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What book are you reading ...
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Banksy
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Read all those many years ago.Great though they were , my pile of outstanding unread books and lack of stamina won’t let me go through them all over again . Are you into The Last Kingdom series?
Rosencrantz
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Yep, pretty much all Bernard Cornwell writes I have. I do like The Last Kingdom series, but I prefer Sharpe and the Warlord Chronicles. I would normally have quite a few unread books myself but circumstances and lockdown back along got me re-reading books from my extensive library in between new books.
Also working my way through the DVD'S as well.
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Enemy at the Gates , William Craig , the book which was the inspiration behind the film of the same name. Classic account of the battle for Stalingrad in all its grim detail. The bloodiest battle in the history of modern warfare which cost the lives of nearly two million soldiers and civilians.It signalled the beginning of the end for the Nazis. An excellent detailed read.
The Angel of Wessex ~ A novel by Michael Taylor.
Born on the wrong side of the blanket, the daughter of of a well-to-do Victorian family is sent from the splendour of a Dartmoor mansion to live in grinding poverty in a country hovel where she has to learn to make her own way in life.
Born on the wrong side of the blanket, the daughter of of a well-to-do Victorian family is sent from the splendour of a Dartmoor mansion to live in grinding poverty in a country hovel where she has to learn to make her own way in life.
Banksy
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The Keen Land and other stories. Jack Schaefer. Good book of western yarns by the author of Shane.
I also have the thirteenth book and last book of the Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwall lined up to read.
I also have the thirteenth book and last book of the Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwall lined up to read.
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Banksy
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Spear Havoc, Alternative histories. C R May.What might have happened to history given alternative scenarios of the battle of Hastings and / or the events preceding it.
Banksy
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Being into sci fi I thought I’d use this time to catch up on some old books of the genre.
Earth Abides 1949.George R Stewart. Post apocalyptic story of one man’s experiences in a world that’s lost the bulk of its population.It made me sit up and think when I read the foreword , written in 1947.
“If a killing type of virus strain should suddenly arise by mutation … it could, because of the rapid transportation in which we indulge nowadays, be carried to the far corners of the earth and cause the deaths of millions of people.
—W. M. Stanley, in Chemical and Engineering News, Dec. 22, 1947.”
How fragile civilisation is!
Earth Abides 1949.George R Stewart. Post apocalyptic story of one man’s experiences in a world that’s lost the bulk of its population.It made me sit up and think when I read the foreword , written in 1947.
“If a killing type of virus strain should suddenly arise by mutation … it could, because of the rapid transportation in which we indulge nowadays, be carried to the far corners of the earth and cause the deaths of millions of people.
—W. M. Stanley, in Chemical and Engineering News, Dec. 22, 1947.”
How fragile civilisation is!