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Might be nice to share something you're read recently with a little synopsis, and then others can have a scroll through and see something they like.
I've just finished Last Light by Alex Scarrow.
It's about a series of disasters/terrorist attacks that knock out the oil supply to most of the Western world. The book focus' on one family, the husband in Iraq as an oil contractor trying to get home as secretarian fighting around him lead to dangerous situations. The mum at home in the UK up in Manchester for the day getting stranded and trying to get back to the kids in London and the Kids fending for themselves as law and order breaks down in surburbia.
It's a good read, but there are a few factual errors that jar a little bit, like the Dad joining up with British squaddies in Baji, far north of where the British Army operated in Iraq. Also, as it was written before the withdrawal, it's a little difficult to get your mind back 5 years to the time this is set in. What's good though is the realisation it gives of just how dependant we are on oil, and that if it stopped tomorrow, it'd essentially be the end of civilisation as we know it. Almost enough to make you start horeding canned goods.
[i][b]Iraq[/b] as an oil contractor trying to get home as secretarian fighting around him lead to dangerous situations. The mum at home in the UK up in [b]Manchester[/b] for the day[/i]
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That poor woman!
The dirt by motley crue - - a biography giving a glimpse into the rise and fall and rise and fall and and of one if the dirtiest rock bands in recent history. The book is a real roller coaster. Taking you through their childhood woes and glories, the start up as a band, the girls, the drugs the total excess of living that life. Sex drugs and rock and roll. It also touches on their personal traumas, deaths, near deaths, children and multiple marriages. It's an easy book to read and I even shed a tear or two and laughed loud. I would give this a 9/10. You don't need to be a fan. Well written and I couldn't put it down.
Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy..
One womans diary of her 1960s solo journey from Ireland to India by bicycle..
She writes lovingly of her times in Afghanistan and ****stan and her adventures in the Hindu Kush and Himalayan mountain ranges.. a real eye opener considering the kind of propaganda we're peddled about these regions.. and her can-do attitude to cycling in extraordinarily difficult conditions on her antiquated equipment should put each and every STWer firmly in their place..
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
Set in Buenos Aires in 1976 in the midst of military juntas and revolution. It's the story of one Jewish family, mainly the father Kaddish who is shunned by the Jewish community due to his less than savoury ancestor. It starts off quite light hearted and funny, then when Kaddish's son is "disappeared" by the authorities it gets pretty dark quite quickly...
Highly recommended, it took me a while to get into but when it gets going it's rather gripping.
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