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Question What are you reading?

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Re reading some of the many books in my bookcase at the moment and thoroughly enjoying Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson.

Thompson was the original producer and creator of Have i Got new for you amongst many other TV series. The book follows a rag tag bunch of village cricketers who make up the Captain Scott XI as they embark on a round the world tour with the aim to play a match on each continent. It is very funny and an extremely enjoyable read though ends with a huge dollop of sadness (This is not a spoiler as it states at the start that the writer passed away whilst finishing the book a young age of 45 from cancer)
 
Millenarian vision,capital reality, Brazils contestado rebellion 1912-1916 by Todd A Diacon. Surprisingly interesting.
 
Just started Sid Lowe's Fear and Loating in La Liga (Barcelona v's Real Madrid).Interesting.

Pity he refers to Espanyol as Español throughout (they did officially change their name to Espanyol back in 1998).

Also a pity that Laurie Cunningham's story doesn't appear in this book.Now that's a fooball biography that someone should write.
 
Just finished Simon Jordan's book, 'Be Careful What You Wish For' - great book, very interesting to see how you can easily spend / lose £35m+ on a football club.
 
Just finished " A Wanted Man " by Lee Childs which brings me to the end of the Jack Reacher books which Ive pretty much read back to back.

Not the most challenging of books, but kind of why Ive liked them, easy to read on holiday and the train etc. "A Wanted Man" was probably the weakest of the lot though.

There is one more in hardback but will wait for that to come out in paperback.

Just started Harry Redknapp's book, makes a change from reading about Jack Reacher elbowing people in the face....
 
Started Charles Bukowski's 'Ham On Rye' the other day, enjoying it and reading it pretty quick, but **** me he had a hard childhood.
 
Now finished "Nuremburg " by Glenn Meade - quite an epic with hints of Boys of Brazil about it.
Have started "He Kills Coppers" by Jake Arnott who looks like Roberto Martinez in the Author Pic.
He is IMO a male version of Martina Cole.
 
Have just finished The Mirror Caught The Sun by John Martin about the assasination of the Nazi Reinhard Heydrick it is a brilliant read and would suggest if you get the chance you should read it .
 
I am reading Ian Leasks book The Wounded . It is a collection of short stories some of which are in the Southend area . Quite interesting .
 
If you love movies, especially old ones then Halliwell's Horizon is a cracking read and amazingly only 99p on Kindle.

Its the biography of Leslie Halliwell, film buff, creator of the famous movie guides and film buyer for ITV and later Channel 4.

Despite loving cinema, he rarely had a good word to say about any film made after 1967.

I really enjoyed this biography and some of his reviews are now legendary.

A Clockwork Orange (1972)
‘A repulsive film in which intellectuals have found acres of social and political meaning; the average judgement is likely to remain that it is pretentious and nasty rubbish for sick minds who do not mind jazzed-up images and incoherent sound.’


Sorcerer (1977)
‘Why anyone should have wanted to spend twenty million dollars on a remake of The Wages of Fear, do it badly, and give it a misleading title is anybody’s guess. The result is dire.’

Convoy (1978)
‘A virtually plotless anthology of wanton destruction. Too noisy to sleep through.’


 
To my shame, The Spanish Holocaust took me almost three months. Really heavy going; an excellent if upsetting read. It's not about the civil war per se, more about the oppression behind the lines. Many of the Republicans were no angels, but the Francoists were just terrible. They were so cruel to imprisoned Republicans even Himmler (****ing Himmler!) suggested they were going too far.

Time for some light relief I think...

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