More May Reading

Just finished Grand Scuttle – The Sinking of The German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van Der Vat which was a good read. I am also in process of reading ‘Copy, Rip, Burn – The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source‘ by David M. Berry (Pluto Press), but it academic style means … Continue reading “More May Reading”

Just finished Grand Scuttle – The Sinking of The German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van Der Vat which was a good read.

I am also in process of reading ‘Copy, Rip, Burn – The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source‘ by David M. Berry (Pluto Press), but it academic style means it does not read for me with easy flow. I find the subject matter interesting but maybe because I have read so much else from this area I am only dipping into this in bits, and not finding much new, but it the author seems to have look around widely for doing this.

Read ‘Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed’ by Paul Mason

I just finished reading ‘Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed’ by Paul Mason. It was a good read and I recommend it. I had heard recently Paul Mason had just been interviewed by Doug Henwood on his radio programme, but I only decided to buy book on seeing it as part of 3 … Continue reading “Read ‘Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed’ by Paul Mason”

I just finished reading ‘Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed’ by Paul Mason. It was a good read and I recommend it. I had heard recently Paul Mason had just been interviewed by Doug Henwood on his radio programme, but I only decided to buy book on seeing it as part of 3 for price of 2 offer at Waterstones. It is only just out. It has a good pace of writing which draws you in as well as generally very good take on situation. I did gain some understanding of some specific aspects of how financial system had evolved in recent years, that I had not got my head round before. I am in process of feeding Paul’s outlook on future into my own, as I do with books as I read them to various degrees, as well as news, observations and experience , which I guess goes without saying.