Was the chainsaw a present from a friend?
steve
Finished Zadie Smith’s “The Fraud,” which I can recommend.
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Hahahah. No, sadly I need to saw a large number of logs from trees that we have had pruned or that have fallen down.
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You will not be hearing from me for a while! Been meaning to read this for years. I have read some long books in my time (Lord of the Rings, several Normal Mailer books, The Stand by Stephen King) so not daunted by the length of 1200 pages.
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A fascinating book about one of the world’s great flashpoints. It’s interesting how these countries often get lumped together – but how different they actually are (in terms of religion, language, culture, history, landscape, etc). For anyone who loves Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Germany and – especially – Finland and Estonia, as I do, this is essential reading.
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Copy on order…thanks for the recommendation.
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Fifth Strike & Ellacott.On Audible 32 hours long.
My bed time… will I sleep tonight or not….listening.
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Ooh! I fancy that. Will get a copy.
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I liked that one. But skip the next one about the online world. You might be able to follow it if roleplaying games were second nature to you, but for me, it became gibberish. And the gibberish would be worse in an audiobook. Can’t help but think it was Rowling’s response to the online attacks on her. (Just saying - not trying to take a position.) The TV adaptation was equally bad.
I’ve read them all. The most recent one, involving a cult, has a slightly different tone. More suspense, less detecting, but I liked it.
as an aside, if you are in London, do visit the exhibition of Hugo’s drawings at the Royal Acadamy. They are extraordinary. They are certainly not all like this but they are all astonishing.
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Just started this and very promising it is - spun from a series of interviews from the good and the great.
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Building on a life’s work informed by more recent archival research and studies by other scholars. Disturbing similarities to our current times.
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Put a library hold on this. I don’t read many rock memoirs, but my brothers and I were all great fans of the J. Geils Band, and they both told me this was a great read.
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He’s appearing at Chalke Festival in a month or so - hope to hear him talk about this book and no doubt I will capitulate and buy it !
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If he’s a good speaker, it should be quite interesting. Not to mention that in person he might make more explicit comparisons to what is happening today. I’m about midway though the book - Yikes, Alfred Rosenberg was just a mean, miserable person. Sounds almost like someone else (whom I do not know personally).
I first read this not too long after it was published in the UK, when I was in the Sixth Form at school.
It’s a historical document now of course, nearly 60 years on and it certainly seems like it.
steve
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The Angels are still out there, although officially outlawed in the US. But they’re just one of hundreds of outlaw biker gangs in the US, with tens of thousands of members. Hunter Thompson’s counter-cultural hoodlums are almost innnocent compared with what the gangs became. They’re often highly organised criminal outfits, closely tied to drug cartels and the mob, and are more dangerous and violent than ever.
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