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    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Currently reading 'Tourist Season' by Carl Hiaasen. This is good fun, the plot and characters are a bit like the old Rockford Files TV series from years ago.

    This one looks like my sort of thing, I'll have a look on my Kindle for it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    This one looks like my sort of thing, I'll have a look on my Kindle for it
    Hiaasen writes well.
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    As usual, I have several books on the go at the moment:

    The Memoirs of Charles Greville (Vol. 2; the London Library's copy of Vol 1 seems to have gone astray). Greville was a senior civil servant from the 183s to the 1860s, and knew all the major politicians of the day. In the present Volume, the Great Reform Bill is on its way through Parliament, William IV has just succeeded George IV, and a cholera epidemic is sweeping through Europe.

    London Overground, by Iain Sinclair. Sinclair walks the route of the 'Ginger Line' which is an overground rail line which goes around That London.

    Just finished: The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane. Macfarlane travels old routes in Britain and beyond. He's an excellent writer, whom I've only just discovered.

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    'The Jewel' by Sir Thomas Urquhart

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    Fahrenheit 451
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    Today I am mostly reading about the QAnon conspiracy. Most illuminating!

    https://www.dailydot.com/debug/seale...on-conspiracy/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    'The Jewel' by Sir Thomas Urquhart
    Sir Thomas Urquhart of blessed memory: irrefragable Royalist, man of letters, proposer of a Universal Language, and the exalter of The Admirable Crichton. What edition of The Jewel did you read, Joe? i have my eye on a Scottish Academic Press edition but it is a bit pricey given these lean times. Some claimed that died in during a fit of laughter on the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

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    Just finished reading 'Lucky You' by Carl Hiaasen. What a treat, this is properly entertaining fun! His style seems to fall somewhere between Tom Sharpe and Elmore Leonard, but is of course like neither .

    Some reader reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294430.Lucky_You


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