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28 Oct 2023, 1:29 pm

I'm reading A Brief History of Everything by Bill Bryson. I'm reading it 10 pages a day until until I get to page 400 and then I'm going to blitz it.



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28 Oct 2023, 2:33 pm

Lord of the Flies by William Golding



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29 Oct 2023, 4:31 am

Argos Catalogue Sping/Summer 1994


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30 Oct 2023, 7:19 pm

The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell



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02 Nov 2023, 10:26 am

Cries Unheard (1998)

This is Gitta Sereny's follow up to her 1972 book The Case of Mary Bell. Both of them deal with the 1968 murders of two toddlers in Newcastle by eleven year old Mary Bell and their repercussions on the perpetrator. There are, of course, obvious parallels for UK readers in particular with the 1993 Jamie Bulger case, in which a 3 year old child was murdered by two ten year olds in the Merseyside area.

This is really fascinating stuff. I read Sereny's earlier work about twenty years ago, and this one provides plenty of further food for thought.


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02 Nov 2023, 2:57 pm

The Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens



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03 Nov 2023, 11:09 am

^ I usually have a lot of time for Hitchens's perspective on things, but was surprised and disappointed by his conduct in this interview (from around 40 minutes). He really ought to have exercised more self-control and tolerance.



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04 Nov 2023, 7:18 pm

Whore, by Matt Shaw.

A prostitute, who had been sexually abused as a child by her father, decides which of her clients are worthy to live or die.
Shaw has built a reputation on writing disturbing, often gory novels.


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06 Nov 2023, 2:37 pm

DeepHour wrote:
^ I usually have a lot of time for Hitchens's perspective on things, but was surprised and disappointed by his conduct in this interview (from around 40 minutes). He really ought to have exercised more self-control and tolerance.




I'll give this video a viewing at some point - thank you! :)



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06 Nov 2023, 2:39 pm

Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert



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06 Nov 2023, 8:53 pm

DeepHour wrote:
^ I usually have a lot of time for Hitchens's perspective on things, but was surprised and disappointed by his conduct in this interview (from around 40 minutes). He really ought to have exercised more self-control and tolerance.




Yeah, PH doesn't seem himself here. He seems angry & irritable, like an old man losing his mind. It is shockingly poor form for him.

I haven't seen him speak in a video for a while and I found it difficult for watch this. It was a car crash of an interview. 8O



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07 Nov 2023, 12:51 am





....and yet here he is talking to Owen Jones, with whom he has major differences on ideological and political issues, and it's all very amicable.


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13 Nov 2023, 6:57 am

Welcome To The Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Anthology of Vonnegut's short fiction. So far very enjoyable.


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13 Nov 2023, 2:36 pm

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....and yet here he is talking to Owen Jones, with whom he has major differences on ideological and political issues, and it's all very amicable.


The other video was a lot more recent than this one. This one is from 8 years ago which is how I normally imagine Peter Hitchens to be.