DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
12 pages in and her prose style has me locked again. I'm hoping its as good as Secret History
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Voley
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I'm about halfway through it. It's great. I have absolutely no idea where the plot's going at all. Really enjoying it. First one of hers that I've read since 'The Secret History' too.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Loving this now too, nearly finished
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Julian Cope's "Copendium".
weltweit
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I read that earlier this year and enjoyed it.
hope you do also.DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Dark Intelligence by Neal asher. Ripping through it at pace, standard space opera/military sf but done with ashers excellent imagination and style.
aileen
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Thank you!I read that earlier this year and enjoyed it.
Right now really like it!
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A modernist
One of the greatest books ever written
Only a 1/4 through but I do love it. He's very very rich in the way he describes things without it getting tedious.
FreguentLy
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Ulysses . just started
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Hehe, aye - or if there was a Boring As Shit forum, it could go there too!This should go in the Transport forum
Yep, I enjoyed it too...having got a trifle bored with Asher. The second (War Factory) is even better but infuriatingly, the final one was...not. It went on...and on. Honestly, I can't even remember the title. I admit to enjoying the especially gruesome visceral biological shit but this was a bit manly stuff by numbers. Disappoint.
I had a duo of sf treats - both finished now and only charity shop rubbish to look forward to at present. I really liked Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2310. Got to lend it to eldest but will send it your way at some point if you want.
Found an old David Brin book on bookshelves - Startide Rising...so will fall back on that to stave off insomnia.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
for sure, I don't always get on 100% with KSR but his ideas...well thats usually enough
I did War Factory as well, theres no easy torrents for the third yet (their will be soon i imahine). I have to know the fate of Penny Royal, so no doubt I'll be reading that as soon as its on the torrent sites
Well I have it, and can send it your way but could you send it back as I have to pass on to offspring.So,yeah, if you want to get into it asap and don't mind passing it back (hardback, soz), will happily post that one now. Happen to know offspring still on DI so no urgency either
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
nah m8, save the postage, I'll steal it from the internet in due time. Thankyou for the offer tho!
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
The Son - Phillip Meyer
Epic Texan family drama spanning the period between the end of the Indian/Mexican wars and the discovery of oil leading to the wealthy oil barons. Great bit of writing - Lonesome Dove meets Dallas. Recording the televised series on Sky for when I've finished.
Epic Texan family drama spanning the period between the end of the Indian/Mexican wars and the discovery of oil leading to the wealthy oil barons. Great bit of writing - Lonesome Dove meets Dallas. Recording the televised series on Sky for when I've finished.
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frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Just finished The Murder of William of Norwich - the origins of the blood libel in medieval Europe .
most of the stuff in it I didn't already know - it talks about how the blood libel myth was essentially propagated by wealthy elements within the church and prominent noblemen rather than being something popularly believed, and that most ordinary people were very sceptical. also that a lot of it was about money - the king and wealthy churchmen would use the threat of it to blackmail jews into giving them money. just completely fucked.
but it does have some really interesting details about medieval life in England at that time and the civil war which was happening around the time of William's death. really interesting and well researched, if depressing. it makes the point that the kid likely got killed by mercenaries in the middle of the civil war and discusses various theories about who could have done it.
a lot of shit i had no idea about. for example it makes the point that people used to get taken on guided tours of where the blood libel was supposed to have happened including pointing out the houses of the jews who were meant to have done it. it seems like most of the people weren't even anti-semites (although obviously the whole thing was organised for antisemitic purposes), they just had an interest in gore and death, like it was like going on a guided tour about jack the ripper or something.
most of the stuff in it I didn't already know - it talks about how the blood libel myth was essentially propagated by wealthy elements within the church and prominent noblemen rather than being something popularly believed, and that most ordinary people were very sceptical. also that a lot of it was about money - the king and wealthy churchmen would use the threat of it to blackmail jews into giving them money. just completely fucked.
but it does have some really interesting details about medieval life in England at that time and the civil war which was happening around the time of William's death. really interesting and well researched, if depressing. it makes the point that the kid likely got killed by mercenaries in the middle of the civil war and discusses various theories about who could have done it.
a lot of shit i had no idea about. for example it makes the point that people used to get taken on guided tours of where the blood libel was supposed to have happened including pointing out the houses of the jews who were meant to have done it. it seems like most of the people weren't even anti-semites (although obviously the whole thing was organised for antisemitic purposes), they just had an interest in gore and death, like it was like going on a guided tour about jack the ripper or something.
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
And the weak suffer what they must? - Yanis Varoufakis.
Good luck with those negotiations Mrs May you insignificant leader of a completely unimportant (to the EU) nation.
Good luck with those negotiations Mrs May you insignificant leader of a completely unimportant (to the EU) nation.
Threshers_Flail
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The Making of the English Working Class - E.P. Thompson
Just finished Miles Davis biography,' Miles' it is very raw and ripe with anecdotes which are quite shall we say, tasty. A sweeping masterpiece of his music and life and quite an education, in many ways. First line of the book: 'Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life—with my clothes on—was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St. Louis, Missouri, back in 1944.1 was eighteen years old and had just graduated from Lincoln High School. It was just across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois.
He was from an affluent background, and his dad was a dentist and very rich. Miles says he came from people who were 'somebodys' and this is absolutely true. He got into Julliard and legged it once he saw what was going down in Mintons. His story charts every character or as he would say 'every cat and motherfucker' and the journey he had through heroin addiction (as well as everyone else) and his musical experiences. He name drops a lot but why shouldn't he? He's Miles Davis.
Miles is a great storyteller. And there one story he tells that is so haunting that it will stay with me for the rest of my life. It is so moving, you just cry.
I would also like to point out that Miles - towards the end of his life, looking at the future points his creative genius compass squarely in ONE direction ONLY and that was at PRINCE. He heaps astonishing praise on Prince as being the only modern composer with any real talent. For me - as a Prince fan - and indeed, brought to this book thanks to Prince - was reaffirming and quite wonderful to read (not that I or many of you, need that affirmation).
He was from an affluent background, and his dad was a dentist and very rich. Miles says he came from people who were 'somebodys' and this is absolutely true. He got into Julliard and legged it once he saw what was going down in Mintons. His story charts every character or as he would say 'every cat and motherfucker' and the journey he had through heroin addiction (as well as everyone else) and his musical experiences. He name drops a lot but why shouldn't he? He's Miles Davis.
Miles is a great storyteller. And there one story he tells that is so haunting that it will stay with me for the rest of my life. It is so moving, you just cry.
I would also like to point out that Miles - towards the end of his life, looking at the future points his creative genius compass squarely in ONE direction ONLY and that was at PRINCE. He heaps astonishing praise on Prince as being the only modern composer with any real talent. For me - as a Prince fan - and indeed, brought to this book thanks to Prince - was reaffirming and quite wonderful to read (not that I or many of you, need that affirmation).
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