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Sharpe's Assassin - Bernard Cornwell
I read all of these many years back when the TV series first started and was hooked. It's been 15 years wait for this installment and it's like meeting an older, somewhat grumpy, impressively violent friend.
Cornwell always does well to shoehorn his characters into historical settings, making them the centre of the action.0 -
Ooh, didn't realise there was a new one - I'd given up and assumed he'd been retired. I have the full works so better get this once I finished what I'm currently reading (the latest Robert Galbraith Strike novel).0
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I read the latest Strike novel on holidays.Pross said:Ooh, didn't realise there was a new one - I'd given up and assumed he'd been retired. I have the full works so better get this once I finished what I'm currently reading (the latest Robert Galbraith Strike novel).
Can they get any longer I wonder?
The new Sharpe novel is actually a better fit chronologically than the Chilean episode, as it takes place immediately after Waterloo.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.1 -
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'Speech: How Language Makes Us Human' by Simon Prentis. Not a bad read, and quite fun for having an agenda, though it's very rambly and lacks a proper focus on linguistics or brain function for it to get far below the surface. It feels like the title is an excuse for Prentis to get stuff off his chest, and the 'subject' is a way to hold it together.0
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'How We Learn' by Stanislas Dehaene. Thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in brains and, er, how we learn stuff. Actually, if you're not in education, but have children who are or will be, it might be worth reading too. It's not at all dry, and actually reflects on how the most up-to-date neuroscience can be applied in practical terms.
Two things I like:
1) That he sees the brain as a scientific unit that uses our bodies to investigate our worlds, to form hypotheses, and then to adjust them continually as we get feedback to test those hypotheses against, refining the internalised model.
2) How he splits the learning process into four parts: curiosity (or 'attention'); active engagement; error feedback; consolidation, but is always referring back to the brain processes that drive and enable these.
Anyway, a good read.
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Wizard, The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc J. Seif.
I made a mistake and bought the wrong book, but it was interesting. It's about this bloke who messed about with magnets, wires and stuff.
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"IT" by Stephen King. Don't let the huge size dissuade you. One really good, creepy book. Not a boring page in it. Of course, you need to like this type of thing.0
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I don't really care too much for biographies and the like. On occasion I might read some history, but mostly fiction.dennisn said:0 -
Next up: a leisurely ramble around several old buildings, from pre-Stonehenge to 19th century Bath, by a stonemason who specialises in historic techniques, and is obviously deeply into the traditions of building with stone. It would have been nice to have many more illustrations of what he describes, but very interesting and readable, nonetheless. And some pretty epic canoeing between some of the sites he visits.
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"I Flew For The Fuhrer" - the wartime memoirs of Luftwaffe fighter ace, Heinz Knoke. Fascinating insight into the heady days of the Luftwaffe of the late 1930s and early 1940s, when nothing could go wrong for them - through to the sheer desperation and hopelessness of 1944-45 where nothing went right.0
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Just finished The Eight Mountains by Paul Cogneti. Nice descriptions of Italian mountains and life for poor folk in the mountains. I found it in our village book swop which was a pleasant surprise.0
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Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
My second attempt at reading something by King. I'm not interested in supernatural horror stuff, so I wanted to get a sense of his writing in a book I thought I would enjoy. I have a handful of friends who are fans of King. Good story but with some head-scratching moments. Acceptable writing. I won't finish the trilogy. 3/5 Stars.0 -
Half way through Kleptopia by Tim Burgis.
Was on my reading list for a while but a pertinent read now.
It's a good read - I do occasionally get a bit lost with the revolving cast of Central Asian and Russian names, but it's generally well written and very eye opening.0 -
I understood Nicholas and Piers burned all the books after their proto Facist Brexit win?0
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I just realised how proto Facistly on point the names Nicholas and Piers are.0
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You don't know what 'proto' means...thedirector135 said:I understood Nicholas and Piers burned all the books after their proto Facist Brexit win?
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OK Borisimposter2.0 said:
You don't know what 'proto' means...thedirector135 said:I understood Nicholas and Piers burned all the books after their proto Facist Brexit win?
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Look, I don't mean to be offensive but it's not your fault if Mommy named you Piers.thedirector135 said:
OK Borisimposter2.0 said:
You don't know what 'proto' means...thedirector135 said:I understood Nicholas and Piers burned all the books after their proto Facist Brexit win?
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Aww, how quaint. If not slightly patronising. How DO you describe poor Italian mountain folk. 😂webboo said:Just finished The Eight Mountains by Paul Cogneti. Nice descriptions of Italian mountains and life for poor folk in the mountains. I found it in our village book swop which was a pleasant surprise.
