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Offline drago6650

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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #210 on: August 31, 2015, 10:49:58 AM »
Currently reading KP: The Autobiography by Kevin Pietersen MBE

The fascinating life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, from his childhood in South Africa to his recent experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket.



Kevin was dropped from the England squad in February of this year, seemingly calling time on an international career that began nearly ten years earlier. The decision puzzled many observers - although the England team had failed miserably in the Ashes tour of 2013-14, Kevin was the tourists' leading run scorer across the series, and he remains the country's highest run scorer of all time across all formats of the game.

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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #211 on: September 05, 2015, 12:28:47 AM »
ATM I am stuck, still reading Lavondyss but not enjoying it  :(
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #212 on: September 06, 2015, 07:38:02 AM »
I seem to be on a theme right now:

The last week I've read...

Finn and Hengest. A series of lectures by Tolkien.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674474.Finn_and_Hengest

Prehistoric Britain by Jacquetta Hawkes
You'll notice the price of this paperback; I bought my 1940 edition for a dollar a few months ago. http://www.amazon.com/Prehistoric-Britain-Jacquetta-Christopher-Hawkes/dp/B00635TFIO

Stonehenge of the Kings by Patrick Crampton.
http://www.amazon.com/Stonehenge-Kings-Patrick-Crampton/dp/B001UB25TW

... and next plan to reread The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles by Ronald Hutton which I first read back in the 90's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pagan_Religions_of_the_Ancient_British_Isles
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #213 on: September 06, 2015, 10:00:38 AM »
Quote from: tarascon on September 06, 2015, 07:38:02 AM
... and next plan to reread The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles by Ronald Hutton which I first read back in the 90's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pagan_Religions_of_the_Ancient_British_Isles

This looks interesting.
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #214 on: September 06, 2015, 03:12:17 PM »
Quote from: drago6650 on August 31, 2015, 10:49:58 AM
Currently reading KP: The Autobiography by Kevin Pietersen MBE


He plays for the St Lucia Zouks in the CPL now.  I missed him this year as I went a week later than usual and, by that time, the league had ended.

Next year, though....
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #215 on: September 08, 2015, 02:27:01 PM »
I think he has been badly done too....we should be playing our best players.
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« Reply #216 on: September 09, 2015, 04:19:28 PM »
With the team we have now more individuals then team ethics and the new direction of go out and play your own game I think he will fit back in nicely he is an exciting player to watch and pulls the public in. Through the years there have been players who were not team players but unlike KP kept their mouths shut so got away with it, Geoff Boycott to name one after reading his Autobiography I thought what a selfish scallywag you were.
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #217 on: September 25, 2015, 04:02:36 PM »
Quote from: drago6650 on September 09, 2015, 04:19:28 PM
....Geoff Boycott to name one after reading his Autobiography I thought what a selfish scallywag you were.

Does he mention knocking his missus about in his book? No matter how much I admire his cricketing career, the spectre of domestic abuse always reduces him to being a tosser.
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #218 on: October 20, 2015, 12:31:55 PM »
Here's a list of books I ordered from Amazon last week... if anyone hears me complain about not having money to eat, please slap me upside my head.

1. Grimm's Fairy Tales
2. How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake by Luca Crispi & Sam Slote
3. Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings by Deborah Higgens
4. The Monsters and the Critics: And Other Essays by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures by Joe Allard, Richard North
6. Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae
7. A Stanislaw Lem Reader by Peter Swirski, ed.
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #219 on: October 23, 2015, 01:05:13 AM »
Daughter has just purchased Grimm's fairy tale from Hay on Wye and then got Dracula for free 8)
Hope it doesnt scare her  ;D ;D
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #220 on: November 22, 2015, 11:22:05 AM »
1. Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook, ed. by Joan Grimbert
2. Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition by John M. Bowers
http://undpress.nd.edu/books/P01140

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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #221 on: November 25, 2015, 12:25:37 AM »
Ashamed to state I am reading
Simon Scarrow - The Eagles Conquest. Am easy and lazy read.
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #222 on: November 30, 2015, 12:52:22 AM »
Read HP Lovecraft:  Call of Chulthulu and Cats of Ulthar.
Now:  Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat.
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #223 on: December 13, 2015, 01:22:07 PM »
Have listen to HP.Lovecraft audiobooks. Dark
What is the stainless steel rat like ?

Anyone know a book about the hierarchy of angels ????
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Re: Reader's Nook
« Reply #224 on: December 13, 2015, 09:23:46 PM »
Quote from: goldshirt*9 on December 13, 2015, 01:22:07 PM
Have listen to HP.Lovecraft audiobooks. Dark
What is the stainless steel rat like ?

Anyone know a book about the hierarchy of angels ????

Stainless Steel Rat reads like a hard boiled detective novel.  Kind of like Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, except in the future, and he's after technologically advanced criminals.

Hierarchy of angels?  Fiction or non?  Here's the entry, including a paragraph on the hierarchy in the online Catholic Encyclopedia.  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm
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