Favourite Books

[XMAX]

Hi all,

I thought Id get in on this section as well... Could you all bring up your favourite books of recent memory.

p.s. Top Car, TopGear, Speed n Sound, and other Car Magazines dont count...


Ill Start.... I Love Asterix Books. I have been reading them over and over and over. I love them every time I read them.

On a more serious note - I read a cool book called: Now Discover your Strengths. Awesome book on how to identify your stengths and areas of improvement and how to improve your strenghts and to overcome your areas of improvement. Life changing this book is...

 

[Raybimmer]

MRP AUTOGUIDE BMW 3-series 1991-1999 by Graham Robson , now busy with BMW M-series 1979-1997 by Chris Rees and next will be The ultimate History of BMW by Andrew Noakes ( 2010 ) . Bought all 3 at bargain books in E.L. .

 

[Nick]

not sure if any one has seen the TV series Band Of Brothers??
The book is 100 times better.


i also read Ink'd magazine as well as the NAG, PC format,Zoo,FHM, SpeedNsound and i have every single Jeremy Claskson Ebook.

 

[Twinz]

Great Section to the forum as well.
Here also the plan is to bring the latest print/electronic media to our members in a controlled and dedicated forum.

We plan to feature various books/magazines/articles etc...related to BMW.

 

[328-iM]

Toe ek nog n klein seuntjie was het ek net "Trompie" boeke gelees almal oor en oor....nou lees ek net SpeedandSound en Max MyRide boeke.....en kyk na TopGear...

 

[Spy007]

Read Dick Winters, his account of making of Band of Brothers and his story that was not shown in Band of Brothers.
I must be honest i love reading but time is an issue so been on Audio books for several years now, and FYI have Band of brothers unabridged on Audio book

 

[jeff_denning]

Simon Sinek - Start with Why.
Brilliant read!

 

[Sankekur]

I read most of the books by Frederick Forsyth, but textbooks have kinda killed reading for leisure for me.

 

[herr bmw]

clive cussler books and steven king

 

[Sith]

I'm a pretty rigid character so, once I like a certain thing, I try to get my grubby paws on everything I can find relating to that certain thing. So much money has been "wasted" over the years on my hobbies, I shudder. As this is about books only, here we go:

As a kid I read Tintin comics, and still have the whole collection, in various states of disrepair. Maybe I should recollect them in new condition....nooooo!!! LOL

Then I have about fifty books on BMWs, can't pick a favourite, but Jeremy Walton's "Unbeatable BMW" is up there. In addition, there are about fifty period brochures, and hundreds of old and new magazines.

There is then my Titanic and trans Atlantic ocean passenger liner books, numbering about one hundred, each being great in their own way.

Last, but not least, is my Star Wars book collection, numbering around two hundred books pertaining to all aspects on how the movies were made and their impact on pop culture. No novels, as not much of a fiction reader.

Actuallly last are various dictionaries, an atlas, some sports and non-BMW car books, some history books, and a book on the Coelacanth.

This excludes all the car parts, collectable memorabilia, scale models, a pinball machine, mountains of toys, obviously the real cars, my old Atari console with games, and a little smut

 

[Raybimmer]

Topcar from 1 st issue April 1992 to date , speed and sound every issue except first 3 , Magnum magazine every issue from May 1976 , Bike sa , Car magazine from mid 60's till date .Various bmw mags .Jack higgins , Ken Follett , Wilbur Smith -from way back when !!
Motoring , military planes and boats sorry to all the trees that were raped - I appreciate it .
One book kept newish and not read enough - Bible - the most important one .

 

[ebrahim.achmat]

hmm.. dont see anyone reading the loslyf , huslter, ect......AND DONT TELL ME YOU DONT ! lol

 

[Sith]

I don't, mine are DVDs!!! LOL!

 

[Wick-ed]

The only book collection I have is the Speed & Sound that makes up the Conquest on the binding.

 

[Budleigh]

Everything by JM Coetzee, everything by Philip Roth, Zadie Smith's stuff, and Javier Marias's work.

 

[roboman]

Tom Clancy, all the originals, not the ones he "writes" with other people

Clive Cussler, same issue.

robert Ludlum. The bourne identity. The movie was good, the book is awesome

 

[Die_Miek]

dont read much anymore, but books that had a impact on me:

your best life now- Joel Osteen
7 habits of highly effective people- Stephen R covey
The richest man in Babylon- george S Classon. this book was written in 1920's but it's still a very good read.

currently reading outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

 

[Sith]

Recently bought, therefore my current read "Killarney - 50 Golden Years of Racing". Impressions so far? Nice large coffee table style book printed on high quality art paper, plenty of great photos, and easy reading. It's a limited print run of 1500 copies. Good reading for local racing enthusiasts.

 

[Lazer]

I see a couple of Cussler fans here... I buy every one of his books when they come out, as well as Wilbur Smith and Dale Brown.

 

[Metroid]

I read most of the books by Frederick Forsyth, but textbooks have kinda killed reading for leisure for me.

I love Forsyth!
I'm going on to the last book of The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson now.