CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[Uncle Albert]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

It's bleak and grim so far and I can't see it getting any less so.

[d000hg]

I'm re-reading Power of One/Tandia by Bryce Courtenay. I would say a total classic though I'm not sure how look it might avoid censure these days, it's quite heavy content - while still being a really easy to read gripping story.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"Huddling Place" by Clifford Simak from "Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 1".

Written in 1944.

Chap can't fly to Mars to operate on his friend because of agoraphobia brought on by technology.

I suspect it's the reason the book remains on the bookshelf since most of the other Golden Age stories in it aren't up to much, though that Zeity chap might disagree about "Arena" by Frederic Brown. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Inside Apple" by Adam Lashinsky. Oh look: 3 references to The Woz.

Compared with a shed load for Jobs, the thief of $5000, the door stop book about whom met the Oxfam shop last year, the book about The Woz remains upstairs on a bookshelf.

Feck me, this is a hagiography for the great idol Jobs. How no one shot the mother****er is a miracle.

Done. And off to Oxfam it goes on the next trip.

Next: "Star Trek(tm): I'm working on that" by William Shatner (and Chip Walter whoever he is).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Star Trek(tm): I'm working on that" by William Shatner (and Chip Walter whoever he is).

Done. Not overly gripping. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Startrek Movie Memories" by that guy that does the documentaries on Blaze.

Apparently he could remember the stuff about the movies rather better than the stuff about the tv series.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next:"IBM and the holocaust" by Edwin Black. Purchase, according to the receipt, in 2002. Thankfully it was a non fading receipt with actual printed print rather than the more modern disappearing text type.

More light reading. .

Thank feck that's over with. Grim.

Off to Oxfam with it to depress some other miserable fecker.

Next: "Uncle Tungsten" a memoir of wartime boyhood by Oliver Sachs.

It's a reread before it goes to Oxfam in due course.

[GregRickshaw]

Comedy
Comedy
Comedy
Drama

by Bob Odenkirk

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Startrek Movie Memories" by that guy that does the documentaries on Blaze.

Apparently he could remember the stuff about the movies rather better than the stuff about the tv series.

Done. Moderately amusing, more so than the "I'm working on that" book. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Get A Life", written after the demise of The Wig Wearing War Criminal when his avatar decided to visit & investigate all those Trek conventions & such like. Bought 24th of August 2002, so it's been on the bookshelf for more than 20 years.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Get A Life", written after the demise of The Wig Wearing War Criminal when his avatar decided to visit & investigate all those Trek conventions & such like. Bought 24th of August 2002, so it's been on the bookshelf for more than 20 years.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Apollo: The lost and forgotten missions" by David J. Shayler. No mysterious Islands move about in this book, and 4 8 15 16 23 42 doesn't figure.

The other thing that doesn't figure is how I paid £29 for it. Must have still been contracting at the time. .

Feck me, I could have saved that £29, it's reaching my limits on boredom & no mistake. I'll be glad to give this fecker to Oxfam.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Apollo: The lost and forgotten missions" by David J. Shayler.

I've experienced more enjoyable root canals. . Thank feck that's done with & off to Oxfam it'll go. He's written other books which are very probably full to the brim of alphabet soup TLAs much as that one is. I suspect I'll give them a miss.

Next: "The Google Story" by David A. Vise. Totally up to date having been written in 2005.