Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Dead Girl Walking and Chasing the Scream El Reg bookworm Mark Diston reviews the latest litery treats with a look at Russia's uneasy balance of state control and capitalism through the eyes of Peter Pomerantsev. Top-notch Scots crime writer Chris Brookmyre has another gripping investigative outing for Jack Parlabane and Johann Hari looks at the reality and practicality …
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If addiction is a disease of loneliness, then the cure is presumably worse than the disease.
Now that women have equal rights, they can take paying jobs and support themselves; not like ancient times, where every woman had to be married so her parents wouldn't have to be the ones to feed her.
Now that women have equal rights, they can take paying jobs and support themselves; not like ancient times, where every woman had to be married so her parents wouldn't have to be the ones to feed her.
Yes, because women only care about money and power. It's only us men who miss the company of a kindred soul; woe to us, who cannot anymore just go out and buy a woman to our liking!
Oh wait...
"The likes Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner and Laura Hird in literary fiction and crime writers such as Val McDermid, Chris Brookmyre and Ian Rankin seem to have developed a sub-genre of their own. All are very prolific and consistent at turning out high quality pared down writing with downbeat heroes and a grim sardonic underlying humour."
Cannot believe you omitted the late Iain M Banks from this list :/
I hear the ECB has recently announced a terasteal of 1.5 trillion EUR, and this before the pyramiding through the banking system comes into effect. Does anyone have a problem with that? Apparently not.
Ironically, on the same subject, I came across a book a few years ago (Moscow Mission), written by an ex-US ambassador to the USSR in the late 1940s. He chose to illustrate each chapter with quotes from a journal by a British traveler to Russia, ah, about 1850 (no coincidence, no dobut), more about the state of mind than the state of the rods. The comments were spot on, 100 years later, in his dealings with the Russians. And as I read them, they seemed to match perfectly what I knew about the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s, and even more accurately to what I had experienced visiting Russia a good few times over the last 20 years.
Arguably, you can always find quotes to fit your point, but I remember perfectly the poor ambassador did try to, or appeared to make a great effort, to comprehend the Russian psyche.
And what is also ironic is that the Russians have such a huge complex of inferiority towards the West and harp on about how the West mistakes their (good) intentions, and how the West treats them with (unwarranted) contempt, etc. and every time they come up with something, like this "nekulturny" bully, they themselves reinforce the stereotypes. Well, are they stereotypes? Anyway, OT :)
I know that it is considered bad form to divulge too much of the plot in tales of this nature, but I will say I found the rope descent wearing Louboutin heels unfeasible – though, not having tried this stunt myself, I can neither verify not deny its possibility.
It wouldn't be the first on-the-edge-of-disbelief rope descent in a parlabane book... I'm thinking of Be My Enemy here
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