QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "Standing in Another Man's Grave" - Ian Rankin, good solid stuff and very enjoyable. Also made me want to go on the A9 to Inverness
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Ceej
Where is my mind?
Must have read a least 50-60 books last year, didn't get around to recording them. Gone for 51-100. Mostly crime, true crime, biographies and top ten. Hate chick lit/yukky love stuff and most more worthy, serious stuff makes me realise how limited and shallow my brain really is!
1. The Crime Factoy - Officer 'A'.
1. The Crime Factoy - Officer 'A'.
pennimania
still dre and drooling
3/100
Wintle's Wonders. Noel Streatfeild.
Absolutely top
one of her very best.
Wintle's Wonders. Noel Streatfeild.
Absolutely top
one of her very best.
Manter
Lunch Mob
4/51-100 the bloody white baron, James palmer. About a loopy Baltic German aristocrat, who conquered Mongolia by horse after the Russian revolution. Full of interesting asides about Tibetan Buddhism, anti semitism, the history of cavalry warfare etc. highly recommended
(Though the editor should be shot as there are some very basic mistakes- I know the transliteration of Russian names can be difficult, but they could stick to one approach per book. Or even per paragraph :grr: )
(Though the editor should be shot as there are some very basic mistakes- I know the transliteration of Russian names can be difficult, but they could stick to one approach per book. Or even per paragraph :grr: )
Ungern-Sternberg. An interesting figure from the Russian civil war. An officer in Semyonov's force, until moving into Outer Mongolia to drive out the Chinese. It's been said he got his troops to light bonfires outside the capital, to make it appear it was surrounded by a huge encamped army, but is it true?
Manter
Lunch Mob
One of the things that is interesting about the book is what he has found is true, what is clearly untrue and what he can't figure out either way. It looks like some of Semyonov's exploits have been ascribed to him, as have some of the perversions of the bogd khan (who I knew little about... What a piece of work). Great read if you haven't read it. Despite editing failures!
I read about 10 fiction books last year plus started but didn't finish quite a few others.
I'm aiming for 15 this year.
I'm aiming for 15 this year.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A nice few days off have meant I've read as many books already this year as I did in the last two months of last year! Getting a kindle means I'll probably read a lot more crime fiction/thrillers that I'd object to playing full price for, but are worth two or three quid. So:
1: Peter May - The Blackhouse. Decent mystery, set in the Outer Hebrides, keeps you guessing, and good characters, worth a punt.
2: Kim Cooper - 33 1/3 Series: In the Aeroplane over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. Wee thing on the band and making of the album, all very interesting, even if there cant be any doubt about that 'I love you, Jesus Christ' line any more
3: Ben Thompson (Ed.) - Ban This Filth! The Mary Whitehouse Letters. Very entertaining, but also a bit irritatingly glib, and contradictory in places (the editorialising, rather than MT, tho she was as well)
4: Paul D Gilbert - The Annals of Sherlock Holmes. Came highly recomended, as someone who had really captured the style of Conan Doyle. Which seemed true for the first story, but then he used exactly the same tropes and little phrases in almost all the other stories too. Still, only a quid.
1: Peter May - The Blackhouse. Decent mystery, set in the Outer Hebrides, keeps you guessing, and good characters, worth a punt.
2: Kim Cooper - 33 1/3 Series: In the Aeroplane over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. Wee thing on the band and making of the album, all very interesting, even if there cant be any doubt about that 'I love you, Jesus Christ' line any more
3: Ben Thompson (Ed.) - Ban This Filth! The Mary Whitehouse Letters. Very entertaining, but also a bit irritatingly glib, and contradictory in places (the editorialising, rather than MT, tho she was as well)
4: Paul D Gilbert - The Annals of Sherlock Holmes. Came highly recomended, as someone who had really captured the style of Conan Doyle. Which seemed true for the first story, but then he used exactly the same tropes and little phrases in almost all the other stories too. Still, only a quid.
Dunno if you like daft spy-Cthulhu riffs but Charles Stross's Laundry series uses him quite a bit.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Never tried but I'll give it a go....
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
I got a copy last year, but didn't really bother with it. Will pick it up again.
Would it be inaccurate to call him a White, at least after a certain point? The anti-Bolshevik forces were divided, and one of the disagreements was in relations with the Japanese, poking their noses in the Russian Far East.
Like with others, the Communists had a long memory when it came to Semyonov. Taken back to Moscow and executed after WWII.
You might like.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Fairly sure he wasn't white at the end in that he stopped fighting for the white cause- though he never stopped believing in it (and was fighting for prince Michael long after he was dead
)Thx, added to my wish list
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
3/51-100
The Days and Nights of London Now by Craig Taylor
easy read while I was ill
collection of people talking captured and edited bt Taylor. range of peopleactive through 24 hours. I liked the guy who ran new spitalfields wholesale market and the way all the traders wind each other up
The Days and Nights of London Now by Craig Taylor
easy read while I was ill
collection of people talking captured and edited bt Taylor. range of peopleactive through 24 hours. I liked the guy who ran new spitalfields wholesale market and the way all the traders wind each other up
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
well, i've already read 4 so i'm going for 100+. but i'll never remember to put them all on teh thread so i'll only put on books when i remember to.
at the moment i'm reading Simon Sebag Montefiore's 'Jerusalem' which is dead exciting and well written.
at the moment i'm reading Simon Sebag Montefiore's 'Jerusalem' which is dead exciting and well written.
Manter
Lunch Mob
oooh, I have that on my pile
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
it's great. something to look forward to.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
But that's the beauty of the thread. None of us ever remember all the books we read during the course of the year. That's why we list them and update them as we go along on the thread . . . and we also get the chance to rubberneck what other urbanites are reading over the course of the year.
1/15 - Great North Road - Peter F Hamilton
2/15 - Seven Wonders - Adam Christopher
(both enjoyable trash)
2/15 - Seven Wonders - Adam Christopher
(both enjoyable trash)
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Same here, I bought it for my dad too, looks good.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
what i mean is that i forget to update with every book i read.
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
1. Laughter In The Dark - Nabokov
2. Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Have always posted in this thread but have never kept to it, this year will be different.
2. Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Have always posted in this thread but have never kept to it, this year will be different.
ilovebush&blair
Well-Known Member
1/51-100 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
2/51-100 Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
2/51-100 Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
4/51-100 cut short by leigh russell
generic detective fiction -good for reading in the bath as kindle back up is about the size of it
generic detective fiction -good for reading in the bath as kindle back up is about the size of it
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