roo860 Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Power of the Dog, by Don Winslow. Am re reading it. Sent from my SM-G920F using Thaivisa Connect mobile appHis other books are a crackin read.Sent from my SM-G920F using Thaivisa Connect mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newnative Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 The Kite Runner is wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazes Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Nothing will come of nothing, by K. Lear An in-depth study of the Trump family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khon Kaen Dave Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I have read 'Marching Powder'Great read.Another one is 'The damage done' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khon Kaen Dave Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I thought that it was La paz prison Rusty Young was in?or was it a prison in LaPaz? There is a good book,if you can find it called 'Carabanchul'.Its about an English dope smuggler that is put in the last of the old style prisons in Spain.Very graphic as to the treatment of prisoners in that era. The guy was a subject on the 'Banged up abroad' series on the NGC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeryble Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 9 hours ago, Enoon said: The Star Captains:Frigate Command in the Napoleonic Wars, by Tom Wareham. Is this a Patrick O'Brian type book/series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeryble Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Am on book two of the Ibis Trilogy, a series, by Amitav Ghosh. First is Sea of Poppies. Set in the days of the Opium Wars scenes start in India moving to Mauritius and China. An extraordinarily brilliant style, fantastic characters......some real....... and cannot recommend it highly enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceyummm Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 "The Way Of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler, fascinating look at 17th century British culture and a good story to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceyummm Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 16 hours ago, dogpatch55 said: Bearback... The world overland... by Dr. Pat Garrod.. A 4 year trip around the world by motorbike... Interesting book. Another good one is cycling to the ashes.. by Oli Broom.. very good!! Another good biker book is "The Motorcycle Chronicles" by Ernesto (Che) Guevara, partly explains his radicalization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses G. Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Opium Fiend by Steve Martin who wrote some of the Thailand guidebooks. He lived in Chiang Mai from about 1990-1995 and so did I. We knew some of the same people, but I do not recognize his picture. He was a serious collector of Opium gear and got very addicted to Opium himself. The book is well written. I really enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilted Flower of Scotland Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 The Gate by Francois Bizot :https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jan/12/biography.highereducation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boon Mee Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Lee Child is always a good read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutsiwarrior Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 the sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch...it has always puzzled me how novelists manage to come up with such complicated characters...I thought the same when I read Dostoyevski as a teenager: how could anyone come up with a character like Raskolnikov?...any fantasies that I had regarding my abilities as a writer were thereby soon dispatched... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNJ Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 On 16/11/2016 at 3:21 PM, dogpatch55 said: Bearback... The world overland... by Dr. Pat Garrod.. A 4 year trip around the world by motorbike... Interesting book. Another good one is cycling to the ashes.. by Oli Broom.. very good!! IN the same vein, was a early 80s book Venus, around the world on a Triumph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The manic Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Green River Rising - One of the toughest crime thrillers ive ever read. Set in a prison in the states. I Pilgrim- One of the most gripping and disturbing books I've ever read about modern Muslim terrorism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The manic Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 6:00 PM, williet98248 said: I have read all the Jack Reacher novels. But I can't get my head around 5'8" 140 pound Tom Cruise playing 6'5" 230 pound Jack Reacher. Night School? A new JR novel? I will look for it. The movie JR should be 'The Rock' Dwayne Johnson. Tom Cruise? No way! Just finished a memoir by Daniel Ellsberg (Secrets) about his involvement in the Vietnam war and his releasing the Pentagon Papers. Alternating between breathless and outraged while reading. The Kite Runner is in my unread stack and I have ordered three books on Aquaponics. Agree about the crap casting - I thought the from POI would have been good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddyup Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 42 minutes ago, The manic said: Green River Rising - One of the toughest crime thrillers ive ever read. Set in a prison in the states. I Pilgrim- One of the most gripping and disturbing books I've ever read about modern Muslim terrorism. Is that I Pilgrim, or I Am Pilgrim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roo860 Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Green River Rising - One of the toughest crime thrillers ive ever read. Set in a prison in the states. I Pilgrim- One of the most gripping and disturbing books I've ever read about modern Muslim terrorism. Just finished 'I Pilgrim ', crackin read![emoji106] Sent from my SM-G920F using Thaivisa Connect mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogpatch55 Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 On 20/11/2016 at 5:47 AM, KNJ said: IN the same vein, was a early 80s book Venus, around the world on a Triumph Four of the best are... OLD MAN ON A BIKE and Old men can t wait by Simon Gandolfi... And The long ride home and running towards the light.. by Nathan Millward... Are you meaning Jupiters travels??? by Ted Simon .. If so that's another great book!! As is Dreaming of Jupiter.... Which is about his trip in 2001 when he was 69.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNJ Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 18 hours ago, dogpatch55 said: Four of the best are... OLD MAN ON A BIKE and Old men can t wait by Simon Gandolfi... And The long ride home and running towards the light.. by Nathan Millward... Are you meaning Jupiters travels??? by Ted Simon .. If so that's another great book!! As is Dreaming of Jupiter.... Which is about his trip in 2001 when he was 69.. Yes Sorry it was Jupiter's Travels, and I did not know of his second book , but hope to find a copy now I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNJ Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Another good read, but old book is "Seven years with Samantha" restoring a vintage Austin Seven and driving around the world. I remember the explanation of the naming of the Austin Seven by someone they encountered in India, "It is called the seven, because that is the number of passengers it can carry"....... the mind boggles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champers Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Great to see this long lost thread resurrected. I'm currently reading Neil Young's autobiography Waging Heavy Peace. It is wacky, funny and very personal and readable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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