Book recommendations for my dad

[hypochondriac]

I asked this on here last year and got some cracking suggestions so would like something along a similar line.

 

Last year I got empire of blue water and a book about white slaves in Morocco. Looking for something similar if anyone knows anything. Thanks!

[Turkish]

American Psycho by Brett Easton-Ellis

[rallyboy]

Nicola Cortese's pocket guide to man management - or the equally slim volume - Diary of a Season by Alan Pardew?

[Jonnyboy]

love between men and boys by un. known

[Deppo]

[hypochondriac]

Serious suggestions please.

[Dog]

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Anal-Sex-Men/dp/157344121X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290158519&sr=1-3

[moonraker]

From the two books you identified I am assuming historic, maritime themes are good, these two are a good read: The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an 18th-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts, ADMIRALS, The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great, Andrew Lambert

[dune]

The Great Betrayal - The Menoirs of Ian Douglas Smith.

 

I have two first edition hardbacks. I bought two because I didn't want to crumple my signed edition.

 

http://www.rhodesia.nl/betrayal.htm

 

You might pick an original up on ebay, but they sell for quite a bit. £100 + for a signed edition.

 

There you go, and that is a good price.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Great-Betrayal-Ian-Smith-Rhodesia-H-B-1st-edition-/270624979564?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item3f02817a6c

Edited 19 November, 2010 by dune

[Marsdinho]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/419010.The_Struggle_for_Europe

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_History_(novel)

 

http://www.goodreads.com/book/explore

[dune]

Another good book is 25 Eventful Years In Pictures (1935), which covers the period 1910 to 1935. The best way of describing it is Pathe News in a book. Again ebay is the best source.

[hypochondriac]

From the two books you identified I am assuming historic, maritime themes are good, these two are a good read: The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an 18th-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts, ADMIRALS, The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great, Andrew Lambert

Thanks for that. It is really historical oddities he enjoys (and I do too so shall be reading it after.)

[ottery st mary]

SUPER

freak-onomics

 

Steven D. LEVITT and Stephen J. DUBNER

 

Penguin

 

Give it a try.

[dune]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Builders-Empire-Freemasonry-Imperialism-1717-1927/dp/0807830887#_

 

Not yet got this, but it's right up my street. Reckon it'd be a great read.

[Big John]

I'll tell you a book that might tickle his fancy, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

 

 

 

Also, George Orwell's 1984.

 

If he (you both) likes it then you can start your own GO library, perhaps an acquired taste but in my opinion a brilliant man.

[rocknrollman no2]

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell.Very apt with todays government.

[anothersaintinsouthsea]

If you want a bit of historical fiction what about Birdsong by Sebastian Foulkes - I know it's been around a few years now but it is one of my all time favourites. Also what about a bit of John Steinbeck? East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath are both epic books and provide great commentaries on American life. I've read quite a bit of Cormac McCarthy lately - the Border Trilogy are excellent reads as well as the better known No Country for Old Men and the Road.

 

The best non-fiction I've read recently was D-Day by Anthony Beevor.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Jimmy Boyles autobiography.

[Big John]

Orwell didn't just spout opinions, he actually got out there and lived in the communities that he wrote about, giving a valid view. Hence why many spectators of his era were talking out of their comparative arses.

[The Majestic Channon]

Johnny rotten-No irish no blacks no dogs

[miserableoldgit]

If it`s historical fiction you want I really enjoyed this :- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rebels-Traitors-Lindsey-Davis/dp/1846056322

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell.Very apt with todays government.

 

One hell of a good read.

 

Although I must have last read it at least 20 years ago I can still remember the story of the roast chicken dropped down the restaurant lift shaft very distinctly. The image of a London doss house packed with the homeless trying to sleep on their feet (leaning against ropes) is also hard to shake off.

[Jimmy_D]

Another one a bit different you might want to read is The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov. Only read it recently after it was found in the loft but it's a fantastic book, the Library probably has a copy.

[Saint137]

"The Forgotten Highlander" by Alistair Urquhart, a tale of survival against what should have been insurmountable odds

 

Or First Light or The Last Enemy given its the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

[Saint137]

Oh and "Between Silk & Cyanide" by Leo Marks or "The White Rabbit" by Bruce Marshall if you want the inside story on Special Operations in France in WW2. Between Silk & Cyanide is fascinating but a bit geeky whereas The White Rabbit is Boys Own stuff

[mcjwills]

Try the quartet of books by Simon Scarrow based on the lives of Bonaparte & Wellington starting off with Young Bloods

[hypochondriac]

Fantastic. Thanks guys.