_c8_img2-rfc_g1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=023WR4YK626P4126XEE6&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463374933&pf_rd_i=468294

eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on January 15, 2009, 11:41:33 AM: I think I will pass on that whistle:

I like browsing in bookshops and you can't really do that online in the same way, can you?
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 11:43:22 AM: True enough ~ buy a CD from Amazon with your voucher and treat yourself to a trip to a second hand book shop.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on January 15, 2009, 11:46:11 AM: rubschin:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Pastis on January 15, 2009, 03:00:17 PM: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonial-Harem-Theory-History-Literature/dp/0816613842/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232031466&sr=1-8

whistle:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 03:02:52 PM: Quote from: Pastis on January 15, 2009, 03:00:17 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonial-Harem-Theory-History-Literature/dp/0816613842/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232031466&sr=1-8

whistle:

But he's only gorra tenner
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Pastis on January 15, 2009, 03:35:42 PM: Oh. Perhaps there's a used copy?
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Barman on January 15, 2009, 03:55:11 PM: I recommend that you don't buy this.... (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Im-Sorry-Havent-Clue-Stage/dp/B001ENWPTG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232034865&sr=8-2) noooo:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 15, 2009, 04:32:36 PM: Seeing as this is for Nick lets make it appropriate:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/0749386061 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/0749386061)

whistle:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 15, 2009, 05:03:29 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 03:02:52 PM
Quote from: Pastis on January 15, 2009, 03:00:17 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonial-Harem-Theory-History-Literature/dp/0816613842/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232031466&sr=1-8

whistle:

But he's only gorra tenner

Eunuchs are sopranos. ::)
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 05:18:50 PM: Castrati I think you will find. whistle:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 15, 2009, 05:21:40 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 05:18:50 PM
Castrati I think you will find. whistle:
Well of course Eunuchs are Castrati. ::)

It is a pre-requisite for the job, like a 2-digit IQ for politicians.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 05:39:04 PM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 15, 2009, 05:21:40 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 05:18:50 PM
Castrati I think you will find. whistle:
Well of course Eunuchs are Castrati. ::)

It is a pre-requisite for the job, like a 2-digit IQ for politicians.

Indeed but Castrati are not necessarily Eunuchs

Castrai sing in high pitched voices ~ Eunuchs do not, if they had reached adulthood before the meat and two veg were removed.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 15, 2009, 05:51:14 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 05:39:04 PM
Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 15, 2009, 05:21:40 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 05:18:50 PM
Castrati I think you will find. whistle:
Well of course Eunuchs are Castrati. ::)

It is a pre-requisite for the job, like a 2-digit IQ for politicians.

Indeed but Castrati are not necessarily Eunuchs

Castrai sing in high pitched voices ~ Eunuchs do not, if they had reached adulthood before the meat and two veg were removed.
[pedantry]
A Eunuch is a castrated male, in Latin they are called castrati. The practice of castrating pure-voiced boys before their voices broke was common in the church to provide soprano choirboys, known, correctly, as castrati.
Not all Sopranos are Eunuchs
Not all Eunuchs are Sopranos
Not all Sopranos are Castrati
All Eunuchs are Castrati
[/pedantry]
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on January 15, 2009, 05:56:07 PM: What is this nonsense? evil:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 06:06:24 PM: Quote from: Nick on January 15, 2009, 05:56:07 PM
What is this nonsense? evil:

You started it point:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 15, 2009, 06:33:53 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on January 15, 2009, 06:06:24 PM
Quote from: Nick on January 15, 2009, 05:56:07 PM
What is this nonsense? evil:

You started it point:

Wot he said.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on January 31, 2009, 04:31:47 PM: I finally ordered this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1)
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 31, 2009, 09:40:31 PM: Quote from: Nick on January 31, 2009, 04:31:47 PM
I finally ordered this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1)

. . . and 40kg of figs turned up.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2009, 09:43:42 AM: evil:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Barman on February 01, 2009, 10:15:48 AM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 31, 2009, 09:40:31 PM
Quote from: Nick on January 31, 2009, 04:31:47 PM
I finally ordered this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1)

. . . and 40kg of figs turned up.
happy001
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on February 01, 2009, 10:51:39 AM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 31, 2009, 09:40:31 PM
Quote from: Nick on January 31, 2009, 04:31:47 PM
I finally ordered this!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Murder-Christopher-Marlowe/dp/0099437473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233419452&sr=1-1)

. . . and 40kg of figs turned up.

What is known as a "Bathroom book" then.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2009, 10:52:02 AM: ::)
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Pastis on February 01, 2009, 11:39:43 AM: The 'frequently bought together' note on the Amazon link suggests The Lodger. It was R4's book of the week or dramatised last year I think... fascinating.

Anyhoo, I thought Kit Marlowe was a spy cool14: , at least that's what we were led to believe when doing Tamburlaine the Great whistle:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2009, 11:40:53 AM: Read The Lodger last year. Fascinating book.

I have just, finally, finished the book which Growler gave me for Christmas cloud9:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Pastis on February 01, 2009, 11:42:31 AM: Intriguing! Are we supposed to know what that was? whistle:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2009, 11:43:46 AM: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Through-Classics/dp/0141189142/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233488598&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Through-Classics/dp/0141189142/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233488598&sr=1-3)
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Pastis on February 01, 2009, 11:49:25 AM: Quote from: Nick on February 01, 2009, 11:43:46 AM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Through-Classics/dp/0141189142/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233488598&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Through-Classics/dp/0141189142/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233488598&sr=1-3)

Ahhh... fabulous book! It was that and Simon Winchester's "Korea - a walk through the land of Miracles" that inspired me to take the train from Pusan to Seoul rather than fly. A great journey cloud9:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2009, 11:53:57 AM: Someone I knew was working in Dubai and had to come back to teh UK for aminor eye operation. He ended up staying with his deeply annoying father. Doc said he couldn't fly for 6 weeks. Fearing he would be driven insane he got Cooks to work out an overland route for him. It took him three weeks, but he reckoned his sanity was worth it razz:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 03, 2009, 12:00:41 PM: It's arrived cloud9:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on February 03, 2009, 01:29:22 PM: WOT?
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on February 03, 2009, 01:31:06 PM: The figs of course.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Nick on February 03, 2009, 01:31:40 PM: The book!

I am surrounded by idiots evil:
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Snoopy on February 03, 2009, 01:42:37 PM: The one you mentioned you had ordered on the 31st Jan? ..... You really do expect us to carry a lot of shite in our memories ~ and we are none of us as young as we were.
Title: Re: Recommendations
Post by: Darwins Selection on February 03, 2009, 05:02:55 PM: Quote from: Snoopy on February 03, 2009, 01:42:37 PM
we are none of us as young as we were.
Neither am I noooo: