May Kasahara
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The Starchild Trilogy is good quality, well, I wouldn't call it trash exactly but it's an easy read. I loved it when I was at school, so much so in fact that I stole the school library's copy
Still have it now.
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The Starchild Trilogy is good quality, well, I wouldn't call it trash exactly but it's an easy read. I loved it when I was at school, so much so in fact that I stole the school library's copy
Still have it now.ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Joseph Wambaugh - The Onion Field
Been reading a gem I stumbled upon, promislingly entitled "The Psychedelic Yogi" ...
http://sites.google.com/site/psihedelichniatyogi/
The tricky part is it's in Bulgarian
http://sites.google.com/site/psihedelichniatyogi/
The tricky part is it's in Bulgarian
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I have received a first edition of 'Q'......(English/2003)
Errol's son
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian
Very good - much better than most books I have read recently on Africa, although I have found the odd small mistake.
Very good - much better than most books I have read recently on Africa, although I have found the odd small mistake.
ericjarvis
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William Tenn - The Square Root Of Man
Short stories, some a tad dated, but often fun nonetheless.
Short stories, some a tad dated, but often fun nonetheless.
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah (edited Tim Mackintosh-Smith) (1)
I'm re-reading an Isaac Asimov short stories collection that I first read many years ago as a teenager.
The stories are still great but what strikes me now is how many of the gadgets that he imagined we now actually have and use daily. And as interesting how our real gadgets are so much better than the imagined ones.
There was a short I read last week where two future kids discover and are amazed by a real paper book as they have never seen one before. The 'book' that they read from is a large non portable tv screen where the words scroll across the screen from right to left. One kid comments that his modern book can hold 'tens' of books in its memory.
Compare that to the Kimble or other products on the market currently that are small, portable, don’t have scrolling words (that would do your head in) and can hold many thousands of books, plus having the ability to download any book you want within seconds.
Anyway, I've gone off at a tangent. It's a very good read.
The stories are still great but what strikes me now is how many of the gadgets that he imagined we now actually have and use daily. And as interesting how our real gadgets are so much better than the imagined ones.
There was a short I read last week where two future kids discover and are amazed by a real paper book as they have never seen one before. The 'book' that they read from is a large non portable tv screen where the words scroll across the screen from right to left. One kid comments that his modern book can hold 'tens' of books in its memory.
Compare that to the Kimble or other products on the market currently that are small, portable, don’t have scrolling words (that would do your head in) and can hold many thousands of books, plus having the ability to download any book you want within seconds.
Anyway, I've gone off at a tangent. It's a very good read.
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I've just started 'The Decline Of The English Murder and other essays' by George Orwell. Great so far. I love his short, pithy articles. Ideal at bedtime as he crams enough ideas into three or four pages to get you really thinking and then you fall asleep. 'Books vs. Cigarettes' was good for this, too.
The Tetherballs of Bougainville -Mark Leyner
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Underground London:Travels Beneath The City Streets by Stephen Smith
Really good and funny enough to have me laughing on the bus as I read it on the way home after I had bought it.
Really good and funny enough to have me laughing on the bus as I read it on the way home after I had bought it.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oh I fucking love that. Breaks my heart into little pieces though
I was full of fury for ages after first reading itDirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Oh I fucking love that. Breaks my heart into little pieces though
Am indeed enjoying it. Love the sly, jaunty pessimism.
I largely gave Hardy the swerve at university. I feel a little foolish now.
Nah, no need is there? It's all there, ready and waiting for us to be in the right mood to read it
There's shit tons of stuff I didn't want to read for years, that I am enjoying nowDirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Nah, no need is there? It's all there, ready and waiting for us to be in the right mood to read it
Yeh, you're right
I am embarrassed by the extent to which I avoided the Victorians, when they're pretty much essential. Love Dickens though.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Yevgeni Zamyatin - We
The original sf dystopic novel. A decade before Brave New World was written, yet in many ways less dated.
The original sf dystopic novel. A decade before Brave New World was written, yet in many ways less dated.
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The Seagull - Chekhov (2)
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The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe (3)
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Hamlet (Q1) - Shakespeare (4)
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Es gibt Zeit
Four new books:
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview & other Conversations
Gauchos & the Vanishing Frontier by Richard Slatta
Stefano Delle Chiaie by Stuart Christie
City of Quartz by Mike Davis
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview & other Conversations
Gauchos & the Vanishing Frontier by Richard Slatta
Stefano Delle Chiaie by Stuart Christie
City of Quartz by Mike Davis
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Back to Len Deighton. Just finished Spy Line. Now have to choose between Spy Sinker which is an overview from a different perspective, and Faith, which is the next novel in the series. I shall probably read Jane Eyre instead.
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