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Reply #15 - Jun 7^th, 2013 at 11:58am

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Jun 6^th, 2013 at 10:59am:

The Longing for Myth in Germany by G. S. Williamson.

A fascinating read. It's about how German thinkers in the 1800 were rejecting the ideas of individualism and capitalism for Romanticism.

That does sound interesting.

I've just put in an order with bookdepository.com

(couldn't find it locally, as usual)

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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #16 - Jun 7^th, 2013 at 12:44pm LES NORTON IN The Boys From Binjiwunyawunya/ St Kilda Kooler Robert G Barrett Too indepth to give a small run down on these 2 awesome books.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131492 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #17 - Jun 7^th, 2013 at 6:35pm A buddy from the ALP gave me this to read:
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131492 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #19 - Jun 7^th, 2013 at 7:14pm ... wrote on Jun 7^th, 2013 at 7:03pm: Juggs
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #20 - Jun 10^th, 2013 at 4:15pm Just finished Neil Stephenson’s Reamde: http: //ww w.nealstephenson.com/reamde/ And now reading his The Diamond Age: http: //ww w.nealstephenson.com/diamond/ (remove the spaces to use the links) Then back to a book a Brewing with Wheat then a couple books on hops, Hop Variety Handbook and Using Hops.
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KJT1981 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1822	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #21 - Jun 12^th, 2013 at 3:54pm Kill the Morans.
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Kat Gold Member Offline Socialism IS the answer. Posts: 17709 Everywhere and no-where Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #22 - Jun 13^th, 2013 at 8:44am I got given the complete (well, almost) Clive Cussler collection for my tablet, so I'm working my way through some of them at the moment.
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Kat Gold Member Offline Socialism IS the answer. Posts: 17709 Everywhere and no-where Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #23 - Jun 13^th, 2013 at 8:45am FriYAY wrote on Jun 7^th, 2013 at 12:44pm: LES NORTON IN The Boys From Binjiwunyawunya/ St Kilda Kooler Robert G Barrett Too indepth to give a small run down on these 2 awesome books. Those books cracked me up when I read them! Good one!
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PZ547 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9282 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #24 - Jun 22^nd, 2013 at 8:42pm Currently reading about 'Huge Deal', an early Sydney entrepreneur. He built the original Stadium, intended it to be for just one prize-fight. Great character Also reading biography of David Lean, the film director. Another character and have a third on the go -- Irish folk-lore. Fascinating
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Reply #25 - Jun 22^nd, 2013 at 10:53pm

The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

All about Pre-1788 Australia and how Aboriginies had 'manicured' the Australian landscape into a virtual sustainable 'Parkland' that was easily traversed, kept in shape, demanded only 30% of time spent - aquiring food, etc.
Very interesting stuff and shows that after 40,000 years what the Aboriginies did in all that time.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened if they harnessed the power of Water?
Would the Land be 'bountiful' beyond just sustainable?
Would they have travelled around the world on boats?

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Reply #26 - Jun 23^rd, 2013 at 9:52am

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2013 at 10:53pm:

The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage

All about Pre-1788 Australia and how Aboriginies had 'manicured' the Australian landscape into a virtual sustainable 'Parkland' that was easily traversed, kept in shape, demanded only 30% of time spent - aquiring food, etc.
Very interesting stuff and shows that after 40,000 years what the Aboriginies did in all that time.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened if they harnessed the power of Water?
Would the Land be 'bountiful' beyond just sustainable?
Would they have travelled around the world on boats?

I don't buy it

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Reply #27 - Jun 23^rd, 2013 at 10:55am

Put into perspective PZ547

The North American Amerindian would put 'feathers' in his attire and say he is "One with the 'Sky' Spirit" and that's as close to it as he got, besides turning his brain into a rotted cabbage with some help from Peyote.
While the White American lads flew over him in a thing called an 'Aeroplane (Jet, Shuttle, etc)' and gave the 'wannabe' below the 'bird'. Grin

That's why 'they' lost North America.

...so when the Aboriginies were amazingly LAND (& Fire) orientated, their isolationism was also due to their lack of understanding WATER and thus they were both trapped (by water) and underdeveloped beyond 'just' Fire.
They chose the wrong element, you could say.

...OZ is probably the world leader in 'Water' technology.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #28 - Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 10:38am All That Swagger, Miles Franklin. I enjoyed My Brilliant Career and am hoping this turns out to be as good.
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Reply #29 - Jul 6^th, 2013 at 2:20pm

It is as good. I'm a slow reader these days but what I've read so far is a brilliant account of the raw edge of pioneer life in southern NSW in the 1840s. And what impresses me for a book written in the 1930s by a woman I take to have a squattocracy background is an enlightened view of what relations with aborigines should have been.

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