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So, any good books? I've been ploughing my way through some history/oldy books - "God's Philosophers", "The Age of Wonder", "The Chemical History of a Candle" as well as "The Etymologicon" over the last two or three weeks in a bid to try to work through those that I downloaded onto my Kindle but never seemed to have the time....

Any recommendations from anyone?
 
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Stephen King - 11/22/63

Mate in work told me what its about, I downloaded it to my Sensation but not started it yet

Sounds Mint!!!!


ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED.WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying
 
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On serious note, i'm a great fan of Wilbur Smith, i got his last novel at xmas but not picked it up yet. :confused: :confused:
 
Keep us appraised. Next book for me will be Umberto Eco "The Prague Cemetery". Tried reading his "Name of the Rose" a few years back which was too heavy for me, so am hoping that I'll have better luck with this one.
 
On serious note, i'm a great fan of Wilbur Smith, i got his last novel at xmas but not picked it up yet. :confused: :confused:
Never read any of his. Will take a recommendation if you have one :)
 
If you looking for fiction you could try The bible, koran, torah...........

Err is that not blasphemy, talking of whom has he put in an appearance today, as his wife was going to do something really bad to him last night if he didn't get his chores done.
 
On serious note, i'm a great fan of Wilbur Smith, i got his last novel at xmas but not picked it up yet. :confused: :confused:
Never read any of his. Will take a recommendation if you have one :)

If you like fiction he is "gerate" most of his books are in series going through the ages with different families, "Gold Mine" & "Shout at the Devil" have both been made into films.
 
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