Book Recommendations

[scaramanga]

Relating to the tight gits thread, I refuse to pay for shipping from Amazon. I currently want to buy something which costs £8 and need to spend a few quid more in order to qualify for the free shipping.

So has anyone read anything decent lately that they'd care to recommend? I don't mind going well over the minimum spend, just refuse to pay 3 quid or whatever it will be to ship something costing less than £15.

[Sockpuppet]

The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

[Clippy]

Argos catalogue - although some fekker had removed the last page so I'll never know which branches start with P - Z.

[miffy]

Argos catalogue - although some fekker had removed the last page so I'll never know which branches start with P - Z.

Try the perl bookshelf, I'm still reading that 8 years on. Tremendous value for money I'd say. There's also a unix one if you're still hungry for more of the same.

I always have a look at the "best sellers" to see what other people are wasting their money on. You'll occasionally find something new that's appealing to help get the free shipping.

Although Jamie fekkin Oliver is always in one of the lists (certainly for books).

[Lockhouse]

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk or the new Ian M Banks hardback.

[G8_Summit]

It's an old one, but Scar Tissue - the Anthony Kedis autobiography is very interesting if you've got even a vague interest in The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scar-Tissue-...9455299&sr=1-2

[AlfredJPruffock]

S Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - I woul dbe interested to know has anybody esle on this site read the SV and what was your impression - I rate it as one of the best novels I have read.

[ChimpMaster]

Getting to Yes (someone recommended here before)

Making Time

Or buy something other than a book peut-etre?

[JailBreak]

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk , actually anything by him.

[robnjc]

Agent ZigZag by Ben McIntyre - the true story of a womanising bank robber turned enemy agent turned double agent, & the only Brit to win the Iron Cross in WW2. If it had been made up you would not believe it.

Absolutely anything by Saki (H H Munro), an evilly sardonic take on Edwardian England.