Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:14:18 PMJust finished the book my daughter bought me for my birthday last month.
The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glamour-Boys-Secret-Rebels-Britain/dp/1526601737/
you can tell he was a journalist and MP. Nice light read through the social history of England's toffs between the wars that they don't teach you at school with a nice anti-appeasement twist

I once read a Captain Underpants book 

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on April 23, 2022, 12:07:17 AM

Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:14:18 PMJust finished the book my daughter bought me for my birthday last month.
The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glamour-Boys-Secret-Rebels-Britain/dp/1526601737/
you can tell he was a journalist and MP. Nice light read through the social history of England's toffs between the wars that they don't teach you at school with a nice anti-appeasement twist

I once read a Captain Underpants book 

well done: culture reaches the north at last.

Quote from: pdw1 on April 23, 2022, 08:42:57 AM

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on April 23, 2022, 12:07:17 AM

Quote from: pdw1 on April 22, 2022, 10:14:18 PMJust finished the book my daughter bought me for my birthday last month.
The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glamour-Boys-Secret-Rebels-Britain/dp/1526601737/
you can tell he was a journalist and MP. Nice light read through the social history of England's toffs between the wars that they don't teach you at school with a nice anti-appeasement twist

I once read a Captain Underpants book 

well done: culture reaches the north at last.

No. We've not got Yoghurt yet.

I've just finished a book I bought a few months ago, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

It's a mind-bendingly imaginative work, but not very coherent. Difficult to follow because you can never be sure whether the events described are taking place in a hallucination induced by the futuristic drugs taken by the characters. You get the impression that Dick is indulging his own bonkers religious philosophical mindset (he believed that the universe was an unreal projection, and suffered what he believed to be paranormal experiences). The book doesn't really conclude, it just dies.

I would recommend his short stories, though. But in his longer pieces he seems sometimes to be indulging a sort of stream of semi-delusional consciousness and they don't really go anywhere. Even Man in the High Castle, which is admittedly a brilliant book in some ways (and much more coherent than Palmer Eldritch), just sort of peters out at the end.

I finished World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War last night. I can confidently say it's the first book I've read where I want to read it straight away again. It's well written, but it's the format that makes it so appealing. I will reread it but I've been itching to start Steven Wilson's new book: Limited Edition of One so I've just got through the first chapter of that. Good it is too and I'm impressed that in the first few pages he mentions that the other PT musicians are better players than him.

Radio Life by Derek B Miller
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/radio-life

A really good dystopian story set in the future 400 odd years from now and 300 years after civilisation collapsed. He builds great characters and a strong plot.

Just started the 7th Reacher novel, Persuader. Interestingly the first since the debut novel to be written in the first person.

We join Jack on some sort of close protection operation. And when an attempted kidnapping goes down, he mistakenly takes out a cop as well as the bad guys.

"I'd learned long ago that it was easy enough to shoot a man. But there's absolutely no way to unshoot one".

The War On The West by Douglas Murray.

£10 for the hardcover from Amazon. Bargain.

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 29, 2022, 10:43:50 PMThe War On The West by Douglas Murray.

£10 for the hardcover from Amazon. Bargain.

I've heard about that one - intrigued

Quote from: Matt2112 on May 29, 2022, 10:43:50 PMThe War On The West by Douglas Murray.

£10 for the hardcover from Amazon. Bargain.

I read a few reviews on Amazon last night, they range from "encourages hate crimes and white supremacist terrorism" to "another fantastic work from our most important writer".

I did think about buying the Kindle version last night at £7.99, annoyingly ten hours later it's £9.99. I'll keep an eye on it.

Just bought The Madness Of Crowds by the same author, about the scourge of identity politics. Only £5.89. I identify as tight.

Quote from: Slim on May 30, 2022, 09:17:57 AMI read a few reviews on Amazon last night, they range from "encourages hate crimes and white supremacist terrorism" to "another fantastic work from our most important writer".

Reading through the first chapter, "Race" - unsurprisingly, it confirms to me that first take is simply deranged.

Electric Wizards - JR Moores.
A real tour of heavy music in general, not just heavy metal, with a lot of bands usually not featured prominently.

Ah, I see the subtitle is 'a tapestry of heavy music 1968 to the present'. First chapter starts with how Paul McCartney sort of single handedly invented heavy music by writing Helter Skelter. Not sure about that, but it's a good starting point.

Quote from: Thenop on June 01, 2022, 07:05:11 PMAh, I see the subtitle is 'a tapestry of heavy music 1968 to the present'. First chapter starts with how Paul McCartney sort of single handedly invented heavy music by writing Helter Skelter. Not sure about that, but it's a good starting point.

Hmm, I'm not sure about that either. You Really Got Me by The Kinks pre-dates McCartney's effort by four years!

Finished Steven Wilson's book: Limited Edition of One last night. Quite a good read. The first half was excellent, but the second half became a bit rambling and I could have done without some odd short story at the end. 7/10

Quote from: pxr5 on June 06, 2022, 07:24:08 PMFinished Steven Wilson's book: Limited Edition of One last night. Quite a good read. The first half was excellent, but the second half became a bit rambling and I could have done without some odd short story at the end. 7/10

thanks for reminding me, have it lying around as well. Must get round to reading it.