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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2011, 02:00:09 pm »
More than five times? Hmmm, not many as I always figure I could be reading something new! A couple that I have returned to a few times are:

'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' - Hunter S Thompson
'1984' - George Orwell

One that I read recently and know I will read again:

'The Road' - Cormac McCarthy

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2011, 03:01:51 pm »
"Two Stroke Performance Tuning" by A Graham Bell, read it at least 10 times and still refernce bits now and again.
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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2011, 03:05:50 pm »
for TM Bill would be oxfoerd dictionary and khamasutra...lol
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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2011, 03:32:49 pm »
 *The Great Shark Hunt and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas....Hunter.S.Thompson...The man may have been a certified nutter but man oh man could he write.
* John Hepworth...his book......John Hepworth. A compilation of Hepworths columns from the lefty weekly, Nation Review from the seventies. Hilarious.
*The Book of Rock Lists.....Dave Marsh. Rock music bible
*The Peoples Doonesbury....Gary Trudeau Political and social observations in cartoon form. Every time I read it I find somethin I'd previously missed.
*Animal Farm...George Orwell..... A classic that almost got it right.
*The Big Leap...Frank Melling....The best book written on motocross in it's transition period in the early to mid seventies.
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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2011, 05:13:55 pm »
A GOOD KEEN MAN,By Barry Crump.
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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2011, 06:07:55 pm »
Given I read an awful lot, at least five times is easy. Here are a selection that spring to mind:

Skunkworks
every Agatha Christie ever written
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Papillon
Not Much of An Engineer
To Hell and Back
Science - a History
Suzuki (Jeff Clew)
The Art of Blacksmithing
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman?
The Making of The Atomic Bomb
Fermats Last Theorem
Business in Great Waters
Yes Minister
Love, Sex and Tractors
Chickenhawk
Accidental Empires
Bomber Command
Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy
The Forgotten Soldier
1984

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2011, 06:34:27 pm »
Personally I've never read any book more than once, we agree Graeme, except for a service manual.
Jerry, the Robert G Barrett / Les Norton books are a good laugh and make reference to a lot of Sydney's past " Underbelly " type charactors.
Mr Barrett is a fellow member along with my brother of Tamarama surf club in Syd's eastern suburbs, quite a charactor himself.
He's a similar vintage to Firko, I'd be very surprised if they haven't crossed path's at some stage, even on the footy field, but maybe not, RGB is a leaguie and MF is an elbow patcher.

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2011, 06:50:08 pm »
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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2011, 06:53:55 pm »
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He's a similar vintage to Firko I'd be very surprised if they haven't crossed path's at some stage, even on the footy field, but maybe not, RGB is a leaguie and MF is an elbow patcher.
Steve, how weird,....I actually do know Bob Barrett but thought it'd be a bit rude to mention it ;D. We're indeed both Randwick Rugby alumni!
 Bob's books are a really good aeroplane read and yes....he's definitely a character.

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2011, 06:58:37 pm »
Books ??? who has time for books! ;)


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« Reply #25 on: March 10, 2011, 07:43:35 pm »
Mark, when I said my brother I meant my other brother Robert who is the black sheep of the family.
He still has a love of bikes, he just bought a B44, but is a life member of Glamarama, school teacher and heavily involved in sport coaching on the northern beaches, took the studios option, LOSER??
I had an inkling you would've known RGB.
I haven't met him but have heard he could easily be in his own book.

Note - to SOME forum members.
How to make friends and influence people might be a good read.

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #26 on: March 10, 2011, 07:55:45 pm »
Not Much of An Engineer

Fantastic book.

The Making of The Atomic Bomb

Again, brilliant. Won a Pulitzer prize. Haven't gotten around to reading it's follow up "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb".

Sheesh Luke, you're not particle accelerator engineer are you  ::)
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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #27 on: March 10, 2011, 08:16:48 pm »
"Chickenhawk" hey, Luke.   Right up there ... an awesome read!
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Alas, I do it so often.   Love a book so much that I lend it ... and it never comes back.   Worst
part is, I can NEVER remember who I lend 'em to ...

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #28 on: March 10, 2011, 08:58:21 pm »
All my VMX mags! Does that count? J

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Re: What BOOK have you read more than five times ..?
« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2011, 09:20:22 pm »
The technique of motocross by Ake Jonsson/ Vin Gilligan
Mr Motocross by Torsten Hallman
and last but most read Yamaha Dirtbikes by Colin Mackellar
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