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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: Book Club... Reply #15 - Apr 13^th, 2013 at 9:10pm Jaqs wrote on Apr 13^th, 2013 at 4:26pm: What are you reading? Julian Barnes. Proust. Jung. Edward Enfield. Kierkegaard. Robert Dessaix on Turgenev. More Proust. Spengler. The Psalms. Freud. Goethe. Ted Hughes. Dumas, Dante, Cervantes. Proust. Blogs. OzPolitic posts.
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Reply #16 - Apr 13^th, 2013 at 10:39pm

Soren wrote on Apr 13^th, 2013 at 9:10pm:

Jaqs wrote on Apr 13^th, 2013 at 4:26pm:

What are you reading?

Julian Barnes. Proust. Jung. Edward Enfield. Kierkegaard. Robert Dessaix on Turgenev. More Proust. Spengler. The Psalms. Freud. Goethe. Ted Hughes. Dumas, Dante, Cervantes. Proust.

Blogs. OzPolitic posts.

Bloody hell!

After all that, why don't you read the Quran?

Then you can go to war with yourself! Cool

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Toughen up, Australia!

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Reply #17 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 12:15am

When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of England to the other. From Kingsbridge to Berwick.

He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone.

All he knows is that he must keep walking.

To save someone else's life.

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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Book Club... Reply #18 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 2:36am I bought these two last week:
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Sir Spot of Borg Moderator Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26515 Australia	Re: Book Club... Reply #19 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 4:56am Just ordered the last 3 robert rankin books and the last ben elton one. My mother just moved and sent me a box of larry niven books. I like larry niven. SOB
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KJT1981 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1822	Re: Book Club... Reply #20 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 8:41am Don't be shy Miss Borg, most here know this is your favourite.
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Reply #21 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 9:46am

Soren wrote on Apr 13^th, 2013 at 9:10pm:

Jaqs wrote on Apr 13^th, 2013 at 4:26pm:

What are you reading?

Julian Barnes. Proust. Jung. Edward Enfield. Kierkegaard. Robert Dessaix on Turgenev. More Proust. Spengler. The Psalms. Freud. Goethe. Ted Hughes. Dumas, Dante, Cervantes. Proust.

Blogs. OzPolitic posts.

Spengler should be read more. He had some very good ideas.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 141412 Gender:	Re: Book Club... Reply #22 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 9:53am Read this again last week. Along with: Both great reads.
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Chimp_Logic Gold Member Offline πολιτικός Posts: 4826 Mawson Base Gender:	Re: Book Club... Reply #23 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 10:02am ......Oh No - its wafted through the Book Club Is there no limit to this man's sense of worthlessness?
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Sir Spot of Borg Moderator Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26515 Australia	Re: Book Club... Reply #24 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 10:02am KJT1981 wrote on Apr 14^th, 2013 at 8:41am: Don't be shy Miss Borg, most here know this is your favourite. Go away troll SOB
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Reply #25 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 10:48am

Memoirs 1773-93, by Louis-Phillipe, a young prince during the French Revolution and later (1830-48) King of France.

I am something of an addict to the history of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic period.
This book of memoirs (never finished, sadly) gives perhaps the most inside view of the events of the earlier years of the revolution.
Although an aristocrat, he was at the same time a supporter of the revolution and a member of the radical Jacobin Club, and also a successful general in the revolutionary army. Thus he was in a position to know the personalities and see the events happening in both the pro- and counter-revolutionary parties.

Not everybody's cup of tea I realise.

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Know the enemies of a civil society by their public behaviour, by their fraudulent claim to be liberal-progressive, by their propensity to lie and, above all, by their attachment to authoritarianism.

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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: Book Club... Reply #26 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 11:36am The story of Tom Kruse "Mailman of the Birdsville track".
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Lobo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7407 Sydney Gender:	Re: Book Club... Reply #27 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 8:04pm One of my young blokes once read The Bible from cover to cover. Purely because one of his mates said he couldn't do it. Took him approx 2 weeks and he was able to answer questions. Didn't become a life-changing experience though....
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Reply #28 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 8:33pm

Lobo wrote on Apr 14^th, 2013 at 8:04pm:

One of my young blokes once read The Bible from cover to cover.
Purely because one of his mates said he couldn't do it.

Took him approx 2 weeks and he was able to answer questions.

Didn't become a life-changing experience though....

I've read both the Bible and the Koran, cover to cover, twice.

I have to say that I prefer the Bible. It's really quite an interesting book to read.

Neither changed my life though.

Norman Vincent Peale's book probably did more to change my life.

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Grey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5341 Gender:	Re: Book Club... Reply #29 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 8:56pm I tend to read 'thrillers' interspersed with some more literary novels. Favourites in order of 'worthy' Martin Cruz Smith, Henning Mankell, Reginals Hill, Michael Conelly, Ian Rankin. Lee Childs Dostoevsky, Tim Winton, Ursula Le Guin, Salman Rushdie, Dickens, (in no order.)
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