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29 Jan
7:51pm, 29 Jan 2025
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Night-owl
@Northern Exile have you read anything else by Follett. Read Fall of Giants years back been meaning to read rest of trilogy. But might have to read it again if I want to read the rest
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29 Jan
7:54pm, 29 Jan 2025
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Northern Exile
I think the only one I've read is the Key to Rebecca, but I'm willing to give others a try 
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31 Jan
12:14pm, 31 Jan 2025
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Columba
I read a lot of John Wyndham when it first came out, and loved it then but don't know if I would now. I did feel it compared well with a lot of SF. |
31 Jan
8:37pm, 31 Jan 2025
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Neil_E_There
Recently read The Crysalids by John Wyndham and could see echoes of how things seem to be going. Have been putting off reading The Kraken Wakes as have always thought of it as one of the classics - guess I'll get round to it soon. Current plodding through Dan Brown's Angels & Demons. |
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31 Jan
8:43pm, 31 Jan 2025
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Northern Exile
You mean all out nuclear war, destruction of [the majority] of civilisation and the development of new cultures? Yes, I can see what you mean.
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31 Jan
8:56pm, 31 Jan 2025
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Neil_E_There
Well I was more focussing on the treatment of those deemed different but ...
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13 Feb
5:02pm, 13 Feb 2025
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Red Squirrel
I finished the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Well it was OK. We talked about it at book group and just about everyone found it OK. Only one didn’t like it and didn’t finish it. Our next one is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. The premise is interesting and I’m liking it so far about 20 pages in. It flows well. |
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15 Feb
6:56pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Columba
Reading Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away.
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15 Feb
7:54pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Northern Exile
Currently on my 2nd circumnavigation of O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin volumes.
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2 Mar
1:37pm, 2 Mar 2025
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Chrisull
Currently reading M John Harrison's sort of memoir/anti-memoir. Highly recommended so far. He was a fell runner as well as a climber I seem to be able to extricate from the text, which is perhaps Climbers always felt so real to me. Also a nice little synchronicity, he goes off on a digression about structure (and lack of - and in particular his lack of - in books) and he then talks about how Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet (and the authors contained therein) has the same sprawling, going nowhere in particular. The Weird Studies podcast did a good riff on lack of plot in books/cinema on their "That' ain't plot" dive into Spirited away and trace it back to myth in Apuleius's Golden Ass. Who knew making it up as you go along had such a dignified history? |
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