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Jun 2019
9:08am, 17 Jun 2019
37,614 posts
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Diogenes
It might be Mrs Dalloway I have in the cupboard.
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Jun 2019
11:11am, 17 Jun 2019
9,421 posts
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Little Nemo
*dials 999*
I've read Orlando but that was only because I had seen the film first.
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Jun 2019
4:39pm, 20 Jun 2019
27,050 posts
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LazyDaisy
Having now watched Chernobyl I am compounding my horror, despair and awe by reading Chernobyl Prayer, by Svetlana Alexievich. It's a collection of accounts by people who were there and it was the basis for the series. On the one hand you are humbled by the immense courage shown and on the other, despairing at the stupidity and 'patriotism' on display. It's a book I won't forget in a hurry.
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Jun 2019
4:00pm, 21 Jun 2019
37,796 posts
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Diogenes
split between threads
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Jun 2019
5:53pm, 21 Jun 2019
37,801 posts
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Diogenes
I’ve started Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall. It’s interesting but listening it’s hard to assimilate all the details. Also, the narrator speaks very slowly with big gaps between each word. I’m listening on x1.25 and I think I could go to 1.5!without losing anything.
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Jun 2019
9:42pm, 21 Jun 2019
18,148 posts
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Columba
Back to Karamazov, vol 2. Only first I'm re-reading the last few pages of vol 1, as it's a long time since I put it down and my memory wants jogging.
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Jun 2019
9:43pm, 21 Jun 2019
40,151 posts
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McGoohan
You've put me off that one now Dio. Maybe I won't copy you... I look at that book every time I go in Waterstones though.
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Jun 2019
9:52pm, 21 Jun 2019
37,811 posts
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Diogenes
No, don’t let me put you off. It’s definitely worth reading. I’ve done the same thing in Guildford Waterstones.
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Jun 2019
10:08pm, 21 Jun 2019
40,154 posts
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McGoohan
I mean 'put me off the audiobook version' I suppose. I may still buy the physical thing.
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Jun 2019
9:53pm, 22 Jun 2019
3,180 posts
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Fizz :-)
Just back from Raynor Winn. We didn’t ask the questions as everybody else in the room said it was the most inspirational book they’d ever read.
However, our joint instincts as regards the answers were:
About 50%
About 50%
Never (apart from the fact that I live there)
We’re pretty certain that Moth was at the back of the room, but we didn’t get the chance to talk to him.
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Acts of Minor Dissent
Sep 2024
