Philip K Dick – Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is another one of Philip K Dick’s non-science fiction books. It was written in 1960, but not published until 1986, posthumously.
Category: Reading
Philip K Dick – The Crack in Space
The Crack in Space is not one of Dick’s best books, despite it being written in a very productive period of time (1963-64). However, it does contain numerous interesting ideas, not least of which is America’s first black president.
Philip K Dick – The World that Jones Made
The World that Jones Made is a short book running in at only 200 pages, but one of Philip K Dick’s most entertaining and well-plotted novels full of interesting invention and ideas.
Adam Buxton – Ramble Book
This audiobook is like a 10 hour 50 minute podcast with lots of new jingles, puns, Bowie-based reminiscences and the usual mix of comedy and pathos that has come to define Dr Buckle’s podcasts.
My lockdown story continued…
So here we are a month or so later since my first post about my particular circumstances, minor #firstworldproblem gripes about working from home and the various nuances of the COVID-19 lockdown. It’s almost July! Crazy.
Bernard Cornwell – The Empty Throne
A short post about the eighth book in Bernard Cornwell’s Last Kingdom series.
Bernard Cornwell – The Pagan Lord
Ten years have passed peacefully since Death of Kings in which King Alfred died and his son Edward took up the throne of Wessex…
Mervyn Peake – Titus Alone
I planned to read Titus Alone, the third book of the Gormenghast trilogy, over Christmas 2016, having thoroughly enjoyed the second book earlier that year. Instead I read it a few weeks ago. Here’s what I thought about it…
Bernard Cornwell – Death of Kings
Seven years is long enough to have totally forgotten you’ve read a book. After reading Death of Kings I did a quick search on this blog and found that I had read the book on holiday back in 2013. Holidays – remember those?
Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is a Booker Prize-winning novel by the multi-award winning Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood perhaps best known for The Handmaid’s Tale.
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