
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-That-Dark ... 287&sr=1-2
Levy's book on Swinging London is good too - Ready Steady Go. For that matter, White Bicycles by Joe Boyd is a great memoir of the 60s music scene on both sides of the Atlantic that I'd always recommend.The Man Without Fear wrote:Just finished Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy, a whistle stop autobiography of the five Summit stars. Well worth a read. Some of the shit they got away with...
Reading Rubicon by Tom Holland. Breezy and a good read.
Also attempting to finish the Gormenghast Trilogy again. Seventh try at it.
Most Fijian kids grew up reading those.Nieghorn wrote:Has anyone read this?
I'm going through my library's collection, looking for old crap that's no longer of interest any more and wondered why we had 12 from this series, but not the first one. When I started reading reviews, I was shocked to learn that's basically American right-wing Christian propaganda ...
Makes me feel better about helping a girl find a book about cults today while her friends kept saying how weird she was.I imagine reading the above is way more dangerous! (The cult book was full of all the freaks who came to an unsavoury end, like the Manson Family, Koresh, Heaven's Gate, etc. and she kept saying she wasn't interested in joining one, but just fascinated by them. Fair enough. There were a few not-so-famous ones in Canada that are utterly fascinating, and terrifying, to read about.)
Can it be read as just a sci-fi story, or is it pretty blatant with the brainwashing? The reviews on Goodreads touch upon it, but these are all adults. They also say the quality of writing is terrible.flaggETERNAL wrote:Most Fijian kids grew up reading those.Nieghorn wrote:Has anyone read this?
I'm going through my library's collection, looking for old crap that's no longer of interest any more and wondered why we had 12 from this series, but not the first one. When I started reading reviews, I was shocked to learn that's basically American right-wing Christian propaganda ...
Makes me feel better about helping a girl find a book about cults today while her friends kept saying how weird she was.I imagine reading the above is way more dangerous! (The cult book was full of all the freaks who came to an unsavoury end, like the Manson Family, Koresh, Heaven's Gate, etc. and she kept saying she wasn't interested in joining one, but just fascinated by them. Fair enough. There were a few not-so-famous ones in Canada that are utterly fascinating, and terrifying, to read about.)
No. Don't even start reading them. Gift them to a kid you don't like.Nieghorn wrote:I acquired The Wheel of Time books 1-7 for free last night from the local public library (means no one's really read them in years) I was going to transfer them to the school library I work at, but realised it already has Books 1-10. (I'm new, and building it up as best I can, having just sorted out the mess.)
Question for those who've read it, seeing as I'm keeping this series for myself now ... It's been hinted that books 7-10 are boring, that Jordan's last (couple?) pick up the pace and the posthumous ghost writer really did it justice with Jordan's notes.
Can / should I skip those boring books, or are the events essential - even if boring - to get to the end?
Ramming Speed wrote:Truly shocking secret history. Describes itself well, but if, like me, you wondered why the civil rights movement was necessary 100 years after the Civil War, this explains why. And Roy Moore just missed out being voted US Senator for Alabama.
For a while, at least. It seems that little Frank's farewell tour was a few years before big Frank's. Not even a penile implant was able to get him back on the road.jdogscoop wrote:Has anyone read My Life with Mr S by one of Sinatra's former staff?
I must get my hands on a copy. I bet it's fvcking outrageous. I believe one of his terms of endearment for his former boss was "The Prince of Pussy".
I just ordered a copy from the UK. Unfortunately I just noticed the pre-fill booked my name the same as my street name. That might prove challenging when Mr Street turns up at the post office to collect his book.Ramming Speed wrote:For a while, at least. It seems that little Frank's farewell tour was a few years before big Frank's. Not even a penile implant was able to get him back on the road.jdogscoop wrote:Has anyone read My Life with Mr S by one of Sinatra's former staff?
I must get my hands on a copy. I bet it's fvcking outrageous. I believe one of his terms of endearment for his former boss was "The Prince of Pussy".
? Sci-fi effectively?Bindi wrote:Just finished the Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett. Absolutely superb. Up there with China Mieville's Bas-Lag books. If your into speculative fiction, highly highly recommended. Every book is superb. Bit of a golden age for that genre at the moment.
No fantasy, but not your typical, great characters and storytelling set in an original setting, it's not medieval England for starters. Involves gods but really it's the characters that shine.Floppykid wrote:? Sci-fi effectively?Bindi wrote:Just finished the Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett. Absolutely superb. Up there with China Mieville's Bas-Lag books. If your into speculative fiction, highly highly recommended. Every book is superb. Bit of a golden age for that genre at the moment.
This, unfortunately.Demilich wrote:No. Don't even start reading them. Gift them to a kid you don't like.Nieghorn wrote:I acquired The Wheel of Time books 1-7 for free last night from the local public library (means no one's really read them in years) I was going to transfer them to the school library I work at, but realised it already has Books 1-10. (I'm new, and building it up as best I can, having just sorted out the mess.)
Question for those who've read it, seeing as I'm keeping this series for myself now ... It's been hinted that books 7-10 are boring, that Jordan's last (couple?) pick up the pace and the posthumous ghost writer really did it justice with Jordan's notes.
Can / should I skip those boring books, or are the events essential - even if boring - to get to the end?
Is that the best selling UK books?Boobs not Moobs wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... ret-atwood
2017 100 bestselling books
Over 10% of them by David Walliams
Truly depressing reading.Fangle wrote:Is that the best selling UK books?Boobs not Moobs wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... ret-atwood
2017 100 bestselling books
Over 10% of them by David Walliams
I am currently reading Martin Meridith's The Fate of Africa. What depressing reading.
Man In Black wrote:Look for something called "Nothing is sacred and everything is possible" by Peter Pomerantsev. The title and author might be wrong but they are similar enough if you google them.Floppykid wrote:Any good books on the Oligarchic lootfest that was Russia a couple decades ago?
A shining endorsement.Ramming Speed wrote:Man In Black wrote:Look for something called "Nothing is sacred and everything is possible" by Peter Pomerantsev. The title and author might be wrong but they are similar enough if you google them.Floppykid wrote:Any good books on the Oligarchic lootfest that was Russia a couple decades ago?
Try also...
His name is mud in Russia, but the brazenness of the villainy he describes is breathtaking.