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    Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser - One (the first) of a series - I've read a couple of these before; they really are very good.

    This is Flashman describing a meeting with his future father-in-law, a mill owner. There are concerns over working class mob violence in the town:

    "I told him pretty sharp that there was no danger, but that if there had been, his place was surely at his mill, to keep his rascals in order. He whinnied at me - I've seldom seen a man in such a fright, and being a true-bred poltroon myself, I speak with authority".

    I can see myself finishing this book today, and then I have Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland, although I may save that for the plane journey next trip to LoS as it is a nice size and l think that it is the type of book that would impress pretty ladies in nice dresses and there are more likey to be such ladies to impress on a plane than there are in my front room....much more likely to be.
    Back off Margaret, you're on a sugar rush!

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    'Mills & Boon's' ..

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    Mr. Midshipman Easy - downloaded from Project Gutenburg. Considering that the author was an officer serving the the RN during the Napoleanic Wars, it's a surprisingly pleasant and humorous read!

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    "The Accidental" - by Ali Smith.

    Strange but absorbing.

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    Gave up on the Margaret Thatcher book ... just couldn't get into it.

    Have moved on to a couple of the books written by Eisenhower:

    1. The White House years 1953-1956
    2. The White House years 1956-1961

    Doesn't seem like the US Presidents do much of these in their own words, factual accounts anymore since Ford.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danbo
    Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
    Fantastic reads! I've read most of them years ago and will look out for them again to add to my book shelf (If I ever get to building it that is!)

    I just bought another book that I read years ago - Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson. Good strory. As a journolist he joins the Hells Angels to do a story about them and ends up having to all sorts of stuff.

    Hows that for dedication to your craft?
    Fahn Cahn's

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    America Alone: The End of the World as we know it

    Better get ready all you Euroweenies...

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    book downloads?

    Aybody d/l books on torrent sites ?
    I was thinking of trying it?
    Text would suit my d/l speed better, can't be bothered waiting 2days- 11hours and 23mins for a porno clip or mp three

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    oh yeah forgot to mention I'm in the process of aborting Just Enough by two harvard business school authors,.
    It's dissapointing 'cos I thought it would be about being content with what one has.
    ...............kind of like HRH 's sufficiency theory. But it wasn't.

    Back to a michael connelly omnibus for the bedtime read for now.

    g'night Zzzz.

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    The Grapes of Wrath.

    Stunning

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    I have just finished Swan Song by Robert Edric - a PI story set in Hull. Quite enjoyable for a freebie I was given by Asia Books for having bought x amount of books last time i was in town.
    I have just started Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It has ben a while since I read any of his. I did enjoy American Psycho

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    Quote Originally Posted by Itchy View Post
    The Grapes of Wrath.

    Stunning
    Great writer. Think one of my favorites I can reread his books over and over.
    Right now, reading Jack London's Book "Adventure" Set in the South Pacific; about a Brit tryig to build a copra plantation ad his relationship with a young, aggresive, American woman & partner, Pro or Anti Slavery is still a question folks ask about this book.

    Personally I think it's just a chronical of life among the cannibals and white men trying eek out a living life among the cannibals, London wasn't really big on injecting social commentary into his novels, although I doubt he kept his own ideals completely out of them.

    Jack London wrote a great deal more than many know about. Reading my way through some of it at Jack London: Writings
    When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty -- T. Jefferson


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    Stephen Leather: The Solitary Man

    ... simply excellent, but I don't know what to think about his "Private Dance"?

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    Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland. This is the first book of his I've read and I like his writing style - I'll have to look out for some of his others. I want to finish this book rather quickly because next on the book shelf is a PG Wodehouse Omnibus, Life at Blandings.

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    Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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    Axel Aylwen - The Falcon of Siam.

    About a fictional chap in the East India Co during the reign of Charles II based in Ayutthaya. Only read 2 chapters so far, but shows promise.

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    Seditious Histories - Craig Reynolds

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    Put the Eisenhower books on hold and read this book this weekend:



    Guess who the attorney was who represented ole Lou Holtz when a couple of his players wanted to charge him with racism for dismissal from one of his teams ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Guess who the attorney was who represented ole Lou Holtz when a couple of his players wanted to charge him with racism for dismissal from one of his teams ?
    Petrocelli....Or the fellow who did for OJ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buadhai View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by mad_dog
    I am reading The Wind-up Bird Cronicle ... by some jap chap... can't spell his name...
    I think it's Haruki Murakami. Great writer. I just finished "Kafka on the Shore".

    great book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danbo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post
    Guess who the attorney was who represented ole Lou Holtz when a couple of his players wanted to charge him with racism for dismissal from one of his teams ?
    Petrocelli....Or the fellow who did for OJ.
    Bill Clinton ... Attorney General for the State of Arkansas at the time.

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    The Quiet American - Graham Greene

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    "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.
    Insightful and worth the read.

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    ^^
    My favorite Greene book

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    I am still reading Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park.

    A novel where the main charcter is someone called Bret Easton Ellis and based on many of the facts which happened in the life of Bret Easton ellis the author.
    I think.

    I like his writing style. I find it highly readable and really helps me create mental images of the "action"

    This makes for entertainment, the reason in the main I read books .

    Thisis the alst of the current crop of books I have so it is time to go back down to Asia books and buy-in a new selection

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