OK, so we've had favourite book genre and a whole host of music and film threads so I thought, as I'm currently looking for a book to read I would put this thread forward.
List the best 5 books you have ever read and importantly the one book which you would recommend to your best friend. It needn't be high brow just the one book which you feel perhaps changed your view of the world or passed some time pleasantly. I suppose I should start!
The best book I ever read was called Eagle in the sky by Wilbur Smith, now I don't really like Wilbur Smith but I have read this book 4 times it is brilliant. The rest of my five are:
Lord of the Rings- Tolkien Because I was 15 and it enthralled me.
The Dragonbone Chair- Tad Williams Because I was 30 and it enthralled me more than above
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee Because it was my english GCE book and I've revisited it twice.
Einsteins Universe- Nigel Calder Because it really did change my life.
These threads seem to be the type people look in on when joining the site or when bored so I will add it to the other sticky's at the top of NBCD.
Just finished re-reading Nicholas Monsarrat's " The Tribe That Lost It's Head"
Not for the faint-hearted or esoteric, however.
Monsarrat served WW11 Wavy-Navy Hard-Lying for most of the war.
1913 10 17
And whereas by Orders in Council bearing date the 2 April, 1909, and 10 August, 1909, sanction was given for the payment of hard-lying money to officers and men serving in Your Majesty's ships, subject to the condition that when the vessel concerned was above the status of torpedo boat destroyer payment was to be restricted to occasions when the vessel was not in commission:
And whereas we have found it necessary to direct that in future ships undergoing trials whose navigating parties are supplied in whole or in part from Your Majesty's Navy are, as a rule, to be temporarily commissioned for the purpose:
And whereas the arduous conditions attendant upon service with a navigating party or in a ship undergoing trials are in no way affected by this decision:
We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction the payment, as from 31st July, 1913, of hard-lying money at the rates and under the conditions set forth in the following Schedule in place of Schedule E of Order in Council of 2nd April, 1909, and Schedule B of Order in Council of 10th August, 1909.
The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in this proposal.