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Finished up 'Scouting on Two Continents' what a fucking dude Frederick Russel Burnham was, he served under Rhodes, he fought alongside Churchill, he held court with Teddy Roosevelt. The man was indeed a very interesting sort and I am very pleased with his autobiographical work.


Now I must search for what I am going to read next...I reckon I can continue on with The Bible (I do plan to read holy texts from the major religions including the Koran) but it's a very tedious kind of reading and you often wonder if things have been translated correctly and even if they have been are you understanding it as it was meant to be understood or misinterpreting....other books you can reread the pages and get a clearer picture of what is happening and what you're supposed to take away as the reader, with The Bible sometimes that just muddies the waters.


I had started 'Shop Class as Soul Craft' but I just wasn't interested in it even when I started it...I want to eventually read it, but I've got to be in that mood first.



Perhaps now is the time to dig into Salinger's works? Or maybe Twain?

I've got a couple of Twain books, only Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, I've never got around to reading them even though I really want to.

I'll probably add them to my list of definites for the new year

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I've got a couple of Twain books, only Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, I've never got around to reading them even though I really want to.

I'll probably add them to my list of definites for the new year

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I would have figured you'd have been all over his books. I've read them both for school, but there's reading for school and reading for pleasure so I will approach them differently this time. Also Twain's autobiography I would have thought would have been intriguing to a big reader like you.


Salinger is one i haven't read before but upon hearing how fucking brilliant he was I am certainly interested in reading his works.

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I've got a couple of Twain books, only Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, I've never got around to reading them even though I really want to.

I'll probably add them to my list of definites for the new year

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I would have figured you'd have been all over his books. I've read them both for school, but there's reading for school and reading for pleasure so I will approach them differently this time. Also Twain's autobiography I would have thought would have been intriguing to a big reader like you.


Salinger is one i haven't read before but upon hearing how fucking brilliant he was I am certainly interested in reading his works.

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I think that is the problem I had with getting round to Finn and Sawyer, I know that they were books that people read in school which kind of put me off, I don't know why it just kind of did.
I've never been one for autobiographies either, I've read a fair few but I prefer fiction 99% of the time.
As for Sallinger, Catcher in the Rye was really good but I think it is more for young adults but still one that should be read, I've never really heard anyone talk about his other stuff.

Saying that I was put off by Twain being school reading is strange considering I had to read 'of mice and men' in school and I loved it.

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I've got a couple of Twain books, only Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, I've never got around to reading them even though I really want to.

I'll probably add them to my list of definites for the new year

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I would have figured you'd have been all over his books. I've read them both for school, but there's reading for school and reading for pleasure so I will approach them differently this time. Also Twain's autobiography I would have thought would have been intriguing to a big reader like you.


Salinger is one i haven't read before but upon hearing how fucking brilliant he was I am certainly interested in reading his works.

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I think that is the problem I had with getting round to Finn and Sawyer, I know that they were books that people read in school which kind of put me off, I don't know why it just kind of did.
I've never been one for autobiographies either, I've read a fair few but I prefer fiction 99% of the time.
As for Sallinger, Catcher in the Rye was really good but I think it is more for young adults but still one that should be read, I've never really heard anyone talk about his other stuff.

Saying that I was put off by Twain being school reading is strange considering I had to read 'of mice and men' in school and I loved it.

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El Kabong had to read English classics and hated every page of it. His resentment is why he hates us English. :)

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I've got a couple of Twain books, only Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, I've never got around to reading them even though I really want to.

I'll probably add them to my list of definites for the new year

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I would have figured you'd have been all over his books. I've read them both for school, but there's reading for school and reading for pleasure so I will approach them differently this time. Also Twain's autobiography I would have thought would have been intriguing to a big reader like you.


Salinger is one i haven't read before but upon hearing how fucking brilliant he was I am certainly interested in reading his works.

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I think that is the problem I had with getting round to Finn and Sawyer, I know that they were books that people read in school which kind of put me off, I don't know why it just kind of did.
I've never been one for autobiographies either, I've read a fair few but I prefer fiction 99% of the time.
As for Sallinger, Catcher in the Rye was really good but I think it is more for young adults but still one that should be read, I've never really heard anyone talk about his other stuff.

Saying that I was put off by Twain being school reading is strange considering I had to read 'of mice and men' in school and I loved it.

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El Kabong had to read English classics and hated every page of it. His resentment is why he hates us English. :)

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Come on now master, play nice.
thus thread is neutral ground, leave your petty squabbles at the door.

