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[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Poisoned Chalice" by Michael Clynes. A sort of Tudor period Flashman thing, book 2. I don't have book 1.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Rather enjoyable in its way once one got into it. Still not sure where the rose came from but there you go.

Next: "The devil's hunt" by P. C. Doherty. Back to Edward I in this one: 1303.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Feels like it could do with helicopters to help it along a bit. . Thankfully it's short. The book about the King Leopold of Belgium gives rather more detail in post #566 of this thread (26th Dec 2023).

Done, thank feck, there's a reason I don't read "literature": off to Oxfam with it. At least it was short. Whether I'll ever get around to reading "The Secret Agent", "Nostromo", or "Lord Jim" is debatable. Definitely could have done with helicopters and Wagner.

Next: T B D but it won't be any of those three. .

Indeed not: "The Sackett Brand" by Louis L'Amour.

A good, old fashioned, well written oater. And it's short: 120 pages. Read a lot of these back in the day. Rather better than the J.T. Edson oaters of a similar date. Price (1971) 4/6d (22.5p).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The devil's hunt" by P. C. Doherty. Back to Edward I in this one: 1303.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Treason of the Ghosts" by P. C. Doherty. More about the Hammer of the Scots. Purchased, unremaindered, 7th of February 2002. So it's mouldered well on the bookshelf, though there's little evidence of dust.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Treason of the Ghosts" by P. C. Doherty. More about the Hammer of the Scots. Purchased, unremaindered, 7th of February 2002. So it's mouldered well on the bookshelf, though there's little evidence of dust.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Corpse Candle" by P. C. Doherty. Bought 7/02/2002. Still no dust.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Corpse Candle" by P. C. Doherty. Bought 7/02/2002. Still no dust.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Rather good in its way.

Next: "Cosmic Laughter" ed. Joe Haldeman: "SF for the fun of it". Hardback. Owned it for decades, probably since the late 70s early 80s.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Cosmic Laughter" ed. Joe Haldeman: "SF for the fun of it". Hardback. Owned it for decades, probably since the late 70s early 80s.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Rather good in its way. Quite amusing. Includes "To Serve Man". .

Next: "Gadget" by N. Freeling. A 1977 book about terrorists manufacturing a nuke. Shades of "Take the war to Washington" by Peter van Greenaway.

This one has stalled. .

[Croesus]

Finally finished Atlas Shrugged (recommended) and now on Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell. This isnthe factual account as opposed to one of the Sharpe novels.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Moon Tiger" by Penelope Lively.

Currently rereading this.

Done, at last: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Great cases of Scotland Yard Vol 2" by Julian Simmons et al.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Elusive Peace: how the Holy Land defeated SepticLand" by Ahron Bregman: oh look a book that stars BibiTheNazi and various other eminences. Even then they were justifying expending 1.3 million rounds of ammo in an operation. Purchased 11th September 2008 for the princely sum of £1, it being labelled "obsolete".

To be fair, after reading that, it's difficult not to declare "A plague on both their houses". What a fine selection of arseholes on both sides.

And, of course, Bliar had his greasy fingers in the pie too.

I felt quite sorry for Clinton, not so much for Bush.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Elusive Peace: how the Holy Land defeated SepticLand" by Ahron Bregman

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The assault on liberty: wot went wrong with rights" by D. Raaaaaab. Purchased (feck nose why) 2nd March 2009.

Well this is bloodpressure raising. I'd forgotten the saga of the imperial weights & measures prosecutions. FFS.

tulip you really could not make up except under Bliar & his soviet.

Of course it does raise the question of if all these things were so bad why didn't the Tory bastards change them in the 14 years of their glorious misrule?