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01-05-2011, 13:40
theory's dont mean much to me...they're only "ideas"
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014. 
08-05-2011, 06:10
Flying back from SA recently i bought a magazine for the flight called 'Wired'. In it there was an article about Amy Bishop, a professor who lost the plot and killed some of her colleagues in the USA. Funny thing is she wrote three unpublished novels, one of which described in detail what she was going to do. Scary stuff.
08-05-2011, 12:26
![[Image: 24663010.JPG]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/24660000/24663010.JPG) This is one of a series of books by the guys who gave us the Left Behind series of biblical fiction. I read two of those before I lost interest. Wife loved them though. My daughter asked me to read this one. Assume the other ones in the series are Matthew, Luke, and John's stories. This is pretty much a parallel of reading the book of Mark. Just in novel form. I think these books would be very good for teens or one who has suddenly developed an interest in the Bible. Having read that book numerous times, there was not much in Marks Story that was new for me. Grade - C next up - A Commonwealth Of Thieves by Thomas Keneally 
09-05-2011, 10:42
![[Image: n1815.jpg]](http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n1815.jpg) Novel set in Papa Doc Duvalier's Haiti, as it descends into chaos.
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
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14-05-2011, 12:50
subtitle - The Improbable Birth Of Australia
![[Image: 14294186.JPG]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/14290000/14294186.JPG) Read this in preparation of a possible visit from a mate. Didn't want to be completely ignorant about the subject. So I remain just a little ignorant. Book wasn't what I expected. But that's my fault since the subtitle sums it up. This only covers about a 10 year period about the british invasion. From around 1785 to 1795. Already knew about the use as a penal colony for Englands' degenerates. About a 6 month trip at the time to move some unwanteds. Brutal trip with many not even surviving. Skirmishes with the natives similar to what we did to the Indians here. May the best man win I guess was the philosophy in both cases. Not a very interesting read. Surprised at the amount of direct quotes from that long ago. Maybe diaries were kept, but I have my doubts. Grade - C next up - The Hope by Herman Wouk
14-05-2011, 13:17
^ That's the guy that wrote Schindler's Ark isn't it ?!
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
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14-05-2011, 20:56
Tiggi Wrote:^ That's the guy that wrote Schindler's Ark isn't it ?! yes....... 
16-05-2011, 06:32
Finished Starship Troopers a while ago. Liked it as much as the movie, if not more. The movie was good for being action-y and epic, but the novel I liked because of it's more thought provoking. I really didn't like how he kept switching to different squads and being with different people every chapter or so, but I guess (I've never really been in the army myself, so I'm just guessing) that that's more realistic.
Started on Catch-22. So far my favorite part is when Yossarian is trying to find out why Orr used to put crab apples in his cheeks and keeps getting extremely literal and/or answers that are right, but not what he's looking for |
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