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Reply #30 - Jul 18th, 2013 at 5:52pm
 
Currently reading (again) The Prince by Machiavelli.

Advice on how to maintain the control of territories after seizing them. The rules differ for seizing principalities compared to republics. Then, he has numerous different strategies for maintaining control of principalities, all depending on how they were seized.
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Reply #31 - Jul 18th, 2013 at 8:36pm
 
'Future Shock' by Alvin Toffler - again.

When he wrote it in 1971, he suggested that the sum total of man's knowledge was doubling every 7 years and accelerating.

Now, I've recently read that it's down to 2 years and still accelerating.

What have we learnt?
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Reply #32 - Jul 29th, 2013 at 5:56pm
 
'Next' by Michael Crichton.

All about the commercial and legal aspects of genes and genes technology. It's a pretty heavy subject, but he makes it an interesting read. A real page-turner.

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Reply #33 - Jul 30th, 2013 at 12:06am
 
good author
Michael Crichton... 
pity he'll write no more..

I'm currently indulging in a little light detective/animal tales.

Have just finished  'New Tricks' by David Rosenfelt

Now on to 'Hush My Mouth"  by Cathy Pickens

..both authors I've never read, or heard of before..  Smiley Grin

looking for a laugh..

New Tricks was quite enjoyable.
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Reply #34 - Jul 30th, 2013 at 8:47am
 
Lionel Edriess wrote on Jul 18th, 2013 at 8:36pm:
'Future Shock' by Alvin Toffler - again.




I pulled that off the bookshelf the other day and started reading it again.

Also reading this:

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Good stuff.
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Reply #35 - Aug 7th, 2013 at 11:05pm
 
Roger Zelazny's 'The Dream Master' - a wonderful book.  Someone has had the insight to reprint them 15 years after his death...


A man who can write this:-

"A mind may holds many things.  It learns.  It cannot teach itself not to think, though.

..A mind cannot teach itself not to think, but feelings fall into destined patterns."

...deserves to be re-printed...
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Reply #36 - Aug 7th, 2013 at 11:21pm
 
Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay.

A disturbing glimpse into the grooming of a victim by a paedophile with a penchant for pussy.


Cool
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Reply #37 - Aug 8th, 2013 at 1:15am
 
Norstrilia.- cordwainer Smith aka Paul linebarger
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Reply #38 - Aug 15th, 2013 at 5:55pm
 
'Hannibal Rising' by Thomas Harris.

Damn good writer.
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Reply #39 - Aug 31st, 2013 at 4:56pm
 
Father Bob, the larrikin priest, by Sue Williams. Kind funny really as I'm a confirmed atheist. But I respect the likes of Bob Maguire and my favourite books are always a bio.
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Reply #40 - Sep 18th, 2013 at 8:58pm
 
Postmodern Trendoid wrote on Jul 18th, 2013 at 5:52pm:
Currently reading (again) The Prince by Machiavelli.

Advice on how to maintain the control of territories after seizing them. The rules differ for seizing principalities compared to republics. Then, he has numerous different strategies for maintaining control of principalities, all depending on how they were seized.


Me too, Mistie. I’m still getting through the forward - in this case longer than the book itself.

Please tell me - do you think Machiavelli intended it as satire?
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Reply #41 - Sep 18th, 2013 at 9:08pm
 
'Tell my Sons'

by Lt Col. Mark Weber

If you can't draw some sort of positive inspiration from that, you won't find it anywhere.
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Reply #43 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 3:45pm
 
I can top that, Soren.

Just to irritate the literati here, I picked up a dog-eared soft-cover copy of Thomas Harris' 'The Silence of the Lambs'.

So there. ...

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Reply #44 - Sep 27th, 2013 at 3:55pm
 

Great Expectations.
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