Thread: What kind of book worm are you?
View Single Post
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 24-09-04, 05:10 PM
aclivity's Avatar
aclivity aclivity is offline
Shipwrecked & Comatose, drinking fresh mango juice
  

Join Date: May 2003
Location: nr Shevington, Lancs
Posts: 2,597
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
aclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold wateraclivity is a scuba diver - cold water
varied tastes
currently - working through the Aubrey / Maturin series, and very exciting they are too!

Favourites over the last few years:

The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Lord of the Rings
All of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett (notably the city watch stories)

Biographies of people in music (Woody Guthrie, Jim Morrison, Ian Curtis, Bob Dylan, The Tansads)

Books set in the 80's

Travelog type books - I do really like Bill Brysons books, although his best works were not travel books but ones about the English language (Mother Tongue and Made In America).

I've recently started getting into the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, I think I was put off by the TV series but the books are actually quite good.

my favourite book of all time is called "The Ragged Trousered Philaphropists" by Robert Tressell. It's pitched as a socialist tract but it's also a jolly good story about working men (and there are some decorating hints in there too).
__________________
The first rule of diving: Anyone can call the dive for any reason.
Reply With Quote