What are you reading?

[kev7d]

Napleon's Marshals. Now this is a BIG book. It gives a biography of all Bonaparte's "leadership" team. These guys, most of whom came from very poor backgrounds, rose to become big names in the Empire based upon their merit and not birth right. 

[kev7d]

The Path to Power. 600 pages covering 1769 - 1799. 

[fuzzyedges]

Highly interlectual 

Vince Flynn's The Survivor 

Brutal escapism 

[vanguard]

7 hours ago, fuzzyedges said:

Highly interlectual 

Vince Flynn's The Survivor 

Brutal escapism 

i love Vince Flynn's mitch rapp books. just dont watch the film its terrible.

[fuzzyedges]

28 minutes ago, vanguard said:

i love Vince Flynn's mitch rapp books. just dont watch the film its terrible.

as is the jack reacher films 

[vanguard]

2 hours ago, fuzzyedges said:

as is the jack reacher films 

 They were ok

Edited January 21, 2018 by vanguard

[fuzzyedges]

1 minute ago, vanguard said:

No Lee child wrote the jack reacher books. And the jack reacher films with Tom cruse are very enjoyable. The film based on Vince Flynn books is called America assassin and I wouldn’t waste your time. Pity really as the books are brilliant. 

I realize that Jack Reacher was a Lee Child creation  I was pointing out (this is where we differ) that the films were for me a disappointment 

Tom Cruse vs my image of Jack Reacher just dosnt stack up and the film one shot was a cut down version of a good book 

Its a great pity that Vince Flynn  passed away in 2013 

The survivor is the first from Kyle Mills carrying on the Mitch Rapp series and its very much in Vince Flynns style 

[Black Pearl]

TC has obviously studies the Reacher books and I know Lee Childs was on set but Tom is tiny so the interplay just doesn't work. Reacher is huge so when he squares up to a bunch of ne'er-do-wells you believe he will win. I did enjoy the films as a stand alone though.

I finished the latest Reacher book a couple of weeks back and enjoyed it but don't think its one of the better ones. I've read the new Dan Brown book recently which was canny enough if a little predictable and I'm now ploughing through the third book in the The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell which I'm really enjoying.

[vanguard]

On 21/01/2018 at 23:05, fuzzyedges said:

I realize that Jack Reacher was a Lee Child creation  I was pointing out (this is where we differ) that the films were for me a disappointment 

Tom Cruse vs my image of Jack Reacher just dosnt stack up and the film one shot was a cut down version of a good book 

Its a great pity that Vince Flynn  passed away in 2013 

The survivor is the first from Kyle Mills carrying on the Mitch Rapp series and its very much in Vince Flynns style 

Sorry I miss read your post 

[fuzzyedges]

9 minutes ago, vanguard said:

Sorry I miss read your post 

No need to apologize the written word is often misconstrued 

It was my fault for not saying " just like " at the start but then I was the only one that knew what I meant 
I get myself into a lot of trouble with Mrs Edges the same way  

[kev7d]

Volume 1 was epic. Straight into Volume 2. Citizen Emperor, Napoleon in Power, 1799 - 1815.

[Guest]

Wings on my Sleeve by Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown.

he was:-

• The greatest test pilot in history
• flew more aircraft types than anyone else
• Made a record breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings
• Went to Nazi Geramny questioning Hermann Goering, Hanna Reitsch and Josef Kramer (Belsen camp commandant) among others.

 

[vanguard]

2 hours ago, Bill said:

Wings on my Sleeve by Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown.

he was:-

• The greatest test pilot in history
• flew more aircraft types than anyone else
• Made a record breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings
• Went to Nazi Geramny questioning Hermann Goering, Hanna Reitsch and Josef Kramer (Belsen camp commandant) among others.

 

Brilliant book just finished it myself.

[Clicker]

The man is an absolute legend ....

[kev7d]

17 minutes ago, Clicker said:

The man is an absolute legend ....

I thought you were talking about Monsieur N for a second or so.   

[fuzzyedges]

just picked up the autobiography of Jimmy Nail  

[kev7d]

50 Pages into this one and I can't say it is the best researched book that I have read. Napoléon’s Wars.

[FUJI]

The autobiography of Samuel Peyps .......

FUJI

[kev7d]

That will be interesting FUJI.  

[fuzzyedges]

Highly intellectual, Midnight line  from Lee Child 

Jack Reacher breaking what Jack Reacher breaks best 

 

[Black Pearl]

Currently reading Hard Fall by J B Turner which turned up on my Kindle last month having pre-ordered it ages back.

Previous to that I've just finished the The Warlord Chronicles trilogy by Bernard Cornwell which was excellent.

[kev7d]

Rites and Peace. The Fall of Napoléon and the Congress of Vienna. This one should be a cracker.   

[Rick448]

"How to write an emergency plan" by David Alexander. Riveting read, as you can imagine.

[kev7d]

hahahaha. Love it. You H+S dudes are awesome.   

[Rick448]

3 minutes ago, kev7d said:

hahahaha. Love it. You H+S dudes are awesome.   

The thing is, H&S is just a bolt on to my main job. The conversation went something like this, "you know a bit about H&S don't you? You might as well do that as well.oh and while you're at it, can you write an environmental policy, emergency response, and business continuity plan. Oh and can you manage fuel services too?"

It's not like there are any safety hazards or environmental impacts present at an international airport is it!