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This is my second reading and I am reading every word just about as fast as you can read 1000 pages (on pg. 735 currently)



Fall of Giants
Novel by Ken Follett

4.2/5 Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) by Ken Follett ? Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

3.6/5 Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) by Ken Follett, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

Fall of Giants is a historical novel by Welsh-born author Ken Follett. It is the first in the Century Trilogy, and follows five interrelated families throughout the course of the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Giants

Originally published: September 28, 2010

Author: Ken Follett

Followed by: Winter of the World

Genre: Historical drama

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers

Characters: Maud Fitzherbert, Lev Peshkov, Walter von Ulrich

Prisoner of Heaven, Carlos Ruiz Zafròn (2011) 8/10...an easy compelling story whose tale moves the reader swiftly along.
A joy to read without any heavy thinking though one might well bone up on Spain's Facist 30's history and the battle between Nationalists and Republicans and the strains of that civil war tune continuing to date.

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

Prisoner of Heaven, Carlos Ruiz Zafròn (2011) 8/10...an easy compelling story whose tale moves the reader swiftly along.
A joy to read without any heavy thinking though one might well bone up on Spain's Facist 30's history and the battle between Nationalists and Republicans and the strains of that civil war tune continuing to date.

An excellent read. I just finished his complete collection and loved it.
Well worth a second read which is something I rarely do.

just reading
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2004)



The descriptions of life and India can be interesting, if a little too rich at times.
Trouble is I'm not keeping up with the plot that well; if there is one...
About 10% into it, might give it another half hour.

Still it's nice to read books by indigenous authors, from countries like India, rather than plastic immigrants already living in the west.

Originally Posted by blue

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (2004)

On my list. I must get to it.

“Once a month, only for a few days, my charming sweetheart transforms into a furious avatar.”

― Ravinder Singh, Can Love Happen Twice?

Decent Ride - Irvine Welsh.

It old very funny and provokes the occasional boner - which is always a bonus.

I'm looking forward to that one.

Tangled

A story of a beautiful long-lost princess destined for a life of imprisonment.

Stanger in a strange land, Robert A. Heinlein.... an oldie, SF mixed with liberterism

Originally Posted by Tommy

Stanger in a strange land, Robert A. Heinlein

Great book. A JC analog.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Tommy

Stanger in a strange land, Robert A. Heinlein

Great book.

Cult classic - when futuristic/sf melded splendidly.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

Decent Ride - Irvine Welsh.

I am labouring through this foriegn language book , but sometimes I do wonder if it is worth it

"REBELS" An account of ( Aris Roussinos) his time spent with Jihadist Warlords in Libya, it is very obvious that the NATO airforce was the rebels airforce and the rebels would never have overthrown Ghadaffi without white mans big helping hand.
The hidden truth about war is how much fun it is, for Moslem boys.

Terry Pratchett. r.i.p.

I've been putting it off for years but, having got his collection will go for it.
The first I've read;

"The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents"

was brilliant in a light hearted way. Recommended.

Now to see what the rest are like.

I'm just reading a Sci fi book, Ubik by Philip k dick, which took a few chapters to get going- but now, mid way is wonderfuly different and with a lovely twist too on the time theme.

I don't want to finish it, so I'm just reading one chapter a night.

Recently read another of his books The man in the high Castle which was ok, but this one is, maybe, as good as A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep- both super

"Exodus" by Leon Uris. Spellbinding and worth at least two reads

Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, it challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant.

Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes, but when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral.

Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court

"If Kurt Vonnegut and Dave Chappelle had a baby and really messed with its head, it would write this novel. I hope Paul Beatty takes that as a compliment because it's meant that way"

I will read that, ^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Beatty


Coming to the end of the T. Pratchett collection and I'm just about witched out.
Very clever, very funny, superb use of language, fantasy and wit but not to be done in one lump sum, in my view.
I al glad I've read them though after all these years of ignoring him and, I must admit being rather scathing.

Still, all good and onto the next.....

George Orwells letters await.

Originally Posted by Norton

Paul Beatty's The Sellout

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Hormegeddon: How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster

Paperback – August 29, 2014

“Hormegeddon” is the term coined by entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author Bill Bonner to describe what happens when you get too much of a good thing in the sphere of public policy, economics and business. Simply put, it ends in disaster.

Drawing on stories and examples from throughout modern political history—from Napoleon's invasion of Russia to the impending collapse of the American healthcare system, from the outbreak of WWII and the fall of the Third Reich to the 21st century War on Terror, from the Great Recession to the sovereign debt crisis—Bonner pursues a modest ambition: to understand what goes wrong.

History is not a clean yarn spun by its victors. It is a long tale of things that went FUBAR—debacles, disasters, and catastrophes. That each disaster carries with it a warning is what makes it useful to study. For instance, if the architect of a great ship tells you that ‘not even God himself could sink this ship,' you should take the next boat. If the stock market is selling at 20 times earnings and all the expert analysts urge you to ‘get in’ because you ‘can’t lose’—it’s time to get out!

Similarly, public policy disasters are what you get when well meaning people with this same Titanic degree of certitude apply rational, small-scale problem-solving logic to inappropriately large scale planning. First, you get a declining rate of return on your investment (of time or resources) until you hit zero. Then, if you keep going through the zero floor—and you always keep going—you get a disaster.

The problem is, these disasters cannot be stopped by well-informed smart people with good intentions, because they are the people who cause them in the first place.

From the mind of Bill Bonner comes Hormegeddon, a phenomenon that occurs when a small dose of something produces a favorable result, but if you increase the dosage, the results end in disaster. The same applies when the world gets too much of a good thing in public policy, economics, and business. Drawing on examples throughout modern political history, Bonner brings context and understanding to this largely ignored and anonymous phenomenon.

Come on give us your own review or at least how it is so far

Originally Posted by wjblaney

Do you have an ebook download Web site?

Got it on Piratebay. The New York Times Best Sellers Fiction November 13 2016. Sorry don't know how to post torrent link.