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On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, by Harold McGee. This is the professional chef's bible.

Recently read:
Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden. Well written and detailed.
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe. Good moral story.
Cocky: Curtis Warren. Ok, not bad.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon. Murder Mystery narrated by an autistic 15-year-old boy. I enjoyed it.
One Day in September - Simon Reeve - Story of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre and the Israeli operation 'Wrath of God'. Really interesting.
East End Chronicles - Ed Glinert. Social/political history of London’s East End. Good read and some good stories but author jumps around too much.
The Damage Done –W Fellows. Account of 12 yrs in Thai Prison. Readable but nothing on Marching Powder.
Rise of the Footsoldier - Carlton Leach. Ok.
Mafia Son - Sandra Harmon. Poor.

http://stevenpinker.com/publications/be ... our-nature



Steven Pinker

'We’ve all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking, “What is the world coming to?” But we seldom ask, “How bad was the world in the past?” In this startling new book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. With the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps, Pinker presents some astonishing numbers. Tribal warfare was nine times as deadly as war and genocide in the 20th century. The murder rate of Medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were unexceptionable features of life for millennia, then suddenly were targeted for abolition. Wars between developed countries have vanished, and even in the developing world, wars kill a fraction of the people they did a few decades ago. Rape, battering, hate crimes, deadly riots, child abuse, cruelty to animals—all substantially down.'

2rollingstoned wrote:I just finished Skydog: The Duane Allman Story by Randy Poe - I thought it was fantastic!

I think I would like to read that, thanks! Always loved Duane, and I had no idea he was called Skydog until I read LIFE by Keith Richards where he mentioned that Mick worked Duane's nickname into 'Brown Sugar'.

Have you read this one? Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument

http://www.amazon.com/Claptons-Guitar-W ... 0743266358

'Clapton's Guitar is a book-length profile of luthier Wayne Henderson. Clapton himself doesn't show up much in the book. His guitar is there for most of it, beginning as spruce and rosewood boards and emerging as Henderson's take on a classic 1930s Martin 000-28. The real star of the book is Henderson himself.'

Just finished Outlaws by Kevin Sampson - good read, real page turner. Had me gripped for a few days.

Stuart Macbride : The Flesh House Damn you ArtyMac that's me on my third/fourth Logan McRae mystery good reads , very similar to Rebus in fact he must get that a lot as Iv been noticing references to Rankin

Im currently reading We Have to Talk About Kevin. It is so creepy and perverse. I can't put it down. I'm trying to finish it before this Friday, because I'll try to see the movie when I'm in Amsterdam this weekend.

gimmeshelter wrote:Im currently reading We Have to Talk About Kevin. It is so creepy and perverse. I can't put it down. I'm trying to finish it before this Friday, because I'll try to see the movie when I'm in Amsterdam this weekend.

Whats the name of the book? It sounds like a book I would like to read. (creepy and perverse, LOL) Is the name "We Have to talk about kevin?

cattales1960 wrote:

gimmeshelter wrote:Im currently reading We Have to Talk About Kevin. It is so creepy and perverse. I can't put it down. I'm trying to finish it before this Friday, because I'll try to see the movie when I'm in Amsterdam this weekend.

Whats the name of the book? It sounds like a book I would like to read. (creepy and perverse, LOL) Is the name "We Have to talk about kevin?

Sorry my underlining went haywire. Yeah, it's called We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. The movie is out now and it looks as wicked as the book.

Frankie Boyle

Work!Consume!Die!

One of the funniest books ive ever read

Until I Find You....
John Irving

tutti

Terry Christian - My Word.

Amsterdam A Brief Life - Geert Mak. Essential ready for all Damaholics




ISBN 978-1-860-46789-9

just finished 'the white tiger' by aravind adiga



amazing book, written in the first person, as a letter, set in modern india. really both funny, and dark.

Just read "trafalgar" by Roy Adkins. a really good account of the battle and life on a ship at the time. Truelly mind blowing. Shocking and exciting.