#Gary Alcock

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What I read in 2022

A little late. 2023 to follow soon.

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Ying Shih Yü, Chinese History and Culture, Volume 1

Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age

Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women

Stephan Körner, Kant

Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, Vol 5

Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky, Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Frank Dikotter, Mao’s Great Famine

Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, Vol 6

George Orwell, 動物農莊（港豬版）

Tom Hopkins, Sales Prospecting for Dummies

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack

Kenn Amdahl, There Are No Electrons

Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State

Ehrhard Bahr & Ruth Goldschmidt Kunzer, Georg Lukacs

Gianfranco Poggi, Forms of Power

Thomas Gordon, Parental Effectiveness Training

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

James Fok, Financial Cold War

Angela Carter, The New Eve

Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton

Ying Shih Yü, Chinese History and Culture, Volume 2

Bill Hayton, The Invention of China

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

林匡正, 香港足球史

Karl Ulrich & Lele Sang, Winning in China

Harry Morgan, Sunny Places for Shady People

Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle

Naomi Standen (ed), Demystifying China

Angela Carter, Wise Children

Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys

John Gribbin, Get a Grip on Physics

Chris Waring, An Equation for Every Occasion

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Mary McCarthy, Birds of America

Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps

Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

Hon Lai-chiu, The Kite Family

Jim Breithaupt, Physics

John Gribbin, Seven Pillars of Science

John Gribbin, Six Impossible Things

Barry Lopez, Horizon

Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittridge

Elizabeth Strout, Anything is Possible

Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

Mike Goldsmith, Waves

Monica Ali, Untold Story

Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War

Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven

Gaia Vince, Adventures in the Anthropocene

Ho-fung Hung, City on the Edge

Richard Feynman, QED

Fredric Raichlen, Waves

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

Karen Cheung, The Impossible City

Adam Tooze, The Deluge

Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

Sean Carroll, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Louisa Lim, The Indelible City

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Wave Watcher’s Companion

Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction

Adam Tooze, Shutdown

Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Virgina Woolf, The Waves

Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu

Ursula Le Guin, The Telling

Gaia Vince, Nomad Century

Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots

Lara Alcock, Mathematics Rebooted

Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems

Emily St John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

Anon, 伊索傳 & 驢仔

Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky

Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven

Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

Bruno Mansoulié, All Of Physics (Almost) In 15 Equations

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Three Tremors – Guardians Of The Void - Steel Cartel Records

ALBUM REVIEW: The Three Tremors – Guardians Of The Void – Steel Cartel Records

Contentious or lazy pigeon-holing in the music press is a hazard many acts have to endure at some point in their careers. However, there are also a number of bands who happily avoid these types of perceived misrepresentations with ease. No need for the usual stock responses of “we’re not really that type of band” or “we’re so much more than that” here. The Three Tremors are Heavy. Fucking. Metal.…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World - Insideout Music

ALBUM REVIEW: Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World – Insideout Music

The fifteenth studio album from prog legends Dream Theater finds the Bostonian act with nothing left to prove but still in the form of their lives. At a mighty seventy minutes in length yet featuring a mere seven tracks, A View From the Top of The World (InsideOut Music) explores and probes new ideas while reinventing the past with gleeful abandon. Complex compositions which could seem forced,…

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PODCAST: Episode #143: Gary Alcock Interviews Louis and Matt of Netherhall at Bloodstock Open Air

PODCAST: Episode #143: Gary Alcock Interviews Louis and Matt of Netherhall at Bloodstock Open Air

Check out our Gary Alcock interviewing Louis and Matt of UK prog band Netherhall at the return of Bloodstock Open Air 2021. Check out the conversation now! (more…)

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PODCAST: Episode #141: Gary Alcock interviews Ben of Venom Prison at Bloodstock Open Air

PODCAST: Episode #141: Gary Alcock interviews Ben of Venom Prison at Bloodstock Open Air

The Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast is back! Gary Alcock interviews Ben of Venom Prison at the return of Bloodstock Open Air 2021. Check out the conversation now! (more…)

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PODCAST: Episode #140: Gary Alcock interviews Kieran Scott of Ashen Crown at Bloodstock Open Air

PODCAST: Episode #140: Gary Alcock interviews Kieran Scott of Ashen Crown at Bloodstock Open Air

In Episode #140 of our podcast, Gary Alcock interviews Kieran Scott of UK extreme metal band Ashen Crown at the return of Bloodstock Open Air 2021.  Check out the conversation now! (more…)

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PODCAST: Episode 139 – Colleen Kanowsky Interviews Blackstarkids at Riot Fest 2021

