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Reply #735 - Oct 16th, 2021 at 9:25pm
 
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Reply #736 - Oct 26th, 2021 at 3:47pm
 
Just finished “Evan’s Gallipoli” by Kerry Greenwood.

Starts in Gallipoli, Evan follows his father into the Turkish lines, they escape detention before they get shot. Evan guides his father who obviously went insane through Turkey to Bulgaria etc ending up in Greece where Evan and his now-sane father work with wounded soldiers, Diggers, Somalian, German, Turkish etc.

They return to Victoria and Evangelina decided to attend University High School to go to University to study languages, having picked up lots of the languages of the regions she travelled through.


Not great literature but entertaining.
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Reply #737 - Oct 29th, 2021 at 8:07am
 
After promising myself I'd do so ever since playing the 'Discworld' computer
game 25 years ago, I've finally gotten around to reading Terry Pratchett's
'Discworld' books.

Currently on Book 4.
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Reply #738 - Oct 29th, 2021 at 8:50am
 
Kat wrote on Oct 29th, 2021 at 8:07am:
After promising myself I'd do so ever since playing the 'Discworld' computer
game 25 years ago, I've finally gotten around to reading Terry Pratchett's
'Discworld' books.

Currently on Book 4.


The last couple arent as good because he got dementia

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Reply #739 - Oct 29th, 2021 at 11:37am
 
Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 26th, 2021 at 3:47pm:
Just finished “Evan’s Gallipoli” by Kerry Greenwood.

Starts in Gallipoli, Evan follows his father into the Turkish lines, they escape detention before they get shot. Evan guides his father who obviously went insane through Turkey to Bulgaria etc ending up in Greece where Evan and his now-sane father work with wounded soldiers, Diggers, Somalian, German, Turkish etc.

They return to Victoria and Evangelina decided to attend University High School to go to University to study languages, having picked up lots of the languages of the regions she travelled through.


Not great literature but entertaining.


Is “Evan’s Gallipoli” fiction or fact?
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Reply #740 - Nov 11th, 2021 at 12:13pm
 
IKat wrote on Oct 29th, 2021 at 8:07am:
After promising myself I'd do so ever since playing the 'Discworld' computer
game 25 years ago, I've finally gotten around to reading Terry Pratchett's
'Discworld' books.

Currently on Book 4.


Read them all a couple of times.
He really has a twisted sense of humor, but it is entertaining.

I also like Hitchhikers guide.

I guess that says a lot for my idea of humor.

I'm currently reading A Canticle for Lebowitz again.
I find it a great bok for ridding my mind of daily grind before sleep.

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Reply #741 - Nov 29th, 2021 at 2:56am
 
Ayn Marx wrote on Oct 29th, 2021 at 11:37am:
Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 26th, 2021 at 3:47pm:
Just finished “Evan’s Gallipoli” by Kerry Greenwood.

Starts in Gallipoli, Evan follows his father into the Turkish lines, they escape detention before they get shot. Evan guides his father who obviously went insane through Turkey to Bulgaria etc ending up in Greece where Evan and his now-sane father work with wounded soldiers, Diggers, Somalian, German, Turkish etc.

They return to Victoria and Evangelina decided to attend University High School to go to University to study languages, having picked up lots of the languages of the regions she travelled through.


Not great literature but entertaining.


Is “Evan’s Gallipoli” fiction or fact?


It would be fiction.
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Reply #742 - Dec 16th, 2021 at 6:07pm
 
"A Clash of Kings" by George R R Martin. Second book in the Game of Thrones series.
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Reply #743 - Jan 27th, 2022 at 12:25pm
 
Currently reading “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson.

Has a lot to do with The Netherlands and rising sea levels but that isn’t why I bought it—Neal is my favorite SF author.

Just getting through the introductory bit—Neal tends to write BIG books.
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Reply #744 - Jan 29th, 2022 at 6:36pm
 
Well, it is about geoengineering, shooting sulphur into the stratosphere to reflect some sunlight away. India and China react to this—the Punjab, the breadbasket of India, might lose the monsoon.

Won’t say anymore than that—grab a copy and read it.

Personally—geoengineering is not the right thing to do, might even encourage more activities that emit CO2 and geoengineering does not reduce ocean acidification. It could be a circuit breaker when actual action to reduce CO2 emissions is going to happen.
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Reply #745 - Mar 23rd, 2022 at 4:41pm
 
Thomas Keneally -- "Australians (vol 2): Eureka to the Diggers"
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Reply #746 - May 12th, 2022 at 12:32pm
 
'In Pursuit of Justice' by Michael Finnane QC.
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Reply #747 - May 12th, 2022 at 12:40pm
 
"The Man Without a Face -- The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen.

I read through the first 20 pages of the 300-page book in 20 minutes. I should have the book read entirely by the end of next week.
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Reply #748 - May 18th, 2022 at 2:54pm
 
"Underbelly: The Gangland War" by John Silvester and Andrew Rule.

Best to watch season 1 of Underbelly, or look at some documentaries on the topic of the Melbourne Underworld before you read this book. The book, however, seems a lot more interesting than the tv series.
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Reply #749 - Jun 1st, 2022 at 4:56pm
 
Mario Puzo's "The Godfather". Keeping in line with the theme of family alienation being discussed in forums above, this book is a good page-turner classic.
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