CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[Zigenare]

"Electro-magnetism" - Second Edition by "I.S. Grant & W.R. Phillips" - Much more understandable now that I've passed my exams

Next task, start designing some antennas, and reinforcing my tinfoil hat...

Moved on to "Radar Handbook - Second Edition" by Merrill Skolnik, heavy on the maffs but inneresting none-the-less.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Jeremy Thorpe: a secret life" by Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater, and David May, being the rise & fall of said politico.

Gosh. I'd forgotten (assuming I ever knew of it) about the Welsh connection with the "assassination" attempt. The owner of a carpet business, the owner of a club and dealer in fruit machines, plus a chap who printed t shirts.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Next: "Secret intelligence in the 20th Century" Constantine Fitzgibbon: well the first 75 years of it since it's a 1976 book.

[sadkingbilly]

geez I must be weird. I read fiction. novels. I only read manuals if someone's paying me to.
as for history, meh.
just finished gene wolfe - the long sun trilogy. (reread)

[DoctorStrangelove]

I read novels interspersed with the non fiction stuff.

For some reason the current Railway Detective novel* has stalled, much like "The Night Manager" did some months ago.

*There's another 9 or 10 in the series but I have no intention of seeking them out. Similarly I wish I hadn't started on the late Le Carre oeuvre** though I may seek out the latest Smiley.

** Other than "A legacy of spies" which features both Peter Guillam and George Smiley (who must have been at least 115 in it).

[ResistanceFighter]

Moved on to Star Wars: Mask of Fear that came out recently. Set in the prequal period and has the same vibe and feel of Andor if you are currently enjoying that show on Disney+ (and like Star Wars, obviously)

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Secret intelligence in the 20th Century" Constantine Fitzgibbon: well the first 75 years of it since it's a 1976 book.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. He was a Septic who joined the British Army before the Septics came in (late as ever), then transferred to the US Army. Worked in Bletchley doing something or other. Was not impressed by "The Ultra Secret" by F. W. Winterbotham.

Next: "There's Lovely" by Johnny Morris. Well there's tidy then. Dunno why the print is so small, I almost need two pairs of specs.

Reminded me of the 6 pt printout some ginger oik did at Scantronic.

[sadkingbilly]

'the blind giant' by Nick Harkaway.
different stuff from my usual scifi bent.
Interesting take on tech and society.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "There's Lovely" by Johnny Morris.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I'd forgotten about his travelogues with "Tubby Foster".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/301600.stm

Next: "After the fall" by Robert Sheckley, being an anthology of End of the World/Universe stories by assorted writers: Roger Zelazney has 3 stories in this.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Blood on the line" by Edward Marston.

: This one has stalled.

Unstalled: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Starburst" by Alfred Bester. Another anthology, many of the stories also appearing in "Star light, Star Bright" and "The light fantastic" which should make it a quick read.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Star Light, Star Bright" by Alfred Bester. More Golden Age SF.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Though no doubt "Hobson's Choice" which contains the Postman from Hiroshima will stay with me.

Next: "The Light Fantastic" by Alfred Bester.

Can't say I'm a real fan of his, though he didn't write much all in all. Unlike Asimov. Or Anderson.