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My birthday present was Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose, I hope I will understand a little bit of it. At least on youtube his talking is not too complicated.
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Just today finished 'The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - written in 1930s but unpublished until 1967. Pre-dates the 'American' post-modern metaphysical style of Pynchon, Foster-Wallace, DeLillo etc by decades. A fantastic read. Rather stuck on what to follow up with - I usually follow some type of thematic link between books. My wife had read this with great enthusiasm when we met 30 years ago.
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Just today finished 'The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - written in 1930s but unpublished until 1967. Pre-dates the 'American' post-modern metaphysical style of Pynchon, Foster-Wallace, DeLillo etc by decades. A fantastic read. Rather stuck on what to follow up with - I usually follow some type of thematic link between books. My wife had read this with great enthusiasm when we met 30 years ago. Seems to have left quite an impression on Jagger and Richards also: The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fateOpening line and plot précis straight from the book...
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Oh dear! I'm reading  It is a book about the geological origins of the pre-alpine lakes and the plain which covers a good deal of northern Italy through to the Adriatic coast. Well you did ask 
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I’m reading something equally exciting
Napoleonic miniature war gaming rules
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A Natural History of the Hedgerow and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls.
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Spitfire offensive by Wing Commander RWF Sanson OBE DFC and BAR , cracking book , feel sorry for the FW190 pilots !
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I was fascinated when listening to a section of "Views from lower Rhine" by Georg Forster, written in 1790, in the car radio. Now I read the full book and it is awsome concerning the power of description and high level of almost modern language. He is a generalist in terms of scientific education. Here is a link to Georg Forster in English, worth a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_ForsterI would not be surprised if some of you could be more aware of him than most Germans, because he traveled around the world with James Cook and his was a member of the Royal Society. But.......in Germany he is almost! forgotten. No one of my good educated friends knew him when asked recently. It seems he is banned over here since the time he was an advocate of revolutionary thought. But even Goethe liked his work a lot. BTW when undertaking his travel to "lower Rhine" which actually brought him also to London and Paris later on he was accompanied by a 21y old youngster (who then learned a lot of Forsters power or writing). His name is Alexander von Humboldt. Must say Heinze that I am lost in admiration not only of your command of English but of the breadth of your education. I attended the foremost university in the UK but still cannot do more than order a beer in German and have next to no knowledge of German history or culture. When doing business in Germany I was always impressed by the educational background of German managers compared to my British colleagues
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Just to maintain my reputation for reading trilogies, I recently read and much enjoyed Anthony Burgess' Malayan trilogy.
For those amongst you who enjoyed George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books, I've quite enjoyed Robert Brightwell's spin off series about Flashman's uncle, Thomas Flashman
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Amongst the periodicals, I'm finally reading Dave W's book
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