What Are You Currently Reading

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Mon Apr 24, 2023 7:02 pm

On the Kindle app on my phone, I've been reading some of the old "Doc Savage" pulp adventure stories by Kenneth Robeson (a pen name of Lester Dent).

Overall, I've enjoyed the ten novels in the bundle, even if the numbering was all over the place.

Book 1 was followed by book 13, then 14, then back to 5 etc.

Some of the science is a bit ropey - one novel has a t-rex moving like a kangaroo for example - but the stories date from the early/mid 1930s, and our knowledge of science and tech changes on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis.

To a modern audience, much of the stereotypical depictions of characters of another ethnicity is quite offensive, and publishers of today wouldn't go anywhere near them.
But those were the prevailing attitudes of the time, and the stories were intended for an audience of teenage boys.

Also of interest is just how much Seigel and Shuster, and later Bob Kane and Bill Finger cribbed/borrowed/outright stole from Doc for Superman and Batman respectively.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri May 05, 2023 6:46 pm

Just finished "Cast a Cold Eye" by Robbie Morrison.

Second in the Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn series of crime novels set in 1930s Glasgow.

Great books. Highly recommended.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Jun 04, 2023 3:12 pm

"Eject! Eject!" by John Nichol.

A non-fiction book about the history of the aircraft ejector seat.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Henrysix » Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:17 pm

Just finished Richard Osmans The Thursday Murder club
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:30 pm

"Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown" by Rot Carroll.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Jul 19, 2023 6:29 pm

"Voices of the Dead" by Ambrose Parry (pen name of Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman).
Book 4 in the "Raven & Fisher" series of medical mysteries set in mid 19th century Edinburgh.
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