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>> No. 6775 Anonymous
2nd June 2018
Saturday 9:35 pm
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It's my birthday coming up soon and I have no real idea what I want, so usually in this scenario I suggest books. However, there's only a few I can think of:-

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
For Esmé - with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

Ideally, I'm looking for something similar to The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks with a fair bit of dark humour. I also seem to recall a book being mentioned on here years ago involving near misses with nukes which sounded interesting.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, lads.
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>> No. 6776 Anonymous
2nd June 2018
Saturday 10:14 pm
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>>6775
I'm reading a steampunk novel atm called Steal The Sky, if you like Sci-fi? The protag is basically Han Solo and I get a lot of outer rim vibes from it, but it's still good.
>> No. 6777 Anonymous
2nd June 2018
Saturday 11:06 pm
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>I also seem to recall a book being mentioned on here years ago involving near misses with nukes which sounded interesting.

That might have been Command and Control by Robert Schlosser.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Control-Eric-Schlosser/dp/0141037911/
>> No. 6778 Anonymous
3rd June 2018
Sunday 9:23 pm
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>>6776
I read a fair bit of sci-fi, although steampunk has never appealed to me.

>>6777
It wasn't that one. It was something like accounts of several near misses down to sheer human ineptitude.

Thanks, anyway.
>> No. 6779 Anonymous
4th June 2018
Monday 6:55 am
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>>6777
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/brain-wave-books

A week left on this. One of the books in the 75p tier is 'Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters'.

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