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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Next: "The nuclear barons" by Peter Pringle and James Spigelman.
    Done. Off to Oxfam with it.

    Next: "The Seven Sisters" by Anthony Sampson, being the history of the oil majors.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 20 March 2024, 09:10.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    Mc Bain is the pulp crime godfather.
    This. The 87th from "Cop Hater" in 1956 to "Fiddlers" in 2005. Sadly missed and not forgetting the Matthew Hope novels and some of the Evan Hunter oevre.

    Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, Arthur Brown. Kling. Cotton Hawes. "Fat Ollie" Weeks.

    Must dig them out & reread them before donating to Oxfam.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 12 March 2024, 15:13.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by woody1 View Post
    Any recs for Crime Fiction?

    I've read many authors (Rankin, Cleeves, Nesbo, French, McBride, Mina, Finch...). My favourite so far are the Faraday/Winter novels by Graham Hurley, which I've reread several times.
    Christie, Doyle

    John Grisham - mainly lawyers but they get involved in plenty of crime.

    Jeffery Archer is doing a series based around a police inspector. His other stuff has sprinkles of crime.

    Lee Child (Jack Reacher novels)

    Mc Bain is the pulp crime godfather.
    Last edited by vetran; 12 March 2024, 23:13.

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  • woody1
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    Any recs for Crime Fiction?

    I've read many authors (Rankin, Cleeves, Nesbo, French, McBride, Mina, Finch...). My favourite so far are the Faraday/Winter novels by Graham Hurley, which I've reread several times.

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

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    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.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 15 March 2024, 10:40.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 10 March 2024, 09:21.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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.



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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by hairymouse View Post

    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.

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  • hairymouse
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    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?

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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.

    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 23 February 2024, 09:11.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    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.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 11 February 2024, 10:17.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    Pity some of the others elsewhere haven't remember how to make propshafts.

    On the other hand there's nothing much to fly off the white elephants anyway.

    How are the mighty fallen.

    It's managed decline & no mistake.
    <cough>Tempest</cough>

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