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Are you as big a laugh in real life.2
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Left You Dead, the latest of Peter James's Roy Grace novels. As always with his books very well researched detail of how police investigations run, based on real people in the force, albeit with a bit of dramatic licence. Not so much of the feel for Brighton and surrounding areas as there is usually though and probably not one of the better stories (a bit too easy to work out the plot twists and ending).
I only recently realised that ITV had run a series based on these a year or so back. I'll have to try to watch it but I suspect they'll have dumbed it down into just another TV detective series and left out the procedural stuff that are at the heart of the books.0 -
Not reading it at the moment
but given the current situation....
With all the talk about Putin may not want to stop with Ukraine and expand further I can’t help but remember some of my schoolboy reading of the Biggles books and in particular “Biggles sees it through”. Set in Finland and the Winter War (First Soviet-Finnish War).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
A few similarities.“You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”
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Pross said:
Left You Dead, the latest of Peter James's Roy Grace novels. As always with his books very well researched detail of how police investigations run, based on real people in the force, albeit with a bit of dramatic licence. Not so much of the feel for Brighton and surrounding areas as there is usually though and probably not one of the better stories (a bit too easy to work out the plot twists and ending).
I only recently realised that ITV had run a series based on these a year or so back. I'll have to try to watch it but I suspect they'll have dumbed it down into just another TV detective series and left out the procedural stuff that are at the heart of the books.
You are in luck. It's available on demand until the end of the year, from ITV.Pross said:Left You Dead, the latest of Peter James's Roy Grace novels. As always with his books very well researched detail of how police investigations run, based on real people in the force, albeit with a bit of dramatic licence. Not so much of the feel for Brighton and surrounding areas as there is usually though and probably not one of the better stories (a bit too easy to work out the plot twists and ending).
I only recently realised that ITV had run a series based on these a year or so back. I'll have to try to watch it but I suspect they'll have dumbed it down into just another TV detective series and left out the procedural stuff that are at the heart of the books.
Mind you it's a weird series in respect that Imdb reckons that 2 episodes have been shown in the UK. The first was show almost a year to the day ago. The second was supposed to have been on air on April 1st. Turned to be an April's Fool, unless anybody can confirm otherwise. As far as I am aware, it's never been shown on national tv in the UK, even though there are a couple of reviews on said database.
Apparently, there are 3 more in the pipeline, but until number 2 arrives.....
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
The Pathfinders - Will Iredale. A history of the group of airmen in Bomber Command who lit up the targets for the main force in order to get better accuracy. Usual thing of young men with stiff upper lips flying into searchflights and flak. But they would often be first in, last out. The Mosquito was used a lot which I didn't know. It was faster than anything the enemy had. Also talks about the use of electronic warfare pioneered by the Germans to guide their bombers.0
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Watched it now, as I suspected it ended up being an adequate but bog standard detective programme with insufficient time for the detail that make the books stand out.blazing_saddles said:Pross said:Left You Dead, the latest of Peter James's Roy Grace novels. As always with his books very well researched detail of how police investigations run, based on real people in the force, albeit with a bit of dramatic licence. Not so much of the feel for Brighton and surrounding areas as there is usually though and probably not one of the better stories (a bit too easy to work out the plot twists and ending).
I only recently realised that ITV had run a series based on these a year or so back. I'll have to try to watch it but I suspect they'll have dumbed it down into just another TV detective series and left out the procedural stuff that are at the heart of the books.
You are in luck. It's available on demand until the end of the year, from ITV.Pross said:Left You Dead, the latest of Peter James's Roy Grace novels. As always with his books very well researched detail of how police investigations run, based on real people in the force, albeit with a bit of dramatic licence. Not so much of the feel for Brighton and surrounding areas as there is usually though and probably not one of the better stories (a bit too easy to work out the plot twists and ending).
I only recently realised that ITV had run a series based on these a year or so back. I'll have to try to watch it but I suspect they'll have dumbed it down into just another TV detective series and left out the procedural stuff that are at the heart of the books.
Mind you it's a weird series in respect that Imdb reckons that 2 episodes have been shown in the UK. The first was show almost a year to the day ago. The second was supposed to have been on air on April 1st. Turned to be an April's Fool, unless anybody can confirm otherwise. As far as I am aware, it's never been shown on national tv in the UK, even though there are a couple of reviews on said database.
Apparently, there are 3 more in the pipeline, but until number 2 arrives.....0 -
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. Have had a copy of it for years, but always overlooked it in favor of "other" stuff. Pretty good read and not like the movies.0
