Off Topic Chazz's Book Club.

Pointless?

 

I'm becoming eclectic in my old age!

 

I can recommend David Mark books. He used to be the Yorkshire Post crime reporter in Hull and many of his books are based in and around the area. (E.g. DS McAvoy series).

It's easy to recognise all the places mentioned. He doesn't hold back on his descriptions and they're quite gritty.

 

Aye
Good read imho

 

My latest....Its Tony the Tiger....Great.



Available on all good Amazon platforms...You know it makes sense.

 

When does Jimmy Bullard's next book come out?

 

I've just mentally inadvertently juxtaposed your comment with a particular scene from The Book Of Mormon and done a little bit of sick in my mouth.

 

My Xmas reading "Herod the Great: Statesman, Visionary, Tyrant" by Norman Gelb
very seasonal.

 

I'm currently re-reading The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich by William L Shirer; a book I first read in the 1970s.

When stating how much the National Socialist Party's star had waned in the late 1920s Shirer quotes a footnote written in the British Ambassador to Berlin's memoirs:

[In] 1929, Professor M. A. Gerothwohl, the editor of Lord D’Abernon’s diaries, wrote a footnote to the ambassador’s account of the Beer Hall Putsch in which, after mention of Hitler’s being sentenced to prison, he added: “He was finally released after six months and bound over for the rest of his sentence, thereafter fading into oblivion.”

Just got me thinking if anyone had ever committed to paper a prophecy which turned out to be more wrong than that unfortunate statement?

 

I remember when
Bob said

Steve Bruce will be **** for hull city mark my words.

 

Just finished Shackleton by Roland Huntford. Opened my eyes to the great Polar explorers of the time, Scott and Shackletons motives, backing, fortune hunting and the state of the British Empire just after the Boar War. Both explorers had men from Hull on thier expeditions, Shacklton especially so, as many as eight 'ex trawler men' on his last trip to the South Pole. Died, aged 47, described as the 'quintessential Edwardian hero'. A truly fasinating read.

 

Currently reading
None fiction - Bull **** Jobs The Rise Of Pointless Work- David Graeber
Fiction- John Fante- Ask The Dust
Loving both books.

 

You might also like Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton. Its based on the true story of a Belgian expedition to the Antarctic in 1897. Reads like a thriller but is based on fact.

 

Ah the Boar War, Napoleon, Snowball, et al.



The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

Like you first read that excellent book in the early 1970s. Even later than that quote, in 1928 when the Nazis only won 12 seats in the Reichstag, an American commentator said that would be the last we heard of them. Forward to 1933…

 

The bore war at times on here

 

Made a bit of a pig out of that.

 

It snout to get bothered about...

 

Everyone feeding from the same pun trough

 

You’ve stymied everyone with that one.