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Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:40 am
by Russ
Snipe Watson wrote:Go to Rome instead would be my other suggestion. The best city in continental Europe IMHO.
Having visited almost every capital city in europe in the last 5 years Rome js definitely bottom 2
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:48 am
by Rooster
Russ wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:Go to Rome instead would be my other suggestion. The best city in continental Europe IMHO.
Having visited almost every capital city in europe in the last 5 years Rome js definitely bottom 2
Yup, Rome is over rated just like Paris, lot of smaller towns are far better than the capitals
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:49 am
by Russ
Copenhagen is an excellent place for a weekend
Amsterdam too
Berlin
Everyone gets robbed in Barcelona
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:52 am
by big mervyn
Rooster wrote:Russ wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:Go to Rome instead would be my other suggestion. The best city in continental Europe IMHO.
Having visited almost every capital city in europe in the last 5 years Rome js definitely bottom 2
Yup, Rome is over rated just like Paris, lot of smaller towns are far better than the capitals
The hospitality is overpriced and overrated but the archeological stuff is fantastic - the pantheon, forum, coliseum, catacombs are only the start of it. Vatican museum is superb too. Everybody should go.
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:55 am
by Rooster
big mervyn wrote:Rooster wrote:Russ wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:Go to Rome instead would be my other suggestion. The best city in continental Europe IMHO.
Having visited almost every capital city in europe in the last 5 years Rome js definitely bottom 2
Yup, Rome is over rated just like Paris, lot of smaller towns are far better than the capitals
The hospitality is overpriced and overrated but the archeological stuff is fantastic - the pantheon, forum, coliseum, catacombs are only the start of it. Vatican museum is superb too. Everybody should go.
Agree on the culchur being good and you comment about price and grub.
As Russ says Copenhagen is good, but don't waste time going to look at Little Mermaid
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:56 am
by Russ
Rooster wrote:big mervyn wrote:Rooster wrote:Russ wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:Go to Rome instead would be my other suggestion. The best city in continental Europe IMHO.
Having visited almost every capital city in europe in the last 5 years Rome js definitely bottom 2
Yup, Rome is over rated just like Paris, lot of smaller towns are far better than the capitals
The hospitality is overpriced and overrated but the archeological stuff is fantastic - the pantheon, forum, coliseum, catacombs are only the start of it. Vatican museum is superb too. Everybody should go.
Agree on the culchur being good and you comment about price and grub.
As Russ says Copenhagen is good, but don't waste time going to look at Little Mermaid
Watching asian men fall in the water at the mermaid is top sport
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 4:20 pm
by Tender
this is brilliant, not only is it no help at all to Trousers, who totally tried to shanghai the thread for sh1ts and giggles, but it's become clear that most of us spend more time reading uafc, than anything else. We're so enlightened
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 7:13 pm
by HairyJ
Mainly read fantasy novels these days but did pre-order the new Jack Reacher yesterday.
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:28 pm
by damianmcr
HairyJ wrote:Mainly read fantasy novels these days but did pre-order the new Jack Reacher yesterday.
I'm a big Jack Reacher fan. I'd need to get back in to them as I now see there's 21 books.
You should try the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly. He's an Irish author. His stuff is a bit darker than the Reacher stuff.
Oh and Harry Bosch series by Michael Connolly.
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:30 pm
by HairyJ
damianmcr wrote:HairyJ wrote:Mainly read fantasy novels these days but did pre-order the new Jack Reacher yesterday.
I'm a big Jack Reacher fan. I'd need to get back in to them as I now see there's 21 books.
You should try the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly. He's an Irish author. His stuff is a bit darker than the Reacher stuff.
I love Reacher. I've been a Kindle convert in recent years but I still buy Reacher in paperback (or hardback as the last one was and the next one is).
Will definitely give your recommendation a try, sounds good!
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Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:02 pm
by BR
Rooster wrote:
As Russ says Copenhagen is good, but don't waste time going to look at Little Mermaid
It's worth traveling all that way to a container port, just to be amazed at how little it really is.
Or you could just wander around Christiania and soak up the 'atmosphere'.
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:28 pm
by BaggyTrousers
damianmcr wrote:HairyJ wrote:Mainly read fantasy novels these days but did pre-order the new Jack Reacher yesterday.
I'm a big Jack Reacher fan. I'd need to get back in to them as I now see there's 21 books.
You should try the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly. He's an Irish author. His stuff is a bit darker than the Reacher stuff.
Oh and Harry Bosch series by Michael Connolly.
Have to say Damo, I too am a fan of both Connolly & Connelly's books. When I saw the Bosch dramas on Netflix/Amazon, can't remember which, Titus Welliver didn't "look" like the Harry Bosch I've been reading about for a couple of decades, but I've got used him and they do the books a reasonable amount of justice.
I'd always "seen" Bosch in my head a bit more like Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, the greatest movie ever made.
I've always wanted to introduce a few homophobes to Charlie Parker's two gay friends, Louis and Angel, then I remember the word "fiction".
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:47 pm
by Russ
BR wrote:Rooster wrote:
As Russ says Copenhagen is good, but don't waste time going to look at Little Mermaid
It's worth traveling all that way to a container port, just to be amazed at how little it really is.
Or you could just wander around Christiania and soak up the 'atmosphere'.
It got shut down
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 6:24 pm
by Tender
East of Eden.
Re: Whats everyone currently reading?
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:12 pm
by rorybestsbigbaldnoggin
'Nine Stories' (nine short stories, naturally) by JD Salinger. Outside of Catcher in the Rye - which is excellent, don't get me wrong - he's actually very witty.