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Heard about this website a few days ago who email you every day with ebooks that are reduced that day and where to get them. Worth a look for anyone fancying doing more reading! bookhippo.co.uk

Was chatting to Dangerous Dave Dickson just before Christmas. His 50's r'n'r covers band play every Sunday in a nice pub on Byres Road in Glasgow. He's married now and had a little one a wee while back. Changed times but he's still got the skills and still playing plenty of music!

1. Black Atom

2. Liber8

3. The Needles

4. The X-Certs

5. Hot Mangu

Lots of good bands over the years, but those were the five that sprung to mind.

Scubby - feels like there's a questionable marriage story there!

That book is excellent but a tough read! Total nightmare situation!

Me too - I am terrible for it. Hate leaving things unfinished. Was devastated when he brought Rebus back!

reading Grit: The power of Passion and Perseverance which is excellent thus far

Captain, you surely didn't read the Rebus novels out of order?! I couldn't handle that! Managed to get to 51 this year:

1: William McIlvanney - Docherty
2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln
3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy
4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why
5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes
6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon
7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies
8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense
9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies
10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way
11: Irvine Welsh - Crime
12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist
13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game
14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions
15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief
16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho
17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques
18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong
19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader
20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus
21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard
22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach
23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die
24: Les Giblin - Skill With People
25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People
26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year
27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
28: George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
29: Steve Boseley - Die, Blossom, Bloom
30: Steven Kotler - The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
31: Michael Lewis - Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
32: Roald Dahl - Danny Champion of the World
33: Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox
34: Dr. Brad McRae and David Brooks - The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters
35: Les Giblin - How to have Power and Confidence when Deadling with People
36: Jonathan Wilson - Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
37: Urban Meyer - Above The Line
38: David Peace - The Damned Utd
39: Michael Grant and Rob Robertson - The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses
40: Eric Clapton - The Autobiography
41: Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
42: Dave Eggers - The Wild Things
43: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
44: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
45: Philipp Meyer - American Rust
46: Cormack McCarthy - The Road
47: JM Barrie - Peter Pan
48: Normal MacLean - A River Runs Through It
49: General Stanley McChrystal - Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
50: Jim Harrison - Legends of the Fall
51: Matt Gemmell - Changer
 

Scubby - give my number 51 a look. Written by a Uni friend of mine and it's a bit sci fi and really well paced.

He has awesome closing speed! Especially considering he's wearing that!

Started another too; Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison. Fairly pacy start

Took a while to read but Team of Teams was excellent and brought in some good stories from other places too. Now reading How to Live a Good Life by Jonathan Fields after I heard him on a podcast last week.

It's interesting that a lot of other companies (banks in particular) are looking to reduce their physical footprint but a company like Amazon which, to the consumer only existed online, are looking to build their physical presence.

Amazon locker at my work too which is good. I've found their delivery to be really good tbh. We have prime and they get everything to our flat door

Read A River Runs Through It, by Norman MacLean. Had seen the film years ago and loved it and the book is excellent. Currently reading Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal which is about the changing structure of the joint special forces command in the US military to meet the demands of fighting Al Queda in Iraq who were a decentralised force rather than what they'd been built to take on.

The middle of the year was tough for me and I managed three books in two months but that holiday really boosted my reading again

That is very true.

I have always wondered exactly what the point was. Seemed a pretty shady cash grab, but I do know some fans who bought and more than paid for the shares with the discount.

On ‎26‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 1:21 PM, Murrr said:

Football is ultimately an "unfair" sport, but that's probably the way it should be. If it was structured more like an American sports league, where lesser teams are given favourable draft picks, it would completely eliminate the possibility of things like Leicester City happening. Said teams would never face such a prolonged spell in the doldrums, so the gloss would be taken off their eventual triumph, and the moment wouldn't be as special.

Let's not forget that there are still teams who have never won a SuperBowl, for example. The idea of parity is built into those models but they rarely pan out that way.

Holiday reading gave me a boost so looks like I should get past 50 again this year. The reads so far:

1: William McIlvanney - Docherty
2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln
3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy
4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why
5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes
6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon
7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies
8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense
9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies
10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way
11: Irvine Welsh - Crime
12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist
13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game
14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions
15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief
16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho
17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques
18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong
19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader
20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus
21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard
22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach
23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die
24: Les Giblin - Skill With People
25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People
26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year
27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
28: George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
29: Steve Boseley - Die, Blossom, Bloom
30: Steven Kotler - The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
31: Michael Lewis - Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
32: Roald Dahl - Danny Champion of the World
33: Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox
34: Dr. Brad McRae and David Brooks - The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters
35: Les Giblin - How to have Power and Confidence when Deadling with People
36: Jonathan Wilson - Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
37: Urban Meyer - Above The Line
38: David Peace - The Damned Utd
39: Michael Grant and Rob Robertson - The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses
40: Eric Clapton - The Autobiography
41: Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
42: Dave Eggers - The Wild Things
43: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
44: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
45: Philipp Meyer - American Rust
 

The Sherlock Holmes books are ace! I powered through a load of them a while back. Finished American Rust which was really enjoyable and started on The Road by Cormack McCarthy. Never read any of his stuff.

Ploughed through seven books on holiday, the highlights of which were the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn adventures by Mark Twain. Great reads! Currently reading American Rust by Philipp Meyer which is good so far

Giants scraped a win yesterday with a few key plays from Landon Collins. Nice to see the D helping out. We still look pretty rank on O. Our run game yesterday was terrible

Currently reading The Damned Utd which is excellent so far!

American sports/politics threads are terrible for that. Harambe and references to the 95/96 Chicago Bulls everywhere

Those are bizarre. Why on earth does anyone think that other people will be impressed by them?

Finished Inverting the Pyramid and really glad I did. An excellent book and the level of research it must have taken is impressive. Now started onto Talking Tactics: You’ll Never Look at Football the Same Way Again by Mihail Vladimirov and Bob Pearce which is written as a sort of Q&A with Pearce asking the questions from the point of view of watching a game of football and developing an understanding of how tactics and formations operate. Just started it this morning but I really like the format and style so far