What are we reading atm?

HarryVegas

HarryVegas

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Me, I'm nearly finished 'Love' by Roddy Doyle. Brilliantly written study of how we blokes talk to each other without ever really saying very much.
 
'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' by Shoshana Zuboff - would be interested if anyone on here has read it. Getting towards the end now and got to say it feels like one of the most important I've ever read. Going to stay to hand for many years. Highly recommended.
 
A book about the directors of the CIA, called The Spymasters. It also tells a good story of each president in turn as it goes through the moves and downfalls of each CIA director as they came and went.
 
Failures of State by 2 Sunday Times journalists. A devastating study of our Governments handling of the Covid 19 pandemic, with some background of how the pandemic may have started in China. It makes me so angry when people say Johnson did his best. We don't need an expensive Public Inquiry, whoever is appointed as the Judge should just read this book.
 
Colin Warnek said:
'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' by Shoshana Zuboff - would be interested if anyone on here has read it. Getting towards the end now and got to say it feels like one of the most important I've ever read. Going to stay to hand for many years. Highly recommended.
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Yes, a year or so ago. It blew my head open.
 
Just started Antimatter by Frank Close. It’s only a short introduction but I’m naff at physics so maybe it’ll help me get my head round some of it.
 
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson.

I'm a sci-fi fan. Spielberg had been trying to turn it into a movie for years.
 
I only mentioned the biographies, didn't I? On the fiction front I've been reading a fair bit of South American stuff recently. I've got really in to César Aira's weird and wonderful novellas but unfortunately very few of them seem to have been translated in to English. And I'm really enjoying The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño too.
 
Reading non fiction books about serious subjects and being fun loving aren't mutually exclusive. I love Lee Child books, just not reading one at the moment.
 
bumface said:
I only mentioned the biographies, didn't I? On the fiction front I've been reading a fair bit of South American stuff recently. I've got really in to César Aira's weird and wonderful novellas but unfortunately very few of them seem to have been translated in to English. And I'm really enjoying The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño too.
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I recently read Billy MacKenzie's (from The Associates) biography. Uniquely talented but difficult man who clearly carried lifelong mental health problems which eventually ruined and then ended him.
 
The Habsburgs
The Rise and fall of a World Power, Martyn Rady
The more I read of european and modern european history the more the meaning of nationality, citizens, subjects, patriotism, fraternity, royalty and country expand.
Did you know we ( england) were technically part of the Habsburg empire, if just for a short time
 
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