[Books] Best Books - Your Recommendations

[Aysedasi]

Originally posted by alesi95
I got Chasing the Title by Nigel Roebuck from the local library.
I know some people don't agree with Roebuck but it was his name that convinced me to take it out.

It's an excellent read stunning stuff.

I'm always happy to read Roebuck's stuff. I think he's an excellent writer - it also helps that I very often agree with his views. If you see a copy of Grand Prix Greats by Roebuck anywhere, pick it up. My copy came out in about 85/86 - certainly before Lotus went with Camel. Roebuck writes about most of the great names over the F1 years, and each chapter is accompanied by a superb drawing of the driver. They're almost worth separating from the text and framing. (Well, almost.... )

[ensign14]

Originally posted by Aysedasi
They're almost worth separating from the text and framing. (Well, almost.... )

Famed book hunter Drif Field calls this practice 'libricide'.

[Aysedasi]

Good word ensign. I wouldn't do it, of course.....

[condor]

Originally posted by gfm
Anybody read 'Bernie's Game'? (I can't bring myself to buy it)

Just finished reading it for the 2nd time
It is tough going - but very interesting. A must for every F1 fan to read.

[alesi95]

yeah, The SLEC/Kirch dealings are hard reading.

[FIRE]

Books about Group C, any recommendations?


The reviews of Ian Briggs/John Starkey's Golden Era aren't very positive.

[luke]

The latest and last Michael Schuamcher book looks great. I think I'm getting that for either my birthday or christmas...along with the latest Senna hard back book....and of course a F1 2006-2007 yearbook. Autocourse are the best, but £40 is a rip off!

[Knowlesy]

Autocourse is worth every penny usually (bar 2004).

The Schumacher book I can guarantee will be unmitigated drivel, knowing the author in question.

[ensign14]

Originally Posted by FIRE

Books about Group C, any recommendations?


The reviews of Ian Briggs/John Starkey's Golden Era aren't very positive.

The original Briggs book, which is rather expensive, I'm afraid.

[luke]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Autocourse is worth every penny usually (bar 2004).

The Schumacher book I can guarantee will be unmitigated drivel, knowing the author in question.

Autocurse are very good, but £40 is very expensive, imagine collecting all of them. I think you do?...

I agree about the Schui book, but all of my other ones on him are old, and I want to read about the latest years...ad it will of course be my last of his...

[SALEEN S7R]

£40 for Autocourse? Where are you buying yours from!? Check out Amazon they have the 2006 Annual for £27.20.

[luke]

Originally Posted by SALEEN S7R

£40 for Autocourse? Where are you buying yours from!? Check out Amazon they have the 2006 Annual for £27.20.

GPL Christmas cat...

TSF1's latest website pole something has Senna remaning cars £10, and £5 on his clothing for starters...

GPL is quite a rip off at times....

That's why I call them Grand Prix Leg ends.

[Davhut]

Brock Yates' "Against Death and Time," a fabulous historical account of the early post WWII years in US Champ Car racing.

[Knowlesy]

luke, why you continue to even bother with GPL is beyond me. They are so hopelessly poor, combining the worst customer service of all time with delivery times slower than glacial drift and prices competitive with Harrods. They are a pointless "service" and you may as well throw your money down the toilet, it has the same effect.

Surf the net and you find bargains.

For example, as SALEEN points out, Autocourse is £26 on Amazon. I got mine there. This was also delivered at a reasonable cost in rapid time. Generally, all books are discounted online (apart from on GPL).

Admittedly my Autocourse was a damaged one (the back of the cover was torn. Can you get replacements?) but this is bound to happen with mail order at some point. Apart from that, everything I've bought has been cheap and in perfect nick.

Also, have you tried Millhouse books? I pick up a load of books there at a fraction of full price. For example I got about six seperate Autcourses for about £8 each.

[luke]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

luke, why you continue to even bother with GPL is beyond me. They are so hopelessly poor, combining the worst customer service of all time with delivery times slower than glacial drift and prices competitive with Harrods. They are a pointless "service" and you may as well throw your money down the toilet, it has the same effect.

Surf the net and you find bargains.

For example, as SALEEN points out, Autocourse is £26 on Amazon. I got mine there. This was also delivered at a reasonable cost in rapid time. Generally, all books are discounted online (apart from on GPL).

Admittedly my Autocourse was a damaged one (the back of the cover was torn. Can you get replacements?) but this is bound to happen with mail order at some point. Apart from that, everything I've bought has been cheap and in perfect nick.

Also, have you tried Millhouse books? I pick up a load of books there at a fraction of full price. For example I got about six seperate Autcourses for about £8 each.

I've bought several Autocourses' from both Millhouse and Amazon, ebay for that matter as well.

[Knowlesy]

Well there you go then!

[luke]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Well there you go then!

However they were CART/OWRS Autocourses so....They are only around £30 new and £25 to £27 on Amazon, not much of a discount there...

[Knowlesy]

I think I got some CART Autocourses from Millhouse much cheaper, but they sold out quickly. The only one that cost me greatly was the 1999 version, but I didn't mind that.

[luke]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

I think I got some CART Autocourses from Millhouse much cheaper, but they sold out quickly. The only one that cost me greatly was the 1999 version, but I didn't mind that.

LOL, well the 1999 one I got cheapish, but 2001, 2002, 2003 I bought from Millhouse and they were all standard price...The rest I got on ebay cheap as they were quite old as you'd expect, but the 1999 book was brand new, just never looked at..
The 2005 book I got on Amazon for around £27 new...at the start of this year..

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by ensign14

The original Briggs book, which is rather expensive, I'm afraid.

Most sportscar books are expensive

[groupseven]

quiet on this thread for a long while ! anyone have information about the Bob Wallace book by Maria Christina Guizzardi, it was printed a year or two ago. sold out quickly ! I read some where that there is to be a second printing. would like to get a copy, can't seem to find much about it anywhere !

Mike, in Canada

[chunterer]

The Brian Redman book is very enjoyable and interesting. Extremely eloquent.

[John Turner]

Quiet because we seem to open up new threads occasionally. Here's a couple on good books


http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=Books

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=Books

And one on bad books

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=Books

[coppice]

The Redman book is excellent - despite its awful title and terrible cover.

Mark Hughes was involved with the ghosting , it appears , and it is beautifully written , insightful , hugely informative and with a lovely dry wit. The photos are superb- some I have seen before but many were new to me. The most bizzare is the Gerhard Mitter funeral cortege ; seven works Porsche drivers in race overalls walking by a 911 with a coffin on top- with poor Mitter's race helmet on the front of the bloody coffin. Surreal and ghastly.

But a great book from a great driver- and so much nicer to read than either the near paranoid ramblings of the moustachioed one or the simply woeful effort from our kilted friend ...

[coppice]

Damon Hill's recently published autobiography is outstanding. I have reviewed it for speedreaders.info - if not on front page search by reviewer -John A.

Anyway- just a great book, very personal and a real contrast to the drivel we have seen from some drivers . To his great credit 95% +of the book is written by Damon himself.