CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Life, The Universe, and Everything" by D. Adams. This being the 2nd radio series IIRC.

Meh. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "So long and thanks for all the fish" by D. Adams (1984). Talk about flogging a dead donkey.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "So long and thanks for all the fish" by D. Adams (1984). Talk about flogging a dead donkey.

Done, thank feck: off to Oxfam with it: a rereading after 40 years reveals how vacuous the 3rd & 4th books were. It would have been better if he hadn't bothered because they're not worth reading, they read exactly as if he'd been imprisoned in a room & compelled to write. .

Next: TBD but it will have nothing to do with H2G2. I'd get rid of the VHS cassettes of the tv series* but no one has a player any more. .

*The tv series is much better than the books, though not quite as good as the radio series, whilst being infinitely better than the truly dire film.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Philby: the spy who betrayed a generation" by Bruce Page, David Leitch, Phillip Knightley, 2nd ed 1969.

Gosh. Don't have to read many pages before encountering such familiar names as Blunt (still looking after Liz's paintings at the time), Roger Hollis, Dick White, Guy Liddell.

Much too early (1969) for any mention of SpyCatching of course. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it. No mention of Nicholas Elliot but I suppose he was still an anonymous bureaucrat in 1969.

Next: "V2" by Robert Harris. The fictional version of a week or so in November 1944.

Goodness me: a lady who actually did it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-...%2C%20the%20V2.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-...wales-37265964

Unrecognised? I've never seen it referred to anywhere. Shocking.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "V2" by Robert Harris. The fictional version of a week or so in November 1944.

Done: off to Oxfam with it, having previously graced the Carmarthen free books centre and the Llys Nini greyhound rescue in Swansea. Rather good in its way. Ms YoungHusband is acknowledged in the post script.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Bruneval Raid: stealing Adolph's Radar" by George Millar. As is usual their engineering was a good deal more impressive than ours*, but there you go, it's probably down to using metric fittings or something. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Rather an inneresting book all in all.

Next: "The Doodlebugs: the dramatic story of the flying bombs of WWII" by Norman Longmate.