What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[Freedom]

24 hours at Waterloo by Robert Kershaw.

It's an outstanding book, it goes into more details about the Battle of Waterloo than I've found elsewhere.

[Batman]

24 hours at Waterloo by Robert Kershaw.

It's an outstanding book, it goes into more details about the Battle of Waterloo than I've found elsewhere.

@Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.

Anyways I opted to read this, started it yesterday, it's not fantastic but its alright, I might try and get it finished tonight

The village of Hemmersmoor is a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition: There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village's darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, evocative of Stephen King's classic short story "Children of the Corn" and infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm.

[Freedom]

@Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.

You don't need any prior knowledge of the battle to enjoy it. It covers everything.

The movie Waterloo is very good, it goes well with the book.

[Batman]

Good stuff, I've added it to my 'To read' list which is currently sitting at 136 books, I'm going to have to trim that down a bit, some of the books have been on that list for 5 years, I can't even remember what they are.

I think I've got 4 books that I actually own that I have gotta read, then I'll be stocking up on a few more, I've given myself an Amazon ban, last month I spent over £60 on books so I've had to make a concerted effort to get through the ones I've already got.

[Beanz]

I have to downsize our entire library. Literally hundreds of books and even first editions are not worth a lot any more. We are going to have to move to a smaller place and it is breaking me trying to decide what to keep and not. I have a lot of reference works from supporting students across the subject spectrum, My boxing collection, seminal stuff on sound, technical stuff on recording, art and installations etc, music and then the film making and photography books. I am writing more and more for a living now and so I actually tend to read very quick and easy fiction to unwind.

[Batman]

I got rid of a fuck load of books a while ago, I really wish I hadn't even the shit ones I miss, I got rid of about 200 I think, I probably should have only got rid of about 20 or 30 of them max

[Beanz]

@Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.

You don't need any prior knowledge of the battle to enjoy it. It covers everything.

The movie Waterloo is very good, it goes well with the book.

A lot of Napoleonic prisoners were kept here in Plymouth and then Princetown on the moor. Napoleon himself was kept prisoner on a ship anchored in Plymouth Harbor for a while too.

[Beanz]

Not wishing to derail .... my own fucking thread

I will just remind you Lyle without having to resort to multiple @mentions or any of your millenial gaybo stuff of your own opening sentence . Maybe reflect on that and think of it as a reading comprehension excercise


"Oh so it's not being "forced".....maybe "coerced" is a better word but whatever YOU do @Beanz never even address that there MIGHT be an issue, never change"



See now you have me fucking @mentioning myself by quoting your drivel. You were the one who had to bring a fucking race argument into a thread about books. Seriously does it keep you up at night? Is it so troubling to you that you can't continue to be the dominant young white male demographic forever and a day? A fucking race to the bottom mate that seems to be what you are intent on making the forum. Wind up the tension, throw in a few hand grenades, bluff ignorance and steadily drip , drip your fucking belly aching until IT seems normal and all the other posters are painted as 'Them' 'Snowflakes' 'the enemy' 'Goons'


We were all mates,We are all going to die, and you are wasting your time on this shit?
Yes YOU have to change but it is really not that hard.

[El Kabong]

@Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.

You don't need any prior knowledge of the battle to enjoy it. It covers everything.

The movie Waterloo is very good, it goes well with the book.

Napoleon was a brilliant man, very shrewd military leader, not a nut job like Hitler. Whatever one is to say of dictators and despots it takes scheming to get in power and even more so to remain in power, to have a second act the way Napoleon did is playing the game almost as well as Caesar Augustus.


I've been meaning to study up on him more and of course Waterloo, I might have to add this to my list as well.


It's a shame Kubrick never was able to see his Napoleon film come to be....Jack Nicholson was to play Bonaparte.

Not wishing to derail .... my own fucking thread

I will just remind you Lyle without having to resort to multiple @mentions or any of your millenial gaybo stuff of your own opening sentence . Maybe reflect on that and think of it as a reading comprehension excercise


"Oh so it's not being "forced".....maybe "coerced" is a better word but whatever YOU do @Beanz never even address that there MIGHT be an issue, never change"



See now you have me fucking @mentioning myself by quoting your drivel. You were the one who had to bring a fucking race argument into a thread about books. Seriously does it keep you up at night? Is it so troubling to you that you can't continue to be the dominant young white male demographic forever and a day? A fucking race to the bottom mate that seems to be what you are intent on making the forum. Wind up the tension, throw in a few hand grenades, bluff ignorance and steadily drip , drip your fucking belly aching until IT seems normal and all the other posters are painted as 'Them' 'Snowflakes' 'the enemy' 'Goons'


We were all mates,We are all going to die, and you are wasting your time on this shit?
Yes YOU have to change but it is really not that hard.

I use @ mentions to get your attention.....don't want me to post directly @ you, fine I won't post @ you at fucking all....OH WAIT, I can't do that because I nearly drowned in your tears from the last time I do that.

I @ mentioned Batman, he didn't cry about it....why do you?

I asked Batman a question, not you, YOU jumped in why? Because why not, I cannot post without you throwing a temper tantrum apparently....why do you bother me, yes, YOU take YOUR time and follow ME around the forum. Just tell me "Hey, I don't want you to post in here" fucking type it out instead of your constant bitching, I'll leave YOU alone, too bad that's not a mutual thing.

Call all your mates Nazi's do you? Accuse them of sympathizing with that group do you? You're a piece of shit, I'm not your fucking mate....wouldn't piss on you if you burst into flames and that was all I could put it out with.