George Watt Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Am currently reading 'Mao- The Unknown Story' by Jung Chang( author of Wild Swans). Been fascinated by China since visiting for a couple of weeks holiday back in 1978 when the streets of Beijing were full of bicycles with not a private car to be seen. At that time Mao had been dead for a couple of years. Still have my little 'Red Book' and blue Mao cap with the red star as momentos of the trip. Have been to Hong Kong many times since but not to the mainland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Today i have just finished reading Storm Front by John Sandford. First published in 2014 and great read with lots of twists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 I have just finished reading The anatomy of ghosts By Andrew Taylor. It was fine too about half way through it and then it became very very slow and i kept going hoping something exciting might happen, but alas it didn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Ghostlands by Edward Parnell, a journey through Britain entailing a mixture of visits to towns where celebrated writers of ghost/horror fiction, M R James, William Hope Hodgson etc lived, but also the writer searching for meaning in his own family history. Hypnotically beguiling "Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 I have just finished reading The Body in ice. Written by A.J. Mackenzie and first published in 2017 and it's set on Romney March in Kent which 200 years ago was a haven for smugglers. A very good read 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSantos Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 I've read a few before and not the Jason Bourne efforts, but i'm going chronologically through the Ludlum catalogue. Scarletti inheritance last week, the Osterman weekend this. Enjoying it Running the Rob Burrow marathon to raise money for the My Name'5 Doddie foundation: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ben-dyas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted February 10 Author Share Posted February 10 The Worm Ouroboros by E.R.Eddison. While Tolkien praised much about this book, it has aged fairly badly and often comes across as a bit twee. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Today i have just finished reading Panic Room by Robert Goddard. A very good read set in Cornwall mainly with other part in Hampshire and Devon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I'm gonna leave this short and sweet. A month ago today I started The Pillars of the Earth, tonight I finished it. I have just one word to describe it. Masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxford Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington This is not for Conservatives of any kind really and least of all free marketeers One fact from it in 1979 the UK government was spending 6 million on consultants a decade later it was 246 million. It's way beyond that now. Excellent book. 2 warning points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxford Posted Tuesday at 10:45 Share Posted Tuesday at 10:45 Oliver Twist now and having discovered what a comic Dickens was I'm on for the depth of his racism. Someone asked me when I mentioned this if I would rewrite it then, I said no because it was a product of what the writer was, like them or not, and a product of it's time. Also how can children come to recognise racism if it's all censored out of their experience. Then they moved on to statues and I said there is a huge difference between Churchill who though hated in my family was important in a time of great need and crisis and the slave guy who should've been dumped years ago. I post this cos I'm honest about my views but also because it shows how things can be easily be mixed up in your 'ed and in life. And how talking about the things in books helps you organise your thoughts about things. 2 warning points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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