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I'm about 3/4 of the way through this and like with all Brookmyre books I've read this is the point where I start skimming over the overly descriptive, far fetched action scenes. | |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Finished Michael Chabon's 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. It was absolutely brilliant. I thought it would take a while to get going like 'The Yiddish Policeman's Union' did, but it got right into the thick of it. Loads going on without making the plot complicated or difficult to follow. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | This week I read Stephen Fry's 'the Hippopotamus' which, although slightly disturbing in places, was excellent. Also the first volume of the 'Fell' comics by Warren Ellis, 'Fell: Feral City'. Damn good, but bleak bleak bleak. Currently reading 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman. He was a genius! |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Currently reading 'Big Chief Elizabeth'. It's all about Elizabethan forays into America. It's interesting: first interaction with native Americans, treachery,deceit, abandonment. Breakdown of Anglo-Spanish relations, piracy, weak commanders, strong commanders, the recruiting of colonists fatigued by the filth, disease and crime of London, persuaded to leave by promises of status and land in the New World. |
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