What's your all-time most fav book?
Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
The Inheritance Cycle is my all time favourite series. Just a shame all the books are so big which would make it impossible carry them in a BOB....ah well, should be easy enough to find new copies I guess.
Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
Any of Erich von daniken books, very thought provoking " on American forum I would be flamed for this, heracy they cry, burn him!"
*Island of dreams tony Williams
Notes of a Russian sniper
117 days adrift
66 days adrift
Swallows and Amazons
The long walk , slavomir rawicz
On the beach
Alive. Piers Paul read
The hobbit lord of the rings
The hit David baldacci
Oh blow it, there are just so many, I can't remember half of them.
*Island of dreams tony Williams
Notes of a Russian sniper
117 days adrift
66 days adrift
Swallows and Amazons
The long walk , slavomir rawicz
On the beach
Alive. Piers Paul read
The hobbit lord of the rings
The hit David baldacci
Oh blow it, there are just so many, I can't remember half of them.
Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
I was reading the major classics at the age of 10, way before I was old enough to really understand them. My mother insisted and I obeyed. At least I did until I discovered the children's shelves in the Library and found that if I had a library ticket I could sneak out the Famous Five books and the Secret Seven series too. I used to hide one each week under the dolls clothes in the toy box. Ever since then my best and most enjoyable reading has always been the sneaky, secret stuff that I didn't let mum know about. I don't think she sowed the right seeds there in spite of her good intentions. Occasionally I rediscover the classics and find that adult understanding improves them greatly.
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dangerous dave
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Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
kensuke's kingdom
A desert island story. This starts off as a great family adventure. Michael's father loses his job at the brickworks and his parents decide to sell their house and all their possessions and buy a yacht to sail round the world. Of course, sailing the world's oceans is a bit different from messing about in a dinghy on the local reservoir, but Michael's mum qualifies for her Yachtmaster's Certificate and everyone practises his own job - Mum is the skipper, Dad is first mate and handyman, Michael is the ship's boy and Stella Artois (the dog) is the ship's cat.
The voyage goes well. They master their fears and handle their vessel well. They visit Africa and South America and Australia, having the time of their lives. But as they leave the Great Barrier Reef behind them and head up through the Coral Sea towards Papua New Guinea disaster befalls Michael. Left alone at the wheel one night while his parents sleep below Michael is washed overboard:
'The terrors came fast, one upon another. The lights of the Peggy Sue went away into the dark of the night, leaving me alone in the ocean, alone with the certainty that they were already too far away, that my cries for help could not possibly be heard. I thought then of the sharks cruising the black water beneath me - scenting me, already searching me out, homing in on me - and I knew there could be no hope. I would be eaten alive. Either that or I would drown slowly. Nothing could save me.'
But something does save Michael. His football, which was washed overboard with him, provides just enough buoyancy to keep Michael's head above water. Hours later Michael awakes to find himself washed up on a desert island. He is exhausted and hungry and thirsty. How he would have managed if he had been quite alone on the island, I'm not sure. But he is not alone, on a rock shelf above his head is a bowl of fresh water and fish and fruit laid out on palm leaves.
One solitary man lives on this island, and if you want to know his story, you will have to read the book. Michael tells us, in his own words, how he learned to live with Kensuke, and how he came to love him.
A quietly told story, but plenty of drama and emotion.
A desert island story. This starts off as a great family adventure. Michael's father loses his job at the brickworks and his parents decide to sell their house and all their possessions and buy a yacht to sail round the world. Of course, sailing the world's oceans is a bit different from messing about in a dinghy on the local reservoir, but Michael's mum qualifies for her Yachtmaster's Certificate and everyone practises his own job - Mum is the skipper, Dad is first mate and handyman, Michael is the ship's boy and Stella Artois (the dog) is the ship's cat.
The voyage goes well. They master their fears and handle their vessel well. They visit Africa and South America and Australia, having the time of their lives. But as they leave the Great Barrier Reef behind them and head up through the Coral Sea towards Papua New Guinea disaster befalls Michael. Left alone at the wheel one night while his parents sleep below Michael is washed overboard:
'The terrors came fast, one upon another. The lights of the Peggy Sue went away into the dark of the night, leaving me alone in the ocean, alone with the certainty that they were already too far away, that my cries for help could not possibly be heard. I thought then of the sharks cruising the black water beneath me - scenting me, already searching me out, homing in on me - and I knew there could be no hope. I would be eaten alive. Either that or I would drown slowly. Nothing could save me.'
But something does save Michael. His football, which was washed overboard with him, provides just enough buoyancy to keep Michael's head above water. Hours later Michael awakes to find himself washed up on a desert island. He is exhausted and hungry and thirsty. How he would have managed if he had been quite alone on the island, I'm not sure. But he is not alone, on a rock shelf above his head is a bowl of fresh water and fish and fruit laid out on palm leaves.
One solitary man lives on this island, and if you want to know his story, you will have to read the book. Michael tells us, in his own words, how he learned to live with Kensuke, and how he came to love him.
A quietly told story, but plenty of drama and emotion.
DD
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People rest safe in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence in their name
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
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People rest safe in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence in their name
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
I've just finished reading "lights out" by David Crawford, an absolutely brilliant book.
Also loved the Swiss family robinson as a light hearted easy read, and Geraldine brooks "years of wonder" for a different perspective on a SHTF story.
Am about to start Exo vaticana but it seems pretty heavy going ATM, May give up on this one.
Also loved the Swiss family robinson as a light hearted easy read, and Geraldine brooks "years of wonder" for a different perspective on a SHTF story.
Am about to start Exo vaticana but it seems pretty heavy going ATM, May give up on this one.
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Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
It has to be the hobbit for me plus, duncton wood, and terry waites autobiography
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Just thought of another Louis lamour's The last of the Breed has to go into the book bag
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Feet the original All Terrain Vehicle
Feet the original All Terrain Vehicle
Re: What's your all-time most fav book?
Lots of favourite books but The Island by Victoria Hislop is one I loved lots.
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
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Bit of a " how long's a piece of string" question 
Nothing really prepper related , I like Terry Pratchet , it might seem unfashionable but I like Asimov and the way his books tie together, I like wartime books such as Guy Sajer's Forgotton soldier , early Sven Hassel, and numerous other factual books.
One book I will mention is the first of a series known as The Chronicles of Thomas Covernant . The first book is Lord Foul's Bane and the story is a fantasy about a writer with leprosy who finds himself in "The Land" with seemingly the role of its saviour but strenuously believes it a figment of his imagination . As he denighs the land exists I found myself literally shouting at him that it's real and found it very difficult to put the book down.
Nothing really prepper related , I like Terry Pratchet , it might seem unfashionable but I like Asimov and the way his books tie together, I like wartime books such as Guy Sajer's Forgotton soldier , early Sven Hassel, and numerous other factual books.
One book I will mention is the first of a series known as The Chronicles of Thomas Covernant . The first book is Lord Foul's Bane and the story is a fantasy about a writer with leprosy who finds himself in "The Land" with seemingly the role of its saviour but strenuously believes it a figment of his imagination . As he denighs the land exists I found myself literally shouting at him that it's real and found it very difficult to put the book down.