what book you reading at the moment? (incl poll)

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Hitler by Ian Kershaw.

Yes, the 2nd biography of the great Fuhrer this year. These Nazis are bloody fascinating tbh. (And not in a good way before anyone thinks I'm joining the blue shirts. Evil can be very interesting is all).

Well worth a read if you like history anyway.

 

[TheRebelRoar]

Hitler by Ian Kershaw.

Yes, the 2nd biography of the great Fuhrer this year. These Nazis are bloody fascinating tbh. (And not in a good way before anyone thinks I'm joining the blue shirts. Evil can be very interesting is all).

Well worth a read if you like history anyway.

*Invades Poland*

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

Hitler by Ian Kershaw.

Yes, the 2nd biography of the great Fuhrer this year. These Nazis are bloody fascinating tbh. (And not in a good way before anyone thinks I'm joining the blue shirts. Evil can be very interesting is all).

Well worth a read if you like history anyway.

Are you reading the 2-volume - "Nemesis/Hubris"? Or the abridged single volume?

I read the former. It's thorough but Kershaw goes deep into the weeds and I found it difficult (in parts) to be focused.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Are you reading the 2-volume - "Nemesis/Hubris"? Or the abridged single volume?

I read the former. It's thorough but Kershaw goes deep into the weeds and I found it difficult (in parts) to be focused.

I'm actually listening to it (I've given up on the printed page. I can't read more than 20 pages anymore). It's been reduced by 600 pages according to the prologue, so I'd say it's the abridged version.

Doubt I'd be up for the longer version either tbh. I love History, but I like it to be entertaining too.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

*Invades Poland*

SPOILER ALERT, ffs.

 

[Stromovka]

I bought this for 2 reasons. Glowing reviews of the 8 short stories (that are supposed to be sci-fi), and one of the stories was the basis for the 2016 film "Arrival". I struggled through the 1st five stories and gave up on the final three after a few pages. You'd want a high level understanding of linguistics and higher maths to know what was going on. Way over my head. I'm going to leave it in one of those outdoor free libraries for some other sucker to have a brain melt.

 

[Matlock]

Just finished John Banville's The Drowned. Started very well, but seemed to run out of steam about half way through. I like the characters of Strafford and Quirke though.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

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I bought this for 2 reasons. Glowing reviews of the 8 short stories (that are supposed to be sci-fi), and one of the stories was the basis for the 2016 film "Arrival". I struggled through the 1st five stories and gave up on the final three after a few pages. You'd want a high level understanding of linguistics and higher maths to know what was going on. Way over my head. I'm going to leave it in one of those outdoor free libraries for some other sucker to have a brain melt.

I know how you feel. Back in the day I bought A Brief History of Time by Srephen Hawkins. I was seduced by the tag line that said something like "finally, physics that the common man can understand"

So I opened it and I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. And I kept going with the expectation that he was going to explain it all in lay terms soon. I finished the book and I still have no clue what on earth, or Mars he was talking about.

 

[Stromovka]

I know how you feel. Back in the day I bought A Brief History of Time by Srephen Hawkins. I was seduced by the tag line that said something like "finally, physics that the common man can understand"

So I opened it and I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. And I kept going with the expectation that he was going to explain it all in lay terms soon. I finished the book and I still have no clue what on earth, or Mars he was talking about.

I bought that as well many, many years ago, and it was the same for me. I was disappointed it wasn't more colloquial. I understood the gist of it but not the detail.

Back to my Noddy books.

 

[El Guapo]

I'm about half way through;

Some People Need Killing, by Patricia Evangelista.

It's a memoir of her time as a journalist in the Philippines covering the Extrajudicial Killings carried out by Duterte's government.

I haven't read non fiction book as hardcore as this in years. It's fuckin wild and scarcely believable that these things occurred in the last 10 years or so.

Some of the stuff is like it's been lifted from some form of a medieval dystopian wild west.

Evangelista's bravery just covering these stories jumps off the page.

An amazing read so far. Really good if a bit grim.