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Further reading as part of my course. Quite readable if you have a basic knowledge of Roman history.
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I might finally get a chance to start reading for pleasure again this week, and John le Carré's 'Absolute Friends' is next on the shelf. I'm trying to make a sustained effort to get through 21st C novels this year as I always feel severely under-read with them.
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Private dick investigating mysteries via resolutely over-boiled noir prose. Loving it.
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Darkness_Fish wrote:
Private dick investigating mysteries via resolutely over-boiled noir prose. Loving it.
Crumly is tops in my book! I've read them all but there aren't too many.
Question authority.
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The Men’s Club by Leonard Michaels review – 152 pages of escalating stupidity
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/ ... els-review
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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
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'Wicked Beyond Belief'
Michael Bilton
An account of the Yorkshire Ripper hunt.
Too graphic in places. I don't need to know everything about how those poor women were defiled. But, as a bit of local ( I was born and bred in Halifax, a quarter of a mile away from one of the murders) history it is very interesting. Though I was young when it was all going on I have very clear memories of the news reports, and general level of fearfulness that pervaded the (women) folk at the time.
Michael Bilton
An account of the Yorkshire Ripper hunt.
Too graphic in places. I don't need to know everything about how those poor women were defiled. But, as a bit of local ( I was born and bred in Halifax, a quarter of a mile away from one of the murders) history it is very interesting. Though I was young when it was all going on I have very clear memories of the news reports, and general level of fearfulness that pervaded the (women) folk at the time.
Heyyyy!
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toomanyhatz wrote:The Zinn is pretty dry reading. And for a would-be-centrist like myself (mind you, the complete kookiness of the far right pushes me further and further to the left) it's a bit strident.
That said, as revisionist tomes go, it has an admirable consistency and adherence to its own worldview.
It is a bit dry, yes, and he goes at length to explain that the sheer mentioning of facts is not enough, they must be valued properly and given the indebted amijn t of airtime and placed in context. I suspect it will take me a few weeks to finish it but the book offers a wealth of knowledge about USA's history from a wide variety of sources.
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Snarfyguy wrote:Robert wrote:Joe Gould's teeth was good but not extraordinary. This one promises to be a life changing event according to the introduction:
I have that on my shelf and I've always meant to get to it. Do let us know what you make of it.
Certainly will do once I am halfway finished.
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Finally getting around to re-reading the sequel to Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, only now I don't remember what happened in the first book, even though I only re-read that a couple of years ago. Oh well!
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It's a long time since I read any Hemingway and I just finished The Sun Also Rises. I've unearthed a load more in the bookcase, that's all the next reading for the next few weeks.
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
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Minnie Cheddars wrote:It's a long time since I read any Hemingway and I just finished The Sun Also Rises. I've unearthed a load more in the bookcase, that's all the next reading for the next few weeks.
'Death in the Afternoon' is a strange one. I am anti-bloodsports, but found the book, and pictures , fascinating in the extreme.
Worth reading to give some context to certain aspects of Spanish culture.
A well written book.
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Fonz wrote:Minnie Cheddars wrote:It's a long time since I read any Hemingway and I just finished The Sun Also Rises. I've unearthed a load more in the bookcase, that's all the next reading for the next few weeks.
'Death in the Afternoon' is a strange one. I am anti-bloodsports, but found the book, and pictures , fascinating in the extreme.
Worth reading to give some context to certain aspects of Spanish culture.
A well written book.
Funny you should mention. I was thinking last night about how the beauty of the writing about bullfighting doesn't detract from the horror. I'm just talking about the scenes from The Sun Also Rises too. I may give DITA a miss.
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Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
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Confederacy of Dunces
This is right up my street. Easy to read and follow and laugh out loud funny
This is right up my street. Easy to read and follow and laugh out loud funny
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Goat Boy wrote:Confederacy of Dunces
This is right up my street. Easy to read and follow and laugh out loud funny
Yeah, it's wonderful.
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Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
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Here's the article by Greil Marcus that hipped me to "Confederacy..."
https://greilmarcus.net/2014/07/02/unde ... row-82180/
https://greilmarcus.net/2014/07/02/unde ... row-82180/
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And, on BCB advice (Pig Bodine?) this is fucking great too, not a million miles away from yer Ignatious
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fan_Man
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fan_Man
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...I'm producing facts here...
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Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
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Minnie Cheddars wrote:Goat Boy wrote:Confederacy of Dunces
This is right up my street. Easy to read and follow and laugh out loud funny
Yeah, it's wonderful.
i love it, too.