Thread: What book are you reading right now?

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I’m fascinated by the stories of the sixteenth century Eurobikies coming to SE Asiatown.
This is a collection of essays from scholars of the subject. Some are a bit academic-speakish but still readable.

I picked this field guide up while I was in England last week.



Fascinating reading and provides useful information to help with identifying damselflies and dragonflies the world over...

...just need to find my collection of photos from Germany and Thailand.

DASA Books haul. Starting with Millwall.

Dasa - That's where I sold most of my books before moving here.

My favourite bookshop in BKK.

I've bought and sold quite a few over 20 years or so.

Rereading Rage by Wilbur Smith.

It could do with a full stop or two though eh

^Sounds good Hal

I have got I Spy by Tom Marcus lined up but I have not read it yet


Just finished Spare by the ginger Prince

He comes across as a slightly sorry and forlorn figure

Also, publishing your life story is a feast for the press so it just does not add up against the central theme of animosity towards paparazzi attention

I am glad the Queen was dead before it came out

She will be turning in her tomb at the titillating tattle

Originally Posted by Looper

^Sounds good Hal

I have got I Spy by Tom Marcus lined up but I have not read it yet

The Spy And The Traitor by Ben Macintyre is excellent (non fiction). John Le Carre reckoned it to be the best spy book ever.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

The Spy And The Traitor by Ben Macintyre is excellent (non fiction). John Le Carre reckoned it to be the best spy book ever.

Yeah. I have it. Ben Mac is a good writer

Still not quite finished reading this. It makes for grim reading, but it's important for us to know in more detail than news sound-bites as to what's going on in China in regards to minorities. And why.

Reading Hell in a Very Small Place.

It is about France's last go at the Vietnamese before they tagged out in 1954

Originally Posted by Backspin

Reading Hell in a Very Small Place.

It is about France's last go at the Vietnamese before they tagged out in 1954

You need to read it more carefully if that’s your summary. Dien Bien Phu was an amazing Vietnamese victory against a complaisant French.

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell.

A summary claims it is an historical and science fiction story (whatever that means) set in Rhodesia.

Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative, dazzling' SALMAN RUSHDIE
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift.
In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles his fate with those of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy.
So begins a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond.
'Brilliant . . . heartbreaking' Sunday Times
'Electric . . . Serpell is a major talent' Financial Times
'A novel that satisfies on all levels' Alice Sebold
'Charming, heartbreaking and breathtaking' Carmen Maria Machado
Longlisted for the Debut Crown Historical Writers Association Award 2019
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019

That looks like a great book backspin, I'm going to buy that st8 away!

Yea, that was the final nail in the coffin so I understand.

I am currently reading The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. By Kenneth Conboy

Fascinating read, especially the details around CIA's Aranyaprathet base, known as the Hilton, and the station chief who arrived there in the late 1980s

Originally Posted by DrWilly

You need to read it more carefully if that’s your summary. Dien Bien Phu was an amazing Vietnamese victory against a complaisant French.

You could do with reading your own posts more carefully.

*complacent

but thanks for the correction.

Infinite Jest

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Originally Posted by hallelujah

if anyone has any suggestions...

For those of you that don't know Brixmis was a little known Cold War unit who's role was to obtain as much military intelligence about the Russian forces in East Germany as possible, within the rules laid down in the Robertson-Malinin Agreement made shortly after the end of the war in Europe. The Soviets were allowed a similar mission in West Germany called Soxmis. There were also French and US equivalents.

The original intention was to create a mechanism to facilitate liaison between the occupying military governments, particularly between those of the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The exchange of military liaison missions appeared to offer a convenient solution, however they soon effectively became spying missions.

With only cameras and tape recorders Brixmis were allowed to travel across East Germany and obtained a constant stream of information on Soviet equipment and dispositions despite the constant harrying and in some cases assualts of the STASI and Russian special forces.

Steve Gibson's book complements Tony Geraghty's by covering the Brixmis mission up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and German re-unification.

It's full of tales of derring do, close scrapes with the Stasi and fascinating detail of how they obtained their intelligence.

Live and Let Spy by Steve Gibson | Goodreads

Fresh off the Lazada printing press, some pre-OU MA reading.






Might as well read the first one as I've got two copies of the second.

130 baht well spent.