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[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: next: "A legacy of Spies" since I don't feel like reading any of the others at the moment & this is the one that started me on rereading such of the Le Carre oeuvre that I'd read back in the day, being full of names I remember.

Maybe I'll remember more of the plot too since I read it starting 10th of May. .

Fingers crossed on that one. .

Gosh. Having revisited "The spy who came in from the cold" etc. it made rather more sense than on the first reading.

Next: "Agent Running in the Field" J. Le Carre.

[NotAllThere]

Russia. Antony Beevor. Just got to the bit where Lenin declares the Bolshies are taking over state power. Gripping stuff. And very depressing.

In other news. Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of... trilogy. Great fun evolutionary hard scifi. Love the Portia spiders. Aw... just look at those eyes... What's not to love?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: (since I don't have "The little drummer girl" any more & don't want to read "The Russia House" or "The Perfect Spy"): "The Secret Pilgrim"

Done: next: "A legacy of Spies" since I don't feel like reading any of the others at the moment & this is the one that started me on rereading such of the Le Carre oeuvre that I'd read back in the day, being full of names I remember.

Maybe I'll remember more of the plot too since I read it starting 10th of May. .

Fingers crossed on that one. .

[xoggoth]

Got a little book club on Wednesday. Tried 2 books already and gave up, so many damn characters in them I can't remember who's who. Tried making notes and it looked like a 5 generation family tree.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Westerns" by Philip French: it's about Western films: originally written in 1972 & updated 1977 & 2005.

"My mule don't like you laughin'". .

Done: first half is rather dry, the second half more inneresting: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Wild Blue" by Stephen E. Ambrose, he who I recall seeing as a talking head on "The World at War (1974): Reckoning: 1945 & after" or some such when he was a much younger man. Shame about the plagiarism.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Dalek I loved you" by Nick Griffiths. :.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. The funniest part was when he discovers the reason for the tightness of his new cords & the lack of any pockets. .

Next: "Westerns" by Philip French: it's about Western films: originally written in 1972 & updated 1977 & 2005.

"My mule don't like you laughin'". .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Smiley's People" by J. LeCarre.

A much easier read, thank feck. One can see why there was never a tv mini series of "The Honourable Skoolboy". .

Done.

Next: (since I don't have "The little drummer girl" any more & don't want to read "The Russia House" or "The Perfect Spy"): "The Secret Pilgrim"

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Bletchley Park People: Churchill's geese who never cackled" by Marion Hill: it's about people so a rather lighter read than "The Hut 6 Story" etc.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Dalek I loved you" by Nick Griffiths. :.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off back to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution" by Stephen Knight: mostly bollox but quite inneresting bollox which makes a change. A butt of malmsey might have come in handy, like. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Bletchley Park People: Churchill's geese who never cackled" by Marion Hill: it's about people so a rather lighter read than "The Hut 6 Story" etc.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Honourable Schoolboy" by J. LeCarre. This one's rather longer at 543 pages: must be the advent of word processing or something.

Done. At last. It could have done with some editing it must be said.

Next: "Smiley's People" by J. LeCarre.

A much easier read, thank feck. One can see why there was never a tv mini series of "The Honourable Skoolboy". .

[WTFH]

Rare for me to do much reading these days, but I'm currently reading "I Am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "How Bletchley Park won WWII" by Michael Kerrigan.

Done: off back to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution" by Stephen Knight: mostly bollox but quite inneresting bollox which makes a change. A butt of malmsey might have come in handy, like. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The lost worlds of 2001: the ultimate book of the ultimate trip "2001: a space odyssey"" by Arthur C. Clarke: bought last week, published 1972 by NEL in paperback which is now very delicate, on the verge of breaking the spine.

Done: off back to Oxfam with it.

Next: "How Bletchley Park won WWII" by Michael Kerrigan.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^quite a lot of things apparently.



Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The lost worlds of 2001: the ultimate book of the ultimate trip "2001: a space odyssey"" by Arthur C. Clarke: bought last week, published 1972 by NEL in paperback which is now very delicate, on the verge of breaking the spine.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^quite a lot of things apparently.

Next: "Alan Turing: the Enigma Man" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brief & to the point unlike the other doorstop about him.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.