Daytripper
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Recommend this to any film buff who in particular grew up around the 80s/90s and watched those “action stars”. Some egos on these fellas especially Steven Seagal.
The GOT Book Club
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Down & Out in Paris & London and The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell.
This one is a collection of 2 short memoirs and a handful of essays.
'Down & Out' is probably my favorite of the 2 and details Orwell's time living in poverty during the late 1920's.
The first half based in Paris where he was living in a insect infested hostel barely scraping along with wages from working as a 'plongeur' or what we would call a pot-washer in a couple of different Parisian restaurants. The petty workplace politics and bizarre class system are the highlights.
The Chef du personale demanding he shave off his mustache off with seemingly no reason and getting into scraps with the waiting staff are outright hillarious. It gets very Python-esque at times even if unintentionally
The second half deals with the month he spent living as a drifter or 'Tramp' as he calls it, having to drift from doss house to doss house in London and the humilities the homeless community had to endure at the hands of the people running these places, which were essentially homeless prisons and the injustices at the hands of the 'Vagrancy' act. which essentially made it very easy for the police to arrest homeless people for the most petty reasons.
The Road to Wigan Pier covers his travels around the north of England when writing a news article about unemployed coal miners in the region during the late 1930's.
The whole collection is a real eye opener on the conditions poorer working class people suffered through before the introduction of the welfare state and NHS.
He also speaks a lot on working conditions for the miners when they were working - we have a lot to thank the unions for these days!
As bad as things can seem these days, it is important to put things into perspective in how difficult it really was for less privileged people even relatively recently (in historical terms that is)
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This bit got meThe petty workplace politics and bizarre class system are the highlights.
The Chef du personale demanding he shave off his mustache off with seemingly no reason and getting into scraps with the waiting staff are outright hillarious. It gets very Python-esque at times even if unintentionally
"I worked in a dirty, crowded little den, a pantry and scullery combined, which gave straight on the dining-room. Besides washing up, I had to fetch the waiters’ food and serve them at table; most of them were intolerably insolent, and I had to use my fists more than once to get common civility"
strange one ,well written about a family life in Donegal during the 70's. Problem was it lacked a stort or a plot.
Old Blue 2
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Just received my copy of the latest volume. Most excellent series.
Old Blue 2
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I should add my complimentary copy (which I get each time), as I am a 'Specialist Contributor' (Luftwaffe) to the series, with information and photographs.
The Last Nazi - The Life and Times of Joseph Mengele.
A truly harrowing read, but fascinating at the same time.
The first part deals with his early life and transformation from a scholar with Nazi leanings, to an enthusiastic participant in the Final Solution within Auschwitz and the latter part of the book deals with the ease at which Mengele and thousands of other war criminals, were able to escape and settle in South America with the blessings of their various governments.
You have to be mentally ready to read the first part of the book.
Old Blue 2
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For me, the last known one is Albert Speer. He lied at Nuremberg to save his skin, and lied in his book. Decades later it was discovered that he was deep into the Third Reich money secreted away in Swiss Banks, and stolen artifacts...
Bryan+
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Remember reading this out of morbid curiosity when I was very young, one of the most important books I’ve ever read in my life about how humanity can be destroyed by ideology.
It’s the way that people who are intelligent, respectable and seemingly never portrayed an ounce of sadism, can just switch to becoming monsters, due to nothing more than circumstances.
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