Ed Crooks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ed Crooks

@t0nyyates Agree with all the recommendations for The Goldfinch. But my favourite novel of the past 20 years is Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers, which is equally gripping. Got me more interested in the Italian motorcycle industry than I ever thought possible. https://t.co/XDMzSCkirc

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…as did Samuel Butler, back in 1872. From ‘Erewhon’: https://t.co/lX3Dw3rv6P

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I keep thinking about Christopher Clark's comment in the introduction to his book The Sleepwalkers, on the origins of WW1: the power politics of the early C20th are more easily understandable to us today, in our multi-polar world, than they would have been in the years after WW2

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@gchodorowreich As George Eliot puts it in Daniel Deronda, set in 1864: “women on the other side of the world would not mourn for husbands and sons who died bravely in a common cause, and men stinted of bread on our side of the world heard of that willing loss and were patient”

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I have a question. I just finished rereading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and was reminded how brilliant it is. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is one of my favorite books. But I have never read any later Le Carré. Are any of them any good? And if so, where should I start?

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Frank Herbert saw it coming. From ‘Dune’: https://t.co/xZN83Lp8Ph

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Reading @MegJacobs100’s excellent history of the oil crises of the 1970s, ‘Panic at the Pump’. It is a great reminder of just how bad things were by the summer of 1973, even before the Arab oil embargo and the OPEC price increases that came later that year. https://t.co/zMDznsLsKN

Ed Crooks

I have a question. I just finished rereading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and was reminded how brilliant it is. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is one of my favorite books. But I have never read any later Le Carré. Are any of them any good? And if so, where should I start?

Ed Crooks

@dad19560 True. The issue of food after the apocalypse is handled much more convincingly - and gruesomely - in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Ed Crooks

@gchodorowreich As George Eliot puts it in Daniel Deronda, set in 1864: “women on the other side of the world would not mourn for husbands and sons who died bravely in a common cause, and men stinted of bread on our side of the world heard of that willing loss and were patient”

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