What are you reading?

[The Meromorph]

The Family Tree   Sherri Tepper

[Swatopluk]

Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli

[anthrobabe]

Roots, Alex Haley(30th anniversary ya know!) and Levar Burton is just as fine as ever!

[Sibling Chatty]

The Family Tree   Sherri Tepper

I love that book. Reread it at least every other month.

[beagle]

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And, as a Christian, good riddance to them!!

As ever, I did not leave my church, it left me.

Thanks for the detailed reply. I like to check up on the Economist articles from time to time to check they're not making stuff up. 

One of the C of E bishops has been going on about the floods here being due to our terrible greed and gay civil partnerships. Reckon we may have a mini-Phelps in development. 

On the other hand, Allah appears to have made Jeeps wider than bollard spacings, which was a nice gesture.

[Griffin NoName]

Do you check any other publications are making stuff up? Or is the Economist the most worrisome?

The Bishop mut have been sorely exercised by Elton John's performance on Sunday, what with the future head of the C of E's involvement.

[Bluenose]

Well Done Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam veteran Barry Heard

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.  it explains much about why these people were so stuffed up after they returned home and it shames me the way they were treated, even though I was too young to really have done anything at the time.  This book is not an easy read, but it is very compelling.

I have met the author a couple of times and I regard his step father as a good friend.  Having nearly finished the book, I think I would like to get to know Barry better.  I must make the effort to do that.

[beagle]

Do you check any other publications are making stuff up? Or is the Economist the most worrisome?

The Economist is the least worrisome, but it's the one that covers places and people I know little about.  That's sort of what I like about it.

With the Sun, Mirror or Express I can be confident they're making it up. With The Guardian they probably didn't mean to, but the actual word they intended could be any anagram of the letters they put on the page.

[Swatopluk]

Don't they have a spellchecker?

[beagle]

Insisting on correct spelling is probably too much of a Torygraph reactionary trait.

[Griffin NoName]

Their spellchecker probably has a high volume of mis-spellings added into the custom dictionary. RIRO.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The July issue of Scientific American
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A question to Swato. After one of his posts he mentioned Opus Pistorum and while the book looks seriously heavy, it picked my curiosity, I wonder if it is worth reading.

[anthrobabe]

Rolling Stone 40th anniversary issue(and by george if I find that Spears or Hilton chick anywhere in it I'm cancelling my subscription!) - not music or music related at all.

[Swatopluk]

A question to Swato. After one of his posts he mentioned Opus Pistorum and while the book looks seriously heavy, it picked my curiosity, I wonder if it is worth reading.

Seriously, I don't know. I first heard of it in a radio feature on censorship and later just took a look at the first page in a library (at a tender age where I probably would not have understood much of it anyway).
Definitely not at the top of my reading list. Rather vulgar, I hear (not that I object to vulgarity in general but I don't actively seek it).

[Aggie]

The July issue of Scientific American
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A question to Swato. After one of his posts he mentioned Opus Pistorum and while the book looks seriously heavy, it picked my curiosity, I wonder if it is worth reading.

Heh, Opas Piss'd-on-rum would be more fun, I suspect.   

Reading 'Three Days to Never' - Tim Powers