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I just re read Micheal Herr's "Dispatches" which I first read at school,

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Just read "A Bikers Life" by Henry Cole, the bloke off The Motorbike Show. Excellent book, he's done some seriously good stuff ( in more ways than one !) in his life.

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Just last week finished "How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer" by Adrian Newey, good insight into the design and problems ( including Nigel...

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Just finished "Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World". Excellent read all in one or can be "dipped into" also.
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I just read the final part of the 1Q84 trilogy (2 + 1) by Haruki Murakami, I must admit I'm still as confused as I was in the first two parts. Little people ? Do they exist in either world ?

Richie

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Just finished Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett. Subtitled "Travels through Spain and it's silent past" it's an excellent book. There is a lot about the Civil War, Franco and post Franco...

Just read this:
Confederates in the Attic, a factual tour and investigation by Pulitzer Prize winning author Tony Horowitz
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I'd just like to wish this thread a happy tenth birthday !

Here's to another ten !

Just read The Island of Lost Maps, by Miles Harvey.

Not an author I'd noticed before, it's generally a tale of cartographical development, and is a good read, if you're keen on maps and such like,...

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I just read again The Man in the High Castle by PKD, one of my favourites, I'd recommend it to anyone anytime.

Also recently read Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, allthough more of a...

Just Re-Read "The Villain; The Life and Times of Don Whillans" by Jim Perrin, excellent book, fascinating character ( if not a complete nutcase ), from the times when climbers were 'ard buggers. ...

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I just finished "Running with the Kenyans" by Adharanand Finn, Superb book about the training methods, both Physical and Non Physical of the Kenyan runners, as seen through the eyes of a...

I just read "The Man in The High Castle" again by Phillip K Dick ( I may have mentioned I'd read it somewhere before on this thread ). I love the collecting/acquiring slant to the book, and also the...

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Has anyone read any of the David Wellington present day Vampire Series ? There is a remainder shop down the road that is selling all five dirt cheap


Thirteen Bullets (2006)
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Just read "Zero History" by William Gibson, it seems to me that Gibson's books have moved well away from the cyberpunk genre and are rapidly turning into James Bond style thrillers....

I just re-read "Earth Abides", which I think has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
I still liked the book thirty odd years on from my original reading.

I also just completed Ubik by my...

Superb Book, read this while I was at school, it inspired me to go and see some of Tim Pages photos in a collective show in Sheffield, and also went to hear him give a lecture. In his lecture someone...

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Just read the Le Carre classic "The spy who came in from the cold", excellent book, although the ending can be seen coming from quite a way off,
Richie :)

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Just come out of hospital ( not too far from Platts HQ ) and while I was in there I read "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. Excellent if somewhat clinical, the first chapter is superb,...

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Just finished 'Tortilla Flat' by John Steinbeck, an excellent companion to Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, centred on approx the same region, a good read !

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Just finished "Voyageur" by Robert Twigger ( who is the the guy that wrote "Angry White Pyjamas", which I really liked and have read a couple of times )

Road Junky review of Voyageur...

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I'm just about to start into "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson, which probably means I'll be ploughing through the whole trilogy [ Quicksilver + The Confusion + The System of the World ] over...

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Just finished Haruki Murakami's "Sputnik Sweetheart", a bit of a slimmer volume than some of his other books, but still has that "not quite sure what's happening here" feel throughout. Worth a...

The above is what I actually said, nothing about Mr Deaver at all ? :? :? I haven't got a clue who he is either, Not sure what point you're trying to make here ??

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I'm after a bit of advice here, I just started the Banks book "The Algebraist" which I think is one of the culture series ? It seems OK so far and wondered whether the rest of the Culture...