I expected better from you

Batman, I think a major reason why children in school do not read more is because they are forced to read a very narrow selection of books. I did have some books I read for school which I loved 'The Count of Monte Cristo' is brilliant for any young adult who wants to have a little action in a story. The books I read for fun were the ones which really hooked me though, 'Jurassic Park' was one of the first novels I read and man it was great to be able to read that and watch the film to compare and contrast. John Steinbeck's 'Tortilla Flat' was another one I read for fun and it's very unique in that there's great comedy in the story and the characters are relateable archetypes it's Steinbeck's take on Thomas Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' only instead of knights and royalty the focus is on a band of friends who are penniless, homeless, and yet still they live by their code.

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El Kabong had to read English classics and hated every page of it. His resentment is why he hates us English. :)

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Because nothing fucking happened in those books. Someone gets feelings for a member of the other household, x happens and those lovers can't be together, they find the next best option get married, someone gets a cough and dies repeat like a billion times....it is bullshit! I abhor The Bronte sisters every last tuberculosis infested one of them! But don't you worry, there are American authors I hate as well. Zora Neale Hurston was difficult for me, Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' was meh, Henry David Thoreau could be quite full of himself, Mitch Albom is a weird eared doofus who thinks he knows a bunch about sports.


But hey, I am not supposed to like anything and everything, I enjoy reading certain authors and others I dislike.

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Because nothing fucking happened in those books.

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You just reminded me of those Jane Austen books I was forced to read in university!

She'd spend 3-4 pages describing a fucking tree! ;D Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! What a bore!

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Because nothing fucking happened in those books.

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You just reminded me of those Jane Austen books I was forced to read in university!

She'd spend 3-4 pages describing a fucking tree! ;D Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! What a bore!

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I know right! I mean Herman Melville did the same in 'Moby Dick' describing the whiteness of the whale but the plot was exciting same thing with Brett Easton Ellis in 'American Psycho' in the chapters about Phil Collins and Genesis, Huey Lewis & The News, and Whitney Houston....but at least those were topics I could relate to "Oh I remember 'In The Air Tonight', I remember 'Walking On A Thin Line', I remember 'The Greatest Love of All'"


Jane Austen was another horrid sickly woman writer....BE MORE INTERESTING! You're stricken with tuberculosis, you are short on time....write with some sense of urgency God damn it!



Apparently tuberculosis strikes people in the third world and boring English women.....and Doc Holliday

I swear to god Vidgil and El Kabong are brothers.

I got 75%

'Literary Genius
You've basically read all the books that exist.'

In all fairness the pictures of the films give away a hell of a lot of the answers that I didn't know

can you guess the book from the character

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Finished this last night, a bog standard horror with clunky awkward dialogue, it was alright though, woman starts hearing the usual banging and scratching in her new house, then she starts seeing this crazy 11 year old Mexican kid with a 12 inch dick, she finds out her husband is having an affair, Mexican kid rapes her, her husbands mistress dies and the main character finds herself on trial for witchcraft.

It's part horror and part courtroom drama, the courtroom stuff was enjoyable but it wasn't all that well done.

The Mexican ghost kid was pretty funny, he is supposed to come across all sinister and scary but he was laughable, I just couldn't help but read his parts in Ren's (Ren and Stimpy) voice 'Don't shit me Lady, I got some stuff a guy game me. You come through for me lady, or I smear it all over my cock and I fuck you to death, you hear me, what I'm saying' that's not scary, he was more like a mighty boosh character

Then there is the lawyer who refuses to believe in the supernatural and paranormal and ends up performing a 5 minute seance/exorcism at the end of the book.

Massively ripped off Rosemary's baby at the end as well.

Not bad but not good, completely average.

I'm waiting for my next few books to be delivered at the moment so I might have to revisit something I've already read to keep me ticking over.

Just spotted this in my book case

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“There is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be surpassed by.”—Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize–winning author

Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.

In her new translation of Kafka’s masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa’s grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.

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I've only ever read The Trial by Kafka and I'd forgot that I had this, I've never read it before, it's only about 100 pages or so, shouldn't take long but he's not the easiest of authors to get on with

Moby Dick is a really shit book. You hear that it is so great and then read it and it is just a thumping bore. I haven't completed War and Peace but fuck that one too. Being a literary bore crosses all continents.

British 19th century literature had a lot of good stuff too. Treasure Island, Jeckyll and Hyde, Great Expectations, Dracula, Dorian Gray. All pretty fantastic.

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Moby Dick is a really shit book. You hear that it is so great and then read it and it is just a thumping bore. I haven't completed War and Peace but fuck that one too. Being a literary bore crosses all continents.

British 19th century literature had a lot of good stuff too. Treasure Island, Jeckyll and Hyde, Great Expectations, Dracula, Dorian Gray. All pretty fantastic.

