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Re: Recommend-a-book.
I just started reading/translating this one:
Sorry. I don't have much other than language and calculus textbooks and Buddhist philosophy. What can I say? I'm as boring as shit IRL.
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith: A History of 50 Years of Independence is an eye-opener. It's a sort of future history of what might happen if the Empire ever crumbled, as if that could happen!
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We just finished reading The Stranger in lit and i loved it. i was pretty much the only one in my class who did, but right now my class consists of me and four other people so that's not saying a whole lot. It's by Camus. Very existentialist and wonderfully ramble-y, if you like that kind of thing, which I do 
Also re: sci-fi i love it. Either it's genius (Asimov, Heinlein, Welles, Card), or it's just so bad it's funny.
Also re: sci-fi i love it. Either it's genius (Asimov, Heinlein, Welles, Card), or it's just so bad it's funny.
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Sniper One.
The best war book I've ever read. Beats the socks off Bravo Two Zero.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 284366.ece
The best war book I've ever read. Beats the socks off Bravo Two Zero.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 284366.ece
Sniper One tells the story of one of the most ferocious battles of a seven-month deployment to Maysan province by his battalion, beginning in April 2004.
That period signalled an end to Britain’s relatively peaceful first year in southern Iraq with a huge uprising centred on the provincial capital of Amarah.
The battalion was in continuous fighting for four months and one company of more than 100 men suffered 36% casualties.
As the situation spiralled out of control, the MoD told press officers to play down the situation. With Tony Blair being heavily criticised over Iraq, the ministry insisted that it was relatively calm “across the province” on the basis that other towns except Amarah were quiet.
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I've just finished the Road by Cormac McCarthy - It's bleak with extra bleak and a side order of bleak, but a stunning read.
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It's funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
Finest bit of writing from the Heroic Age of polar exploration.
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
Let's not forget "teh awsum" sci-fi series, Riverworld....
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
Asterix in Britain.
A must read for British people with a sense of humour.
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Asterix in Britain - had a French teacher in High School who used that in her French lessons. Better than the usual text books 
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Did that series ever finish? I read 3 or 4 books but they always left you in mid-air - same as the World of Tiers books - my biggest criticism of PJF - the bloke never could write an ending!Clinton Huxley wrote:Let's not forget "teh awsum" sci-fi series, Riverworld....
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Salman Rushdie
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
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Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view.
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This is the wrong forum for bluffing
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Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish!
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I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants.
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
XC - as far as I remember, the series did finish with Gods of Riverworld.
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
You can finish every series with "Then he/she woke up and realized it was all a dream".
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Re: Recommend-a-book.
leo-rcc wrote:You can finish every series with "Then he/she woke up and realized it was all a dream".
This applies to threads on RAtionalia, too....
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
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"Then s/he woke up and was relieved, for the nightmare had finally ended" or something is, I believe, more accurate.Clinton Huxley wrote:leo-rcc wrote:You can finish every series with "Then he/she woke up and realized it was all a dream".
This applies to threads on RAtionalia, too....
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