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On a Peter Straub kick I guess; I finished Ghost Story and started Shadowlands.

 

Nothing very high brow I am afraid, I do have a George Orwell anthology that I got a present from my parents when I was 18, 1984 was one of the novels for my English Literature Exam when I was at school. At the moment I am reading a book by Don Felder "My life as a guitar player in The Eagles 1974 to 2002"

 

I am also reading the biography of Severiano Ballesteros, the poor boy from a Spanish peasant farm who rose to become the world's greatest golfer and died of a brain tumour in 2011. Seve's story is so uplifting, a story of success against the odds. He was not allowed on the golf course in his home village of Pedrena in Northern Spain so he played on the beach and made his own golf course in the dunes. A really wonderful rags to riches tale, compared to all of the pampered sports stars we see now today.

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On a Peter Straub kick I guess; I finished Ghost Story and started Shadowlands.

 

Seve was playing in a tournament in New York state in around 1983 when he was the reigning Masters champion

 

He brought his mother and father over an put them in a suite in the NY Hilton.

 

Seve grew up with nothing, he was the youngest of 4 sons and the smallest in a family where his father was a poor peasant farmer. His brothers would complain to their mother at the meal table "why does Seve always get second helpings??!"

 

His mum just said "Because he is my favourite and will always be my little baby"

 

Seve took his dad out in a stretch Limo to tour around New York with a mini bar

 

After Mr Ballesteros had about 5 whiskies he said "Seve my boy this is just f***ing amazing, never in my life could I have ever dreamed about this day"

 

Seve just smiled and said "My father, I have worked all of my life so I could do this for mother and you"

 

I cried so much when he died :( :( :(

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The Bruce Springsteen Bio. Born to Run. Good stuff. I enjoy learning about where these guys come from. Not a huge Bruce fan, but respect him nonetheless. Edited by Xanadoood
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The Bruce Springsteen Bio. Born to Run. Good stuff. I enjoy learning about where these guys come from. Not a huge Bruce fan, but respect him nonetheless.

 

My wife just gave me the Bruce autobiography for my birthday.

 

I can't wait to start it.

 

I'm a pretty big fan of his music since 1978, so I'm really looking forward to the stories behind the years of music.

 

Enjoy the read Xanadoood! :)

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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)- Robin Hobb

 

I absolutely adored the first two books. Just started the final volume in this trilogy (but more is still to come!).

 

Amazing writer. I may enjoy her more than Tad Williams and Tolkien...

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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)- Robin Hobb

 

I absolutely adored the first two books. Just started the final volume in this trilogy (but more is still to come!).

 

Amazing writer. I may enjoy her more than Tad Williams and Tolkien...

 

John Crowe Ransom - The World's Body

 

I do not understand a lot of it but it gives me inspiration to create music around themes.

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The Unicorn, by Iris Murdoch

 

 

It's not actually about a unicorn, though, hahaha.

 

My god man, what's it about then? I'm piqued!

 

Noah's ark?

The Irish Rovers?

A Duocorn that needs an operation?

Eunuchs? a eunuch with a bad sense of humour?

Spies? spies that are eunuchs?

an Irish leper?

a tiger in a boat with an Irish leper?

 

Be careful if it's a pop-up book.

 

http://img02.deviantart.net/03f7/i/2012/249/e/f/unicorn_pop_up_by_biancaneve81-d5drvky.jpg

 

rovers1.jpg?w=280&h=279

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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)- Robin Hobb

 

I absolutely adored the first two books. Just started the final volume in this trilogy (but more is still to come!).

 

Amazing writer. I may enjoy her more than Tad Williams and Tolkien...

 

I'm looking for a new book series to read. I'll check this out.

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Loved that song as a kid!

 

Let's see if I remember...

 

"Ya got your green alligators

And long-necked geese

Your humpty-back camels

And your chimpanzees

Rats and cats and elephants

As sure as you're born

But don't you forget my unicorn!"

 

:)

 

Surprised myself!

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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)- Robin Hobb

 

I absolutely adored the first two books. Just started the final volume in this trilogy (but more is still to come!).

 

Amazing writer. I may enjoy her more than Tad Williams and Tolkien...

 

I'm looking for a new book series to read. I'll check this out.

 

One of a kind fantasy.

 

It is one of the few that doesn't have any obvious Tolkien-isms. It also doesn't read like fantasy. It feels...real.

 

One of the best works of fiction I have ever read. I'm waiting to finish the first trilogy before I make my mind up.

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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)- Robin Hobb

 

I absolutely adored the first two books. Just started the final volume in this trilogy (but more is still to come!).

 

Amazing writer. I may enjoy her more than Tad Williams and Tolkien...

 

I'm looking for a new book series to read. I'll check this out.

 

One of a kind fantasy.

 

It is one of the few that doesn't have any obvious Tolkien-isms. It also doesn't read like fantasy. It feels...real.

 

One of the best works of fiction I have ever read. I'm waiting to finish the first trilogy before I make my mind up.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/03/05/11/3DF8D7D700000578-4283256-Snatched_If_close_encounters_with_beady_eyed_birds_is_enough_to_-a-17_1488714121538.jpg

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Bruno's Dream, by Iris Murdoch

 

 

I read her probably more frequently than any other novelist- she is an all-time favourite of mine. Four or five or six of her books per year, I go through. And yet there are still a few that I've read only once. This is one of them.

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I am about to start reading this book now:

 

http://i.imgur.com/WMeGfyR.jpg

 

I was reading it before, when it was new, but about half thru the book I just stop reading it even tho I liked it. I don't know why, but now Im gonna give it a second go!

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