fernandopartridge
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The Deficit Myth (must read for everybody)
The Steve Phelps two games from Wembley book about the 80/81 season
The Steve Phelps two games from Wembley book about the 80/81 season
These threads never catch on but a few days ago Beatrice Clare Dunkel passed away at 59 from Motor Neurone Disease
She mainly wrote under the pseudonym of Mo Hayder
she wrote a series of crime novels with Jack Caffrey as the central character and explored deeply disturbing characteristics in some detail in particular with Birdman and the Treatment
Her stand alone novel the Devil of Nanging (Tokyo is an alternate title) is enthralling and disturbing in equal measure. Pig Island is also equally compelling and explores disability discrimination in a typically dark manner
She was an underrated exponent of the crime genre - a real talent who has had a fascinating life when you explore her previous exploits and is a real loss to crime thriller addicts like myself
I wondered who she was when you put her in the death list thread. I didn't realise it was Mo Hayder.
Read a few of her books, the Treatment is a good book, though pretty disturbing.
Also was in are you being served when a teenager and with Benny Hill!
I never knew that, I didn't know much about her but this thread has jogged my memory about her books, I've read Tokyo and one other Jack Caffrey book but i can't remember which one.
Reading this now. To what extent was our society like theirs? Also their belief that they were a nation defeated through famine in WW1 rather than War.I'm currently reading Travellers in the Third Reich and finding it very interesting. It is basically telling the story of Hitler's rise through the accounts of eye-witnesses who happened to be in Germany during the 1920s and 30s. It's startling how many either sympathised with Nazism or didn't perceive the level of threat posed to the world by them.
Fair play to you.Ulysses (second time).
I would love to read that. Gonna treat myself.Got Bob Mortimers Autobiography as a Christmas present , really enjoyable so far
Hopefully lots of stories akin to those heard on Would I Lie To you?Got Bob Mortimers Autobiography as a Christmas present , really enjoyable so far
Ultra by Tobias Jones is a decent read as well and gives another perspective of the polarisation of politics in Italian football.A season with Verona by Tim Parks. I think it's been mentioned before on here. Bought it for 50p in the book shop in Gosford Street.
Basically the author follows the fortunes of Hellas Verona in the 2000/01 season as they strive to stay up in Serie A. He follows their lunatic (and sometimes racist) fans. It's very good.
I might have read that, I read a few books years ago about the rust belt, crack epidemic etc. Why any country strives to be like the USA God only knows.I’m reading ‘The Last Days of Detroit’. Unsurprisingly It’s about the decline of Detroit, and what it’s like now and what the future might hold.
Due to the car industry connection, I’ve always thought of Cov as being a bit like Detroit. I’m not sure it is…unless those packs of wild dogs are still roaming around Chapelfields etc?
I'm similar with the Kindle, not helped with Amazon regularly giving away free books.I've got a similar sized list that I keep meaning to get cracking with and eventually will (I tell myself). I'm not counting the hordes of kindle books loaded up and yet to be started also because that's a number I really don't want to find out at this point
Once billed as an example of the American ‘City of the Future’…when it’s population was two million. The author suggests, now it’s population is 750,000, it may be an example of the American city of the future again…but for all the wrong reasons obviously.I might have read that, I read a few books years ago about the rust belt, crack epidemic etc. Why any country strives to be like the USA God only knows.
Just finished The Secret DJ. Great book detailing the some of the life and tales of an ‘unknown’ DJ. Funny and quite sad in equal measures. Just about to start the second one
dance DJ or radio DJ?
I used to love the ones as a kid where it was turn to page 27 if you killed the elf but 64 if you let him live.I’ve been reading lots of fantasy novels, so that when they hit the screens, I can be a smart arse eg lord of the rings, game of thrones
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