Steve Jobs .. Walter Isaacson .. how did he do it ? ... just watched the Steve Jobs story a lá Evan Davies on BBCiplayer .. the programme pretty much is a precis of the Isaacson book
One of his best, a masterful mystery - just received a signed copy for New Year's present! Less surreal than usual, but so 'unputdownable' I'm just willing away the months until the next part is published.
One of his best, a masterful mystery - just received a signed copy for New Year's present! Less surreal than usual, but so 'unputdownable' I'm just willing away the months until the next part is published.
Book 3 if that is the part your waiting for ,is already out, just read my sons copy, and wishing there was still more to come.
classic, my neice is studying US culture at uni and KV is a prescribed author .. me ? .. I'm reading Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet and Deborah Cohen's Household Goods
Åsnebrygga by Sven Delblanc, diary of a Swedish visiting professor at Berkeley in the late 60's. Really interesting. Don't think his work is at all translated into English though. Russendisko by Wladimir Kaminer (available as Russian Disco in English). Little tidbits about an emigrated Russian and his life in Berlin among other expats and Germans. Hilarious at points!
Want to get into the Camus you're talking about up there!
Nearly finished the Sisters Brothers. Very enjoyable book with a bit of depth to it, my personal favourite of the Booker shortlist. Apart from Cormac McCarthy I don't think I've ever read a western before but may explore it a bit now. Anyone got any recommendations - was going to start with Elmore Leonard.
The collection of Spike Milligans War memoirs - Chrissy present from my outlaws.
I don't know how far you have got - but things notably took a darker tone after he got injured at Monte Cassino, which helps to explain a lot of his later problems with depression, the way he was treated by his superiors was appalling regardless.
I finished Hellhounds on his Trail recently....i cannot recommend this book highly enough - a really gripping account of the assassination of MLK - although i still have major doubts about what it purports to have happened is actually true...
Over the last couple of weeks I've read: Stieg Larrson - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Mark Kermode - The Good the Bad and the Multiplex which was a cracking read.
Now reading The Fear Index by Robert Harris which is going quite well at the minute, don't usually read this sort of stuff so quite surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.
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Less surreal than usual, but so 'unputdownable' I'm just willing away the months until the next part is published.
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Russendisko by Wladimir Kaminer (available as Russian Disco in English). Little tidbits about an emigrated Russian and his life in Berlin among other expats and Germans. Hilarious at points!
Want to get into the Camus you're talking about up there!
All about Adam (depressing) started last night Black Narcissus - Rumer Godden
The collection of Spike Milligans War memoirs - Chrissy present from my outlaws.
Both really good reads but for different reasons.
I don't know how far you have got - but things notably took a darker tone after he got injured at Monte Cassino, which helps to explain a lot of his later problems with depression, the way he was treated by his superiors was appalling regardless.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hellhound-his-Trail-Stalking-International/dp/0718192060/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325781005&sr=8-2
Over the last couple of weeks I've read: Stieg Larrson - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Mark Kermode - The Good the Bad and the Multiplex which was a cracking read.
Now reading The Fear Index by Robert Harris which is going quite well at the minute, don't usually read this sort of stuff so quite surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.