Just starting Genevieve Cogman's The Dark Archives (Part of The Invisible Library series). Light weight-ish fantasy. Not quite as comic as Pratchett but there are similiarities.
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Currently reading or recently read:
* "Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979", by Ysenda Graham (2016)
* "Rome: Eternal City", by Ferdinand Addis (2018)
Both bought in a charity shop, so nothing I went out of my way to obtain, with (for the first) a suspiciously pervy motive! Actually, the first was laugh out loud funny in places and an interesting read.
The second is somewhat similar in content to the well-known "Ave Roma Immortalis" by F Marion Crawford (1898) (Gutenberg ebooks at vol 1, vol 2), but as one would expect from their publication dates quite a bit racier!
Planning to read:
* "Docker Deep Dive", by Nigel Poulton (2020-05)
* "Python Testing with pytest", by Brian Okken (2017)
Been using Docker and pytest a fair bit, so thought it was time I consolidated and increased my knowledge of them.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext:
To Infinity & Beyond: "Project Orion" by George Dyson.
Next: TBD
And having been determined, it proved thusly to be: "The British Way of Life" by Prof. K. B. Smellie, 1955, William Heinemann Ltd.
Turns out that the good professor had his left leg below the knee and right foot blown off by a German shell in April 1917, which presumably got him out of the mincing machine for the duration.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/3983645400
However this didn't prevent him living for a total of 90 years & 3 days.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 14 April 2022, 22:07.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext: TBD
And having been determined, it proved thusly to be: "The British Way of Life" by Prof. K. B. Smellie, 1955, William Heinemann Ltd..
Next: "The Industrial Revolutionaries" by Gavin Weightman, all about, oddly enough, the industrial revolutionaries of the 18th & 19th centuries.
It seems rather easier to read than the aforementioned tome by Prof. Smellie.
Today I found this, which is ever so jolly:
https://npolicy.org/books/Reactor-Gr.../Chapter_1.pdf
Doesn't mention Cobalt Thorium G though.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 8 May 2022, 22:17.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Thanks to the almighty google I finally found: "Like Young" by Theodore "Ted" Sturgeon.
https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_...p?view=theater
Been searching for this for years.
I wonder where & when I first read it.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
Next: "The Industrial Revolutionaries" by Gavin Weightman, all about, oddly enough, the industrial revolutionaries of the 18th & 19th centuries.
Looks as if it will be "Blowing up Russia" by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky.
That's sat on the shelf for years too, though probably not as many years as the Project Orion book.
In other other news, one of the russian scum who murdered Litvinenko has died of covid.
Hopefully slowly & painfully.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 4 June 2022, 17:28.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post"A short history of technology" by T.K. Derry & Trevor I. Williams.
Short in the sense of being written in 1960, not so short in the sense of being 783 pages long.
Next: "It's an old Wild West Custom" by Duncan Emrich, who seems not to have been a fan of Old Yellow Hair Custer judging by some of his comments.
Amusing enough & easy to read.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Derek Künsken, The Quantum War.
Third in the trilogy. Hard science fiction, humour, space opera.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostToday I found this, which is ever so jolly:
https://npolicy.org/books/Reactor-Gr.../Chapter_1.pdf
Doesn't mention Cobalt Thorium G though.
Great short story!Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostNext: "It's an old Wild West Custom" by Duncan Emrich, who seems not to have been a fan of Old Yellow Hair Custer judging by some of his comments.
Amusing enough & easy to read.
Should make Gricer's day..
The book, having come from Swansea University library, looks as if it's never been read.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 11 June 2022, 20:48.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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