Need to get back to 'through it all I've always laughed' count arthur strong, had me in stiches!
Need to get back to 'through it all I've always laughed' count arthur strong, had me in stiches!
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Just ordered a copy of 'No Country For Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy. Having previously enjoyed the film very much a couple of times, I thought I'd check the book out.
its a good film, but not read the book; in fact I didnt even know there was one.
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Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. It's the first time I'm reading one of his books. I'm liking it so far.
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'Noriko Smiling', by Adam Mars-Jones, which is an extended essay on Ozu's Late Spring [1949], published by Notting Hill Editions in 2011. Appallingly written - the author must have been/is a journalist.
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Have just finished re-reading 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins (a cracking good read) and Volume 4 of the Diaries of Virginia Woolf. Am about to start 'The Oval Window' by J H Prynne.
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Just pre-ordered Tomblands, the latest Matthew Shardlake novel by C J Sansom. It's not out until October but I enjoyed the previous books so much I don't mind the wait. Very detailed and historically accurate murder mysteries set in Tudor England.
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Not been reading of late. Not enough time when your doing nowt
Regards,
Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -
Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World by Alec Le Sueur (ISBN 1 84024 106 3)
"Le Sueur provides us with the means of improving our knowledge of a far away country about which we know little. Fawlty Towers goes to Tibet"
A very funny read about managing the Holiday Inn hotel in Lhasa, Tibet in the late '80s. Interestingly enough, I stayed there around the time written about in the book.
Now
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (ISBN 978 1 84354 7471)
If you are a fan of 'The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series (which I am) you will like this. Again simple, gentle, amusing and perceptive observations of the customers of the cakemaker and of society in general in Kigali, Rwanda.
Barry