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    As i have said before i am reading Chopper Reids books at the moment and when im not reading them usually golf australia or something like that.

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    If anyone wants a good read try Marching Powder,by Rusty Young excellent book one of the best i've read, but that's not saying much.

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    Loved Ken Folletts "Pillars of the Earth". All of his books are great. If you like that style look out for Edward Rutherfords "Sarum", "London" "The New Forest". Great storyteller.
    I also loved the "tomorrow" series. Read them when my daughter was a teenager. Must get my husband into them.
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    Cureently reading "The Beach" I thought the movie was interesting so hopefully the book is even more so.
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    Ben Mezrich - accidental billionaires

    Love this guy's stuff - easy read, can go front to back in a night, and then go again to get caught up in the detail the next day. Ugly americans is top of his pile for me.
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    I'll read just about anything. Recently rereading Lean Hearns stuff, and Asimov for a fix. Think I'll go and read the Mote in God's eye again, probably my favourite SF novel ever.

    Also just read Feinsteins The Majors.





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    Foxtel guide July '09
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    Quote Originally Posted by jarro View Post
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    Is it worth the cash Jarro? I have not had it for some years now.
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    Jarro probably hasnt heard that the internet has other stuff on it (apart from ozgolf)
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    Pretty sure Jarro is aware of there being Porn on the internet.





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    Naughty naughty threadjackers.

    Just starting Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen. Looks good.

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    Reading Forsyth as my dunny book. Gone through most of em, on the Negotiator at the moment.





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    I just finished reading Macbeth.

    A good read was Greg Normans Autobiography (?)

    And also Fortress by Gabrielle Lord was enjoyable.

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    I'm on an HP Lovecraft short story anthology. I have really enjoyed short stories lately...maybe my attention span is getting shorter!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ParMaster View Post
    I just finished reading Macbeth.

    A good read was Greg Normans Autobiography (?)

    And also Fortress by Gabrielle Lord was enjoyable.
    Macbeth!!! Now you are talking!! I had a time when I was obsessed by this play. It is brilliant. I performed Lady Macbeth at acting school and used "The raven himself is hoarse" speech as my audition piece for The Australian Shakespeare Company ( was too old for the gig). Belonged to a group that used to perform Shakespeare in Schools - usually to a very hostile audience until they "got" it.
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    It doesnt surprise me that you would be a good lady macbeth!
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    Bit spotty are we Reenie?





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    We just finished studying WW2 at school and i was just wondering if anybody has actually read Mein Kampf? And what were your thoughts on it. (Apart from it's blatant racism and ideologies.)

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    I have read most, if not all of it. (It's not really the sort of book you read from cover-to-cover, so I am guessing here.)

    Basically, it's an interesting insight into the man that was Hitler, but the monotony of aryan race propaganda starts to grow old after a while.



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    Half way through Michael Connelly's "A Darkness More Than Night" and realised I'd read it before...just as good the second time around because I've forgotten what happens.
    Consciousness and awareness - awareness is being aware of what is happening and being aware of what is happening within ourselves while we are conscious. Where did I leave my glasses?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ParMaster View Post
    We just finished studying WW2 at school and i was just wondering if anybody has actually read Mein Kampf? And what were your thoughts on it. (Apart from it's blatant racism and ideologies.)


    Its crap and poorly written crap at that.

    Quote Originally Posted by henno View Post
    I have read most, if not all of it. (It's not really the sort of book you read from cover-to-cover, so I am guessing here.)
    Quote Originally Posted by henno View Post

    Basically, it's an interesting insight into the man that was Hitler, but the monotony of aryan race propaganda starts to grow old after a while.


    I have read all of it in bits and pieces. It does give you some insight into Hitler as a person and his ideology but you have to take a lot of what he writes with a pinch of salt. Hitler was also a notorious bullshit artist.
    To help filter out said bullshit try and find a copy of Ian Kershaw's biographies on Hitler, Nemesis and Hubris. Great books, really well researched and written. Anyway I could go on ranting but I won't. Hopefully you find it as interesting and as horrifying as I do.

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    The whole book is bullshit propaganda with the sole purpose of pushing his agenda.



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    That is what is really interesting about Hitler; I wasn't so much that he was trying to push it, although there was that. But he really believed it; as did most of the leading Nazi's, as did most of the German people at the time. You can't murder 6 million Jews and millions of others without the help of a lot of people.
    That is what interests me, the complicity of the ordinary German people and how they came to support such a regime.

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    Tobruk by Peter Fitzsimons currently. Not much time to read lately so its slow progress which isn't a fair comment on the book. Well written and humanised.

    An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson was another recent favourite. (Won the Pultizer Prize for History in 2003)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yossarian View Post
    That is what is really interesting about Hitler; I wasn't so much that he was trying to push it, although there was that. But he really believed it; as did most of the leading Nazi's, as did most of the German people at the time. You can't murder 6 million Jews and millions of others without the help of a lot of people.
    That is what interests me, the complicity of the ordinary German people and how they came to support such a regime.
    Because they were the worst hit country during the great depression something like 50%+ unemployment. Most were starving and Hitler promised riches beyond their expectations - ownership of Europe.
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    There is also a history of persecution through out Europe, look at the pogroms in Poland. The Germans applied efficiency to it. Never forget that they took on the world and came within a bees dick of winning.





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