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[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Geometry of the Sun god" by Keith Squires. A nicely obscure epic about Stonehenge & assorted circles. Remaindered at £3. The interweb knows very little about it.

Done: Off to Oxfam with it: Supposed to be vol 1 of 2: the 2nd was never written. Lots of geometry which I didn't bother figuring out and square roots of 2, 3, and 5. . The Stonehenge bit was more inneresting than the Egyptian Pyramids bit. I'd never heard of "The Sanctuary" before: it's a grubbed out stone circle destroyed as a source of stone (the way Stonehenge nearly was).

Next: Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation 1945-2016 by Rodric Brathwaite.

I love the smell of fallout in the morning, it smells of... victory. .

Nice mention of Richard Feynman borrowing Klaus Fuchs' car so he could visit his dying wife, only to have 3 flat tyres (or tires) on the way & having to hitchhike to the hospital to arrive shortly before his wife died. And then having yet another flat tyre (or tire) on the way back to Los Alamos. See: the septics had shortages too: very few new tyres (or tires) during WWII (or the bit where they were actually involved from 7th December 1941).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Mercator: the man who mapped the planet (and made the Orange Moron think Greenland is bigger than Africa)" by Nicholas Crane.

Stone me, this is as dry as the Atacama desert.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I very much doubt any of that will remain in my memory, though "rhumb lines" and "loxodromes" might, assuming I could understand them. Shoulders of Giants.

Next: "The Geometry of the Sun god" by Keith Squires. A nicely obscure epic about Stonehenge & assorted circles. Remaindered at £3. The interweb knows very little about it.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Nodding Dogs & Vinyl Roofs: the weird world of quirky car accessories" by Stephen Vokins. I paid 29p for this one, remaindered remaindered and remaindered again: last price label was a right bugger to peel off & there's still some glue left after 3 or 4 different solvents.

Our multiply banned ex colleague Churchill appears. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Why girls can't throw... and other questions you always wanted answered" by Mitchell Symonds.

Filled a need for something rather lighter than Mercator. No idea where or when I bought it and there's no remainder sticker . Must have been feeling flush or something. It has, however, judging by the dust, matured well on the bookshelf.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The worst cars ever sold in Britain" by Giles Chapman. Purchased (remaindered) 23/12/2005, so it's mouldered well on the bookshelf as evidenced by the pages being stuck together. A WHS book.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Mildly inneresting in its way: The Stimson Scorcher: a fine suicide machine and The Triumph Mayflower: a car so remarkably hideous that I recall that a chap down the road had one about 60 years ago IIRC.

Next: "Nodding Dogs & Vinyl Roofs: the weird world of quirky car accessories" by Stephen Vokins. I paid 29p for this one, remaindered remaindered and remaindered again: last price label was a right bugger to peel off & there's still some glue left after 3 or 4 different solvents.

Our multiply banned ex colleague Churchill appears. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Bomb: A History of Hell on Earth" by Gerard DeGroot.

Done: Off to Oxfam with it. Sadly no mention of Cobalt Thorium G, but these small deficiencies might be excused.

Next: "Mercator: the man who mapped the planet (and made the Orange Moron think Greenland is bigger than Africa)" by Nicholas Crane.

Stone me, this is as dry as the Atacama desert.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Dark Side of the Moon: the making of the PF masterpiece" by John Harris. Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Or something.

It's all dark: Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The worst cars ever sold in Britain" by Giles Chapman. Purchased (remaindered) 23/12/2005, so it's mouldered well on the bookshelf as evidenced by the pages being stuck together. A WHS book.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Longitude" by Dava Sobel. Tick Tock.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Dark Side of the Moon: the making of the PF masterpiece" by John Harris. Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Or something.

[NotAllThere]

That Hideous Strength - C.S.Lewis

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "City of Woods and Fields" by Stephen Butler: one man's journey across the country in alphabetical order starting at A in Scotland and ending with Z in Cornwall. All undertaken in a 1969 1970 Morris 1000 van for some odd reason.

Done: Off to Oxfam with it, though I may read it again before that happens.

Next: "The Bomb: A History of Hell on Earth" by Gerard DeGroot.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Station X: The codebreakers of Bletchley Park" by Michael Smith, 2000, C4 book.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Longitude" by Dava Sobel. Tick Tock.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "At home: a short history of private life" by Bill Bryson. Not particularly short at 500 pages but there you go.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "A northern wind: Britain 1962 - 1965" by David Kynaston. Set exactly midway between Clement Atlee and Margaret "The Great She Elephantine Milksnatching Bitch" Thatcher. One who created the NHS and assorted atomic bombs and the other who sold off everything that wasn't nailed down to make her friends richer.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Long Descent: A user guide to the end of the industrial age" by John Michael Greer.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Inneresting enough though rather preachy. Author is a Druid.

Next: "Station X: The codebreakers of Bletchley Park" by Michael Smith, 2000, C4 book.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Down Under" by Bill Bryson.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "At home: a short history of private life" by Bill Bryson. Not particularly short at 500 pages but there you go, being the rooms in his house & various stuff relating thereto.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "This Little Britain: how one small country built the modern world" by Harry Bingham.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Inneresting enough.

Next: "The Long Descent: A user guide to the end of the industrial age" by John Michael Greer.

Purchased 7th May 2011. Mentions "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Miller and "Davy" by Pangborn and "The masters of solitude" by Kaye & Godwin. Possible "Pavane" by Keith Roberts. I've read the first & last, but not the middle two.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Manhattan Project: the making of the atomic bomb" by Al Cimino.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Rather lightweight all in all. That's a nome de plume by the way. It's been reviewed elsewhere as being a printed Wiki posting.

Next: "This Little Britain: how one small country built the modern world" by Harry Bingham.