What book are you currently reading?
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Both are excellent books, although I personally preferred the novel 'A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' to Gulag..apples and oranges, almost.racontuer wrote:East of Eden and Gulag Archipelago... rereading....
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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Reading this will make you want to butt the wall !!!
I could say a lot more about these F'en crims, but better not, or else I will be deported !!!
Reading this will make you want to butt the wall !!!
I could say a lot more about these F'en crims, but better not, or else I will be deported !!!
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What did you think of the film? I wasn't really impressed.Playboy wrote:Rereading ...
I'm currently watching the BBC dramatisation of Roald Dahl's short stories, Tales Of The Unexpected...in most cases, the dramatisation doesn't do the book justice, even though Dahl was heavily involved in the production.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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A fascinating study in the malleability of Law when it comes to War Crimes and rules of engagement. Not for the squeamish! I'm only on chapter two, but already hooked.
(Vlad, Tales of the Unexpected was an ITV production, not a BBC one. Not that it matters, but can't resist clearing up.)
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If you want to read fascist literature, skip Hitler and go to Julius Evola, the ideologue behind Italian fascism.son of vladimir wrote:How many of you have actually read it?
https://archive.org/stream/meinkampf035 ... p_djvu.txt
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Yeah, it rambled in many places.Pecahead wrote:If you want to read fascist literature, skip Hitler and go to Julius Evola, the ideologue behind Italian fascism.son of vladimir wrote:How many of you have actually read it?
https://archive.org/stream/meinkampf035 ... p_djvu.txt
Fascinating personality does not always guarantee interesting reading.
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ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
I started reading "When the war was over" by Elizabeth Becker this week on a recommendation. There is so much I have yet to learn I am worried it will send me down the rabbit hole.
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The Storming of the Bastille by Dumas.
Portentious stuff. Where there's a will, there's a way,
But it was, as the soldiers said, an insane project to think of capturing the King's Prison-Castle.
The Bastile had a garrison, artillery and provisions. The walls were fifteen feet thick at the top and forty at the base.
The governor was Count Launay, who had thirty thousand pounds of gunpowder in the magazine, and had promised in case of annoyance to blow up the fort and with it all that part of Paris.
Portentious stuff. Where there's a will, there's a way,
But it was, as the soldiers said, an insane project to think of capturing the King's Prison-Castle.
The Bastile had a garrison, artillery and provisions. The walls were fifteen feet thick at the top and forty at the base.
The governor was Count Launay, who had thirty thousand pounds of gunpowder in the magazine, and had promised in case of annoyance to blow up the fort and with it all that part of Paris.
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