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George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia 

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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The World of S.J.Perelman. Good for the laughs.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Still ploughing through the Sinai Tapestry and Connections by David? Burke

 

Thinking of going back to Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut as they make me laugh about how stupid the world is.

Does anyone have any recommendations along those lines?

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14 minutes ago, Oxford said:

Still ploughing through the Sinai Tapestry and Connections by David? Burke

 

Thinking of going back to Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut as they make me laugh about how stupid the world is.

Does anyone have any recommendations along those lines?

For pointing out the worlds flaws and laughing to the point that a bit of wee comes out then look no further than any of Bill Brysons works.

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1 minute ago, JDINTHEHIZZOUSE said:

For pointing out the worlds flaws and laughing to the point that a bit of wee comes out then look no further than any of Bill Brysons works.

Thanks. I'll give him a go next then.

And I would like more suggestions along this line please as it seems to be the only sanity clause left.

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1 hour ago, JDINTHEHIZZOUSE said:

For pointing out the worlds flaws and laughing to the point that a bit of wee comes out then look no further than any of Bill Brysons works.

Quite agree, absolutely love Bill Bryson. I would say the main thing I've taken away from his books is its not a good idea to buy a book on the history of murders on the appalachian trail when you are walking the appalachian trail..... And Americans drive to their next door neighbours house! 

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8 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Quite agree, absolutely love Bill Bryson. I would say the main thing I've taken away from his books is its not a good idea to buy a book on the history of murders on the appalachian trail when you are walking the appalachian trail..... And Americans drive to their next door neighbours house! 

his description of test match cricket in Australia takes some beating too

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12 minutes ago, JDINTHEHIZZOUSE said:

his description of test match cricket in Australia takes some beating too

Absolute classic that!

"it's like taking a nap without losing consciousness" 

"the English invented cricket to make everything else seem more interesting" 

"if the Australians were left to develop cricket themselves, overnight the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other"

I think this is it if I've got the link right:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEbtkmDv9K4

 

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Just watched a film about Thomas Wolfe so bought his novels.

I think they may be a replay of Ulysses.

Which has also reminded me of that brilliant short story at the end of the Dubliners.

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“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

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I've been comparing the Kindle online conversion of files to ebooks with software called Calibre. I have a few PDFs, MOBIs and DOCs, which I can now email to my Kindle's inbox/library in a fully readable form.

Calibre has more options, some of which are confusing to a beginner, but it can transfer TOCs, metadata and cover images.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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On ‎19‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 13:32, Futtocks said:

I've been comparing the Kindle online conversion of files to ebooks with software called Calibre. I have a few PDFs, MOBIs and DOCs, which I can now email to my Kindle's inbox/library in a fully readable form.

Calibre has more options, some of which are confusing to a beginner, but it can transfer TOCs, metadata and cover images.

Do you think Google Translate will help me understand this any better?

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On ‎17‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 06:04, Oxford said:

Still ploughing through the Sinai Tapestry and Connections by David? Burke

 

Thinking of going back to Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut as they make me laugh about how stupid the world is.

Does anyone have any recommendations along those lines?

If not already watching it on Amazon Prime, Good Omens was the first book by Pratchett that I ever read, I then went out and started on the Discworld series.

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1 hour ago, Bleep1673 said:

Do you think Google Translate will help me understand this any better?

No.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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this one was supposed to go with the one above

 

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Thanks to all for the recommendations and ideas which have cause me to read 5 books at the same time, spend money on kindle and end up with a waiting list of about  14 books. Perfect!

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Betting the House, about the background to the 2017 General Election. Tim Ross & Tom McTague

“Few thought him even a starter.There were many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM. An Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

Clement Attlee.

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I went to a meeting last night, and it was held for a change in the book room (library) of the Church. I really wish they would tell us in advance, there are many more readable books the the Brassey.

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