What are you reading at the moment?

tomj777 said:
During the last six (I think) weeks I've driven 3,400 miles (to indicate the enormity of this, I normally drive around 8,000 miles a year!) ...
A fair amount of which has been accompanied with audio books of early Terry Pratchett novels (largely read by Nigel Planer). As my second experience of audio books (first being American Gods), I've been impressed and it's made the implied chores (riding for pleasure, driving... hmm) a little more than bearable.
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Bloody hell, thats some mileage. Work related or are you doing a spot of traveling, pleasure wise I mean. Just being nosey.
 
Well, now we're looking at 4,300 miles since the engine change and a bit more time (and that's enough).
Significant feeling trips that I can remember - starting point: always home (Crowthorne, Berkshire)
2 trips to Manchester (funerals) (425 miles each return trip)
3 trips to Lampeter (Picking up Daughter (my wife did that one so doesn't count), daughter's Danish friend and belongings whom we hosted until a week before graduation, graduation, and returning students to Lampeter after 21st celebrations) - 400 miles each return
1 trip to just east of Sidcup 130 miles return (dropping said danish friend over to her boyfriends for a week)
1 trip to Plympton St Maurice 400 miles return (help father unpack from house move)
2 trips to Merriot 210 miles return (helping friend move house, no, move sheds and tools and things like that)
That's 2,800
Plus many sundries within a forty mile radius, but not over the (nearly) last two weeks (where, perhaps, the toll of the above hit hard and `crashed` (not the car) I decided it would be unwise to drive for quite - hence in part not being here or elsewhere online)
I can be a little out of control at times.
 
I've just finished re-reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. They are doing a TV version next year which should hopefully do it justice. I like the choice of Ian McShane to play Mr Wednesday.
 
At the moment I'm trying to read The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft and Teatro Grottesco by T. Ligotti (his book The Conspiracy against the Human Race has been cited/quoted a lot by Rust/Matthew Mc Conaughey in True Detective season 1)
 
tomj777 said:
Well, now we're looking at 4,300 miles since the engine change and a bit more time (and that's enough).
Significant feeling trips that I can remember - starting point: always home (Crowthorne, Berkshire)
2 trips to Manchester (funerals) (425 miles each return trip)
3 trips to Lampeter (Picking up Daughter (my wife did that one so doesn't count), daughter's Danish friend and belongings whom we hosted until a week before graduation, graduation, and returning students to Lampeter after 21st celebrations) - 400 miles each return
1 trip to just east of Sidcup 130 miles return (dropping said danish friend over to her boyfriends for a week)
1 trip to Plympton St Maurice 400 miles return (help father unpack from house move)
2 trips to Merriot 210 miles return (helping friend move house, no, move sheds and tools and things like that)
That's 2,800
Plus many sundries within a forty mile radius, but not over the (nearly) last two weeks (where, perhaps, the toll of the above hit hard and `crashed` (not the car) I decided it would be unwise to drive for quite - hence in part not being here or elsewhere online)
I can be a little out of control at times.
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Bloody hell, full on that! Hectic.
I've gone from doing around 20k a year to maybe 8k. Seems odd not to be in the car as much.
 
I'm reading Gai-Jin by James Clavell.

Enjoyed the previous two in the series and this is good too. Funnily enough there is a samurai exhibition on at Torquay museum that I quite fancy going to.

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As the Butthole Surfers sang in their song Sweet Loaf:
Daddy, what does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is,
It's better to regret something you have done,
Than to regret something you haven't done.
 
Last book of the trilogy about Trajan. The first foreign emperor (hispanic) of Rome.

I do not know if these books are in English but if so I recommend it. This writer is very good and his books are historical novel with a lot of research of historical facts.

There is another trilogy about Publio Cornelio Escipion and his rivalry with Anibal. Very good too, was with whom I discovered this writer, Santiago Posteguillo.


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