PODCAST: Episode 139 – Colleen Kanowsky Interviews Blackstarkids at Riot Fest 2021

The Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast is back! Colleeen Kanosky covered Riot Fest 2021 for the site (read our review here) and she also did some interviews in the Media Tent! She chatted with Blackstarkids, one of the hottest bands in the world right now, on the strength of their killer singles “Juno” – “Fight Club” and now “All Cops Are Bastards! Their debut album Puppies Forever drops October 15th,…

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PODCAST: Episode 138 – Gary Alcock Interviews Onslaught at Bloodstock Open Air

PODCAST: Episode 138 – Gary Alcock Interviews Onslaught at Bloodstock Open Air

The Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast is back! We pick up with Gary Alcock’s interview with Onslaught at the super successful return of Bloodstock Open Air 2021. The band continues to support their excellent 2021 album Generation Antichrist, out now via AFM Records. Check out the conversation and our review of the festival here: (more…)

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ALBUM REVIEW: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu - BMG - Parlphone Records

ALBUM REVIEW: Iron Maiden – Senjutsu – BMG – Parlphone Records

When every superlative known to man has already been used a hundred times over, it’s difficult to find something to say about Iron Maiden that hasn’t already been said. Every lyric, song, album and music video has been rated and evaluated to within an inch of its life. Business dealings and interviews are scrutinized in microscopic detail, and the minutiae of every record cover examined and…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Warkings – Revolution - Napalm Records 

ALBUM REVIEW: Warkings – Revolution – Napalm Records 

One of the worst kept secrets in power metal is that “The Tribune”, the Roman frontman of gimmicky cosplayers Warkings, is none other than Serenity vocalist Georg Neuhauser. Slightly more elusive than the distinctive vocal cords of Neuhauser, the identities of his role playing bandmates would now appear to be that of German outfit, Souldrinker, with drummer Steffen Theurer playing “The Spartan”,…

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LIVESTREAM REVIEW: Within Temptation – The Aftermath Streaming Event 

In the absence of live shows as we know them, Dutch symphonic metal act Within Temptation have taken the idea of playing a simple online gig and moved it up a level, giving fans the full virtual reality sci-fi treatment. Instead of performing on a stage in an empty room, the band have produced something much more visually stimulating, creating not only a sequence of lavish futuristic sets but a…

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EP REVIEW: Cirith Ungol – Half Past Human - Metal Blade Records

EP REVIEW: Cirith Ungol – Half Past Human – Metal Blade Records

Returning from the grave after close to three decades, California heavy metal legends Cirith Ungol blasted back last year with Forever Black (Metal Blade), their first album since 1991’s Paradise Lost (Restless Records). Striking back while the iron remains hot, the band follows up last year’s full-length offering with Half Past Human (Metal Blade), a four-track EP that reaches back into the…

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ALBUM REVIEW:  Artillery – X

ALBUM REVIEW:  Artillery – X

Armed to the teeth with more riffs than you can shake a Howitzer at, Danish thrashers Artillery return with X (Metal Blade Records), their self-explanatory and succinctly titled tenth album. Sadly, guitarist Morten Stützer, brother of fellow founder member and co-guitarist Michael Stützer, passed away in 2019 meaning the band were forced into a change in personnel. His replacement, Sacrificial…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Gojira - Fortitude - Roadrunner Records

ALBUM REVIEW: Gojira – Fortitude – Roadrunner Records

It should be clear by now that inertia and complacency are words that simply don’t exist in the vocabulary of French progressive death metal act Gojira, and with the latest album Fortitude (Roadrunner Records) the band have made some of their biggest and most diverse strides to date. (more…)

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ALBUM REVIEW: Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy - Nuclear Blast

ALBUM REVIEW: Rob Zombie – The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy – Nuclear Blast

Exploding with lurid technicolour noise and flooding your brain with nightmarish, acid-fuelled cartoon imagery, musician/director/writer/artist/sideshow freak Rob Zombie is back with his latest exercise in restraint and understatement, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy (Nuclear Blast). Continue reading

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REVIEWS ROUND-UP: Dio – The Live Album Series

REVIEWS ROUND-UP: Dio – The Live Album Series

Originally released back in 2005 (although a DVD had come out a couple of years before), Evil or Divine – Live in New York City (BMG) was recorded on Dio‘s 2002 world tour and still holds up as a great live representation of the band at that point. Promoting the Killing the Dragon (Spitfire) album, the title track is joined by ‘Push’, ‘Rock & Roll’ and ‘Guilty’, with ‘Fever Dreams’ and ‘Lord of…