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07-12-2013, 06:28 AM
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Jigsawed
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...Y No Se Lo Trago La Tierra/...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Author: Tomas Rivera
Senor Rivera describes in beautiful Spanish the travails of some Mexicans
in their search for a better life. The time... the forties and fifties.
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07-12-2013, 08:47 AM
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Sir Lord Vader of Cheam
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I just read a great book about the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Man, without denigration, a lot of Halsey's flaws got swept under the rug due to public adulation...
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07-12-2013, 08:52 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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Quote:
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Tanstaffl, Pete.
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Quote:
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Thanks!
He gets a bad rap about the white man's burden comment, but you can tell from Kim he had a great love for India and its people
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It's in one of Zappas' LPs, 'the white mans burden - moving the projects forward!' lol.
Pete
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07-12-2013, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
It's in one of Zappas' LPs, 'the white mans burden - moving the projects forward!' lol.
Pete
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He had a really interesting life...you know a French soldier was shot in the chest during WW1 and a copy of Kim which he kept in his breast pocket saved his life by stopping the bullet. The soldier gave Kipling the book which still had the bullet in plus a medal the soldier earned. Kipling later gave the book and the medal back to the soldier so he could pass it on to his son.
Kipling's own son was killed on the Western Front
If you go out policing Pete put that copy of Kim in your pocket
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07-12-2013, 09:53 AM
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Anna Karenin is really good. It will take me ages to finish but it is amazing how modern Tolstoy reads......
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07-12-2013, 10:12 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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Originally Posted by icenine
He had a really interesting life...you know a French soldier was shot in the chest during WW1 and a copy of Kim which he kept in his breast pocket saved his life by stopping the bullet. The soldier gave Kipling the book which still had the bullet in plus a medal the soldier earned. Kipling later gave the book and the medal back to the soldier so he could pass it on to his son.
Kipling's own son was killed on the Western Front
If you go out policing Pete put that copy of Kim in your pocket
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ROTFLMAO!!! Will do
Pete
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07-20-2013, 02:33 AM
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Jeremy Rifkin: "The Empathic Civilization"
Laurence Sterne: "Tristram Shandy" (in German)
Marcel Proust: "A la rechereche du temps perdu" (in German)
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07-20-2013, 11:44 AM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson
This book is widely considered the best single volume history of the Civil War (as opposed to Catton's or Foote's trilogies).
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07-23-2013, 03:10 PM
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Finished reading Foundation
onto Foundation and Empire
still reading Anna Karenin
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07-23-2013, 03:17 PM
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Finished reading Foundation
onto Foundation and Empire
still reading Anna Karenin
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Been a long time since I've read those series. I'm a fan of Seldon Crisis. Asimov was a master.
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