Books - What are you reading?
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Always nice to hear from like minded readers and pick up a few ideas too. I read a lot of Elmore Leonard some years ago. I've also read lots of Ian Rankin and other "Scottish Noir" writers -Stuart MacBride and Val McDermid to name two. Anyone looking for a cynical romp around the 19th century should try the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser, and his "Quartered Safe Out Here", his autobiographical account of fighting in Burma is a tremendous read too.
I've recently finished the entire Warhammer 30k Horus Heresy series.
Unlike the 40,000 books (in the main), far more depth/politics/emotion/quality.
So, onto the Siege of Terra series, which is the six book run through to the end... Currently on book 2. Loving every part of it.
Also, listening to an old favourite on Audible - the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Love the books, first time listening. Each one is some 30+ hours long, great narrator - and strangely more impactful via audio than text.
Just finished Atomic Habits. Useful, if a tad shallow and common sense (although sense is one thing that isn't common!).
Unlike the 40,000 books (in the main), far more depth/politics/emotion/quality.
So, onto the Siege of Terra series, which is the six book run through to the end... Currently on book 2. Loving every part of it.
Also, listening to an old favourite on Audible - the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. Love the books, first time listening. Each one is some 30+ hours long, great narrator - and strangely more impactful via audio than text.
Just finished Atomic Habits. Useful, if a tad shallow and common sense (although sense is one thing that isn't common!).
droopsnoot said:
Perseverant said:
I've also read lots of Ian Rankin and other "Scottish Noir" writers -Stuart MacBride and Val McDermid to name two.
Have you tried James Oswald? He's a mate of Stuart MacBride, and with one or two little exceptions I have enjoyed his stuff greatly.'Seven Miles Down.'
If sitting in a cramped freezing cold metal sphere, hanging under a float containing 28,000 gallons of petrol, whilst descending to a depth of seven miles, where the pressure is tons per square inch, sounds like fun, then this is the book for you.
Brilliant invention and brave explorers tackling one of the last remaining areas ripe for exploration nearly 60 years ago.
Nice well written factual book detailing the project..
If sitting in a cramped freezing cold metal sphere, hanging under a float containing 28,000 gallons of petrol, whilst descending to a depth of seven miles, where the pressure is tons per square inch, sounds like fun, then this is the book for you.
Brilliant invention and brave explorers tackling one of the last remaining areas ripe for exploration nearly 60 years ago.
Nice well written factual book detailing the project..
Edited by peterperkins on Thursday 23 January 22:18
peterperkins said:
'Seven Miles Down.'
If sitting in a cramped freezing cold metal sphere hanging under a float containing 10,000 gallons of petrol whilst descending to a depth of seven miles where the pressure is tons per square inch sounds like fun, then this is the book for you.
Brilliant invention and brave explorers tackling one of the last remaining areas ripe for exploration nearly 60 years ago.
Nice well written factual book detailing the project..
In a related way, I am reading this at the moment.If sitting in a cramped freezing cold metal sphere hanging under a float containing 10,000 gallons of petrol whilst descending to a depth of seven miles where the pressure is tons per square inch sounds like fun, then this is the book for you.
Brilliant invention and brave explorers tackling one of the last remaining areas ripe for exploration nearly 60 years ago.
Nice well written factual book detailing the project..
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50062769-under...
Stan the Bat said:
In a related way, I am reading this at the moment.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50062769-under...
Interesting but lightweights, 1000ft or so maybe 1500ft depth max.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50062769-under...
Trieste went down to 35,797ft and more importantly came back up again vessel and crew intact.
RizzoTheRat said:
Started this the other night on a recommendation from a couple of people at work
Now my mrs complains that I'm chuckling away to myself when she's trying to read
I have nearly finished it. Certainly eye-opening but doesn't have the emotional punch of the Henry Marsh books.Now my mrs complains that I'm chuckling away to myself when she's trying to read
Do you get into a book, find you dislike it but grind away to the end? I usually do but in this case I got to page 48 and that was it; I could go no further. A story of a police inspector seemingly of the ghost division, talking to dead people, and frankly it is a mess. Someone must like them I suppose, but Inspector Dark and his cronies are not for me. Normally I either leave a book in a public place or exchange it for another in a café, but it has given me great pleasure to throw this one in the bin.
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