Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Good book isn't it? The scars from WW1 definitely loomed large at that time, i found it quite startling how many foreign visitors didnt seem to recognise a very big threat in the Nazi Party too though.
Good book isn't it? The scars from WW1 definitely loomed large at that time, i found it quite startling how many foreign visitors didnt seem to recognise a very big threat in the Nazi Party too though.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.
It's also striking how much of it was 'Front' and being a socialite and the speed at which Nazism spread. It is a lesson to all of us that democracy can be fragile unless we defend it.Good book isn't it? The scars from WW1 definitely loomed large at that time, i found it quite startling how many foreign visitors didnt seem to recognise a very big threat in the Nazi Party too though.
Finished Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall just before Christmas, which was really interesting. Has a few books for Christmas and have started reading one of them, True Crime Story by Jonathan Knox, i'm a 1/4 away through and its very good so far.
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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.
SPOILER ALERT!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.
Finished True Crime Story. Brilliant read, i'd highly recommend it.Finished Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall just before Christmas, which was really interesting. Has a few books for Christmas and have started reading one of them, True Crime Story by Jonathan Knox, i'm a 1/4 away through and its very good so far.
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I spent a lot of time in Detroit in the nineties (well, mostly Dearborn, on the western edge to be accurate. Not too bad) and there's absolutely no correlation between it and Cov.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?
Read a Vietnam book last year. A real life account of a helicopter pilot during the conflict. Really good read and so good it convinced me that I too could fly one if given the chance….I’ve not tested this theory out yetYes, it was that documentary series that got me to read the book. Watching the series first really helps understand the book.
The French don't come out of it all very well at all. Thank God the UK didn't get dragged into it!!
Yeah, fairly early on I realised there were very few similarities.I spent a lot of time in Detroit in the nineties (well, mostly Dearborn, on the western edge to be accurate. Not too bad) and there's absolutely no correlation between it and Cov.
When you are advised by colleagues not to stop at red traffic lights in certain areas of Detroit for your own safety, it tends to make you think.
Finished True Crime Story. Brilliant read, i'd highly recommend it.
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After seeing you recommend it I started reading it last night.
I don't get it though, is it actually true or made up or a mix of both? It reads like a Crime Documentary where it's interviewing people but I can't figure out if he's making it up or if they really said it?
Yeah you definitely get a sense of people being 'swept along' to an extent and it is scary how easily it all seemed to happen.It's also striking how much of it was 'Front' and being a socialite and the speed at which Nazism spread. It is a lesson to all of us that democracy can be fragile unless we defend it.
It threw me for a bit, but its fiction written as if its a true crime. I had to Google the victim to check. Keep going!
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Started reading American Psycho after rewatching the film recently. Hard to work out what’s going on
Have never read Animal Farm but going to see the play at Birmingham Rep in a couple of weeks.Just finished 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?'. Found it quite hard in places, doesn't seem to naturally flow.
Overall was a fairly good read.
Quite fancy Farenheit 451 or Animal Farm next.
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
Is that linked to the I, robot film?Just finished 'I, Robot' by Isaac Asimov. Very good, very well written and flowed nicely. Easy read. Definitely going to read more from him.
Fahrenheit 451 next.
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