Book Recommendations

[dougie]

cd,
"COMPANY AYTCH" sounds as though it could be interesting,Ill look for that.
Anybody interested in the "oral literature" kind of book (similar to the ones i mentioned earlier) might like to try Private Frank Richards....2 books "old soldiers never die" and "soldier sahib"(not sure that last title is correct) ..but he only wrote 2 books so it wouldnt be hard to find if anyone was interested........simple style,but engrossing account of his years on the front line in world war 1 and colonial days in the old british raj.
regards

[c.d.]

I also recently finished and enjoyed "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". A novel about the city of Savannah, Georgia and its very quirky inhabitants and one of its most notorious murder trials. Very entertaining.

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[c.d.]

"The Historian", I mean.

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[c.d.]

Hi Tom,

I was at the book store (Borders) last Friday and saw it in paperback.

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[Tom_Wescott]

If you like Dracula, you might enjoy "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. It seems that Vlad the Impaler is alive and well. I really liked it as did everyone in my office who read it. 1, 347 reviews on amazon.com

c.d.

Thanks for this, CD. I handled the hardcover some time back when it was new and thought about buying it, but decided on something else. Since you recommend the book, I will get it once it's in soft cover.

I'm currently reading The Ruins and am about 300 pages deep. I can see why Stephen King calls it the best horror novel of the 21st Century. I've heard the movie sucks, but that's almost par for the course these days.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[c.d.]

There is another book I would like to recommend if you have never heard of it ---"The Art of Shen Ku: The Ultimate Travelers Guide" by Zeek. You really need to see the reviews on amazon.com to begin to comprehend what this book has in it. Someone described it as a combination of the Boy Scout Handbook, The Whole Earth Catalog and The Junior Woodchucks Guidebook (the book that Donald Duck's nephews carried which basically told you how to do everything). The book has a 41 page index. The scope of the things it covers is totally unbelievable and it is illustrated. A SMALL sampling of topics includes: martial arts, sex advice, solutions for health problems, how to travel safely, magic tricks, survival information, navigation, child care, CPR, sailboat rigging, telling jokes, repairing shoelaces and sewing on a button.

It is the ulitmate coffee table book and it is totally fascinating.

Check it out.

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[c.d.]

Hi Roy,

I can recommend "Company Aytch" by Sam Watkins. The diary of a Rebel private in the Civil War. It was featured a great deal in the Ken Burns documentary.

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[c.d.]

If you like Dracula, you might enjoy "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. It seems that Vlad the Impaler is alive and well. I really liked it as did everyone in my office who read it. 1, 347 reviews on amazon.com

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[Roy Corduroy]

...they were taken to the abbey for some shots

Haven't we all found drinking on Halloween to be scary?

c. d., per Manhunt, there is Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate by Eli Evans. An excellent biography, because after reading it, you will really feel like you know him.

Roy

[Mike Covell]

They were doing it on a budget and the day was amazing.
We arrived at the hotel and were taken to a cliff top registery office, before we went in, a pirate wedding came out, complete with parrot and everything.
After the wedding they were taken to the abbey for some shots then arived back the the hotel were they cut the cake.
The cake was a traditional white cake, with red marzipan for blood, and a giant knife stabbed in the top. The evening celebrations were fancy dress, I made an entrance as Michael Myers and my wife as Death!
All the tables had pumpkins on, and as the sun set, "The Raven" was read out by candlelight. It was a memorable day, plus it was halloween!
I had a series of palpatations and was rushed off to hospital, across the North Yorkshire Moor's at Midnight on Halloween, not something I wish to repeat!
All in all an action packed, eventful weekend!

[plang]

Mike, why didn't they get married in Transylvania at the castle?

[Mike Covell]

I love Dracula, my friends love the book so much, they got married in Whitby and live in a house looking across at the Abbey!

I love any Gothic Horrors, and have several compilations.

[plang]

Admittedly did not study this thread. The list of fantastic books goes on and on and on.
In the fiction category of classics you are offered this suggestion:
Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
Brilliant story telling.

Bram Stoker 1847-1912. British novelist born in Ireland.

[steje73]

Anything by Robert Rankin is good, but especially 'Armageddon- The Musical.',
The Brentford Trilogy, and 'The Book of Ultimate Truths.'

[dougie]

CD and Celesta,
Well if you have both read "bound for glory" and enjoyed it, then "supertramp " is for you....same kind of style ,and although guthries book was terriffic,id say davies work was marginally better.First printed in 1903 I think, and many more times since.....its a cracker of a book !
regards