What are you reading at the moment?

[grobyfox1990]

Britney Spears' autobiography was strangely very readable.

Otherwise this was a great story, fraud and conspiracy on the seas - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Water-Hijacking-Maritime-Conspiracy/dp/0593329236/

[ajthefox]

Really interesting and insightful.

 

[Lillehamring]

On 07/04/2024 at 22:48, boots60 said:

His description of a first encounter of an English B&B & its lengthy list of rules & regulations at Mrs Smegma's in Dover is literary comedy genius.

Amusing observations, yes, but comedy genius...?

[ozleicester]

a meandering and interesting read... ive come to be quite a Ronson fan

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 hour ago, ozleicester said:

a meandering and interesting read... ive come to be quite a Ronson fan

Have you listened to the Things Fell Apart podcast? I find his voice a bit distracting (like Professor Brian Cox, I struggle not to just talk like him for an hour or so after hearing it) but it's very interesting and quite sobering to hear about where a lot of nonsense comes from and how people can really, really get themselves lost. Cautionary tales abound 

[Libertine]

25 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Have you listened to the Things Fell Apart podcast? I find his voice a bit distracting (like Professor Brian Cox, I struggle not to just talk like him for an hour or so after hearing it) but it's very interesting and quite sobering to hear about where a lot of nonsense comes from and how people can really, really get themselves lost. Cautionary tales abound 

I was the same after listening to his series The Butterfly Effect. Can’t say the phrase ‘free porn’ without doing it in his voice, which is a phrase I obviously use on a daily basis.

[Dr The Singh]

Foxestalk

[ozleicester]

15 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Have you listened to the Things Fell Apart podcast? I find his voice a bit distracting (like Professor Brian Cox, I struggle not to just talk like him for an hour or so after hearing it) but it's very interesting and quite sobering to hear about where a lot of nonsense comes from and how people can really, really get themselves lost. Cautionary tales abound 

Brilliant...thanks,!

I didnt know about this.... now added to my downloads.

[ozleicester]

14 hours ago, Libertine said:

I was the same after listening to his series The Butterfly Effect. Can’t say the phrase ‘free porn’ without doing it in his voice, which is a phrase I obviously use on a daily basis.

hmm cant find this

[Libertine]

30 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

hmm cant find this

Might only be on Audible nowadays. 

 

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/The-Butterfly-Effect/B08DDC8DNH

[LanguedocFox]

Probably mostly of interest to Brits over the age of about 60, but this story of Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five spy ring of the 1930s onwards is fascinating. It’s told in a very accessible way and brings alive his story - brilliantly clever, promiscuous homosexual, historian, diplomat, drunk and, ultimately, disappointed man who died in Moscow probably of liver disease at the age of just 52.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 10:33 by LanguedocFox

[ozleicester]

On 24/04/2024 at 23:42, Bellend Sebastian said:

Have you listened to the Things Fell Apart podcast? I find his voice a bit distracting (like Professor Brian Cox, I struggle not to just talk like him for an hour or so after hearing it) but it's very interesting and quite sobering to hear about where a lot of nonsense comes from and how people can really, really get themselves lost. Cautionary tales abound 

just finished season 1... fantastic... and now ...OMG... my dream intellectual threesome Louis Theroux interviews Jon Ronson while i listen  

[Libertine]

Listened to both series of Things Fell Apart on Thursday. Had avoided it before as thought it would enrage me too much, but it’s actually not like that at all. Classic Ronson really.