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With work and all the first world problems out there, I could do with being knocked down a peg or two and reminded when I need to MTFU.
So, based on that, can anyone recommend any books that would remind me that we are not all unique and fantastic, and that some people do go through a lot worse than dropping your toast butter side down.
So far i've found Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart.
[url= https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33600.Shantaram ]Shantaram[/url] by Gregory David Roberts
Heroes by John Pilger
Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew by Bernard Hare
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Urban-Grimshaw-Shed-Crew-Bernard/dp/0340837357
Pity the Nation.
Robert Fisk
Doesn't get much more humbling than this...
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South, Ernest Shackleton
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Without-My-Sister-Violated/dp/0007248075 ]Not Without My Sister[/url]
.......and not a bad cyclist either
12 Years a Slave?
Most war memoirs. Chickenhawk is excellent.