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Put down the last five books you've read and your favourite book of all time.
Last Five
Detroit: An Autopsy by Charlie Leduff
With the Old Breed by EB Sledge
A Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Evil Men by John Dawes
Favourite book of all time:
Game of Thrones (all of them so far)
Hey no spoilers I haven't read it yet. lolCatcher in the Rye - again. What a piece of crap.
Thanks for that Dajjal.......At present I am reading "Congo,Epic History of a People" by David Van Rebrook,a Flemish,Belgian writer published by The 4th Estate,recently.The magic of obelisks is a very detailed study of the history of obelisks from the times when they were taken from Egypt. Various Roman popes had them brought from Egypt on specially made ships. It was a huge engineering accomplishment to bring an obelisk all that way and erect it. One early pope told the man responsible for erecting an obelisk in Rome that if he failed he would be beheaded. But he succeeded in erecting it in St Peters square, and received a great reward.
The book has many references to old books and I purchased one for my next read. It is called; 'True and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr John Dee and some spirits' originally published in 1659
I saw an original printing for sale in an auction and it sold for £2000, but I brought a scanned copy of the original text for £20 from Amazon. It will be a hard read because the type face is old style and the English is old with many different spelling for lots of words. But it is very interesting to read about Dr John Dee writing a book about spirits at a time when he could have been burnt at the stake for doing far less. But Queen Elisabeth the first took him under her wing as an advisor and protected him.