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Billy The Fish

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No spoilers from me I'm afraid. The yarn about Fergie's refusal to sell Heinze to Liverpool is a good one though.

All I'd say is read this book.
 

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Peter Ustinov's Dear Me is a fun read.
Just noticed this. I read this book years ago but remember little other than he was splitting duties between being David Niven's batman and writing film scripts while shacked up in a top London hotel. There was something about him being short of money and having to sell a valuable painting which he later saw on someones wall back in Hollywood. :)
 

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Just noticed this. I read this book years ago but remember little other than he was splitting duties between being David Niven's batman and writing film scripts while shacked up in a top London hotel. There was something about him being short of money and having to sell a valuable painting which he later saw on someones wall back in Hollywood. :)
I found it again and will re-read after finishing my latest book.
 

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After all these years, have just made a start on War & Peace.
(Well, given my already advanced age, I thought I'd better give it a go while there is (hopefully) still time.)
 

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After all these years, have just made a start on War & Peace.
(Well, given my already advanced age, I thought I'd better give it a go while there is (hopefully) still time.)
In my college days in Brighton, flushed with the exuberance of youth, I steadfastly sat through the uncut film version, which I seem to recall was in a number of tediously long parts shown over consecutive days. That was enough for me so I never bothered with the book ! Good luck !

Around the same time I ventured to another cinema for a late night showing of "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch". The staff obviously wanted to get home early and turned on the house lights and faded out the credits as soon as they started rolling. This irked me somewhat but my vociferous complaints were just shrugged aside, grrr ! That inspired me to go out and buy the book and several other Solzehnitsyn tomes
 

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Salad Daze - The autobiography of Wayne Hussey covering his career up to quitting Sisters of Mercy
 

Billy The Fish

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In my college days in Brighton, flushed with the exuberance of youth, I steadfastly sat through the uncut film version, which I seem to recall was in a number of tediously long parts shown over consecutive days. That was enough for me so I never bothered with the book ! Good luck !

Around the same time I ventured to another cinema for a late night showing of "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch". The staff obviously wanted to get home early and turned on the house lights and faded out the credits as soon as they started rolling. This irked me somewhat but my vociferous complaints were just shrugged aside, grrr ! That inspired me to go out and buy the book and several other Solzehnitsyn tomes
I found Ivan Denisovitch a fascinating read and was sure I could actually feel how cold and hungry the poor bugger was. Great book.
 

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Tom Courtney was excellent in the film adaptation, and Christ it was bleak !
 

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Waterloo ~ Napoleon's Last Gamble. by Andrew Roberts

Having done the battlefield tour some years ago and have my musket ball/canister shot safely in my glass cabinet, I picket this latest book (I think), from a Swindon charity shop for the princely some of 30pence.

Leading up to the battle the author mentions Bonaparte's disastrous invasion of Russia and the somewhat pyrrhic victory at Borodino (Borisdino?) where both armies suffered severe casualties - the retreating French suffered further from the weather and Cossack attacks as they headed homewards.

Interestingly, one of the main reasons Napoleon attacked Russia was his "Continental Blockade" whereby he hoped to boost the French economy and bring Britain to its knees by a trade embargo that prevented Britain from trading with mainland Europe. Russia was having non of this and British ships continued to unload at St Petersburg which caused Bonaparte to lose his rag.

I guess that Marshal Barnier must be checking history books for pointers ;)
 

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About ten years ago I was part of a coach party set to do a tour of Waterloo Stuffy but there was an accident pileup and diversion in the area so all we got was half an hour in the place ,
Never did get back there again sadly.
 
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