CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Blood and Iron" by Peter Mason.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Quest for C" by Alan Judd: we seek him here we seek him there where is that Mansfield Cumming hiding? Shake a leg. .

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"The 1000 year Plan" by Isaac Asimov / "No world of their own" by Poul Anderson in an ACE Double of 1955.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Apparently it was chopped about but seemed ok to me. Republished as the full text in the 70s. I don't think I'll bother looking for it.

And along with it a couple of the "Time Patrol" paperbacks that turn out to be contained in another Poul Anderson "Time Patrol" collection.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next "Backroom Boys" by Francis Spufford.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "A brief guide to Starwars" by Brian J. Robb. Being the tale of George Lucas, Han Solo, "Luke: I am your Father" etc.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "A brief guide to Starwars" by Brian J. Robb. Being the tale of George Lucas, Han Solo, "Luke: I am your Father" etc.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Shedloads of stuff mentioned after the I, II, III debacle that I was completely & happily unaware thereof & quite content so to remain.

Next: "A short history of the Wellington Boot" by Adam Edwards.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "A short history of the Wellington Boot" by Adam Edwards.

Excellently short: off to Oxfam with it. Inneresting enough, from leather to rubber to PVC.

Next: "The coming of the space age" by Arthur C. Clarke: a compendium of writings on rockets & such like by those involved in the development thereof: Dornberger and von Braun, various of the Septics involved in the tracking of Sputnik 1 and the Vanguard debacle.

And Mr Parsons of JPL gets a mention, including that he blew himself up though it didn't mention that he was rather keen on his mum.

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Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Quest for C" by Alan Judd: we seek him here we seek him there where is that Mansfield Cumming hiding? Shake a leg. .

Done: Off to Oxfam with it. Hard work. Next: "21st Century Dodos" by Steve Stack, being the tale of all those things we used to have & don't use any more. Fax machine* anyone?

*Not actually mentioned but you get the idea..

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: Off to Oxfam with it. Hard work. Next: "21st Century Dodos" by Steve Stack, being the tale of all those things we used to have & don't use any more. Fax machine* anyone?

*Not actually mentioned but you get the idea..

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Next: "The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffman. The usual wilderness of mirrors and CIA incompetence writ large with the odd UK traitor or dozen thrown in for good measure.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The coming of the space age" by Arthur C. Clarke: a compendium of writings on rockets & such like by those involved in the development thereof: Dornberger and von Braun, various of the Septics involved in the tracking of Sputnik 1 and the Vanguard debacle.

And Mr Parsons of JPL gets a mention, including that he blew himself up.

Strewth, apart from the aforementioned a lot of that was tedious beyond endurance though I read most of the words. WTF god bothering and poetry needed inclusion for is beyond me. C.S. Lewis anyone? No wardrobes were harmed in the reading of this book.

Off to Oxfam with it & they're welcome.

Next: "A house in space" by Henry S. Cooper, being the story of Skylab, that only ever had 3 crews on board, the last of which left 52 years ago.

There was some theory or other that the Shuttle would boost its orbit a bit, but in the end the Shuttle was late & Skylab impacted Australia.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "A house in space" by Henry S. Cooper, being the story of Skylab, that only ever had 3 crews on board, the last of which left 52 years ago.

There was some theory or other that the Shuttle would boost its orbit a bit, but in the end the Shuttle was late & Skylab impacted Australia.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. A good deal more inneresting than the previous A.C. Clarke compendium.

Next: "Red Moon Rising" by Matthew Brzezinski, being the story of Sputnik, dear old Wernher, Mr Khrushchev and The Chief Designer Korolev.

Gosh. There's a lot of "Charlie Wilson"s: "Engine Charlie" (Charles Erwin Wilson, from General Motors, Secretary of Defense & the reason Korolev got there first), Charles Nesbit Wilson of "Charlie Wilson's War" fame, and Charles Edward Wilson "Electric Charlie" of General Electric. Glad we've cleared that up then, all these Charlies get a bit confusing.

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Next: "The railway detective" by Edward Marston. Who appears to have written 100s of books. Goodreads is, specifically in general, Not Impressed.

I appear to have half a dozen which have mouldered on the bookshelf for years. Time for them to go.

I thought it quite reasonable for what it is. A page turner that didn't chase away the will to live. Or have a pregnant month long pause in the middle whilst I found it again, unlike some of the Le Carre oeuvre.

Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Excursion Train" by Edward Marston. The dust was thick on this one, so feck nose how long it's been there. One or other should have a receipt in there somewhere.