CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[NotAllThere]

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, by Physics Nobel Prize winning Frank Wilczek.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done. Great She Elephant free zone. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Samson Option" by Seymour M. Hersh, being a history of the Israeli nuclear program, starring a lot of dead people due to it being 30 years old.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it, having missed the latest donation.

Lots & lots of names from the past in that one, the fat newspaper pension stealing whale who "fell off" his boat being one. Did he jump or was he pushed?

Next: "The nuclear barons" by Peter Pringle and James Spigelman.

Just looked in the index and it doesn't mention Harry Dahglian, the first chap to see that lambent blue glow up close & very personal when his screwdriver slipped.

Gosh. Groves abandoned the centrifuge method, the use of which would have reduced electricity consumption during enrichment by A Lot.

And a little local contribution:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...ansea-21264168

This one's a bit more accurate:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...called-9803690

Also mentions GEN75 and GEN163, being the UK committees involved in the UK bomb project in the Attlee government.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Astounding Days" by Arthur C. Clarke. An autobiography of sorts.

Done. Great She Elephant free zone. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Samson Option" by Seymour M. Hersh, being a history of the Israeli nuclear program, starring a lot of dead people due to it being 30 years old.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Long Emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the 21st century" by James Howard Kunstler.

There's no poetry in this one either. But it's a lot longer & rather denser than the above.

Done: There was a mention of The Great She Elephant.

He seems less than enchanted with hip-hop.

To sum up: we're all doomed. When the oil runs out. As someone once said about TPD.

Off to Oxfam with it. The book. Not TPD. Glad we've cleared that up.

Next: "Astounding Days" by Arthur C. Clarke. An autobiography of sorts.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Any good or funny inventions?

One or two amusing ones. Shame about the perpetual motion machines. .

Ada Lovelace gets a mention, along with Boole and Babbage.

[hairymouse]

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. A nice easy read for a change with no fecking poetry.

Next: "The Long Emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the 21st century" by James Howard Kunstler.

There's no poetry in this one either. But it's a lot longer & rather denser than the above.

Any good or funny inventions?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Eurekaaargh: a spectacular collection of inventions that nearly worked" by Adam Hart Davis.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. A nice easy read for a change with no fecking poetry.

Next: "The Long Emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the 21st century" by James Howard Kunstler.

There's no poetry in this one either. But it's a lot longer & rather denser than the above.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Transit of Venus" by Peter Aughton, being the biography of Jeremiah Horrocks, the first chap to see said transit.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. Less than gripping. I could have done without the poetry. In fact I did by not reading it.

Next: "Eurekaaargh: a spectacular collection of inventions that nearly worked" by Adam Hart Davis.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Strangest Star" by John Gribbin, being a 45 year old tome about Sol. There'll be no That Bloody Woman in this, fingers crossed.

Done. Gratifyingly free of The Great She Elephant.

Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Transit of Venus" by Peter Aughton, being the biography of Jeremiah Horrocks, the first chap to see said transit.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Then looked at "Floating Voter" by Julian Critchley but it's a novel so "A bag of Boiled Sweets" by said gentlemen, being his autobiography, was substituted.


"The tile-hung pretty houses covered with wisteria, in every gravelled driveway a Triumph Sodomite". .

I do like his turn of phrase.

That really make I larf.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it.

Rather sad how his youthful polio came back to bite him in later life.

Even sadder to think that the swivel eyed YCs of yore are now in power.

Next: "The Strangest Star" by John Gribbin, being a 45 year old tome about Sol. There'll be no That Bloody Woman in this, fingers crossed.