There are clearly some voracious readers here on TSR, so it would be interesting to know what books you would recommend to others. Fiction, non-fiction, biography, Haynes manual, whatever.
I've not read much, but to get the ball rolling, some recommendations would be:
– Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Part autobiography during the punk years, part cooking textbook, part business manual, it's a great read.
– Dune by Frank Herbert
It was always going to be a tad ambitious to make a film of this slab and so it was a predictably confusing watch (even the director, David Lynch, apparently said he "didn't know what the hell was going on"). But the book is epic!
– The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Again, so much more than the film. It gives an insight into the lives of the fishermen and their community, the business of fishing, and the chilling realities of being caught up in a major storm at sea. (Aim to keep the image of George Clooney in a chunky-knit out of your mind whilst reading, though.)
I've not read much, but to get the ball rolling, some recommendations would be:
– Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Part autobiography during the punk years, part cooking textbook, part business manual, it's a great read.
– Dune by Frank Herbert
It was always going to be a tad ambitious to make a film of this slab and so it was a predictably confusing watch (even the director, David Lynch, apparently said he "didn't know what the hell was going on"). But the book is epic!
– The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Again, so much more than the film. It gives an insight into the lives of the fishermen and their community, the business of fishing, and the chilling realities of being caught up in a major storm at sea. (Aim to keep the image of George Clooney in a chunky-knit out of your mind whilst reading, though.)
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