I'm off!

Speaking as someone who would be the wife looking after the small child, I'd say forget the book and spend 2 weeks with small child leaving wife by bar with cocktail!

Have a great time!

also being the wife who would be left with the children.

On a serious note, why don't you enjoy your child (and your wife!) and just relax.  When you want some quiet time, how about picking a good crime novel which requires little thought to enjoy.  Take a complete break!

Whatever you do, enjoy your well deserved rest.

C

The Street Lawer - John Grisham - or any John Grisham book, they are all good reads.

Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNabb - true story of SAS in the Gulf War. Another good read, as are most of his books.

 Forget anything "heavy" you need to relax the mind as well as the body.

Of course, if you want something more serious there will soon be some political books on the market -

"The Dummies Guide to Finance" - by Gordon (no more boom and bust) Brown - a real life dummy.

"101 Ways to Start a War" - by Tony (WMD) B_Liar.

"The Idiots Guide to Claiming Expenses" - by 650 MP's.

Like any repetitive activity, reading texts on tax, accounts, practice & personal development etc etc will result in injury and so, in addition to leaving the mouse at home, I like to take books on holiday that are outside my comfort zone or box.  In this way I hope to regenerate parts of the brain that I, and I suspect many other male accountants, find withering in the corner.

Some suggestions therefore:  Life of Pi, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, The Kite Runner, The Reader, A Spot of Bother (brilliant) & Confessions of an Eco Sinner (honestly, also brilliant).  Whatever you chose, given your views on your  nearest & dearest (emotionally rather than financial), I would also strongly suggest, Families & How to Survive Them (John Cleese & Robin Skynner) and if you don't then search out Delia Smith's "One is Fun!" a book I was given by my business partner when I got divorced.

Bon Voyage

Shanataram by Gregory David Roberts.  Quite long, but excellent.

...by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard seem peculiarly apt for tax advisers in these harrowing times:

Fear and Trembling

The Concept of Dread

The Sickness Unto Death

ebenezer cuckpowder

Have a nice holiday Jason! I would recommend a book but I'm not sure you'd like what's on my reading list - Twilight series, lots of Margaret Atwood and maybe a Sophie Kinsella if I'm feeling lazy! Who else is off on holiday now that the craziness of January is over?

By Peter Doggett (I think) is a book about The Beatles (I know, you were too young!) with the emphasis on the financial and legal affairs. In particular the set-up and running of Apple and associated companies and the subsequent management by Allen Klein.

Enjoy your well earned holiday. I'm off for a quiet week in the Cotswolds later this month. Can't wait.

...The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. If you're a detective fiction fan you'll have read it already; if not, start here. He wrote two more novels as a series and then tragically died suddenly.

A reminder that Swedish culture goes beyond the execrable Mamma Mia.

Of Bees and Mist - Erick Setiawan

Not what I was expecting at all- excellent

Just don't leave it lying around!

Freakonomics by Levitt and Butler.  A totally new way to look at economics (if a bit American).

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.  An alternative view on all those science stories you see on the news.

One recent autobiography that you might like - Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer - by Michael Mansfield.

Ive just returned from Dubai and was reading Freakonomics - didn't think it was much cop.

You can't go wrong with anything that's won a booker prize - The White Tiger is the latest. Or the Booker of Bookers - Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie.

Most importany - have a nice time!

One of the best I've read recently (although it's been out for years I think) is Nelson Mandela's. A thoroughly fascinating book.

Hasnt Mandela recently come out as a film?

Your 'outing' of Nelson Mandela is a libel. I hope he throws the book at you.

I thought the film was based on some rugby-type book and was more about the World Cup that S Africa won rather than Mandela's life?

'Invictus' is the name of the film, and it's really about the end of apartheid and the forging of a single nation, facilitated by the 'Boks rugby team championed by Mandela.

More interesting is the forthcoming biopic of Winnie Mandela, played by Jennifer Hudson, who's a bit more pleasing on the eye than Morgan Freeman IMHO. The real Winnie has already threatened to sue the film makers for misrepresenting her, so it must be true to life.

None of this helps the OP, who is presumably not going to be humping a TV round with him on the beach.

Scurrilous

Your 'outing' of Nelson Mandela is a libel. I hope he throws the book at you.

Posted by skylarking on Thu, 04/02/2010 - 12:09

You're the "expert" on libel arent you.

Dont bother trying to inflame - I will ignore you.

that someone has had a complete humour bypass

No - proof that the cyber stalking by two individuals has reached the point where action is being considered.

And yet again an interesting thread has been taken over by mud-slinging & paranoia. Why can't A-Web just kick them off permanently?

I'd recommend Patriot Games by Tom Clancy - I've read it so many times & love it. Have to admit I've just put in another order with Amazon for more of the E-Myth series having just read the E-Myth Revisited again. If only I had the time to put the ideas into practice!!

Have a good holiday!

And yet again an interesting thread has been taken over by mud-slinging & paranoia. Why can't A-Web just kick them off permanently?

Posted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/02/2010 - 08:43

Perhaps Aweb needs to consider that it is two particular individuals (or their "anonymous" persona) who repeatedly and consistently wade in with personal abuse and infantile posts.  Do you see anywhere in this or indeed any other thread where I have been the aggressor?  Save yourself the trouble of looking - the answer is no.

The sad fact is that there are two obsessive individuals who have decided to embark on a course of conduct amounting to harassment as defined by 22 Protection from Harassment Act 1997.  If it were not me, then someone else would be their victim.

It's a bit old now but The God Delusion has it's merits and will refresh those parts of your brain that have become sidlined recently. Anything by Terry Pratchett is good, a) for a laugh and b) for the biting satire hidden in the obvious humour. Unseen Academicals has a swipe at football, tribalism, the fashion industry and anyone who has worked with a good MD, Senior Partner or CEO will immediately recognise Mustrum Ridcully.

Enjoy the break, I'm off to Dublin tomorrow for the 1st Six Nations Game.

Good Luck to France, Scotland. Wales, Italy and even England but the boys in green are my team.

But I thoroughly enjoyed "Narrow dog to Carcosanne" - about a couple and their dog taking a narrowboat across the English Channel. As a keen narrowboater I loved it - and the writer's dry wit had me smiling for days.

And a pub recommendation for skylarking if I'm not too late - depends how far south in the cotswolds you get but I can thoroughly recommend The Old Fleece on the A46 just outside Stroud (towards Bath) for a pint and a meal.

Missed this thread so will just say, have a wonderful time away Jason : )