A load of shite (imo) from one of the best writers around
Finished Enigma there by Robert Harris. About Bletchley Park. Good holiday read.
Killing Thatcher … good for a holiday read?
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Are you going to read it lying by the seaside or lying by the shore?
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Yes.
Reading The Pelican Brief for the first time. It’s a great read and a great flash back to the early 90s.
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I just started this, a book I’ve always wanted to read.
It is of course the abridged version, the original is three volumes and apparently requires an advanced level of knowledge of Russian history.
Funny thing though. When I got home after purchasing at the book shop, I realised this edition contains something called an “Afterword “. I have never seen an Afterword in a book. This is written by Jordan B Peterson, something not advertised in the front cover. I am extremely disappointed at this. I won’t of course be reading whatever inane drivel he has vomited onto the page ( I read some of his stuff a few years ago, unintelligible nonsense. A very bad writer).
I can only surmise that this moron and his desperate publishers think this will lend him some literary or intellectual credibility. I’d imagine Solzhenitsyn would have been horrified to learn a bigoted idiot is associated with his work.
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A book for MANLY MEN??
I found Solzhenitsyn to be a very dull writer.
To be fair to him he didn’t live in a terribly happy era in a party mad country. Imagine if you’d spent your life with Brother Prunty in the monastery - not a great lot of joy there either.
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The brothers pruntinitsyn
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That’s very good.
Just finished this. I thought it was a super book. Be an ideal holiday read. Describes three different lives in three different timelines. Lot of detail on the Yazidi people and their genocide. And a lot of detail on Victorian England. Also a lot on Ancient Mesopotamian culture.
Won’t be a book for everyone but if you persist with it it’s brilliant.
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Yeah… for a harrowing topic it’s very dull
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I bought it and set about reading it. Id say I managed a quarter of it. It’s very harrowing.
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning is of a similar vein. Horrific but powerful read
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The Horse by Willie Vlautin. A belter of a book. Best I’ve read in a long time.
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Nearly finished Prisoners of Geography on audiobook. Very interesting how a lot of conflicts, geopolitical power plays etc have played out since it was written.
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Just finished this the other. Thought it was closer to a fantasy book than anything else. End was a bit anticlimactic but I loved it overall. He writes some incredible sentences.
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After an initial rush of praise I was kinda meh after a few chapters.
I’ll get back to it at some stage.