Maybe, or a swap/ lend thing if you have something interesting/ rare. I'll post a list later.pedros wrote:Anybody interested in a book swap?
What book are you currently reading?
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Do not lend anyone anything! especially books.Lucky Lucan wrote:Maybe, or a swap/ lend thing if you have something interesting/ rare. I'll post a list later.pedros wrote:Anybody interested in a book swap?
You might like to check out his smarter brother, Peter.crazyjohn wrote:Now back to The Man With The Golden Typewriter about the life of ian Fleming. What an interesting man and what a career. He died before the first james Bond movie was made. He churned out the books for two months every year while at his house in Jamaica, Golden Eye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fle ... 8writer%29
Wonderfully self-deprecating adventure-travelogue. Particularly recommended
One's Company
Brazilian Adventure
News from Tartary
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Just recently finished "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam" by Max Boot, from the CFR that I mentioned earlier in this thread. I mention this solely to save anyone else who might have been thinking of picking it up. For one, at least half of the book deals with Lansdale's time in the Philippines, and for another, its bias is readily apparent almost from the start. Glad I snagged it from the library, at least it was free.
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Im getting thru a memoir, This Is Happy, by Camilla Gibb.
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Deep Learning
An MIT Press book
Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
An MIT Press book
Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
First book read for 20 something years - Temple of the least King - Bob Couttie.
Rubbish. It’s like a 10yo wrote it then rushed the engine coz mum says they were off to McDonalds.
Now on Angkor Tears by the (in)famous Steven Palmer.
Rubbish. It’s like a 10yo wrote it then rushed the engine coz mum says they were off to McDonalds.
Now on Angkor Tears by the (in)famous Steven Palmer.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
Any (books) you would recommend over others?MaxB wrote:You might like to check out his smarter brother, Peter.crazyjohn wrote:Now back to The Man With The Golden Typewriter about the life of ian Fleming. What an interesting man and what a career. He died before the first james Bond movie was made. He churned out the books for two months every year while at his house in Jamaica, Golden Eye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fle ... 8writer%29
Wonderfully self-deprecating adventure-travelogue. Particularly recommended
One's Company
Brazilian Adventure
News from Tartary
Alcohol is necessary so that a man can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts
Just read the auto bio of Frederick Forsyth. Much like the Flemings, an adventurer. Youngest pilot in the RAF to fly Vampires, fluent in several languages thanks to his dad sending him to Europe to stay with natives as a schoolboy.
Became a foreign corespondent in East Berlin and wrote the Day of the Jackel quickly and had instant success.
I knew of Peter Fleming but not of his books, I shall read them. He reminds me of Freddie Spencer Chapman who stayed behind in Malaya to fight the Japs. In between the wars he climbed every mountain and went to the poles.
The Poms turned out remarkable people, no wonder they hung onto empire for so long.
Became a foreign corespondent in East Berlin and wrote the Day of the Jackel quickly and had instant success.
I knew of Peter Fleming but not of his books, I shall read them. He reminds me of Freddie Spencer Chapman who stayed behind in Malaya to fight the Japs. In between the wars he climbed every mountain and went to the poles.
The Poms turned out remarkable people, no wonder they hung onto empire for so long.
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Silent Thunder - in the presence of elephants.
Katy Pyne, who discovered long distance ultra sound communication between elephants. She also talks about the issue of alienation for those who choose the company of species other than their own. One of my own crosses.
" ..to be the only one who meets its gaze is sufficient. For so few sit here, and so little is known by those few, and what is known is so vital and so callously regarded by others.
If outsiders could make the same commitment as you have, everything would change. But should they look and not make that commitment, the violation would be unbearable - so this place is private. And sacred. Go away!"
Katy Pyne, who discovered long distance ultra sound communication between elephants. She also talks about the issue of alienation for those who choose the company of species other than their own. One of my own crosses.
" ..to be the only one who meets its gaze is sufficient. For so few sit here, and so little is known by those few, and what is known is so vital and so callously regarded by others.
If outsiders could make the same commitment as you have, everything would change. But should they look and not make that commitment, the violation would be unbearable - so this place is private. And sacred. Go away!"
...then he smiled again, and slipped away, further on up the stream
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Great quoteHairy-nosed Otter wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 4:24 pmSilent Thunder - in the presence of elephants.
Katy Pyne, who discovered long distance ultra sound communication between elephants. She also talks about the issue of alienation for those who choose the company of species other than their own. One of my own crosses.
" ..to be the only one who meets its gaze is sufficient. For so few sit here, and so little is known by those few, and what is known is so vital and so callously regarded by others.
If outsiders could make the same commitment as you have, everything would change. But should they look and not make that commitment, the violation would be unbearable - so this place is private. And sacred. Go away!"
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Andre Agassi’s auto biography is the best sports book I have ever read. Stayed with my son in Melbourne and all his books are either on economics or sport.
Geoff Lemon is a great cricket writer and his book on sandpapergate is excellent.
The Mark Nicholas book is also great, he was a much better cricketer and captain than I expected.
Geoff Lemon is a great cricket writer and his book on sandpapergate is excellent.
The Mark Nicholas book is also great, he was a much better cricketer and captain than I expected.
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