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Iread books because I want to go places and do things I’ve never been before, tolearn new things or to see the things I know in a new way via the words ofsomeone else. I love travel books, recipes books, history books, referencebooks, picture books, fiction and non-fiction. The best books make you feelpart of the action or they make you want to be involved in it and experience it.A good recipe book makes you go to the kitchen, a great story makes you want tolive a fuller, more exciting life. And a great book about pubs makes you wantto sit in pubs and enjoy each of them for how unique it is.


Great British Pubs (https://shop.camra.org.uk/product.php?id_product=134) by Adrian Tierney-Jones (http://maltworms.blogspot.com/), more than any other beer book I’ve read,has made me want to get up off the sofa and go places and see and do things. Abook like this will list the familiar pubs which always get listed but whatmakes it different is that you see the places in a new way, you appreciate themdifferently. Adrian didn’t look to simply list 200 pubs, he looked for what makes the pub a great place.


It’sa book about what happens in pubs. It includes what the places are actuallylike in a physical sense but it goes beyond that and it tells you what makes itdifferent, it tells of the things that happen inside, it paints the scene inthe surrounding area, it’s about the local beers drunk at particular moments, itshows off the enormous variety of places to drink and a narrative runs throughit which forms a patchwork story of the life of the pub: conversationsoverheard, stories told, pints poured, barmaids, landlords, tourists, localcommunities in action. And that’s what makes this so interesting and separates it from other pub books - it's a travel book as much as a reference guide.


Readingthis book makes me want to go to every pub in it. It makes me want to sit atthe bar and sip a pint of local beer while listening to what’s going on aroundme. It makes me want to understand for myself why the pub is such an importantplace.


GreatBritish Pubs (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-British-Camra-Adrian-Tierney-Jones/dp/1852492651) is definitely one for the Christmas list.
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