Currently reading
Roman Blood
Progress:
171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Progress:
208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
Hopkirk writes in a way that these British and Russian spies, adventurers, explorers read like fictional heroes playing a huge, masterly game of chess in one of the most mysterious, dangerous and incredible place in the world.I loved it. It reads like a novel but it's not. It's from the British point of view so if you are looking for a balanced, objective reading of the period of the Great Game between Russia and England, this isn't it. The people who live in the space the Russian and the British are playing their little colonialist game are often an afterthought. Despite all of these, it's an amazing view of over a century of the two super powers of their time playing politics on the big chess board that is Central Asia.Not much as change. Not really. It's informative, it's intriguing. You get to read about real life men who lived on adrenaline and intrigue. I still have one book of Hopkirk that I do want to read, his book on the race to Lhasa but not for a little while.
