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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 27, 2005 18:17:17 GMT
Yes it was indeed called that; it's by Tony Hawks. I'd recommend that too. It's fantastic! (If slightly rude in places!) Talking of rude, if you liked 'The Kin' Angharad, you may well like Jean M Auel's 'Earth's Children' series, starting with 'Clan of the Cave Bear'. They're on a similar subject; human life around the time of the end of the last ice age when two species of people, Cro Magnon and Neanderthal, both existed in Europe. They are about a Cro Magnon girl who is found almost dead by a group of Neanderthals, and how she grows up among people of a different species. However only read them if you don't mind lots of romantic stuff to the extent of detailed descriptions of various people having sex... It gets a bit annoying after a while but otherwise they're really great, I found tham very interesting.
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Post by Captain Annie on Sept 27, 2005 20:45:46 GMT
Did you now Janet!!!! I nearly bought Round Ireland With a Fridge at the half price book sale at the union last week but bought The Bell Jar and one of Ian Mcwean's instead!!
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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 28, 2005 10:21:57 GMT
Oi! You know I don't mean that! The general storyline is interesting and the books are really accurately researched to try and portray life how it would have then, complete with how they hunt, what weapons they use, how they make the weapons, styles of clothes, which wild plants they eat, and which are used as medicines, and the culture and mythology of the people. It also includes the first ever taming of wild animals; a cave lion, a wolf and a couple horses.
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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 28, 2005 11:13:39 GMT
I'd also recommend 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' by Aron someoneorother (cool surname, isn't it!) And 'This Game of Ghosts' by Joe Simpson. I'm not sure if I really can recommend them, since I haven't read them yet, but I'm just about to! Between a Rock and a Hard Place is the true story of a man who was climbing in a canyon while a boulder fell on and trapped his hand and wrist. He was alone and no-one knew where he was so no-one would be coming to rescue him. He tried every way we could to remove the boulder trapping him, including setting up a pulley system (but the boulder was too heavy) and chipping away at the boulder with his penknife (very little effect); after excruciating pain and several days and nights alone with no food, he scratched his own epitaph on the wall and prepared to die the following night. After seeing hallucinations of his friends, family and even future son, he survived the night to realise in the morning he had one last chance to get out alive; if he could use the leverage of the rock to break the bones in his arm, he could use his penknife to chop it off... and even if he could succeed, that would leave him to climb out of the canyon with one arm... 'This Game of Ghosts' is the sequel to 'Touching the Void' - no guesses to come up with the fact that he survives Touching the Void, since it is autobiographical, so I don't think I'd give too much away by saying it has a sequel. This book looks more deeply at the attraction of climbing, the 'Game of Ghosts'; why climbers do what they do, survive, so do something even more dangerous until the inevitable conclusion of death for many. Many people think this book is not quite as good as Touching the Void, I'll reach my own conclusion when I've finished it.
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Angharad
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Post by Angharad on Sept 28, 2005 20:48:20 GMT
'Earth's Children' sounds really good. I might try and find it. I would recommend 'The Purple Hibiscus'. I can't remeber who the author is at the moment but I'll find tell you one day.
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Post by terfle on Sept 28, 2005 21:21:23 GMT
a little book called 'my family and other animals' by gerry durrell
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Post by wilderbeest on Sept 29, 2005 17:26:05 GMT
Yes, that's great, really funny!
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Post by Flick on Sept 30, 2005 18:18:39 GMT
a little book called 'my family and other animals' by gerry durrell That book's great!
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Post by terfle on Sept 30, 2005 21:05:54 GMT
i love it!
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Post by wilderbeest on Oct 6, 2005 13:27:33 GMT
'Positively Pooh'. It's a little book containing Pooh Bear's general philosophies of life, and as such is great. Although it's possibly a slight waste of money to actually buy it, you could probably read it in a bookshop and no-one would notice. I recently did that with 'Where's my Cow' by Terry Pratchett.
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Post by terfle on Oct 14, 2005 20:15:14 GMT
zorro!!!!!!!
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Post by wilderbeest on Oct 14, 2005 22:55:51 GMT
What?!
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Post by fridolf on May 7, 2006 11:47:35 GMT
I recommend anything by Val McDermid. Also good are Henning Mankells crimenovels. And of course, the Constable-books by Nicholas Rhea!
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Post by terfle on May 7, 2006 16:38:58 GMT
the book zorro by isabel allende. its the background to his character. very good
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Post by wilderbeest on May 8, 2006 11:47:30 GMT
Oh right. I hadn't heard of any of those, fridolf, I shall investigate... only possibly not before exams...
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