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In reply to Post #56
Also enjoyed A Bit Of Stretch and would recommend it.
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Both by Peter Frankopan
Heavy reading but both extremely informative 👍
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In reply to Post #56
Great shout Fishers of Men Aidey.
I'll take a look at the others 
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I've read quite a few this year...
Soldier Spy and I Spy - ex MI5 documenting his time seeking Russian spooks and Islamic Terror interests.
Fishers of Men - another ex spook who worked in Northern Ireland during the troubles.
A Bit of A Stretch - Film producer who engaged in an investment that turned out to be a tax fraud. Documents his time in Wandsworth Prison
The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin documents times when civilisation has collapsed due to war, famine, disease etc. A great bitesized history on the Roman Empire, Genghis Khan etc. It was written pre-covid, so it gives a great insight into his views on what would happen in the next pandemic.
Carp fishing wise, Carp County is superb. I am a bit biased towards Kent anglers as I can relate in part and visualise the lakes and the swims. Not overly fussed about reading rehashed versions of Savay, Yateley etc.
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Anyone read ‘I am Pilgrim’? If you haven’t then get it for a few quid off eBay. Thank me later
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Any Tolkien fans on here?
I was clearing some books out the other day and amongst lots of Tolkien books I never finished was one I must not have started, the children of hurin. I really enjoyed that, are there any others that are actually a story?
The others I have are like reading the appendix at the end of lotr
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A Fishy Tale: Missing gone fishing- by Robert Kirk.
One for the nostalgic, especially London anglers who may remember some of the tackle shops Robert ran, rods he made and rivers he fished.
Mr Kirk was my mates dad's best friend and his rally driving partner, both were rod builders and worked in the angling trade for several decades. Over here and in Ireland.
Apart from being a pioneer in the trade Robert was in the RAF as a tail gunner on Lancaster bombers in WW2. His grandson was tragically killed riding in the Isle of Man TT. Excellent read and the front cover is how you dress for angling!! Available from Amazon
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Azincourt is a great read, will finish that tonight so am looking for the next book. Is cornwells templar series an easier read than the last kingdom series?
I may actually start the wolf of the plains again as I never fished the series
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In reply to Post #1
Lockdown was a nice time to finish my reading list. The last one was A Mirror above the Abyss https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094NMRWPJ about 9/11 events.
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In reply to Post #1
If you can find a copy, Kings of Cocaine is a superb read. Its about the rise of the Columbian cocaine cartels, Pablo Escobar etc, including Barry Seal who the Tom Cruise film made in America was about. Another good un is called Killing Pablo.
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Read the second in the athenian series (conn iggulden) this week
Great read about a key moment in history
Shame it'll be a year for part three
The witcher books were meh
Will start azincourt this week
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In reply to Post #45
I think astrology is complete ********.
But I would, wouldn't I, typical sagittarius behaviour.
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In reply to Post #44
Recently, I got pretty excited about astrology and it helped me to start reading again, I had some kind of issues with that. It all started with this site https://clearastrology.com/planetary-influence/ Very well written and interesting.
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NON Carp stuff