Richard Reeves & John Knell - Read October 2013
A quick read. More than the 80 minutes of the books title. It is a distillation of an MBA course mixed with input from other esteemed writers on business. There was not really anything new for me. There was a the acronyms and the buzz words. Topics were neatly explained in a light and compact manner.
Certain chapter chimed for me and I expect different passages would do the same for other readers. All in all a good read.
Friday, 18 October 2013
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
JLA Riddle of the Beast
Alan Grant - Read October 2013
A new genre for me. This a graphic novel i.e. a comic albeit very well rendered by artists. This a DC Comics publication where they take well known DC characters and write them into new stories. The stories are not one of the characters own genre but they are placed in new situations and not necessarily together. This one has Robin as the hero and Batman as the anti-hero.
Nicely drawn and painted. Easy to read. A few ideas for costume were drawn from the pages.
A new genre for me. This a graphic novel i.e. a comic albeit very well rendered by artists. This a DC Comics publication where they take well known DC characters and write them into new stories. The stories are not one of the characters own genre but they are placed in new situations and not necessarily together. This one has Robin as the hero and Batman as the anti-hero.
Nicely drawn and painted. Easy to read. A few ideas for costume were drawn from the pages.
Wheels of Terror
Sven Hassel - Read October 2013
Next book in the Hassel Series. Sven continues in the 27th Panzer Regiment. They fight, love, freeze, bicker in the Russian winter. The battles are confused and vicious. Russian commissars do not come out well from this book. Russian soldiers are in much the same boat as the men of the 27th. Later in the book civilian are caught up in the running battles. There is nowhere for anyone to hide. Death is all around, brutal, pitiless and senseless and yet there are lighter moments. Not many but they arises from the confusion of the battle and pockets of fleeting respite in the arms of his loves.
A bitter indictment of the men who run wars and force men to fight and to the many who enjoy wreaking devastation. There are many of these types on either side, made the worse for the treatment of civilians, young, old, man, woman or child.
Next book in the Hassel Series. Sven continues in the 27th Panzer Regiment. They fight, love, freeze, bicker in the Russian winter. The battles are confused and vicious. Russian commissars do not come out well from this book. Russian soldiers are in much the same boat as the men of the 27th. Later in the book civilian are caught up in the running battles. There is nowhere for anyone to hide. Death is all around, brutal, pitiless and senseless and yet there are lighter moments. Not many but they arises from the confusion of the battle and pockets of fleeting respite in the arms of his loves.
A bitter indictment of the men who run wars and force men to fight and to the many who enjoy wreaking devastation. There are many of these types on either side, made the worse for the treatment of civilians, young, old, man, woman or child.
The Legion of the Damned
Sven Hassel - Read October 2013
A World Wars two story from the perspective of a poor Danish worker chap caught in Germany at the outbreak of war. It is not an autobiography but is based on Sven's war time experiences and the tales of others. Sven is imprisoned for desertion then "rehabilitated" in a concentration camp. Germany is in need of soldiers so Sven is trained for tank duties.
It is a gritty story of the brutal Nazi regime, the horrors they inflicted on their own population and the realities of war under allied bombing and on battle field. Hunger, love, bullying, banter, comradeship, lust death and mutilation,. Brutal and poignant. Billed as an anti war story. It is certainly leaves the reader under no illusions of who ran the war and that most soldiers were just trying to survive.
A good read but relentlessly sad and sicking.
A World Wars two story from the perspective of a poor Danish worker chap caught in Germany at the outbreak of war. It is not an autobiography but is based on Sven's war time experiences and the tales of others. Sven is imprisoned for desertion then "rehabilitated" in a concentration camp. Germany is in need of soldiers so Sven is trained for tank duties.
It is a gritty story of the brutal Nazi regime, the horrors they inflicted on their own population and the realities of war under allied bombing and on battle field. Hunger, love, bullying, banter, comradeship, lust death and mutilation,. Brutal and poignant. Billed as an anti war story. It is certainly leaves the reader under no illusions of who ran the war and that most soldiers were just trying to survive.
A good read but relentlessly sad and sicking.
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Star Wars - The Clone Wars
Adapted by Tracey West - Read October 2013.
So waht is to say about this book? The guidance rating is seen years plus [7+] so it is not hard to read. In fact I read it in an evening. I read it as research for some Star Wars character work I anm doing. At least I know al the characters and their relationships.
It is a simple story. Crazy mixed up grown up battleing with the past has young apprentice thrust upon him. The apprentice is young gifted, wise cracking and seeks approval. Baddies kid nap a warlord's child. Schemeing takes places as baddie try to kill the goodies. Goodies are misunderstood by the warloard when child is returned. Everyone nearly dies. Then they don't. It works out in the end. It is Star Wars and for 7 year olds.
So waht is to say about this book? The guidance rating is seen years plus [7+] so it is not hard to read. In fact I read it in an evening. I read it as research for some Star Wars character work I anm doing. At least I know al the characters and their relationships.
It is a simple story. Crazy mixed up grown up battleing with the past has young apprentice thrust upon him. The apprentice is young gifted, wise cracking and seeks approval. Baddies kid nap a warlord's child. Schemeing takes places as baddie try to kill the goodies. Goodies are misunderstood by the warloard when child is returned. Everyone nearly dies. Then they don't. It works out in the end. It is Star Wars and for 7 year olds.
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