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AdamJ

@Bridger nice one man! It's a gooden. See you down here next year!

Giles

@Bridger Let us know when you are about, weather permitting, we could take the boat out....

Bridger

Sounds great @Giles, thank you!

I will drop you a note when I sort my plans.

Bridger

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@AdamJ said in Books:

haha I had not seen this thread till now, I am half way through this atm @Giles

Thanks @AdamJ, Christmas reading sorted prior to visiting the Victory hopefully before the new year

The book references Nelson having breakfast at the George hotel in Portsmouth. It this a decent enough hotel to stay or would people recommend other places in Portsmouth?

Giles

Decent hotel, Pompey - that could be an oxymoron

Bridger

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Pompey - that could be an oxymoron

Thanks @Giles, decent hotel is useful.

I will need a locals decoder ring to understand the rest

Giles

Holiday Inn Express Gunwharf. Is without doubt the least adventurous, but a safe bet

https://www.guestreservations.com/holiday-inn-portsmouth-portsmouth/booking?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=991006015&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=991006015&gbraid=0AAAAADiMQMauXR6LwaLNRadpLqD745QJw&gclid=CjwKCAiAu67KBhAkEiwAY0jAlW5XH4C59tx79GyROXV_eOqVZtLqM7NvWa_-jERgH44KsMqStnPfGRoCHyYQAvD_BwE&ctTriggered=true

Bridger

Thanks @Giles, I didn't figure Nelson as a Holiday Inn guy, but hey ho!

Bridger

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@AdamJ said in Books:

haha I had not seen this thread till now, I am half way through this atm @Giles

Thanks @AdamJ, Christmas reading sorted prior to visiting the Victory hopefully before the new year

I am currently in Argentiere, Chamonix valley, reading this. Took me a while to figure I probably should be more discreet with my reading material

Tago Mago

@Bridger what are they going to do, preemptive surrender?

Bridger

Ouch! Good thing the mods like you more than me @Tago-Mago

tenuin

@AdamJ

its funny how the old algorithm works. i just added this to my 'to-read' pile (thanks for the recommendatio!) and once i opened youtube, this was one of the first suggestions

long-ish but fun watch about the HMS Victory.

i've recently finished The Thirty Years War

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11107577-the-thirty-years-war

Its a long one, and very in-depth, and with so many events and people to cover it can be confusing but overall a very good read.

I was also enjoyed Endurance by Lansing. Such an incredible story. At times its hard to believe it a true story and that man can survive such an ordeal.

AdamJ

@tenuin the algorithm moves in mysterious ways! That video is awesome though. Makes you appreciate the sailing more when you know what the ships were like.

My Dad was talking about the Endurance the other day. Never really read much about it so it's going on the list!

sabergirl

I heard a story on NPR about the disappearance of mass market paperbacks. It makes me a little sad, actually. https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=nx-s1-5651272:nx-s1-9587639

Giles

@AdamJ said in Books:

My Dad was talking about the Endurance the other day. Never really read much about it so it's going on the list!

Paula bought me a hardback version of Finding Endurance for our recent anniversary. She knows how much it moved me, so she wanted me to have one to keep.

Let me know when you have finished your current reads and you can borrow it....

Bridger

@tenuin said in Books:

its funny how the old algorithm works. i just added this to my 'to-read' pile (thanks for the recommendatio!) and once i opened youtube, this was one of the first suggestions

long-ish but fun watch about the HMS Victory.

Thanks for the video share @tenuin. I hope to visit the Victory this week if I can manage it. It looks like an incredible feat of engineering and appetite for destruction.

AdamJ

@Giles thanks G

John Galt

Got me interested in reading about The Endurance. Any recommendations in choosing between the version by Lansing or the account by Bristol-Bovey?

Giles

I have not read Lansing yet, but will do soon. As I have said above, I found the Bristol-Bovey book remarkable for his personal insights, and for that, I suspect it is a more rounded, but less detailed account. I suspect that Lansing will be a meticulous account with fewer personal insights....

mclaincausey

@Giles nailed it. Both are worthy reads for those differences. Reading the details and how their mentalities were was a fun angle in the Lansing one. He interviewed a bunch of them and has access to journals so really nice.

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