UKRM Book club

Patrick Bishop: Battle Of Britain

What a lovely hardback book, £12.50 at Tesco's.

Same bloke who penned Bomber Boys.

Very nice.

 

Not historical but..

Am currently reading The Black Man by Richard Morgan after enjoying his
Kovacs novels. Would recommend them - although I lent one to the FiL
after he claimed he'd "read anything" - although that usually means
something cheap in the Jack Higgins style - and he's not understanding
any of it. Hah.

 

that's exactly my take on it.

If you want edgy non-standard Fantasy, give Joe Amercrombie a go,
starting with "The Blade Itself".

 

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Seconded. That was quite good, as fantasy goes.

As for Morgan, I rather enjoyed the Black Man, a bit like Kovacs, only
a bit less far-future, with genetic engineering instead of mind recording.
Market Forces, OTOH, were only "OK". So, I keep "The Steel Remains" on
my drive, but it's way down on the "to read" list.

 

"Fantasy is for girls" - darsy

 

"chicks".

 

I took Voltaire's Candide on holiday with me last week, expecting it to
be a fairly hard read. Breakneck romp, more like. Three cheers for pre-
revolutionary satirists.

Also reading Wolf Hall, after darsy (and the Booker judges) recommended
it. Not convinced. It's a bit "The Other Cromwell Boy", though I did
like the gag about there being so many people called Thomas.

ObFilms, watched Inglourious Basterds on the flight out (complete
bollocks, but thoroughly entertaining bollocks) and Network on the way
back (ripe for a re-make).

 

Remaking a film is a good way to bring it to an audience who wouldn't be
interested in seeing a re-release. I'm not saying the audience aren't at
fault, but it's a fact of life.

 

Me neither, although I didn't realise that was. Dirty Dozen, I guess.

What about remakes of truly crap films, e.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...f-Will-Smiths-son-Jaden-in-starring-role.html

 

it speeds up.

She's already working on the sequel.

 

Funny looking bird, isn't she.

 

she looks like a total mentallist. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a
lift with her.

 

She looks like a Spitting Image Thatcher puppet come to life.

 

well, that, or some other manner of animatronics.