'Sex and Tourism - Journeys of Romance, Love and Lust'. Better than average textbook at least.

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Been meaning to read this, read If I Die In A Combat Zone by the same author and it wasn't bad. Have a bit of a morbid fascination with the Vietnam War. Going to start on this during the week

Got a bit of an obsession with mountaineering books at the moment; hence my current avatar.

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Met Joe Simpson recently when he came to give a talk in Ilkley about his latest book. He's quite a character!

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Have you read, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French defeat in Vietnam? If not it's well worth the read.
Another good read about Vietnam is, The Cat From Hue.
I thought you might have been into Vietnam seeing as you used to have a picture of Sean Flynn in your avatar and it's your sig.

I haven't read anything on Dien Bien Phu yet mate, that's next on my list. I'm reading The Cat From Hue now but to be honest I'm not finding it a great read, the writing itself isn't bad and some of the accounts are interesting but it's far too long and drawn out imo.

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I haven't read anything on Dien Bien Phu yet mate, that's next on my list. I'm reading The Cat From Hue now but to be honest I'm not finding it a great read, the writing itself isn't bad and some of the accounts are interesting but it's far too long and drawn out imo.

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Dispatches is the best one I've read on Vietnam, Chickenhawk is also well worth a read too if you haven't already. The only real book on the conflict itself that you need to read is this, it covers all the bases and is ridiculously detailed

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I haven't read anything on Dien Bien Phu yet mate, that's next on my list. I'm reading The Cat From Hue now but to be honest I'm not finding it a great read, the writing itself isn't bad and some of the accounts are interesting but it's far too long and drawn out imo.

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Meant to add is there anything worth reading on Burrows or McCullin? the only book I can see on Burrows is a book of his photos

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I haven't read anything on Dien Bien Phu yet mate, that's next on my list. I'm reading The Cat From Hue now but to be honest I'm not finding it a great read, the writing itself isn't bad and some of the accounts are interesting but it's far too long and drawn out imo.

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Meant to add is there anything worth reading on Burrows or McCullin? the only book I can see on Burrows is a book of his photos

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Never read a biog of Larry Burrows, just like his photographs.
Don Mccullin has an old autobiography called Unreasonable Behaviour. Read it years ago and i think it's decent. Sean Flynn and Dana Stone feature in it.

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The French in Indochina is a long long saga. Their occupation of southern Vietnam is well documented.

Guv'nor - Lenny McLean.

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I haven't read anything on Dien Bien Phu yet mate, that's next on my list. I'm reading The Cat From Hue now but to be honest I'm not finding it a great read, the writing itself isn't bad and some of the accounts are interesting but it's far too long and drawn out imo.

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Never read a biog of Larry Burrows, just like his photographs.
Don Mccullin has an old autobiography called Unreasonable Behaviour. Read it years ago and i think it's decent. Sean Flynn and Dana Stone feature in it.

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Just seen you can get 3 of McCullins books for 30 odd quid on Amazon, will grab them over Christmas

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read most of it , but there are a few discrepancies if you read Roy pretty boy Shaw's account of things , and Charles Bronson's account of things ...

Sartre's The Age of Reason. Heavy stuff, but very good indeed.

bonfire of the vaneties by tom wolfe. been on my 'pending' list for years. so far so brilliant.

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not read a book for ages,,but going to buy faded lois dreams,
has any one read it yet??any good??

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Did this book even see the light of day? I remember reading a snippet once and thinking this looks interesting and certainly better than the usual 'we woz never run, 20 ran 5,000' snoozefests that the whole genre had descended into. Then nothing. Strange.

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Based on reading this brilliant quote from it:

"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death, ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us. It is the responsiblity of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant. Birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so, and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths, change in the sense of renewal. But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not; safety, for example, or money, or power. One clings then to chimeras, by which one can only be betrayed, and the entire hope, the entire possibility, of freedom disappears."

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Gonn get stuck into these over the Xmas and New Year.....some unashamedly picked up after receiving good reports from geezers on this forum who I respect a lot, others my own choice....

Killing Pablo, as recommended by SteveCFC

No Way Down - discussed here previously

Boxing Lists by Bert Sugar - love me boxing but don't know enough about it to feel comfortable talking to other boxing fanatics. Love listening to Sugar talking about boxing so the book should be interesting.

Ajax, the Dutch, the War - respect Kuper and always had an interest in Ajax the club. Could be agrued that the roots of Barcelona's current success could be traced back to the evolution at Ajax during the mid to late 60s.

Best and Edwards - no explanation necessary.

Happy Days!

Just realised I've made a pig's mickey of uploading the pics - and am off to Dublin for day so just pretend those shoes are a book about Ajax!

just finished marching powder. started birdsong.

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I reckon there are far better writers on the build up to WWII than AJP Taylor - I agree with his basic revisionist argument but think he places too great an emphasis on the corruptibility of the German people and not enough on international political economy in the 20/30s.