Kleptopia, how dirty money is conquering the world. By Tom Burgis. A well-researched, well-documented account of how massive amounts of money have literally changed the world we live in. And you know we think Russian money is a significant game-changer? Try Kazakhstan and some of the other Stans for real money and real power.
Read any good books?
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Richard A Thackeray
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I work, in what was, the grounds of Stanley Royd, opened in 1818 (& extended over the 1800s/1900s) as the 'West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum'
Was going to try it but there doesn’t seem to be a Kindle version
cyberknight
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riding through the dark by david millar as my holiday book , now working on the racer which is his last pro season
I got the whole series for 99p on one of the regular Kindle offers. I'll post a link in a bit.
Ah,it is £14.99 now. The 99p offers are often brilliant and I buy them for later use.
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Very good book. Try Putin's People for a great view of how the current Russian autocracy came about.
I'm part way into that at the moment, up to where Yeltsin's just about to lose power, I want to like it but it's hard going.
wiggydiggy
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I love reading, the last 3 I read (all good) are:
Novelization of the film, exactly what you would expect. If you like the film the book will interest you, it has some extra detail about the aliens and some plot holes in the film.
Tells the story of a group of suvivors who are among the last of humaninty after a virus wipes out 99.99% of everyone else. Covers a range of things like how society might be rebuilt and the effects of losing so many people on others (animals).
I've always liked the films but never read the book, now I have and its very good (as if I was expecting anything else!). I recognized a lot of the film in parts of the book, and can see how the film juggled the events around to make a better film but the book version makes more sense.
Currently reading, good so far. Story about ensuring humanities survival by sending the seed of humans on minature spacecraft to colonize other planets. Its not what you think when I say 'colonize' but I'm not sure how else to describe it.
Novelization of the film, exactly what you would expect. If you like the film the book will interest you, it has some extra detail about the aliens and some plot holes in the film.
Tells the story of a group of suvivors who are among the last of humaninty after a virus wipes out 99.99% of everyone else. Covers a range of things like how society might be rebuilt and the effects of losing so many people on others (animals).
I've always liked the films but never read the book, now I have and its very good (as if I was expecting anything else!). I recognized a lot of the film in parts of the book, and can see how the film juggled the events around to make a better film but the book version makes more sense.
Currently reading, good so far. Story about ensuring humanities survival by sending the seed of humans on minature spacecraft to colonize other planets. Its not what you think when I say 'colonize' but I'm not sure how else to describe it.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Currently reading the Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
Nora Seed feels that life isn't for her, so she has a go at suicide. She is caught between life and death and for her that means she is in the library.
She has the opportunity to Try as many alternate lives as she wishes but will any of them turn out to be better than the life she has? And will she choose life or death in the end?
Its really good.
Nora Seed feels that life isn't for her, so she has a go at suicide. She is caught between life and death and for her that means she is in the library.
She has the opportunity to Try as many alternate lives as she wishes but will any of them turn out to be better than the life she has? And will she choose life or death in the end?
Its really good.
Tail End Charlie
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I've finished "An Officer and a Spy" by Robert Harris, a novel about the Dreyfus Affair in France in 1895. Absorbing stuff, anti semitism and continued lying to cover up mistakes made in the investigation.
There’s an interesting connection between the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Tour de France race. I won’t go into details here so as not to derail the thread, but I’m sure anyone interested could easily find out.
Gillstay
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Its amazing how many things link with / were influenced by the Dreyfus affair.
raleighnut
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Total recall was written by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.
In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
wiggydiggy
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Not this book, it's the novelisation of the film Total Recall. PKDs short story "We can remember you wholesale" is the original work he wrote that the film (and this book) is based on.
Reminds me, I need to read "The man in the high castle" soon which is another PKD book.
