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[DoctorStrangelove]

Curious how things were worse after the war than they were during it.

Next: "Never Again" by Peter Hennessy. Same old same old 1945 - 1951. Dunno when I bought this, it came from a different bookshelf, so may have been there decades.

Despite the 1945 - 1951 bit it actually starts in 1938, to get us up to speed, like.

Inneresting in parts, not very in other parts. Off to Oxfam with it.

There's another two in the series, I don't think I'll bother, I found the David Kynaston books much more readable.

Next: "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin. Another 600 page epic.

Thankfully an easier read than Hennessy's epic. Turns out it's 2nd hand & preloved. No idea when it was bought but the dust suggests that it was a while ago. Purchased 22nd of December 2010 so it has been there a while.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin. Another 600 page epic.

Thankfully an easier read than Hennessy's epic. Turns out it's 2nd hand & preloved. No idea when it was bought but the dust suggests that it was a while ago. Purchased 22nd of December 2010 so it has been there a while.

Inneresting book. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility" by Charles Berlitz and William Moore.

More bollox suitable only for the Blaze channel.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility" by Charles Berlitz and William Moore.

More bollox suitable only for the Blaze channel.

Done: very Blaze channel: the fright haired Greek American on Ancient Astronauts must have been in nappies when this was written back in 1978: a book with zero reliable information content: off to Oxfam with it. I didn't buy it, someone gave it to me..

Next: "Eleven Minutes Late: A train journey to the edge of madness soul of Britain" by Matthew Engel.

A rather funny epic journey using a fortnight rover ticket that cost £860.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Eleven Minutes Late: A train journey to the edge of madness soul of Britain" by Matthew Engel.

A rather funny epic journey using a fortnight rover ticket that cost £860.

Excellent read: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: Fiction:"A legacy of spies" by John leCarre

And the print is a lot bigger than in the usual tomes I read.
Well there's a thing.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"A legacy of spies" by John leCarre

Done: off to Oxfam with it. The ending was a bit odd but there you go, and the timeline is equally difficult to figure out.

Next: "Jungle Capitalists: a story of greed globalisation and revolution" by Peter Chapman.

The story of United Fruit, s and republics.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it. The ending was a bit odd but there you go, and the timeline is equally difficult to figure out.

Next: "Jungle Capitalists: a story of greed globalisation and revolution" by Peter Chapman.

The story of United Fruit, s and republics.

Done. The triumph of the Monroe Doctrine & the wonders of The American Century.

Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Smear: Wilson and the Secret Service" by Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay.

He may have been paranoid but they really were out to get him.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Smear: Wilson and the Secret Service" by Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay.

He may have been paranoid but they really were out to get him.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. Rather hard going with small print and even smaller print in the footnotes.

Next: "Call for the dead", John leCarre.

Still haven't found "A murder of quality" despite the illusion* of having seen it somewhere in the garage on Monday. Ho hum.


*More like a delusion but there you go: certainly seems to have been some sort of mirage.

[Uncle Albert]

The Lower River by Paul Theroux. It's been a while since I read any of his books and I'm enjoying it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Call for the dead", John leCarre.

Still haven't found "A murder of quality" despite the illusion* of having seen it somewhere in the garage on Monday. Ho hum.


*More like a delusion but there you go.

Done.

Next: "A History of Wales" by John Davies being a translation of "Hanes Cymru" into Saesneg for the monoglot.

[BlueSharp]

Just finished reading the Three body problem trilogy by Liu Cixin. First sci-fi book I have read for a while and really enjoyed it. Much better than what's been released on Netflix.