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Reply #825 - Feb 8^th, 2024 at 4:41pm

ProudKangaroo wrote on Jan 26^th, 2024 at 8:23am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2024 at 8:20pm:

They are basing the recent "Reacher" tv series on the books of Lee Child. The last season kind of sucked. But, I found that I do not have the book that the series was based upon. So, that was a blessing.

I prefer the TV Reacher over the original book version of the character, but I'm yet to check out season 2.

Ever since the TV series have arrived to view, I have the urge to read the 10 books that have been sitting on my bookshelf for the last 4 years. But, I still have the urge to finish my Game of Thrones books. I want to watch the series again for the 4th time.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25042 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #826 - Jul 10^th, 2024 at 2:56am I am going to finally make a start on reading "The Eureka Stockade".
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25042 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #827 - Jul 10^th, 2024 at 12:40pm UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 10^th, 2024 at 2:56am: I am going to finally make a start on reading "The Eureka Stockade". Started reading the book. Such a rubbish book.
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Reply #828 - Jul 16^th, 2024 at 6:22pm

Just finished Harper Lee “To kill a mockingbird.”

Need to read it again—different era, different country—the rural south. Little echos of Huckleberry Finn.

It is 1935, Atticus Finch drives a Buick but horse and mule drawn transport is common. “Old Hitler” gets a mention. “black people” play a big part in the story.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 49044 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #829 - Oct 7^th, 2024 at 1:28pm Just finished Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle “Escape from Hell” a sequel to. their earlier “Infirno” Interesting. Someone here put me onto the sequel but can’t remember who. Thanks anyway.
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Reply #830 - Nov 29^th, 2024 at 4:30pm

Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world

Poor Artists is critical of the art world as it exists: the convoluted funding applications, sycophantic gallery dynamics and snobby collectors, art schools that overpromise and underdeliver, and the poverty and precarity of life as a working artist. It is not particularly critical of any art in itself, except to disparage “beautiful” art made to appeal to “magpie” collectors and influencers.

Sociopolitical critique stands for art criticism here in the same way that it often stands for contemporary art. Muhammad and De la Puente scrutinise dysfunctional structures of inequality through Quest’s naive eyes, but it’s beyond the scope of the book to think especially critically or interpretively about the art she sees and makes. The conclusion is simply that it should be easier to be an artist, and that there should be space in the world to make stuff just for the pleasure of making it. What happens next is anyone’s guess: how would the fabric of society shift if we acknowledged the centrality of art to the human experience? The many voices in Poor Artists start us thinking about how to find out.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/28/poor-artists-by-the-white-pube-rev...

NOT satire.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 51008 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #831 - Nov 29^th, 2024 at 5:26pm Well, like Politics. Thete is the true Art world of visualisation. Then there is the Media of music and entertainment's exploitation of Art, just like it does of Politics. Many a Muso considers themselves and 'artiszt'. But they're about as Artistic as some loud mouth Chef being political.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25042 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #832 - Dec 19^th, 2024 at 11:36pm A book on "Eureka". Interesting start, so far.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25042 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #833 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 7:11pm Book 2 of "Game of Thrones" series.
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 50074 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #834 - Dec 23^rd, 2024 at 7:14pm Bergson.
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Aquarius Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 260 Northern Beaches Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #835 - Jan 8^th, 2025 at 7:23am The Cronulla Riots. Just finished.
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 50074 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #836 - Jan 8^th, 2025 at 8:11am Aquarius wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 7:23am: The Cronulla Riots. Just finished. https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/australia/the-cronulla-riots-real-victims/
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Reply #837 - Jan 8^th, 2025 at 6:44pm

Yep. Very good take on the riots. Not to mention all the islanders and Abos that joined in against the Moslems.

It's like the uncensored clips of the Capitol Hill Protest, that show a totally different circumstances to the chopped and sticky mainstream Media version. Right up there with all the other mainstream Media doctoring of footage, like what John Pilgar revealed that the American media does for those who watch the gullible idiot box.

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Aquarius Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 260 Northern Beaches Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #838 - Jan 9^th, 2025 at 10:46am I thought I would put my reply in the The Cronulla Riots thread.
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Reply #839 - Jan 9^th, 2025 at 4:37pm

When nursing in a Private Hospital during that time, I had to look after a full ward of rhino ops. It was a mix of Moslem and non Moslems (separated of course).
Long ago 20 Manly boys went to Cronulla for some biff and got their arses kicked. Just a year later, 50 Penrith boys went to Cronulla and also got belted.
Cronulla has always been a leaderless pack. They couldn't win at football, but they always won their fights.
How the Media/police claimed the Bra Boys of Maroubra were the leaders of the riot is beyond me?
I just think the Moslems bit off more than they could chew against a shark frenzy at Cronulla.
The Moslems are used to fighting a religious excuse, like against Christians. But the Cronulla mass pack frenzy wasn't about religion, it was about their beach and I don't think the Moslems knew how to deal with this new adversary. It showed when they attacked Christian places (bullet holes in walls, etc) for their victimhood revenge against something more familiar to them.
...these days Cronulla is full of Moslems. They've taken over Cronulla.

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