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09 Aug 2023 11:30:43
Hi Ed001, wonder if you could provide any insight, Do you know of any books around the inner working of major football clubs? ideally around the actual business management side of things?
It is something I am interested to learn a bit more about, particularly the senior executive roles and what they do day to day.
On another note, just started the book Snowing in Bali and would highly recommend as well as the book Hotel K. The first one is about the drug smuggling trade started by the surfing community.
{Ed001's Note - that is a really good point, I don't know of any. That is something that surely someone is missing an opportunity of writing about.}
20 Jun 2023 11:13:42
Bit of an oldie, but just ordered the full set of the Witcher books. Really good reading so far.
{Ed001's Note - I heard they were good, I wish I had got them for myself now when I had the chance. It was only because they were ebooks and I don't really like ebooks that I didn't. I spend so much of my day reading on a screen for the sites, I much prefer to read a real physical book.}
1.) 20 Jun 2023 13:56:58
I'm the same, I had a Kindle but didn't really enjoy it. Can't be holding a book, plus I like to pass books on as well. I received a copy of The Power of One from an old friend who had received it while travelling and basically this book had been passed along countless times. When I finished it, I did the same, was a pretty cool idea, though prob wouldn't happen post Covid now!
{Ed001's Note - I used to go to book fairs and stuff to buy second hand books. I am sure that still happens. Covid won't have affected it surely?}
2.) 23 Jun 2023 15:01:31
Wouldn't have thought so, not in the UK, pretty much back to normal. I have to travel into London every now and then for work and didn't see a single person wearing a mask on the underground yesterday
{Ed001's Note - they still wear masks here in large numbers. No idea why as they were utterly useless anyway.
Real books are definitely better than ebooks, I mean just now I had a bug of some kind (think it was an earwig) crawling by me and I was able to just squish it. Couldn't do that with an ebook without trashing it!}
08 Oct 2020 00:19:46
Trying to get more involved in this site as opposed to just the Liverpool Rumours page! Reading a couple at the minute, first is Empire of the Summer Moon, highly recommend and the second is one I have been meaning to read for years, The Art of War. Not really a page turner, but definitely has some values that can be carried into everyday life and work.
Keen for some recommendations, not really a fiction fan.
{Ed001's Note - The Art of War I have read numerous times, really worthy of study. What types of non-fiction do you like? Biographies? History?}
1.) 09 Oct 2020 00:22:21
I like history as well as the sort of biographical adventure books, I read Ranulph Fiennes "Scott" recently, that was a good read.
{Ed001's Note - have you read any other of Fiennes' books? One of his first books made him the target of an assassination attempt as it revealed too much about what Britain had done in the Gulf. Has to be worth a read if it is worth trying to kill someone over!}
2.) 09 Oct 2020 08:16:28
Will give it a go, I've read another of his, "Cold", was really good. I actually met him when I was back in the UK, he was doing a talk in a local town. Great speaker and really nice guy, signed the book as well!
{Ed001's Note - he is great, mad as a March hare though, but utterly brilliant.}
23 Jun 2023 15:01:31
Wouldn't have thought so, not in the UK, pretty much back to normal. I have to travel into London every now and then for work and didn't see a single person wearing a mask on the underground yesterday
{Ed001's Note - they still wear masks here in large numbers. No idea why as they were utterly useless anyway.
Real books are definitely better than ebooks, I mean just now I had a bug of some kind (think it was an earwig) crawling by me and I was able to just squish it. Couldn't do that with an ebook without trashing it!}
20 Jun 2023 13:56:58
I'm the same, I had a Kindle but didn't really enjoy it. Can't be holding a book, plus I like to pass books on as well. I received a copy of The Power of One from an old friend who had received it while travelling and basically this book had been passed along countless times. When I finished it, I did the same, was a pretty cool idea, though prob wouldn't happen post Covid now!
{Ed001's Note - I used to go to book fairs and stuff to buy second hand books. I am sure that still happens. Covid won't have affected it surely?}
20 Jun 2023 11:13:09
Hi Ed/AIFred, it was Ranulph Fiennes not Ralph that wrote the book. easily confused though, there are loads of them! It's a great read though
{Ed001's Note - I know that mate, but I figured out how he meant and there didn't seem much point correcting him as it could have simply been autocorrect.}
09 Oct 2020 08:16:28
Will give it a go, I've read another of his, "Cold", was really good. I actually met him when I was back in the UK, he was doing a talk in a local town. Great speaker and really nice guy, signed the book as well!
{Ed001's Note - he is great, mad as a March hare though, but utterly brilliant.}
09 Oct 2020 00:22:21
I like history as well as the sort of biographical adventure books, I read Ranulph Fiennes "Scott" recently, that was a good read.
{Ed001's Note - have you read any other of Fiennes' books? One of his first books made him the target of an assassination attempt as it revealed too much about what Britain had done in the Gulf. Has to be worth a read if it is worth trying to kill someone over!}
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