Jabulani Kupela www.michelleclair.com
My womanthing bought me "Kim - the Kiwi on the Konig" for my birthday (Xmas Eve). I was disappointed that it wasn't "Croz", but I needn't have been - it was a meaty and very interesting read. Also made me angry and sad at the end.![]()
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... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....![]()
Have just finished "Marching with the devil" by David Mason.
Legends, glory and lies in the french foreign legion.
The author graduated from the Australian National university with a law degree but was looking for a challenge, rather than settling down to a 9-5 job somewhere. Deciding that the froggy legion would be the challenge he desired he signed on for 5 years.
This is certainly a good "inside look" where the propaganda machine refuses to tread. The public facade hides incompetence of the highest order among all ranks, poor training (apart from cleaning), a staggering desertion rate, among other things.
Unfortunately the FFL is portrayed as the "elite" forces of france and an example on which other nations should aspire.
This really confirms the reputation that the froggies have earnt with their warfighting abilities over the years. Sadly they have nukes, so when the shit hits the fan the next time, the cowards have buckets of instant sunshine to chuck around.
An organisation that attracts people who wish to "disappear" from people/governments/police and gives them a new name is simply attracting the dregs of society and a principal attractant to french citizens is free food and a roof over your head (guess which sector of society this would be...).
An organisation that should be held in high esteem? No.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Started to read The Diceman by Luke Rhienhart, got a bit heavy so I put it away. I'm reading Bill Bryson's a Short History of Almost Everything for the second time. Brilliant book, great angle on science and a farking good laugh.
read one of the greatest books ever written the other day. It's about a boy named Sam who tries to get "Knox" to eat green eggs & ham. But "Knox" continuously refuses stating he does not like green eggs & ham yet he has never tried it. But Sam is very persistent & doesn't give up that easy. I'll let you discover the end for yourself.
Its a brilliant read & one you can share with your kids as there is very little "inappropriate" language in it, tho parental guidance is still recommended
Science Is But An Organized System Of Ignorance"Pornography: The thing with billions of views that nobody watches" - WhiteManBehindADesk
Ha! I keep picking that book up & dipping in again. Love the chapter about the guy who invented lead ethyl & fluorocarbons, he's right up their with Stalin & Hitler. I do like Bill Brysons humour.
Finally got around to start reading Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. Brilliant! It's a trilogy in four parts, I'm 2/3rds through & laughing my ass off.
Just finding out about Bistromatics, the power of restaurants to change mathematical rules once the waiter starts to write on his order pad. Genius.
I don't suppose anyone has either of Iain M Banks latest books they would like to sell at a fair second hand price, hmmmmmm?
Brilliant set of books that, so well written and yes, a great laugh. The TV series could never live up to it and that film, well, bleh......
The 'Football Factory' trilogy by John King is a good read for anyone who always wondered why football hooligans bother. Its an insight into that 'culture'. However, part of that triliogy is a book called 'England Away' that draws on comparisons between the English football fans going to an away game in Europe and the young guys who hit the beaches on D Day. Both sets of guys there for a fight but for entirely different reasons.
"Headhunters" is a good delve into the Chelsea hooligan network through the eyes of your typical Anglo Saxon football holigan. Very well written
Harper Lee - To kill a Mockingbird
Read it in High School but couldn´t remember the detail, so when I saw my daughter reading it for her 6th form English, I picked it up and re-read it. What a good read...
A dream without a plan is just a wish!
Make it happen....
....DREAM+PLAN+ACTION=GOAL/TARGET
Agent Extaordinary. The story of Michel Hollard.
A french patriot who organised an entire spy network that covered the entire country of france during WW2.
He hand delivered notes to the British Military Attache in Switzerland on 94 occasions and his network did not use wireless transmitters!
His information helped discover the V1 threat to London before the brits knew what was happening. The original sites were bombed by the RAF which forced the Germans to rebuild the launch sites and delayed the onslaught considerably. His actions were described by Churchill as "the man who saved London".
Total bravery from an amazing man.
Captured and tortured, he refused to give any information away and his network kept working until the end.
Deported to a German death camp and finally surviving the German extermination of prisoners by putting them into the holds of ships and then sinking them.
He even fought during WW1 after signing up underage!
A bloody good read.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
Could not get into the FORT. Loved the LAST KINGDOM
http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index...ge=2&BookId=41
and AZINCOURT
http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index...ge=2&BookId=49
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
Hyperion - Dan Simmons (and Fall of Hyperion which is the second part).
It's sci-fi for all you dweebphobes, but one that's a rather literary without being wank.
I'm about 50 pages from the end of the 2nd book and it's going to have to be a shitholer of an ending to make me not rate these books highly. I don't know if it's a classic (do your own research scumbag) but if it isn't one it should be.
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