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Dubliners is a favorite of mine,"The Dead" in particular. I mentioned in a post a few months back that I gretly admire John Huston's film adaptation of "The Dead" Huston did something rare in movie-making. He took the work of a great author and added his own artistic touch. If it's out on video, get it. You won't be sorry.
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Just started Lost by Gregory Maguire. It's already *very* different in style from his other works, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Wicked - but I imagine I'm going to like this one too!
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The Way We Live Now Trollope. Seems quite a good insoight into the social scene of the aristocratic but not affluent world of 1880s England. So far, it does not strike me as one of his better novels, although it is very useful background info. for me. I prefer Phineas Finn and most of the Barchester novels, especially The Warden.
I am also slowly reading Hell's Angels,Hi, Musick! which is a very interesting insight into the motor-cycle cult of California in the 60s and 70s. Fascinating reading, although a bit repetitivie at times.
Just starting Dennis Judd's Empire which charts the later rise of British Colonial power. This is definitely work, not pleasure, although it's a well written and well researched book. Sometime next summer, it will be regurgitated, synthesised with other books and presented to an unsuspecting public as a twenty-hour course on The British Empire (or some such title.)
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Oh dear Commando, i loved The Way We Live Now -- i read it two summers ago, and found it riviting.
That the dot coms were all going bust at the same time helped.. and goodness knows the corruptions, fraud and deceit Trollope writes about are all current events!
i haven't read the Barchester novels, i read The way we live now, because it was available on the shelf!
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a twenty-hour course on The British Empire (or some such title.)How about the title being "Where the Sun never set"?  - http://www.friesian.com/british.htmLearned quite a lot from this page; not least that "the Sun never sets where [the Union Jack] waves" was a literal truth.
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At the grave risk of yarting (not that that ever stopped me!) I should point out that the reason why the sun never set on the BE was because god wouldn't trust the Brits in the dark!
But it would- or something very like that - indeed, make a good title. My thanks to you Sir - you may claim a pint of good Lancashire ale at an appropriate time and place.
We could have it with fish cooked in herby batter at an appropriate plaice and thyme, as well.
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fish cooked in herby batter
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100 BIRDS : and How They Got Their Names
Great! Diana Wells writes with well selected detail.****
Visionares: interviews with fashion designers
Twenty-three of the world's most notable fashion designers are interviewed in depth in this picture sized book. The photographs are exotic, as are the designers whose eccentric nature is behooven to their job. ***1/2
Gods, Heros, & Kings: the Battle for Mythic Britain
Mostly one page snatches of the Pantheona, Deity types, Heros and Heroines, Sacred places and Objects, and the Sagas of the island of Britain. Never boring, never boggled down by unnecessary footnotes. *****
HOT DAMN!: alligators in the casino, nude women in the grass, how seashells changed the course of history, and other dispatches from paradise.
Paradise is Florida. James W Hall is a poet turned mystery writer. These light essays are interesting reading while you eat a snack or a sandwich. ***
NEAREST STAR: The Surprising Science of Our Sun
Of immense size, of immense importance, we rarely wrap our minds around the great star that shines in our own backyard. This book provides flesh for our favorite abstraction. *****
READING Between the NUMBERS: statistical thinking in everyday life
Joseph Tal's book will cause the interested reader to re-think his approach to, and interpretation of, statistics and numbers in today's world. Good book. ****
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How about the title being "Where the Sun never set"? -
interesting page fishsticks, i never realised we were such bastards
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i never realised we were such bastardsRhuby did! But he's the expert. [bow] Dunno, dode, I wouldn't say matters were that clear-cut. A lot of countries went right downhill after the British upped sticks. Although that was probably just because the British took everything of value with them when they left. 
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