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What’s everyone reading?

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Halfway through this 720 pager. Amazing book. Like all his work previously. Forward thinker, solid researcher and clever, witty story teller.
 
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Just started this. Fascinating topic that I don’t know much about.

Tough getting to grips with all names and places, but really interesting.

A bit different from my last read: Frankenstein (after some praise on here I think).
 
thfcsteff said:
I will investigate this, thanks.

If you get bitten, try All The Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer...he generally writes great stuff.
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It’s good. It’s at the top end of my intellectual ability and I have to concentrate but really enjoying it.

Thank you, I’ll add that to my list.

I came to this subject after someone gave me this, also very good. The Way Of The Strangers by Graeme Wood.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33511418
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/27/whole-point-kill-mockingbird-difficult/

Removed from the curriculum of schools in Washington state, Murica. The worrying thing is, America leads and Britain tends to follow these trends. Very dangerous path to go down when you start removing books because they make some people uncomfortable. What if some are uncomfortable with the idea of gay marriage? Do you indulge those people as well?
 
Jurgen the German said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/27/whole-point-kill-mockingbird-difficult/

Removed from the curriculum of schools in Washington state, Murica. The worrying thing is, America leads and Britain tends to follow these trends. Very dangerous path to go down when you start removing books because they make some people uncomfortable. What if some are uncomfortable with the idea of gay marriage? Do you indulge those people as well?
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Every good puritan should know that books are for burning, not banning.
 
Jurgen the German said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/27/whole-point-kill-mockingbird-difficult/

Removed from the curriculum of schools in Washington state, Murica. The worrying thing is, America leads and Britain tends to follow these trends. Very dangerous path to go down when you start removing books because they make some people uncomfortable. What if some are uncomfortable with the idea of gay marriage? Do you indulge those people as well?
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Gay rights are next on the Supreme court agenda after abortion rights get the chop. Then all those 'socialist' programs from the new deal.
 
Jurgen the German said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/27/whole-point-kill-mockingbird-difficult/

Removed from the curriculum of schools in Washington state, Murica. The worrying thing is, America leads and Britain tends to follow these trends. Very dangerous path to go down when you start removing books because they make some people uncomfortable. What if some are uncomfortable with the idea of gay marriage? Do you indulge those people as well?
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Genuinely demented.

And on topic -

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An alternate history of birth-of-fascism in America. Nazi stooge Lindbergh becomes President and invites the Reich through the back door.

Amazing stuff. Intended as a warning, not an instruction manual.
 
Did CJ Sansom fans find any good historical fiction replacements once they had read the series? (Nothing later than 1700s say).

Two books I enjoyed that, although not same period of history, I thought had a similarish feeling:

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
 
ringo said:
Did CJ Sansom fans find any good historical fiction replacements once they had read the series? (Nothing later than 1700s say).

Two books I enjoyed that, although not same period of history, I thought had a similarish feeling:

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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The only one of his I've read is Dominion.

Robert Harris might be worth a look, his novels on Cicero and Pompeii are very good. He also has an imminent book set in the 1600's I think.
 
Baleforce said:
The only one of his I've read is Dominion.

Robert Harris might be worth a look, his novels on Cicero and Pompeii are very good. He also has an imminent book set in the 1600's I think.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Have read most of Harris' novels, other than Conclave and V2, and liked the Roman books and others, (although I found Second Sleep a bit odd).
 
ringo said:
Did CJ Sansom fans find any good historical fiction replacements once they had read the series? (Nothing later than 1700s say).

Two books I enjoyed that, although not same period of history, I thought had a similarish feeling:

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Not everyones cup of tea and maybe a bit dated but dennis Wheatleys roger brook series may interest you.
Napoleon era secret agent stuff.
 
ringo said:
Did CJ Sansom fans find any good historical fiction replacements once they had read the series? (Nothing later than 1700s say).

Two books I enjoyed that, although not same period of history, I thought had a similarish feeling:

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Q by Luther Blissett is brilliant. It's about the anabaptists (revolutionary proto-communists) around the time of the German Peasants' War. A really politically charge epic, set across decades, lots of intrigue, colourful locations across the continent. Written by an Italian anarchist collective, named after the Watford footballer (genuinely, due to his antifa credentials in Italy)

Also
- The Monk by Matthew Lewis
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (a little bit after your period, but the setting feels older, as it's about the fall of feudalism)
 
glasgowspur said:
Not everyones cup of tea and maybe a bit dated but dennis Wheatleys roger brook series may interest you.
Napoleon era secret agent stuff.
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Gutter Boy said:
Q by Luther Blissett is brilliant. It's about the anabaptists (revolutionary proto-communists) around the time of the German Peasants' War. A really politically charge epic, set across decades, lots of intrigue, colourful locations across the continent. Written by an Italian anarchist collective, named after the Watford footballer (genuinely, due to his antifa credentials in Italy)

Also
- The Monk by Matthew Lewis
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (a little bit after your period, but the setting feels older, as it's about the fall of feudalism)
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Thanks. I'll check all of these out.
 
ringo said:
Did CJ Sansom fans find any good historical fiction replacements once they had read the series? (Nothing later than 1700s say).

Two books I enjoyed that, although not same period of history, I thought had a similarish feeling:

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Zoet - David Mitchell. Late 18th century though. An Instance of the Fingerpost is a good book.
 
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