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his first book was Harry’s Game in the early 80s, which was televised and had the famous haunting Clannad theme tune sung by Enya I believe.
he was an investigative reporter. I once went to a UK nuclear facility for an induction to work on a project. The induction was mainly H&S stuff etc, but the interesting bit was when the security guy turned up to talk about security. He showed one of Gerald’s fiction books and asked if anyone had read it. I said yes and he asked me how I thought he had got all his information about the site, it’s buildings, it’s processes, it’s security etc. i said presumably in co-ordination with the site/security people. Apparently not, apparently Gerald just started going to the local pubs, shops, etc and just chatted to people over a period. And people love chatting and apparently tell you quite a lot, that a good investigative journalist can pull together. I was quite shocked!
An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Does what it says on the tin.
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I re-read it on holiday in November and I'm ashamed to say that was the last book I read. Having watched and loved His Dark Materials over Christmas I'd like to re-read (or listen to audiobook) of that again, as I really loved it and it's been a good 15 years or so since I read them.
Generally my favoured authors in the past when I've read more often, included Graham Greene, Roald Dahl, Jasper Fforde, and my absolute favourite - Franz Kafka. I'm probably not clever enough or have the attention span sufficiently to read more books though I'd like to. I just don't enjoy the "finding out" process as much as I do with music, and of course reading takes up more time to decide you dislike something than music does
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I also cautiously recommend SK's "Revival" because it's full on Stephen King fever dream horror in the second half but the initial chapters describing a high school kid learning guitar, playing gigs under-age and of course, getting the girl are sublime.
Very topical, you must be a M.E.Smith Fall fan too.
In between I read the new Jonathan Coe. Coe at his most typical, “state of the nation” stuff. In many ways I think he’s just not a very good writer, prose is workmanlike and characters can be stereotypes. His political analysis is sensible and fair but not especially original or penetrating. And yet he manages to serve up a pretty enjoyable read, and very moving at the end (I won’t go into reasons why, to avoid spoilers).
Recent disappointment Hammet by Maggie O’Farrell. Very well received fictionalised story about Shakespeare’s family, but I thought it was overwritten tosh and gave up before the end.
The BBC is putting out similar versions of the modern-era series, so I have also been reading those.
Just finished The Witchfinders (Jodie Whittaker era story) which was enjoyable enough.
Prior to that, I read Mark Gatiss' story The Crimson Horror, which was absolutely top notch.
Aisde from Dr Who, I read Frankenstein for the first time recently. Found it a bit dense and heavy going, but enjoyed it.
Think I shall have a go at The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde next, which Mrs nRollDave bought me for xmas.
After that, possibly Bob Mortimer's memoir, then I want to re-read Daisy Jones and The Six, which I absolutely loved when I read it the first time, and which I need to re-read to wash away the memory of the hugely disappointing Amazon Prime adaptation, which might lead viewers to believe the book was pants.
His novel, The Satsuma Complex is also quite good fun.