What book are you currently reading?

Druss_The_Legend said:
I haven't read the book but I have read about this massacre online. It was absolutely horrendous with some really horrendous acts of violence and torture.
The irony of this though is the hero of it was a member of the Nazi party and saved between 200-300k Chinese lives! A few years after the war he was punished by the allies and was basically living in poverty and the survivors of the massacre who he helped came together and raised money to help him and his family and also sent monthly food packages to him.
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I think it talks about this guy in the book. Was a genuine hero. The book goes into some smaller detail about what the Japanese did but I think they did far worse things in other parts of the country, particularly northern China. Pure madness.
 
Interesting to see the different types of reading material people on here have.

Mine is just about always relatively lightweight. The missus and I share a Kindle Unlimited account and pick up some easy reading stuff. We only tend to read a bit at night before we go to sleep.
 
I'm a audiobook person over the last few years. Just started the final book in the The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series

The Labyrinth of Spirits - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

brilliant series
 
Hap said:
Absolutely. Selfish arrogant narcissist. Boyhood hero of mine, but certainly not now.

His orderly could have been home with his family months earlier, but Bader forbid it.
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I didn't want to go into too much detail about his attitude towards Alex Ross in case you hadn't read that part but was astonished that Bader prevented him from returning home nearly two years earlier than he did. I also think the phone call from Bader to Ross sums Bader up nicely as the self centred man he was.

Below is an extract from an article on Alex Ross from The Telegraph.

When the camp was finally liberated by American troops on April 16 1945, Bader succeeded in hitching a lift with an American woman journalist and got back to England the next day. The remainder of the PoWs packed their belongings in boxes and were flown back to Britain two days later; their baggage never arrived. After debriefing, Ross went to visit his family at Tain, on the Dornoch Firth, north of Inverness, and while there he was summoned to the Post Office to take a long-distance call from Douglas Bader.

The Battle of Britain hero wanted his spare pair of legs, and Ross had to explain that the Americans had not allowed them to bring anything back with them - in any case, Ross later insisted, there were no spare legs. Bader swore at Ross and put down the telephone on him. It was the last occasion on which Ross heard from Bader.


Alex Ross

www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I didn't want to go into too much detail about his attitude towards Alex Ross in case you hadn't read that part but was astonished that Bader prevented him from returning home nearly two years earlier than he did. I also think the phone call from Bader to Ross sums Bader up nicely as the self centred man he was.

Below is an extract from an article on Alex Ross from The Telegraph.

When the camp was finally liberated by American troops on April 16 1945, Bader succeeded in hitching a lift with an American woman journalist and got back to England the next day. The remainder of the PoWs packed their belongings in boxes and were flown back to Britain two days later; their baggage never arrived. After debriefing, Ross went to visit his family at Tain, on the Dornoch Firth, north of Inverness, and while there he was summoned to the Post Office to take a long-distance call from Douglas Bader.

The Battle of Britain hero wanted his spare pair of legs, and Ross had to explain that the Americans had not allowed them to bring anything back with them - in any case, Ross later insisted, there were no spare legs. Bader swore at Ross and put down the telephone on him. It was the last occasion on which Ross heard from Bader.


Alex Ross

www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
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I knew part of the story already. Just seems to have been a really unpleasant chap. Came to the school in Thornaby a number of times and met the children, but even then he wasn’t exactly charming according to someone I know who met him.
 
Just finished a re-read of “The Farther Corner” by Harry Pearson.

In preparation for my trip to Newcastle Benfield this afternoon.
 
Current fiction (well to a large degree fact) Act of Oblivion, Robert Harris.
Non fiction, a study of Meteorology by the RYA.
 
Matlex71 said:
Just started Stakeknife about the infamous IRA informer 🤓
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Which one? There seems to be a few and this sounds like something I'd enjoy.

Fiction wise I'm just about to start the 3rd of the Danny Ryan Don Winslow trilogy although it doesn't compare to his Cartel trilogy. They were absolutely excellent.
 
I wish I could get into fiction but I really struggle with it, not sure I know what my type of genre is yet.

Few more non-fictions lined up though, about to start The Anxious Generation.
 
I only read stuff off me wife's kindle, so I'm currently reading...."Vera Wongs unsolicited advice for Murderers." 😳
It's actually rather good.👌
 
I'm reading a book on how to grow cannabis in coco coir, even though I have no intention of doing so

I was thinking this morning about how massive books are these days.

Nearly all of them are at least 1" thick and 8" long when they could be half the size. A waste of resources just to get attention on the shelf?
 
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