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[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The caves of steel" by I. Asimov. This cost 50p. In or around 1977. The recent purchase of "The Naked Sun", on the other hand, cost £9.99. Only 20x the price.

Done. Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Naked Sun" by I. Asimov. Got to get my £9.99 value out of this one. NYPD's Lije Baley on Solaria.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Hiroshima" by John Hersey: A Penguin Special: price (1958): 2/6d (12.5p), price to me (2nd hand): 80p.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/wa...hiroshima-1946

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Apparently there's a post 1989 version with an additional "what happened next" chapter.

Next: "Hiroshima: the world's bomb" by Andrew J. Rotter. This one was £17, not 80p.

I'm often reminded of a chap by the name of Glyn who I worked with half a century ago.

He'd been a POW in Japan and was near Nagasaki when that went off.

Management had to hide him away when Japanese visited the plant.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Tesla: the modern sorcerer" by Daniel Blair Stewart. Remaindered at £1.50 in Waterstones as "obsolete". .

Turns out this epic is more a novel than a biography. Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Hiroshima" by John Hersey: A Penguin Special: price (1958): 2/6d (12.5p), price to me (2nd hand): 80p.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/wa...hiroshima-1946

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Smoke and Mirrors" Neil Gaiman. Currently it's rivalling the Sladek epic for innerest. And, unlike the Sladek, there's another two of his tomes on the bookshelf.

On further consideraton & probably in a better mood: some of it is quite good in a sort quite good sort of way, as it were.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Bit of a curate's egg. "The Price" will remain with me.

Next: "The caves of steel" by I. Asimov. This cost 50p. In or around 1977. The recent purchase of "The Naked Sun", on the other hand, cost £9.99. Only 20x the price.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Who-ology: the official miscellany". BBC, 2013. Fiftieth anniversary. No idea where this came from, but I know where it's going. If the previous Who tome was moderately tedious, this one is tedium personified. Fortunately there's a lot of tables & suchlike that I don't bother reading due to lack of innerest. . What sort of saddo writes crap like this? What sort of saddo would enjoy reading crap like this? Goodness me, I'm not that sort of saddo, which much be a plus.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Tesla: the modern sorcerer" by Daniel Blair Stewart. Remaindered at £1.50 in Waterstones as "obsolete". .

Tesla may have been responsible for the death of his even brighter brother, whereas Thomas Alva Edison was plainly some kind of sociopath.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Churchill: Four faces and the man": Essays from A. J. P. Taylor, Robert Rhodes James, J. W. Plumb, Basil Liddell Hart, Anthony Storr.

Liddell Hart was unimpressed with some of his strategy. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it, it's extremely ex libris so I'm sure they'll be pleased (ex Merthyr public library).

Next: TBD.

[GregRickshaw]

Vulture Capitalism - Grace Blakeley

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "A Nuclear Family Vacation: travels in the world of atomic weaponry" by Nathan Hodge & Sharon Weinberger.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Churchill: Four faces and the man": Essays from A. J. P. Taylor, Robert Rhodes James, J. W. Plumb, Basil Liddell Hart, Anthony Storr.

Liddell Hart was unimpressed with some of his strategy. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Dark Lady" by Mike Resnick. Galactic art hunt.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I like that book: a good tale.

Next: "Who-ology: the official miscellany". BBC, 2013. Fiftieth anniversary. No idea where this came from, but I know where it's going. If the previous Who tome was moderately tedious, this one is tedium personified. Fortunately there's a lot of tables & suchlike that I don't bother reading due to lack of innerest. . What sort of saddo writes crap like this? What sort of saddo would enjoy reading crap like this? Goodness me, I'm not that sort of saddo, which much be a plus.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Seizing the Enigma" by David Kahn. Stone me, the print's a bit small in this.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Quite a satisfying read. Easier to get on with in some ways than "The Hut 6 Story" was. I have a slightly better idea of how the machine worked.

Next: "A Nuclear Family Vacation: travels in the world of atomic weaponry" by Nathan Hodge & Sharon Weinberger.

[hairymouse]

Done, thank feck, for something that was supposed to be funny (according to the blurb), it wasn't very. Off to Oxfam with it.

Parts of it seemed endless.

Next: TBD.

My parents were massive fans of the radio show that aired on NPR about 40 years ago. I listened to soooo much of that on road trips. Was pretty happy when they switched to Car Talk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Lake Wobegon Days" by Garrison Keillor since I don't have any more Robert B. Parker books to read.

Done, thank feck, for something that was supposed to be funny (according to the blurb), it wasn't very. Off to Oxfam with it.

Parts of it seemed endless.

Next: "The Dark Lady" by Mike Resnick. Galactic art hunt.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Steam Driven Boy" John Sladek.

Off to Oxfam with it without being read: DNF: incomprehensible garbage. It's not often that happens.

Next: "Smoke and Mirrors" Neil Gaiman. Currently it's rivalling the Sladek epic for innerest. And, unlike the Sladek, there's another two of his tomes on the bookshelf.

On further consideraton & probably in a better mood: some of it is quite good in a sort quite good sort of way, as it were.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Hush Money" by Robert B. Parker.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I am liking these books: short: short chapters, no droning on in Panama about the fall of the Empire etc. What's not to like?

Next: "Lake Wobegon Days" by Garrison Keillor since I don't have any more Robert B. Parker books to read.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Hush Money" by Robert B. Parker.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Night and Day" by Robert B. Parker. Jesse Stone instead of Spencer & Hawk.

Looks like this one came reduced from The Works. No receipt so dunno when.