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The real life events Moby Dick was based on is pretty awesome....but then again 'In The Heart of The Sea' was a shitty movie about that exact thing

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What a bloody strange book that was, I suppose I should have expected it with it being by Kafka but still.

Gregor basically wakes up one morning and finds he has transformed into a giant bug, his first concern isn't that he is a fucking bug but 'oh shit how am I going to get to work' he's quite a laid back dude to say the least, anyway his family turn on him and can't accept him, he spends all his time locked in his room and isn't allowed out, he spends his days crawling on the walls and ceiling until his family pretty much decide that they want him gone so they can get on with their lives.

It isn't so much a book about a giant bug but more a look at how close relatives opinions can change towards someone who is ill and needs constant care, almost as if the bug represents someone with dementia or alzheimer's, you know the person is in there but you have no way of reaching or communicating with them and the amount of care that they require is a constant source of stress.

Really good book and quite humorous in parts.

I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

I've not had the chance to read anything in the last 2 weeks because of moving out, I'm hoping to get back to it now that I've got everything all sorted

Recently in the news here in the United States a The Accomack County Public Schools in Virginia have banned Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' and Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' because the books have racial slurs in them......

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....fucking ridiculous it's as if the person/people who made the final call on those books had not read those books at all or knew anything about them

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I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

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I watched him as a kid on TV, did you watch British wrestling too?

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I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

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I watched him as a kid on TV, did you watch British wrestling too?

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I did not get that opportunity, but I enjoyed a lot of British wrestlers when they wrestled for WWF/WWE or WCW or MidSouth or NWA or WCCW. I can check out a lot of the older matches on YouTube though from the territories I hadn't seen before Stampede out of Calgary, Portland Wrestling, etc but the best of the best is the stuff from Japan in the 1980's.

William Regal, Fit Finlay, Lord Alfred Hayes, Dave Taylor, Chris Adams, and hell I just saw Rockstar Spud at an event the other week, funny little guy.

British Bulldog was on the English wrestling circuit before he "bulked" up.

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Yeah he was Dynamite Kid's cousin and funnily enough Davey Boy asked DK for steroids and bugged him enough to where DK loaded up a syringe with milk and shot it into Davey's ass cheeks telling him it was diabonal or some such thing and I guess Davey got a little upset when the other wrestlers started "Moo-ing" at him

A slightly more cerebral book I have in my queue at this moment is a work that Andrew Breitbart did with Mark Ebner called 'Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in babylon---the case against celebrity' it is described as: a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities.
Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party, Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter — covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing, bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit media — delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves.

Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more.



As much as I'm not a tabloids reader, I do find it irksome when Hollywood elites, the Learjet/Limousine Liberals attempt to be standard bearers for American society. I also really despise their disdain for anyone not in/from LA or NYC....lots of those shitbags who "play pretend" for heaping amounts of cash aren't all that smart, and the propaganda newsreaders from the mainstream media who just assume they are aren't far behind.




Not sure what I will read after this though....I might do another history book.

The script to the stage play Lazarus. I am boycotting the UK so might never see the show. Alone with a book is more in keeping with me and the spirit of the character.

I'm currently taking a bit of time out from my reading, I've absolutely hammered a fuck load of books this year and I'm feeling a little burnt out from it now.

I'm currently reading Uncle Silas, an old book from the 1860's, it's a really easy read and i'm really enjoying it but I'm purposely not bladdering my way through it, I'm trying to make time for other things at the minute

Started 'Hollywood Interrupted' and my God it is hilarious!

In the intro Breitbart and Ebron make light of Barbara Walters interview with Anne Heche when Heche says she was in "the 4th dimension" speaking some alien language with God and in the interview she speaks in that alien language and Barbara Walters doesn't call her on her bullshit.


It's a funny book and really nails Hollywood on how up it's own ass it is

Reading a book about the culpepper spy ring that George Washington helped put together during the America revolution. Very interesting, the people involved remained anonymous for centuries despite playing such an integral part in winning independence. One English general stated Washington didn't out war us he out spied us

@Batman have you ever read 'Gulag Archipelago' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I'm learning about that and it sounds quite interesting.

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The script to the stage play Lazarus. I am boycotting the UK so might never see the show. Alone with a book is more in keeping with me and the spirit of the character.

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Very short little play, but it makes more sense than what the reviewers were saying. Half of the characters are in Newtons head, so he has likely spent so much time alone with alcohol that he has gone a bit mad. The songs all seem to fit pretty well as Bowie songs are often about alienation, loneliness and disconnection. I would love to see the play, but it's never going to happen.

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@Batman have you ever read 'Gulag Archipelago' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I'm learning about that and it sounds quite interesting.

