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00 Offline IvanDrago

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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #300 on: January 13, 2017, 01:47:34 PM
Vladimir Volkoff "La désinformation arme de guerre" (eng. Disinformation as a Weapon in Warfare). Eyes opening as hell!


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #301 on: January 16, 2017, 11:39:55 AM
Currently reading Jordan Ellenberg's How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.
Very nice. I was a mathematician in a former life but wasn't aware of this book. I looked it up on Wikipedia which aroused my interest even more. I searched for a pdf copy on the web -- and found one.

It really is a good read. Makes once appreciate how some of us have overlooked math as a non-essential skill.
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #302 on: January 25, 2017, 11:03:20 PM
Finished the book my son bought me for Xmas, "Nothing lasts forever" which is the book that is and started "Die hard" and am now starting "58 min" the book that is die hard 2, the one that takes place at the airport!
  Kinda proud of myself, I haven't really read anything since back in high school 20yrs back..
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Reply #303 on: February 19, 2017, 11:30:39 PM
That was awesome.





But you need the soundtrack to fully appreciate it.





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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #304 on: February 20, 2017, 12:04:46 AM
Vladimir Volkoff "La désinformation arme de guerre" (eng. Disinformation as a Weapon in Warfare). Eyes opening as hell!

A damn good read that  :tu:
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #305 on: February 20, 2017, 04:14:47 AM
I have been going through the James Bond series, just finished On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and started You Only Live Twice.


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #306 on: February 20, 2017, 05:51:52 AM
I have been going through the James Bond series, just finished On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and started You Only Live Twice.
Cool :tu:
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As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #307 on: February 21, 2017, 05:41:17 PM
Reading my first John Wyndham book this week - The Seeds of Time. Not sure how I feel about it yet though...!


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #308 on: February 21, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
I'll be delving back into one of Hunter S Thompson's many stories.
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #309 on: April 01, 2017, 08:40:53 PM
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – Churchill’s Mavericks: Plotting Hitler’s Defeat - Giles Milton http://www.historytoday.com/reviews/ministry-ungentlemanly-warfare

Reading through this at the moment, an interesting take on how it came about and how politics nearly stopped it happening.

The surprise for me in the book was finding out that "Wintson Churchill's Toyshop" (The Firs in Whitchurch) is only 5 miles away from where I live now.
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #310 on: April 01, 2017, 09:26:38 PM
Reading my first John Wyndham book this week - The Seeds of Time. Not sure how I feel about it yet though...!

Ive not read that one,but stick with it! Wyndham is very rewarding :tu:
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #311 on: April 01, 2017, 10:43:24 PM
I have been going through the James Bond series, just finished On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and started You Only Live Twice.

Check out the 'Matt Helm' series by Donald Hamilton. The movies stank; the books were excellent.


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #312 on: July 12, 2017, 12:25:57 AM
Well the Mrs got a little gift in the mail, one of her friends, an author, sent her a book she wrote, all of her previous books had been done electronic and all in which the Mrs has read, but this is her first paperback.. I guess that's what happens when your read a lot, you become friends with the author..
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #313 on: July 13, 2017, 01:17:58 AM
Found a copy of On The Beach for fifty cents. I'd forgotten how depressing it is.
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #314 on: July 13, 2017, 03:01:14 AM
Found a copy of On The Beach for fifty cents. I'd forgotten how depressing it is.

Nevil Shute?  Yeah I read it many years ago.
It is never too late to be what you might have been - George Eliot


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #315 on: July 13, 2017, 06:18:16 AM
I've finished up all the Louis L'Amour books I currently possess, and have started reading Zane Grey.  There's always time for a good western adventure.


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #316 on: July 13, 2017, 02:11:24 PM
Planning on making a start on this one later today.
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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #317 on: March 12, 2019, 01:40:56 AM
 :woohoo: woohoo,
It’s taken me like only 4yrs, but I am proud to say I have finally finished that one book!
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,
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As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #318 on: March 17, 2019, 09:31:20 PM
Good book that :tu:

Arrived today and no surprise to anybody who reads the watch it sub forum.



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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #319 on: March 18, 2019, 03:18:22 PM
Beast Master by Shayne Silvers


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Re: What are you reading?
Reply #320 on: November 02, 2020, 02:55:01 AM
*BUMP*
Guess it’s been a while, I’m not really a reader but I want to give something a try, after watching “The League of Extraordinary Gentleman” which I like how they put every ordinary character of their own into a group, but I was a little  :think: over Allen Quartermain, who was played by Sean Connery, I thought his part was great, so I looked him up and it’s a character written by Henry Rider Haggard, and there’s a bunch a novels, so I’m starting of with King Solomon's Mines which is suppose to be a very good book.. they supposedly got the idea of Indiana Jones from these novels, because that’s what he is, an archaeologist and big game hunter that cares more about what’s right and gives back to the community,
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"The-Mad-Plumbarian" The Punisher Of Pipes!!! JR
As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


 

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