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Philip K Dick is known for his prescient, dystopian science fiction. He was filled with drugs and anxiety and, married 5 times, not an easy man to live with. But he was, on occasion, hilarious. 'The Eyes Have It' is a masterwork of sci fi humour - from a real dick. 󠁧󠁿🇺🇸💪👁🖤✋🤪 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast:...

Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in 1944 wrote to the troops before D-Day in beautifully-worded missive to inspire victory. And he wrote a second (thankfully) unsent note to cover the potential for failure. Great writing at a time of immense stress. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇵🇱🇫🇷🇩🇪🪖 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: ht...

E.M Forster wrote "A Room With A View" as a gentle observation of neurotic Edwardian-era British types on their Grand Tour of Italy. It is a wry amusing soap opera, beautifully written with great affection for all these twits. 󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✍️⚜️🇮🇹🤪 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review:...

Author William White, in his strange book "The Story of a Great Delusion" shows how Reverend Cotton Mather, hated historical figure behind the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, was also responsible for introducing vaccines to the USA in the early 18th century.  🇬🇧💉🇺🇸🐮🥛 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anc...

Jonathan Swift was a master of sustained sarcasm and satire. In 1729 he wrote "A Modest Proposal" about how to solve Irish poverty. There was nothing modest about his proposal and it remains a satirical classic nearly 300 years later. 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✍️👶👄😜 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudier...

The 1919 Boston Molasses Flood was a terrifying sticky disaster for the city. Thankfully the team at the Boston Post was on the story and their reporting is word perfect. 🇺🇸🌊🍯🏊👋 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispodcast.com/nudiereads

Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects", published first in 1550 and again in 1568, gets a lot of shade but it is the world's first encyclopaedia of art and it's still a treasure-trove of fact, fiction and fabulous history. 🇮🇹🧑‍🎨🎨📚🐴  Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads P...

The 1970s and 1980s were a very different time. Thankfully the son of an amusement park owner has written a beautiful memoir of his father and the park he ran. New Jersey's "Action Park" has much to teach us in our safe 21st century world. Highly recommend. Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudi...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by American illustrator and author Howard Pyle in 1873 is the reason that 'Robin Hood' today means men-in-green-tights and steal-from-the-rich-to-give-to-the-poor. It took an American to make an English outlaw truly loveable. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🌳🌲🏹 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: ht...

Ridicule of the great men of Rome was an important part of the festival of Saturnalia and of Roman political life. 18th century Edinburgh newspaper man Thomas Ruddiman agreed but was too much of gentleman to translate. 21st century Nudie has no such qualms. ️Season finale. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹👑😉🎉 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudieread...

Who is the most memorably named but forgotten 19th Century author? Jerome Jerome. But his novel "Three Men in a Boat" isn't forgotten. It is much loved. An adventure that also happens to contain the best description of hypochondria and seasickness ever written. 🇬🇧⛵️🤮🥴🥱🐕 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: http...

Adoré Floupette, Ernest Lalor Malley, Sokal Hoax and Grievance Studies Affair aka Sokal Squared are all, at heart, satirical works with a sharp aim at foolish literary and academic circles. But a 1976 sublime satirical work about salt passing is the 🐐. 🇺🇸🎓👨‍🏫✍️🎯  Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https:...

The chariot race from the 1959 movie "Ben-Hur" is such a cinematic masterpiece many have forgotten the book from which it is taken. Lew Wallace wrote one of the all-time great action scenes in literature and created one of the all time baddest villains. And he knew Billy The Kid for real. Quite a writer. ️🇺🇸🐴🐴🐴🐴 🇮🇱 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Inst...

In 1611 when he was in Prague, German genius Johannes Kepler wrote a booklet for his pal Wacker von Wackenfels all about why snowflakes are six-sided. Not only was Kepler a genius of planetary motion he was a gifted writer. 🇩🇪🇨🇿✍️❄️🐝 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://...

Voltaire's "Candide" is a beloved 18th C work - a Top 💯 Books Of All Time classic. A French masterpiece of satire including mockery of the jaded rich and their pleasure in having no pleasur️e. 🇫🇷👎🍾🥂🙅‍♂️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispodcast.com/nudiere...

Did you know prisons have newspapers? The Connecticut "Monthly Journal" was a learned tome and the Arkansas "Pea Pickers' Picayune" was a riot. Both contained great writing on the topic of America's Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey Day 2021 to all. 🇺🇸🦃🙏🎉🍱 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudierea...

In 1469 Thomas Mallory wrote a blockbuster prose novel - the first of its kind in English - in prison. Or did he? 'Le Morte d'Arthur', or the Death of Arthur is the beloved 15th century classic of the sword in the stone and the knights of the round table. 🇬🇧🏰👸🤴🧙‍♂️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://an...

Crufts International Dog Show was begun by Charges Cruft. Did his obituary inadvertently out him as a cat person? An anonymous newspaperman penned a perfect ambiguous reference that has kept dog lovers wondering for decades.  󠁥🇬🇧🐶🐕🐩🐾🐱👀 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Revi...

Chapter 1 of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is 'Down the Rabbit-Hole'. This 1865 classic of children's fantasy literature starts as it continues - in the most wonderful and imaginative way. A 💯 book. 🇬🇧🐇🐈🂽✍️🫖🎉 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://...

World War One ended on 11 November 1918 at 11am. 103 years later we still remember the fallen of that war and all wars. The team at the Liverpool Echo newspaper put together some mighty fine words to mark the peace. 󠁥🇬🇧🇩🇪🪖🕊🥳😪 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://rateth...

Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' has sold 25 million copies worldwide and never been out of print. It is a beloved story of adventurous English woodland and river creatures - a perfect family tale as Christmas approaches. Everyone, young and older, can enjoy this classic. 🇬🇧✍️🐀🐸🦡🦦🌳💦 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com...

In 1853 French writer Théophile Gautier visited Istanbul (then Constantinople) and found himself wooed by Turkish culture. His description of the Cemetery of Scutari is a romantic literary triumph. A most unusual travelogue. 🇹🇷🇫🇷🪦💀🌳 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https:/...

For Halloween 2021 The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. A classic gothic horror story from 1902. Careful what you wish for. 🇬🇧✍️🐒😵🪦🧟‍♂️ Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://ratethispodcast.com/nudiereads

The Baba Yaga is not, as John Wick would have it, the boogeyman of Russia. She's a horrid witch. One of her stories - there are many - was captured in the late 19th century by English Russo-phile William Ralston Shedden. A perfectly translated terror folktale for Halloween. 🇷🇺🪆🧙‍♀️🧹😱🙀 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudieread...

If you loved The Haunting of Bly Manor on Netflix you will love the original 1898 story by American Anglophile writer Henry James. A brilliantly written suffocating gothic horror. Perfect for Halloween week 2021. 🇺🇸🇬🇧👩‍🏫👦👧👨‍🌾🏰 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads Review: https://r...