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Old 26-09-2013, 11:40 AM   #61
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Last week the better half surprised me with a trip to Korea and Japan so I thought it fitting to buy "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. It's about the lives of people in North Korea from people who have defected to the South. Just started it and don't want to put it down.
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Old 26-09-2013, 12:20 PM   #62
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celestine prophecy, the tenth insight, secret of shambrala
book 1 2 3
easy reads
should read each one in a whole day
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Old 26-09-2013, 01:33 PM   #63
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Last week the better half surprised me with a trip to Korea and Japan so I thought it fitting to buy "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. It's about the lives of people in North Korea from people who have defected to the South. Just started it and don't want to put it down.
"a trip to korea and japan"......does she have a sister?......or failing that could she have a word to my misses?
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Recently finished 'Shipwrecks of the Southern Seas' by Craig Cormick. Non fiction based on survivor accounts. Good read for someone interested in early European exploration/settlement of Australia in 17th to 19th centuries.
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Old 18-10-2013, 05:04 PM   #65
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Frank Herbert.
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Old 18-10-2013, 05:20 PM   #66
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Old 18-10-2013, 06:15 PM   #67
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Atonement - Ian McEwan,
Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky.
+ Everything by Tolkien.
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Old 18-10-2013, 09:19 PM   #68
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Colin Wilson:

A Criminal History of Mankind (1984), revised and updated (2005)
Beyond the Occult (1988)

Will change the way you look at the world.
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Don't forget...
The Mind Parasites
Damn, changed my point of view.
Have spent the last 25 years looking over my shoulder.

Maybe Poppa, there are a few books you should just put to one side.
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Old 27-10-2013, 11:16 PM   #70
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I must send out a very big thanks to you guys and girls.......had a very relaxing time simply kicking back with some coldies and the Kindle loaded with some absolutely excellent reading.

a pastime I should have picked up long ago methinks.
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i recommend any book written by Tucker Max.

Its so offensive that you wont stop laughing.
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'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens. One of my all-time favourite reads. It would help though if one had a historical knowledge of the revolutionary fears sweeping across Europe in the wake of the French revolution...
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Old 01-11-2013, 11:39 PM   #73
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The Bible is a must read even for non-believers.
Absolutely, although it cannot be read like a novel. You have to take small bites at it...
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Old 02-11-2013, 12:24 AM   #74
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Dick Johnson's autobiography just arrived in the mail. That's a massive book! I probably won't be reading it anytime soon, but I had no idea he raced in NASCAR, too. (I've looked at the pictures.)
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