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blurredman
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PostPosted: 14:22 - 13 Jul 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Easy-X wrote:
You get a lot more detail on the political side of things. Much the same as reading Dune over watching the atrocious film adaptions.


yen_powell wrote:
Nothing like the film, thank god. Have you read Citizen of the Galaxy by the same author, one of my all time favourites.



I actually enjoyed both the film adaptations of Dune and Starship Troopers- I have also read Dune, plus it's tied award winning 'This Immortal' by Zelazny.

Anyway. I'm enjoying. Citizen of the Galaxy is on my radar, and I've also heard 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' is also good but I've got a long enough list to get through- thanks for adding another item to it. Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:19 - 13 Jul 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

My sister in law gave me a book called The Kitchen God's Wife for my birthday (apparently she's also bought me an actual kitchen god, some little Chinesey guy to sit on top of my fridge (?) - but I haven't read it yet, as I am currently audiobooking my way through something entitled Murder Your Employer - The McMasters Guide to Homicide ( Laughing ) which has been an entertaining holiday read.
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 01 Aug 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Kitchen God's Wife is surprisingly good. I'm halfway through it already, and spend more time than I should in the morning reading it in bed before I get up.

I had nothing to read on th way home tonight as I had forgotten my phone, and was already lugging several books for work. So I stopped at Waterstones in the Kings Road and somehow managed to drop £45 at the check-out Rolling Eyes (three books - I could have bought a dozen and still wanted more)

So now in addition to the above, I am also reading "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", which is apparently comes highly recommended.

I'm more than a bit pleased that I am getting my reading mojo back again, that little course of Elvanse I took last year has done me a power of good. Been reading since I was three years old (according to my Mum) and I had become quite distressed that I lost the abiity to concentrate on books about 15 years ago. But now it appears to be returning, I am delighted. Books always take me away into another world, away from whatevs is bothering me, and into a place where I can forget about real life for a while. A long while. Fucking yes Dance! Dance!
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PostPosted: 22:30 - 01 Aug 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

For my listening pleasure on the train to and from work I am currently listening to When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm.

Its very interesting!

How to Murder Your Employer was entertaining.
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PostPosted: 07:50 - 03 Aug 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have finished Starship Troopers, and I hate to say it but I think I enjoyed the first half more. The second half seemed a bit of a rush?? I don't wish to compare the book to the film A Gentleman and an Officer, but it just shows you can make a story in itself out of boot camp alone- anything after can be another story.

Most notible was chapters that stopped being 15 pages long and started being 50 odd. Maybe he wrote those chapters in one long sitting- doing so in order to get all he wanted down on paper whilst he remembered. Anyway- good book, glad I read it.

Now is Leon Trotsky's My Life.
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PostPosted: 00:02 - 10 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig.


Are you still alive? Not posted for a while.
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