A list of books I've read recently with some occasional gibberish thrown in.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
WHY ORWELL MATTERS - Christopher Hitchens
A series of essays on Orwell,covering Orwell and the Left, Orwell and The Right, Orwell and America and several other topics.
Hitchens is a huge fan and takes on all comers who criticize his man, and there are plenty that do, but in normal Hitchens style he bats them off with his arguments, and like or loath him Hitchens can argue.
Very entertaining, much more so than Orwell's novels which I find a bit depressing. Hitchens makes his arguments for Orwell on his essays not on the novels. Hitchens does not think Orwell a saint, more a candidate for beatification,which incidentally neither of them believed in anyway.
The best thing for me was reading this on a Kindle with the dictionary function. When you have a vocabulary that is rather bare when compared with the author it is a very handy tool.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF J.EDGAR HOOVER - Anthony Summers
A man who abused his position like no other public servant in history. A vile little man.
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This is a collection of late Sherlock Holmes stories with the last one, this collections title, published in 1917....
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Paris,a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lover's hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy -...
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Kenneth Grahame was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The adventure of Ratty, Mole, Badger, Toad and friends ...
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