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    Quote Originally Posted by friscofrankie
    Regular Expressions, A Tutorial and Theory
    I wouldnt call it Perl, but it was ok.


    Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin. From the cover blurb....'The first book to synthesize chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed'.....I only picked up on the words, 'for the perplexed', and thought, 'This is the book for me'. It's not bad actually. The author is the same guy who wrote popular science books on relativity and quantum mechanics and he explains and simplifies complicated concepts very well.
    Back off Margaret, you're on a sugar rush!

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    Did you read any of Gerard Durrell's?

    'My family and other animals' comes to mind, but there was another that I chuckled my way through too.

    A long time ago though and I cant remember.

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    I'm reading "Marketing Communication" written by a Professor of Heriot Watt University, Scottland. A very nice manual for Markos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buadhai
    Cheap fiction for the plane: "The Attorney" by Steve Martini
    Currently reading his "Double Tap" to help me get to sleep at night. Nice easy read
    Also reading Al Franken's "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

    Bought them both yestyerday.
    One of the things that annoys me about Thailand is that somehow it has stoped me from reading.
    Can not work out why.
    For more years than i can think i read a book a week of all types. Once here I stopped and I have tried. I have brought books of various types. Even those I enjoyed reading a few years back and I just can not seem to finish one.

    Anyone know of a doctor i can go see?

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    I've noticed the same thing. Back in the states I read at least a book a week. Here, It's more like a book a month. I've noticed, however, that my internet usage is way up!

    Having said that, I just finished a book called "The Jewel of Seven Stars" or something like that, by Bram Stoker, who wrote the original Dracula. It was a nice, fun, oldfashioned read!

    One of my sisters sent me a copy of War and Peace for my birthday. It's sitting on the shelf giving me a challanging look!

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    "Thaksin - The Business of Politics in Thailand" by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker.

    Gives the background of the man and his rise to power, as well as an interesting insight into Thai politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lily
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    Did you read any of Gerard Durrell's?

    'My family and other animals' comes to mind.
    I think so Lily....I recall it being set on a Greek island....I may be remembering the TV series though....Quite often I can't remember if I have a read a book already; it's only when I'm half way through that I think, 'Hold on, the butler did it'.

    I'm not reading it, but a book that has sprang to mind is 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. If anyone is looking for a guarenteed enjoyable read, I'd recommend this.

    A book I am reading is Mercy the Pig (in Thai). So far I have learnt that Mercy doesn't like sleeping in the dark and enjoys eating hot toast soaked in butter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danbo
    Quite often I can't remember if I have a read a book already; it's only when I'm half way through that I think, 'Hold on, the butler did it'.
    I do that all the time now, whereas when I was younger I only had to read the first line to know I had already read it.

    And I have read heaps of Eric Newby's so I think I would have read that one.
    A little dated now but still very good. Or maybe it is because they are dated, they have more charm.

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    I am rereading some of Graham Green's novels. Someone gave me an anthology. "The Istanbul train" is interesting, as is "The End of an Affair"

    his style is good to read, although the contents can be a little dated

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    ^As Lily said above I find the datedness(?) part of the charm. I feel the same about PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh. I'd much rather escape to the worlds that they describe than to the second moon of Flishmay in the second sector of Galaxy 5.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrAndy
    I am rereading some of Graham Green's novels.
    The honorary consul was good and the other one set in South America.

    And Danbo, I agree with you about the escaping to what sometimes seems to be a much gentler and more ordered world.

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    I'm just about to start reading Kindred Spirit by John Passarella. The author sent me an ARC (advance reader copy) of this one which was pretty cool.

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    Has anyone here read Robert Rankin's The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse? Brilliant book, and very, very funny!

    Book description:

    THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE is set in Toy City, once Toy Town, but now older, bigger and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich, who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes, are being slaughtered. One by One. Horribly. A psychopath is on the loose. He must be stopped at all costs. It's a job for Toy City's only detective - but he's missing, leaving Eddie Bear to track down the mad killer, with the aid only of his bestest friend, Jack, and a wide cast of truly unforgettable characters. This is a wonderfully funny book from the irreverent, hilarious writer of WEB SITE STORY, THE SPROUTS OF WRATH and The Brentford Trilogy.

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    Just reread, if that counts, Richard Bach's Illusions. For the heady, but funnier than shit.

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    Just finished City of the Dead by Brian Keene. A must-read for zombie fans, though I'd recommend reading The Rising first.

    About to start The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan. Should be good.

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    Steve Waughs autobiography.

    700+ pages, interesting but not riveting.

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    I've just finished "Triumph of the Sun" by Wilbur Smith.

    Good stuff as ever from my man, Willie.

    I'm now about halfway through "Adventure Capitalist" by Jim Rogers.

    Quite enjoyable, but I think it should be about 4 times longer as he has not enough space to get into too much detail (A 3 year trip into 350 pages just isn't enough).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lily
    I am into Indian authors at the moment.
    Just started Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain. Nice style and drew me straight in.

    Finished Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls, having only seen the movie. While a good read, I'm not sure that it is brilliant. I can't help but think he has held up as a great literary figure more because his style would have been quite unusual in 1930s...that, and his personal lifestyle.

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    I have just read a lovely book that I got from the second hand bookstore across the lane from the Emporium.

    It is called Mangoes and Mimosa and is about a french/English woman who had a pretty unconventional childhood moving between a Malaysian rubber plantation, a villa in France and England.

    She became, at 18 a reporter working for the propaganda (although not called that) unit for the British, in the second world war, in Algeria , because she spoke french, german and English.

    It was extremely interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Torbek
    Quote Originally Posted by Lily
    I am into Indian authors at the moment.
    Just started Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain. Nice style and drew me straight in.

    Finished Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls, having only seen the movie. While a good read, I'm not sure that it is brilliant. I can't help but think he has held up as a great literary figure more because his style would have been quite unusual in 1930s...that, and his personal lifestyle.
    Yes. I agree fully. Hard to imagine 70 years later when the world is swarming with would-be Hemingways.

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    The Hinge Factor...Not as I first though a history of hinges, but a set of short tales about major events in history and how stupidity and chance changed the course of events. For example, at the battle of Waterloo the French cavalry overrun the British artillery but did not have the nails which would have enabled them to spike the cannon before they were recaptured....For the sake of a bag of nails a battle was lost.

    I've also just started another Anne Tyler. Ms Tyler is wonderful. I especially recommend the Accidental Tourist.

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    St Maybe I liked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Torbek
    Just started Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain. Nice style and drew me straight in.
    I think I have read one of his. What else has he written?

    Have you read Vikram Seth's 'A suitable boy'.

    I loved that one. It is about four inches thick.

    I will try and get the one you are reading, is it a recently published one or will I have to trawl the second hand places?

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    I just finished another book by an Indian author. It is called " Q and A". It was kind of an interesting book of short stories - told is a format based on 13 game show questions. The poor man who guessed them all correctly was thrown into prison, and the book shows the odd ways that he had accumulated this information during his years on the streets. Basically, it was an ironic view of the dark underside of modern India.

    At the same time I am reading Slithering South by Steve Van Beeck. This is a fantastic non-fictional book about somebody who navigated a small teak wood boat from the Golden Triangle to the mouth of the Chao Phraya south of Bangkok. I am half way through it. An interesting read indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lily
    I will try and get the one you are reading, is it a recently published one or will I have to trawl the second hand places?
    Just bought it from a display at Kinokuniya's store at Siam Paragon...although was published in 1995.

    ISBN 0-571-20308-6

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