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18 Jan 2021, 9:09 pm

Metal Music Manual: Producing, Engineering, Mixing and Mastering by Mark Mynett.

Metal Music Manual by Mark Mynett

Am just over half the way through. Well written informative book on the subject. Very good.
Plan to use the knowledge to produce some metal, although I am not from a metal background.

Even more reason to read and do. As this is how you learn and how new things start. :-)



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20 Jan 2021, 4:51 pm

SPQR by Mary Beard, and I’m finding it really interesting :D



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20 Jan 2021, 11:16 pm

Women, by Charles Bukowski.

Former skid row drunk, former post office employee, Henry Chinaski, is finally making himself known as a writer and a poet, and sees his emerging success as a means to cure his four year long dry spell without sex. A Christmas present from my wife, this is funny in a wonderfully juvenile way that only Bukowski could write.


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23 Jan 2021, 11:30 am

Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)

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I've never thought much of her morality, but I love Flaubert's writing.


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23 Jan 2021, 8:37 pm

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24 Jan 2021, 10:09 am

Simulcra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard.

I'm finding it a good source of media and literary analysis but I disagree with its understanding of how reality works. I find that his perspective is limited - he assumes his reader has the same experiences and demographics to him - but he's really prescient in how he basically foresaw our online world esp in terms of things like online marketplaces (eg Amazon) and online socialising (eg social media).

It's my first Bookriot challenge: read a book that you have been intimidated to read.


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25 Jan 2021, 3:49 pm

Explaining Humans by Dr Camilla Pang. I love and recommend it.


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27 Jan 2021, 10:53 am

I've just started a second read of '12 Streams of LeConte' by my late friend, Jenny Bennett. She committed suicide in 2015. I still miss her terribly!


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27 Jan 2021, 11:01 am

"Dear Devil" by Eric Frank Russell, first published in the May 1950 issue of Other Worlds Science Stories.

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The first Martian vessel descended upon Earth with the slow, stately fall of a grounded balloon.  It did resemble a large balloon in that it was spherical and had a strange buoyance out of keeping with its metallic construction.  Beyond this superficial appearance all similarity to anything Terrestrial ceased.

There were no rockets, no crimson Venturis, no external projections other than several solaradiant distorting grids which boosted the ship in any desired direction through the cosmic field.  There were no observation ports.  All viewing was done through a transparent band running right around the fat belly of the sphere.  The bluish, nightmarish crew was assembled behind that band, surveying the world with great multifaceted eyes.

They gazed through the band in utter silence as they examined this world which was Terra.  Even if they had been capable of speech they would have said nothing.  But none among them had a talkative faculty in any sonic sense.  At this quiet moment none needed it.

The scene outside was one of untrammeled desolation...



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27 Jan 2021, 11:15 am

A Gay History Of Britain


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29 Jan 2021, 6:06 pm

Dark Web from Dean Koontz



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30 Jan 2021, 12:10 pm

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis



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31 Jan 2021, 2:53 pm

Us three by Ruth Jones



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31 Jan 2021, 3:08 pm

The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in his Times by Francis Russell. Who knew there was so much to know about Warren Harding?


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31 Jan 2021, 3:08 pm

I currently only read light stuff, stuff that isn't too challenging.

I'm currently reading Principia Mathematica and Finnegans Wake . Oh and a few select books on Quantum entanglement. plus the Dead sea Scrolls. In their original text form.


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