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The GOT Book Club

dholliday said:
I don't trust a lot of Harding's writing...he has an agenda to paint Russia in a certain light. How is the chapter of Snowden's asylum there?
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Well, he wrote Mafia State about Putin's Russia based in his own experiences (including the KGB breaking into his house and intimidating his children) if you can call that an agenda.

Not reached that bit yet. So far, you might feel Harding has an anti-American agenda, though....
 
Clint Planet said:
Well, he wrote Mafia State about Putin's Russia based in his own experiences (including the KGB breaking into his house and intimidating his children) if you can call that an agenda.

Not reached that bit yet. So far, you might feel Harding has an anti-American agenda, though....
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good to hear your feedback, Clint! I had perhaps an unfair prejudgement of him based on a few articles he wrote for The Guardian, a paper not known for giving Russia the benefit of the doubt. Might have to give the book a go at some point.
 
Clint Planet said:
Did you watch the 6 part BBC documentary on Auschwitz? Compelling stuff. Hoess comes across as a bizarre mixture of cold-hearted commandant and devoted family man. Clearly, he bought into the Nazi view of Jews being subhuman. He wasn't murdering them, he was, in his own mind at least, exterminating them.
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He's not unusual in that aspect. Many Nazis extolled the virtue of the family, whilst perusing the deterministic ideology. Interesting article on Rudolph Hoess's daughter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-concentration-camp-forgiven-Jewish-boss.html
 

Clint Planet said:
The Snowden book? As far as I'm concerned, it's absolutely essential reading. This is the biggest story of the century and yet you wouldn't know it from the media coverage.....
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oh aye...agree with you it's a massive story, bigger than Watergate ever was...or should be.

You seen CitizenFour yet?
 
Clint Planet said:
Yeah. Utterly gripping. I'm not best pleased with the Guardian these days but well done to them for handling it so well. And Snowden is an utter hero.
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agree with all that: Rusbridger's left and the new editor is more inclined to focus on clickbait than proper journalism...still, I hope they continue the good investigative work of the last few years, we need them.
 
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Two books for fans of Sherlock Holmes.

The author - Anthony Horowitz has written many dramas for the likes of the BBC over the years.

The House of Silk is very good if you are into Sherlock Holmes. The second, Moriarty isn't so good imo as Holmes / Watson aren't in it at all and it doesn't read as well without them.
 

dholliday said:
have you read the Russian classics? Crime & Punishment and Master & Margarita are the big two: the former is so intense and involving, you feel like the main guy yourself. M&M is surreal wacky fun, with interesting and thankfully non-compulsory social messages.





I don't trust a lot of Harding's writing...he has an agenda to paint Russia in a certain light. How is the chapter of Snowden's asylum there?
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In terms of Russian classics I've only read 'The Idiot' which was good fun, so might give one of them a whirl.

Cheers.
 
Don't know if Luca Veste's books have been mentioned previously in this thread? Local crime fiction writer whose first two books set in Liverpool, Dead Gone and The Dying Place I really enjoyed. Just started his new third book Blood Stream.
 
Reading The Great Silence by Juliet Nicholson : about society's reactions in the UK to the end of the Great War and the two years leading to the first commemorations at the Cenotaph.
 

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