That reminds me: a must dig out that Joseph Banks biography I bought yonks ago.Carlos J wrote:From Loughborough library in the 80s to a Partridgeland charity shop for 50p in the err teens: Tis very informative:
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Three pages in and there has been a carjacking and a shooting.
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Banks gets a bit of a slating in it. Comes across as a self-indulged rich kid wanting his way all the time. especially in his writings on Cook in the first voyage and the changes he wanted to the ship for the second, which Cook and Admiralty let him to show his ideas were fucked and then they fucked him off.Man_called_sun wrote:That reminds me: a must dig out that Joseph Banks biography I bought yonks ago.Carlos J wrote:From Loughborough library in the 80s to a Partridgeland charity shop for 50p in the err teens: Tis very informative:
Also, mentioned, was why then as he had the means, did he not fund a new ship and crew to go back down under on his own (as he disliked Cook). Most queer. Good naturalist no doubt, sounded a bit of a cunt of a man to me.
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Some interesting background reading to this period can be found in The Age of Wonder. It covers the period before and after the voyage to Tahiti, including Humphrey Davy and the Montgolfier Brothers. Well recommended.Carlos J wrote:Banks gets a bit of a slating in it. Comes across as a self-indulged rich kid wanting his way all the time. especially in his writings on Cook in the first voyage and the changes he wanted to the ship for the second, which Cook and Admiralty let him to show his ideas were fucked and then they fucked him off.Man_called_sun wrote:That reminds me: a must dig out that Joseph Banks biography I bought yonks ago.Carlos J wrote:From Loughborough library in the 80s to a Partridgeland charity shop for 50p in the err teens: Tis very informative:
Also, mentioned, was why then as he had the means, did he not fund a new ship and crew to go back down under on his own (as he disliked Cook). Most queer. Good naturalist no doubt, sounded a bit of a cunt of a man to me.
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I have just completed Anne Applebaum's magisterial book; Iron Curtain; The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1943 - 1956 written with access to communist era records and interviews with people who lived through the period. It is written objectively, or as objective as you can be given the nature of the subject. The depth of the evil of socialism and communism is an eye opener, yet despite this people managed to cling on to some hope that things would get better.
So just to cheer myself further I have started on Devils' Alliance; Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939 - 1941 an aspect of the war much neglected by historians and conveniently brushed out of history by the left.
So just to cheer myself further I have started on Devils' Alliance; Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939 - 1941 an aspect of the war much neglected by historians and conveniently brushed out of history by the left.
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Just bought kindle version of My word is my Bond.
Can't wait to get stuck in. May not have been the best Bond on screen, but surely is the best character to have graced the role.
will follow this up with david nivens autobiography.
Can't wait to get stuck in. May not have been the best Bond on screen, but surely is the best character to have graced the role.
will follow this up with david nivens autobiography.
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I was going to get this one - as a fan of 'old luvvie's stories' - Roger is probably the larst of the Old School Toff ac-TOR before the likes of Mike Caine came in.Gosport Mark wrote:Just bought kindle version of My word is my Bond.
Can't wait to get stuck in. May not have been the best Bond on screen, but surely is the best character to have graced the role.
will follow this up with david nivens autobiography.
All 3 Niven books are first clarrss, you will not regret buying...I, of course, bought them first time round, dear boy...Crikey...ahh am old, Beeky
As is Errol Flynn: My wicked, wicked ways - Flynn is one of my all time faves, it might not appeal to a younger audience but it's a great read.
Was just reading an old one from t' other side of t' pond today -
WOOF! That dude wiz, fucked up, big style, cuz!
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I've just picked up " The Good Prison Guide" by Charles Bronson...50p on charity table in Tesco...Not started it yet tho.
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I'm not sure Moore qualifies as an old school toff. He's from very humble origins and I believe the voice was put on to increase his chances of employment.Boozios wrote:I was going to get this one - as a fan of 'old luvvie's stories' - Roger is probably the larst of the Old School Toff ac-TOR before the likes of Mike Caine came in.Gosport Mark wrote:Just bought kindle version of My word is my Bond.
Can't wait to get stuck in. May not have been the best Bond on screen, but surely is the best character to have graced the role.
will follow this up with david nivens autobiography.
All 3 Niven books are first clarrss, you will not regret buying...I, of course, bought them first time round, dear boy...Crikey...ahh am old, Beeky
As is Errol Flynn: My wicked, wicked ways - Flynn is one of my all time faves, it might not appeal to a younger audience but it's a great read.
Was just reading an old one from t' other side of t' pond today -
WOOF! That dude wiz, fucked up, big style, cuz!
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I'd buy the country at an incredible rate
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No, I meant that Roger came from that band of ac-TORs what had the old Rank Charm School treatment for the voice - it was the like of Mike Caine and Finney who were allowed to use a more natural speaking voice when tastes changed.Arty Morty wrote:I'm not sure Moore qualifies as an old school toff. He's from very humble origins and I believe the voice was put on to increase his chances of employment.Boozios wrote:I was going to get this one - as a fan of 'old luvvie's stories' - Roger is probably the larst of the Old School Toff ac-TOR before the likes of Mike Caine came in.Gosport Mark wrote:Just bought kindle version of My word is my Bond.
Can't wait to get stuck in. May not have been the best Bond on screen, but surely is the best character to have graced the role.
will follow this up with david nivens autobiography.
All 3 Niven books are first clarrss, you will not regret buying...I, of course, bought them first time round, dear boy...Crikey...ahh am old, Beeky
As is Errol Flynn: My wicked, wicked ways - Flynn is one of my all time faves, it might not appeal to a younger audience but it's a great read.
Was just reading an old one from t' other side of t' pond today -
WOOF! That dude wiz, fucked up, big style, cuz!
Roger could nivver come back, from Ivanhoe to James Bond via Lord Brett Sinclair and Simon Templar it was Toff tones all the way.
Copulatum Expensium!
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Primo Levi ,if this is a man ...balancing out the tootsie frooties
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Read that long back. Brilliantly brutal.
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forgot to say it's two in one includes The truce ,yes extremely brutal I belive he took his own life in later years ,moving onto the new Ellroy next to say I'm excited about that is an understatement
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You can only live in the world you know.The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
"We shall not go to Canossa!"
"We shall not go to Canossa!"