TSF Book Club

[booboo]

Thanks Virg. Just saved me $US7.65 <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[Yztif]

If anyone loves a good adventure story recommend reading Mawson by Peter Fitzsimmons - great stories about the race for the South Pole and early exploration of the Antartic continent which quite a few NZers played a part in

[Virgil]

Just finished reading Ron Jeremy "The Hardest (Working) Man"...not sure what i can post on here or where to begin!<br />
Bloody good read though, he has lived a life us mortals can only dream about!

[BartMan]

I am legend. the book of the movie. Book, as per usual, much better! Great twist at the end that you do not see coming, even when you know there is a twist coming, as you do now. Not a long book, but worth the read. Gotta love Kindle!

[BartMan]

or rather, the movie is of the book. The idea from it anyway, as it strays a long was from the book, more's the pity. A movie that follows the book would be wicked I reckon.

[BartMan]

Anzacs by Fitzimmons good too - was given to me as present. Focus on the AUssies of course, but bloody god read all the same!

[taniwharugby]

wasnt I am Legend a remake?? <br />
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Another book I read a year or few back which I really enjoyed; [URL="http://www.adam-williams.net/novels/the-palace-of-heavenly-pleasure/"]The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure [/URL]by Adam Williams.<br />
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Set during Boxer rebellion in China, great read with some great characters

[BartMan]

dunno TR, and too lazy to look up.<br />
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But book was bloody good, pretty short, took a couple of days to read, very clever, right to the last page!<br />
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written by Richard Matheson

[Sneakdefreak]

[QUOTE]wasnt I am Legend a remake?? [/QUOTE]<br />
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A remake of The Omega Man (starred Charlton Heston) which was also based on the book I Am Legend. Need to download I Am Legend onto my kindle thingeemebob.

[BartMan]

I might have to find that movie!

[Crucial]

I haven't read the Fitzsimmons book on Mawson but 'Mawson's Will' by Lennard Bickel rates up with 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer if you want a riveting read of astonishment and man's ability to (sometimes) survive. Right to the last you keep thinking 'this can't get worse' yet something else happens.<br />
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In a similar vein, if you are interested in exploration, "Mr Stuart's Track" about John McDouall Stuart opening up the Australian interior is great. Modern day softies will be quite astounded at the lengths he went to to find and chart a passage north from Adelaide through some of the most inhospitable country imaginable. There are some very good books on the Burke and Wills clusterfuck as well.<br />
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On a pulpy summer reading note, I have been reading more of the Sam Carver series of stories by Tom Cain. The main character is a hitman that only kills bad guys for good guys and does so by arranging 'accidents'. It obviously gets more complicated than that as the series goes on but if you like readable light 'spy/thriller' stuff this is quite good.

[Tim]

There was an even earlier movie adaptation of I am Legend too ([I]The Omega Man[/I] was awesome though). Vincent Price starred and Matheson contributed to the screenplay.<br />
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[URL]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/[/URL]

[BartMan]

Crucial - sounds like my kind of trash!

[Cactus Jack]

An excellent but short book , about 130 pages , is Shane by Jack Shaefer . The one the Alan Ladd movie was made from . I have read it three or four times over the last ten years or so and enjoyed it every time .

[Scorz]

"Ten Fighter Boys" is basically ten stories by guys flying Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. It was assembled by their Sq Ldr, and it's a great little read. Cheap as chips too.

[BartMan]

I've got a couple of decent Spitfire pilot types books in storage Scorz if you want to read - they're coming out shortly!

[BartMan]

and on kindle, Forever War = forever boring... Avoid.

[jegga]

Finished reading a book abut Typhoon pilots a few months back, a bit slow in places it mentions one "Mac" McCaw a few times which is pretty cool.Got Alan Deere's book to read too at some stage.Halfway through Ghost soldiers which is about this, [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabanatuan_Raid[/url]<br />
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Had to order a copy of Angels of vengeance in as the only book chain in NZ prepared to carry it is Poppies [url]http://www.poppiesbooks.co.nz/newplymouth.php[/url] .Whoever decided that Whitcoulls and Paper plus should buy in the first two books in a trilogy but not the third deserves to have their entire body covered in papercuts and lemon juice squeezed into them.

[antipodean]

Rereading [I]God Is Not Great:[/I][FONT=arial][I] How Religion Poisons Everything[/I] by the late Christopher Hitchens.[/FONT]

[Crucial]

[I]Ghost Soldiers[/I] is an excellent read. There was a movie made (which has shown on TV a few times) but the book is much better.