O/T Fit You Reading 3

[TheDeeDon]

Amongst books read this week were "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski. Had never read anything by him previsouly, but this was an excellent book. Cannot wait to stuck in to more of his stuff.

[gruppenfuhrer]

the boys of the dell , Kingussie shinty , got more pictures than words .

[TheDeeDon]

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones

A great insight into how far Britain has moved to the right since 1980 (unbroken Tory and Tory-lite rule for 35 years now). Gap between the rich and the rest has never been wider and successive governments still roll over to the Murdochs, Amazons etc.

Selling off state industries, no support to key / strategic employers in hour of need, etc. etc.

A real eye opener.

I'm reading this at the moment. I know a lot of this stuff which is going on which is mentioned in the book, but when you read it all together it makes depressing reading.

As a nation we are sleeping walking into the abyss.

[scobiemacd]

Marching Powder. True story of an English cocaine smuggler who ends up in a Bolivian prison.

Lovely stuff .

[Pacman1903]

Good book scobes min

[scobiemacd]

I enjoyed it. I'm hardly prolific in the reading stakes but read it in only a few sittings .Wonder what the guy is up to these days .

[simarooskimoose]

Rounded off my Cormac McCarthy binge by reading No Country for Old Men. Bit anticlimactic if you're trying to read it like a more traditional western, but I suppose he does that on purpose.

Now on to The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, third book in his distastefully hipsterishly titled 'Gentlemen B*stard sequence'. It's a series nae a sequence y'pr!ck. Decent yarns though.

[Pacman1903]

[Pacman1903]

Starting Bob Crampseys brand new book on the Dons tonight.

[Stavrogin]

'Science: A History' by John Gribbin

Great read if you are interested in the progress of human knowledge since the 1500s. Provides a lot of background to the lives of scientists that made significant discoveries as well as explaining just how we progressed from "the Sun revolves around the Earth" and "It is God's will" to quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology etc. A good read and very educational.