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Tuesday, 24-September-2013
The Book Club got to 100.
Perhaps appropriately for a men only book club we read Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. You can judge whether there is an excess (or lack) of boys' own titles in the complete list.
I acquired an older paperback as left, the cover featuring the legendary test-pilot Chuck Yaeger (taken from this photo after rather oddly, recolouring the Bell X-1) who wasn't actually an astronaut, let alone one of the Mercury Seven. However Yaeger emerges from the book as one of the few unimpeachable heroes.
I say 'acquired' because I bought a hardback online but it turned out to be a paperback when it arrived; the nice people at Awesome Books promptly refunded my money and let me keep the book, all fuss-free.
