Today I shall be reading 'Stonehenge' by Bernard Cornwell.
Today I shall be reading 'Stonehenge' by Bernard Cornwell.
Hey Marmite ... here's a book more your speed dawg:
^ I have actually read all the Captain Underpants books. My students and I enjoyed them immensely.
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
The blog is here
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/
Just finished the Long Way Round Ewin Mcgreger and charlie booreham.
Good read.Anyone know of a good book along the same lines?
Still reading novels.
Just about to finish Author Author by David Lodge. A factionalised account of the last years of Henry James and his attempts to be a successful playwright in England.
I have always enjoyed books by Lodge often based in UK academia
just finished Eleven minutes by Paulo Coelho, or have i already mentioned that ?
"Siam or The Woman Who Shot A Man" -- Lily Tuck
The intriguing and quick reading tale of a young American newlywed who comes to Bangkok in 1967, along with her US military husband, and who sees her life disintegrate without understanding why.
Moved on to this book:
Very good so far. It's about Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton.
Some really good stuff on Ford who we never hear much about.
Time for another book. Started this one last night by Peter Jenkins ... not an easy read. So far I've learned that England had to have their country bailed out with an IMF loan back in 1976 ... something only Third World countries do
That's what happens when we have a Labour government; they make a fucking mess of things.Originally Posted by Storekeeper
i don't have time to read books.
I'm trying to make ground on marmite's post count.
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Just saw a documentary on Ram Dass, so I thought I should read his classic book.
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Well have finished the Lodge book "Author Author' which i enjoyed.
Well oick up a Henry James book soon. I do not believe I have read any of his in the past.
Since then i have also just finished "A year in the Merde" by Stephen Clarke.
Crap!
"This is the season's word-of-mouth must have book" Daily Mail. Thank goodness I don't read the Mail.
A book about one englishman's year in France trying to work. Must have been written in a weekend at best. I wouldn't have employed him.
Cheap laughs at the expense of France. I say laughs but it rarely raised a smirk from me.
I was expecting a humourous look at cultural incompetence instead I found only incompetence.
I may well be in the minority as he already has a sequel out "Absolutely Merde". He probably wrote them both in the same weekend.
A running "joke" through the book is that almost each week there is one strike or another in France. Proving to him it would appear that everything French is useless.
It reminded me of my time living/studying/workking in France in the late 70's. It also relates to Strekeepers comments above regarding IMF loans.
Well the manufacturing company i worked for used to receive a very lengthy daily update from the Uk on the staus of industrial relations within their Uk suppliers.
As an Englishman it made an embarrassing read - everyday there was a long list of strikes in the UK with suppliers unable to supply.
Was known then as the "maladie anglais" - english disease..
Storekeeper the UK was not a great place to be in the 70's. Forced 3 day working weeks, no money.often no electricity. I recall doing homework by candlelight
A fact that the author seems to have forgotten- probably far too young if his writing style is anything to go by.
The book reminded me of the Confessions of a Windowcleaner type books of the 70's without the sex
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Ervine Welsh... Not that good, it is a like a blury photocopy of his earlier work
The Birthday Girl - Stephen Leather
Tony Freeman first met Mersiha when she was a twelve-year-old killer with a Kalashnikov, fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. He rescued her from the heart of the brutal civil war and took her into his family where she grew up to be the perfect all-American teenager - pretty, vivacious, intelligent, but with an agonising secret in her past.
Freeman can only guess at what Mersiha went through before he adopted her. And he has problems of his own - an unfaithful wife and a struggling arms manufacturing company which is counting the cost of the peace dividend.
Mersiha is fiercely protective of her new family. And when, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, she discovers that two of her father's company shareholders have made him an offer he's not expected to refuse, she decides to help. Whatever the risk. And Mersiha has been trained to kill.
The consequences of her interference are lethal because she has unearthed a dangerous conspiracy and the shareholders want revenge.
Kurt Vonnegut "The sirens of Titan"
"Smonk" by Tom Franklin. It's a Southern, not a Western, set in south Alabama in 1911. It is a true southern grotesque, in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor -- religious imagery, sex and violence, and so fast-paced that it's painful to put down.
Windows Server 2003 - The complete reference.
'Picking up girls using hypnotism'
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