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GrimRob
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Struggling to fathom how Birdsong is not in the Best Ever List...


Probably because it's British, literary fiction, and not particularly recent. Good book though! I've read about half the top 100 and there are quite a few that don't deserve to be on there (IMHO!). The Hunger Games is the best book ever? I mean it's a good book, a page-turner, and easy to read, but I wouldn't class it as truly great (not least because the second and third books in the series drop considerably in quality, which tainted my memory of the first).

Mind you, you could do a lot worse than read the books on the first page.


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What a strange list when No1 is The Hunger Games, No 2 is Harry Potter and A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens is No 55.
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Macca:4 years with Real Madrid by Steve McManaman .

Interesting read on a quality player on his time at Real Madrid. He really loved  it there and never wanted to leave.Was a fans favourite as well and many fans didn't want him to leave as well.

I was lucky as well to see him play when he was at Real Madrid as a young boy whilst on holiday there. Came on second half and looked one of the better players. Still remember that game and Roberto Carlos. Best player on the park for me. Quick and skilful. Quality.


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Constant rabbit by Jasper Fforde is very good, just finished. Very strange and dystopian, almost like a very strange 1984.
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I'm a very frequent reader so I'll try and update when I remember on here, always happy to share literary joys and receive recommendations too.

Just finished Ben Elton's Identity Crisis, which is a satirical look at the overly 'woke' agenda of the modern age and the desire of people to be on board with.  Whilst also very, very unsubtle hints at the dark side of politics at play in our country.

Very easy to read and as what you'd expect from him, full of establishment digs left, right and centre.  Dark humour throughout but with a moral compass guiding it at the core.  

Out of 10, I'd say an 8.  
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Cross Rhodes:Goldust out of the Darkness
Dustin Rhodes

The autobiography of Dustin Rhodes whose Dad was the famous Dusty Rhodes and his brother is Cody.
I listened to his Dad’s on audible which was brilliant but this doesn’t quite hit those heights (similar to their careers). I did enjoy it in the same way I have enjoyed most of the countless wrestling autobiographies I’ve digested but it left me wanting more.
I’m guessing most of the actual work was his personally and lacked a ghost writer. The end result is that the book comes across as a summary of a more detailed book that doesn’t exist but could have and should have. Good but not great which is a shame as I’d have happily read more.


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The Miseducation of Evie Epworth- Matson Taylor.

Bit of a departure from the books I normally read, well listen to as I mainly do nowadays.

It involves 16-year-old Evie and is set in 1962 in East Yorkshire. Her Dad is an ex-footballer who was wounded in the war and is now a farmer with a young woman in tow who is set to become Evie's stepmother, much to her disgust, and her attempts to derail said union.

It has many references to sayings, people and places that struck a chord with me and is very funny. I enjoyed it a lot.

The narrator is very good and has an East Yorkshire accent, not quite Hully Gully, but leaning that way.
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Roald Dahl -Boy & Going Solo

Enjoyed these two books by the famous children author

Boy
Talks about his childhood experiences eg escapades with his friends in a sweet shop in primary school and boarding school  life in Weston super- Mare.

Going Solo
Talks about his experiences in adulthood eg going to Africa on the SS Montola .Amongst other things reminisces about experiences in Tanzania and the wildlife he encounters.  When world war 2 breaks out works as a pilot in the RAF.


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