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Me-"Last man down" a firemans story.

 

It is the Heroic account of how pitch picciotto survived the collapse of the twin towers and led his men to safety.

 

I have to say that this is one of the most gripping and yet horrific books i have ever read.

 

I watched the pictures like many others on TV but this was what it was like on the inside of the North tower as it was all going on and his account as he realised he was going down inside the Tower as it collapsed.

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Just read Life of Pi, a wonderful story of being Shipwrecked with a Tiger in a small boat!!

 

Brilliant!!!!

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Pillars of Creation - - Terry Goodkind

 

Book 7 of an epic series.It's pure fantasy which enables me to just be somewhere else in my head while I'm reading; a bit like fishing really.Without fish.Or tackle.Or bait.Or getting wet. :rolleyes:

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The Chronicles of Narnia..... reading again for the first time since I was 13 and I still love it.

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I've just finished reading the telly page, and theres nothing on worth watching, so, I'm off to the pub.Tata for now chaps. :D

Seriously, I've just finished reading AGAIN Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam, a great writer. :rolleyes:

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"The Sorceror's Crossing" by Taisha Abelar, which is purportedly the true story of how the author came to be inducted into an ancient sect of shamans from central america. Very surreal, and very very weird.

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Clear And Present Danger by Tom Clancy. Believable and gripping.

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I read Last man a couple of months ago, amazing story, my 15 year old son is reading it now "mum, there's alot of swearing in it!". I said " I'd swear alot if I was stuck like that"

Now reading Winstons' War by Michael Dobbs who wrote House of Cards. Part fact, part fiction I am on chapter 8, still 1939. as I was born in '62 I'm not sure what is fact or not but I am enjoying it. It takes a very good book for me to read as I am not a great reader of books. :confused:

 

[ 13. June 2003, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Eileen B ]

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Eileen B:

I read Last man a couple of months ago, amazing story, my 15 year old son is reading it now "mum, there's alot of swearing in it!". I said " I'd swear alot if I was stuck like that"

I think i would as well Eileen!!

 

I'm reading "mind in chains" a collection of horror stories by different authors, at the moment i'm on "An occurrence at owl creek bridge" written by Ambrose Bierce, good stuff so far.

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