Reading: The Book Thread

[ZRX61]

Mate of mine who worked at the local Kaw dealer is in rehab after losing a leg. He mentioned that he likes to read history books, dropped off A Bright Shining Lie last week, that ought to keep him busy for a week or so

[Noggin]

PS I like the sound of one of his other books 'Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it'.

If I can get bothered enough to start reading books again, that sounds perfect for me !

Perhaps you need this:

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Well, I watched it up to the first "warm up" exercise - knee twist

Gonna leave that a while

[Horse]

Just finished 'This Way Up - when maps go wrong (and why it matters) by the MapMen (Mark Cooper- Jones and Jay Foreman).

... Worth a dip if you're interested in maps (and probably even if not).

At a tangent, if you ever see 'How to read water', grab it.

Odd little paperback.

It includes the maps (twigs tied with twine) used by Pacific islanders to navigate out of sight of land.

[ZRX61]

It includes the maps (twigs tied with twine) used by Pacific islanders to navigate out of sight of land.

Probably only includes the methods that worked because the people that used the methods that were failures were never heard from again...

[Count Steer]

Just finished 'This Way Up - when maps go wrong (and why it matters) by the MapMen (Mark Cooper- Jones and Jay Foreman).

... Worth a dip if you're interested in maps (and probably even if not).

At a tangent, if you ever see 'How to read water', grab it.

Odd little paperback.

It includes the maps (twigs tied with twine) used by Pacific islanders to navigate out of sight of land.

It's a chapter in the 'Wrong Way Up' book too (that includes the impact of events in the Marshall Islands/Bikini atoll that contributed to the loss of the skills of reading the water).

[Supermofo]

Oddly, I'm reading something similar, but from the opposite viewpoint.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442801/ ... 0552177917

History of the SRY from D-Day to VE Day.

They're mentioned in Meyers book. I just ordered that JH book & his Normandy book.

He writes well. Some military historians can be a bit dry.

Been meaning to read the Brothers in Arms book but not got round to it. I like Holland on the We Have Ways podcast and read a few of his books. Although last on the BoB was half about the Battle of France but I guess nothing wrong with getting extra and I only paid a quid for it from Stow Maries airfield museum so can't complain! Gonna head back to Stow Maries soon to give em back the books I bought and buy some more, much cheapness and a great selection of second hand books. Last of the lot I have to read from last visit is this, the Blitz from the German crews perspective, looks great.

[ZRX61]

Two James Holland books showed up: Normandy '44 & Brothers In Arms... gonna take a while to read those, 500 pages for one, damn near 800 for the other.

[Count Steer]

Just finished 'The Hopeless Biker' by Miles Morland.

40-something bloke passes bike test on a training school bike. Rocks up at Park Lane BMW and buys a R100RT.

Heads off for Istanbul via Innsbruck, Vienna, Romania and Bulgaria. Back via Greece, Italy and France. Enjoys it.

Does a loop around Argentina inc north up more or less the length of Chile.

Heads off and rides from Kerala up to Goa (on an ageing Bullet).

Then Japan, Australia (a lap of Tasmania then up to Sydney), SW USA (El Paso to Santa Monica via Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Vegas, Death Valley), Iceland, NZ, across OZ (Perth to Brisbane), Mexico (the Baja down to La Paz).

He was 77 when he chucked his old bike boots in a bin and decided that was the last adventure at the end of the Mexico trip.

Got a fair bit of experience along the way - riding through a typhoon, lots of v iffy road surfaces. The only bike that broke was a Harley. (All the others were BMWs - and that Bullet).

Recommended. Cracking read and gave me itchy feet.

[Cousin Jack]

Just finished "Iran, Israel and the Middle East Explained" by Levi Kaven. Simplistic in places, repetitive in places, but a good primer on the fuck-up that is the Middle East. Should be required reading for every gung ho politician who wants to meddle.

[ZRX61]

Just finished "Iran, Israel and the Middle East Explained" by Levi Kaven. Simplistic in places, repetitive in places, but a good primer on the fuck-up that is the Middle East. Should be required reading for every gung ho politician who wants to meddle.

1917 Balfour Declaration should be required reading, especially in the US where no bugger has heard of it, let alone read it. The "Palestine doesn't exist, it never existed" crap gets old.

[Horse]

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40-something bloke passes bike test on a training school bike. Rocks up at Park Lane BMW and buys a R100RT.

That's similar to how we were invited to train at a BMW dealership.

August 1st new registrations, 10 bikes sold - 5 to people without bike licenses!

That was pre-DAS, so they weren't selling any learner-legal bikes. And we trained anyone, not just shop customers.