zenikoy Posted November 15, 2023 Posted November 15, 2023 (edited) Just finished and just started. I highly recommend Secret River, a convict settlement story spanning London, Sydney Town and the Hawksberry River. I Am Pilgrim is a highly rated page turner, spy-action number. Not my usual thing and has some wearying stereotypes but I reckon I'll get through and enjoy. Edited November 15, 2023 by zenikoy 2
zenikoy Posted December 21, 2023 Posted December 21, 2023 3 hours ago, hugo_wilco said: Xmas classic at my place. Should be an old Tom Waits song title. 1 2
BLAH BLAH Posted December 22, 2023 Posted December 22, 2023 After watching Toby Jones in the TV Series The Long Shadow...chased up Michael Bilton's book on the Yorkshire Ripper..."Wicked Beyond Belief"...slow start just a tad heavy reading for Chrissy... 2
Rocketfrogs Posted December 22, 2023 Posted December 22, 2023 Another attempt at this monster. James Joyce 'Ulysses' 3 1
andyr Posted December 24, 2023 Posted December 24, 2023 1 hour ago, The Fez said: Ooh, mate ... after posting that - I think you need to now be looking over your shoulder! 1
The Fez Posted December 24, 2023 Posted December 24, 2023 11 minutes ago, andyr said: Ooh, mate ... after posting that - I think you need to now be looking over your shoulder! 60/40
mrbuzzardstubble Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 I haven't read this but if you're into comedy.... Some of the reviews on amazon.uk are hilarious and this one from the Guardian ain't bad either. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/19/five-year-old-on-acid-liz-truss-ten-years-to-save-the-west-digested-by-john-crace 1 1
Godot Posted April 24, 2024 Posted April 24, 2024 Recent reads: Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod. Excellent, mad, sad, humorous and not enough to put Mrs Godot off a dog sled ride in Canada on a recent visit. Any Ordinary Day, by Leigh Sales. A good exploration of how horrific events are processed. Sobering, insightful and inspiring. Bowl of Heaven series. An oldie but a goody, 3 book series by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven. I’ve read them before and I’ll read them again! 2
buddyev Posted May 27, 2024 Posted May 27, 2024 (edited) Always good to find an intelligent spy thriller writer - most of it these days is cliched drivel. This guy is very good on the details of modern espionage as well as the international politics behind it. And he can write. Edited May 27, 2024 by buddyev 3
Luc Posted May 29, 2024 Posted May 29, 2024 With the wars going on around the world and the potential for larger conflict I thought I'd give this a whirl. 2 1
andyr Posted May 29, 2024 Posted May 29, 2024 1 hour ago, Luc said: With the wars going on around the world and the potential for larger conflict I thought I'd give this a whirl. If you really want to get ready for it, Luc ... I suggest Herman Hesse is passe! (You really need to read "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,"! )
The Fez Posted May 29, 2024 Posted May 29, 2024 2 hours ago, Luc said: With the wars going on around the world and the potential for larger conflict I thought I'd give this a whirl. See also the classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson. 2
Steff Posted June 21, 2024 Posted June 21, 2024 A close companion and collaborator of Borges (whose works I have just re-read) - The Invention of Morel is a novella very much in the vein of Borgesian mystery and fantastical absurdism. 2
Rocketfrogs Posted June 27, 2024 Posted June 27, 2024 Arnold Schwarzenegger 'The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding' 1
cafe67 Posted June 30, 2024 Posted June 30, 2024 Picked this up cheap via burning shed, while I like his music and have some of his albums, not an aficionado of TD. But about half way through , it has been quite a fun and interesting read and a lot of things about him that I wasn’t aware off. playing keyboards for Lena lovich and in her lucky one film clip doing keyboards for foreigner at the invite of Mutt Lange doing keyboards for Dave Bowie at Live Aid Wembley producing a Joanie Mitchell album only to fall out with her and get fired getting Eddie Van Halen to play on his astronauts & Heretics album Getting Gerry Garcia & Rob Weir to play on the same album being screwed over repeatedly by record labels Writing some tunes for Michael Jackson Doing that odd grammy gig with Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock . Being the evil headmaster for Roger Waters performance of the “the wall” album at the Berlin Wall. 2 1
Steff Posted July 22, 2024 Posted July 22, 2024 Stevenson's imagining fifteenth century speaking patterns is wonderfully quirky and puts the plot in second place. Also available as free ebook: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/848/pg848-images.html “Nay, by the rood!” he cried, “what poor dogs are these? Here be some as crooked as a bow, and some as lean as a spear. Friends, ye shall ride in the front of the battle; I can spare you, friends. Mark me this old villain on the piebald! A two-year mutton riding on a hog would look more soldierly! Ha! Clipsby, are ye there, old rat? Y’ are a man I could lose with a good heart; ye shall go in front of all, with a bull’s eye painted on your jack, to be the better butt for archery; sirrah, ye shall show me the way.” 2 1
Cloth Ears Posted July 22, 2024 Posted July 22, 2024 Bought all of these for my Kindle (a new one) for our holiday...then left it on the plane!!! Luckily the old Kindle still works, so just finishing up the last of the Bridge trilogy. Pretty sure I'd read Burning Chrome before (a long time ago) and Idoru seemed familiar. But the others are all new. 5
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