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I can't say that I have, it doesn't look like my type of thing to be honest, I always look at those types of books but always think that they are going to be a massive slog, especially when I see that it is 3 volumes as well.

I've only started reading again over the last few days, I'm planning on getting Uncle Silas finished over the weekend and then going back to revisit one or two of my old favourites, I'm thinking about reading True Grit again.

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@Batman have you ever read 'Gulag Archipelago' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I'm learning about that and it sounds quite interesting.

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I can't say that I have, it doesn't look like my type of thing to be honest, I always look at those types of books but always think that they are going to be a massive slog, especially when I see that it is 3 volumes as well.

I've only started reading again over the last few days, I'm planning on getting Uncle Silas finished over the weekend and then going back to revisit one or two of my old favourites, I'm thinking about reading True Grit again.

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I'm taking the coward's way out and doing the audiobook of 'Gulag Archipelago' ....not sure if you're open such things but I find it helps to pass the time to listen to something and every so often I get tired of music.


I will say it is emotionally and psychologically a bit draining to encounter this book....I wonder whatever became of the people and the answer is always dead or broken and then I attempt to wrap my mind around how humans could do those horrible things to each other.....and not just "oh this is my fellow human" but children turning in their parents! There was no room for loyalty in a Soviet's heart to anyone but the State and the numbers of people who suffered...the sheer numbers of them! Also it wasn't JUST Stalin who did these purges, Stalin was the best at it without question he's probably the most bloodthirsty tyrant this side of Genghis Khan! But V.I. Lenin was also a horrible despot and he's rarely if ever called out for such.


How ANYONE could or would choose to be a Communist or Socialist after reading Solzhenitsyn is beyond me....to have a society with 0 free will....terrifying

HOLY SHIT!

In 1922 The Soviet GPU (Joint State Political Directorate) arrested some engineers including Peter Palchinsky, Nikolai von Meck and A. F. Velichko. A. F. Velichko had been in charge of military transportation...he was shot. Nikolai von Meck, he attempted to increase the size of freight trains and not worry about heavier loads, he was shot.....he was accused of wrecking roadbeds and rails so that there would be no transportation should the State need it.


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The State wanted average freight train loads doubled and tripled and any engineer who protested became known as "limiters" and they were then shot for what Solzhenitsyn described as "their lack of faith in possibilities of Socialist transport"



That's not even the worst of it, getting shot was getting off easy!!!

You can pick out extreme elements of any "ism" including socialism if you try. It should be about community and all the positive dimensions it brings.

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Yeah SHOULD BE and IS are completely different things too. Children ratted out their parents to the GPU dude....children sent their folks away to be worked to death in gulags. Stalin had people digging ship canals with their bare hands in weather you could barely keep vodka from freezing in and when the canal for the Volga was completed it was too shallow for any boats to use....but it was never about boats or shipping it was a means to an end...a means to the end of 3,000 people for that one canal.

Lenin was no better and Marx?!?! Marx is only celebrated because he never held political power. HAD he held political power like Stalin or Lenin or Hitler, he most certainly would have seen the end of millions upon millions of lives because that is what ALWAYS happens. Look at China and Mao! Pol Pot! Ceausescu! Tito! Fidel! Hugo Chavez! All filthy fucking murderers who never had the games played with them that they played with the civilians....you like Socialism? You can have it, I don't want it.

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One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menacedby unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.

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Just finished this, cracking book, considering that it was released in 1862 it is a really easy read, its a bit of a slow burner and take a damn good while to get going but I really enjoyed it.

Little girl gets a creepy ass governess, her dad dies and she is sent to live with her uncle who may or may not have comitted a murder once upon a time, there are concerns that he is going to attempt to hurt dispose of her in order to get his hands on her fortune.

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Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.

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The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream--a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy becomes a victim of his own strength.

Tackling universal themes and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved to be one of Steinbeck's most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films.

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Never read Grapes of Wrath but have always wanted to
I read Of Mice and men when I was in school, teacher went ape shit at me because we were only supposed to read the first couple of chapters as homework and I read the whole book, I would have thought that should have been encouraged but apparently enjoying books and reading at home is something that my school didn't believe in.

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Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter of 1870s, to avenge the murder of her father. She convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshall, to tag along, while she outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten types in her path. Basis of John Wayne movie and re-make.

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I started this again yesterday as well, one of my all time favourite books, I've been meaning to re-read it again for a while

Steinbeck is one of my favorites. 'Tortilla Flat' is my absolute favorite book.

Of Mice and Men is the only one of his books that I have read and as I say that was when I was at school so probably about 17/18 years ago.

I've had Cannery Row recommended to me as well, I don't want to get bogged down with just one author at the moment though so that'll be one I look to in the future