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  1. Currently reading "I'll Sleep when I'm dead" by Crystal Zevon - a biograpy of the late great Warren Zevon. A real warts and all biography - essential reading for any fans of his music - turns out some of his weirdest and most perverse songs are autobiographical. Not a well-written thesis but an oral history made up of interviews with those that knew him & worked with him. For those who havent discovered his music - you are missing out! For those who have listened to WZ - there are details on how and when some of the songs were written - which is a lot more interesting than how it sounds!
  2. Rubicon by Tom Holland - history - no keep reading - of the downfall of the Roman republic. A most excellent book - the history of a most crucial period in western history told in a modern voice - "contemporary sensibility" it says on the back. If you have any interest in history, politics, or even the historical figures - Caesar, Cicero, Pompey, Crassus and Cato - have a look at it. It reads like a novel - but is very well researched. There are constant modern parallels - especially with power struggles among elites and international gun-boat diplomacy (or rather a couple of well disciplined legions diplomacy) - but he never labours them - lets you draw your own conclusions Next book Im going to read is also by Tom Holland- "Persian Fire" - about the build up to the battle of Marathon - which he claims has a resonance in the divide between west and east down to today..
  3. As far as I remember - flotsam is random stuff - jetsam is stuff that is chucked in - or jettisoned. Donald Findlay is busy with the guy from Alva - you would need the Lisbon equivalent - Jose Beltramilho
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