Books

[Born of Fire]

Currently reading "Travellers In The Third Reich" by Julia Boyd.

Did they offer to tarmac the driveway at Auschwitz?!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

 

[Kurt Cocaine]

Jajajajajajaja 

Veddy veddy good.... 

[Pedrito]

 

[StoutAndAle]

Did they offer to tarmac the driveway at Auschwitz?!

Brilliant

My missus said something along the same lines when she spotted it on the on the couch;

"Travellers and Nazis never finish the job they start and you have call in someone else to fix the mess they make."

[Scáthach]

I have Bertrand's book on history of philosophy and I found it interesting at first and then very smug. He seems to know better than every philosopher ever by the end of it. It's a good read and god knows he was an incredible thinker but that was my overall impression by the end.

I would have to agree on that. He is a little too comfortable in giving the modern 20th century perspective on the ideas rather than the thing in itself. He is quite a skilled formal logician, so I find I can still appreciate his perspective though.

[Carnage]

Still not in the form for getting back into the Dune series (God Emperor Of Dune up next) so just started Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Only 30 pages or thereabouts into it but so far it wipes the floor with the only other one of hers that I've read (Beyond Black). Yet to hear a bad word about it, so this bodes well.

[Eoin McLove]

Dipping back into Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges for the first time in a few months. This morning I'm struggling my way through The Library of Babel. It's hard work but it's really enjoyable when you begin to untangle the knots of it.

[Caomhaoin]

Still not in the form for getting back into the Dune series (God Emperor Of Dune up next) so just started Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Only 30 pages or thereabouts into it but so far it wipes the floor with the only other one of hers that I've read (Beyond Black). Yet to hear a bad word about it, so this bodes well.

That's a savage book. I'm not normally into 'historical fiction' but she is a superb author. I finished that book in a day or two and I'm usually a painfully slow reader.

[Don Gately]

Just ordered Meditations  by Marcus Aurelius.

[Grim Reality]

I've just started to re read one of my favourite ever books, The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake.

Just felt right for this dismal November weather.

[Carnage]

I've had that (and the follow-up) on my shelf for years, I'm yet to get around to it.

[Emphyrio]

Barely made it through the first book. Awful dour.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'd just like to say that I'm enjoying the absolute good-loving fuck out of my first re-read of Dune in at least 20 years.

[Carnage]

Still not in the form for getting back into the Dune series (God Emperor Of Dune up next) so just started Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Only 30 pages or thereabouts into it but so far it wipes the floor with the only other one of hers that I've read (Beyond Black). Yet to hear a bad word about it, so this bodes well.

That's a savage book. I'm not normally into 'historical fiction' but she is a superb author. I finished that book in a day or two and I'm usually a painfully slow reader.

I'm enjoying it so far, nearly halfway through it. Haven't had much time to sit with it recently, though.

A side effect of A Man For All Seasons being a favourite film, however is that I'm picturing most of the protagonists as they were cast in the film - though I'm stopping short of Leo McKern as Cromwell.