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  • I really liked that one .

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      A Pratical Guide for Policy Analysis - E. Bardach

      ... it's really interesting!!! Really!
      bleh

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      • Originally posted by Zoid
        Henning Mankell
        Three thumbs up from mutant me. Do all Swedes note the daily windspeed and temperature, or just our dyspeptic Inspector ?


        Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

        ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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        • We all do it. It's a swedish thing
          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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          • Originally posted by Zoid
            We all do it. It's a swedish thing
            Like fermented fish, only non-threatening.


            I do enjoy the Wallander books, like Ruth Rendell through a Bergman filter.


            I liked 'Blackwater' too. SBS in Australia used to show a lot of Swedish films (with subtitles). I think there's a sizeable Swedish population in Melbourne.

            Even Marylebone in London has its MiniGotland, on Crawford Street- you can find a Swedish restaurant and deli, et cetera.

            Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

            ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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            • Miles in Love, by Lois McMaster Bujold: it includes the novels Komarr, and A Civil Campaign, and the novella Winterfair Gifts.
              Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin
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              • Originally posted by Kuken
                I'm half way into it (almost 400 pages) and I can't say a whole lot has happened so far, well much has happened but the plot hasn't gone far.. But I agree with Imran, I love the world and the characters.
                It's a good book in my opinion... not quite the great book it's made out to be, but the writing style in itself gives it some value IMO. If you like the dickensian writing style anyhow

                Others you could like include Stephen Brust's Phoenix Guards et al (http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Guards...1208315&sr=1-1 and others) , which are actually later books related to another series he wrote, but those are written in a style similar to The Three Musketeers or such. Pure fantasy. Also, the Chaos series (http://www.amazon.com/Orphans-Chaos-...57/ref=ed_oe_p and others) by John C. Wright, about ancient greek/roman mythology intersecting with modern-day England...
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                • Originally posted by molly bloom


                  Like fermented fish, only non-threatening.


                  I do enjoy the Wallander books, like Ruth Rendell through a Bergman filter.


                  I liked 'Blackwater' too. SBS in Australia used to show a lot of Swedish films (with subtitles). I think there's a sizeable Swedish population in Melbourne.

                  Even Marylebone in London has its MiniGotland, on Crawford Street- you can find a Swedish restaurant and deli, et cetera.

                  http://gridskipper.com/346631/scandi...invades-london
                  Teh viking invasion continues!
                  I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                  • Originally posted by snoopy369
                    If you like the dickensian writing style anyhow
                    It shares more with Jane Austin I find in terms of its writing. Not surprising since Clarke mentions her as one of her favs. The footnotes are some of the treasures of the book, though.

                    I'd consider it to be that rare class of novel known as literature, frankly.
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • Originally posted by Zoid
                      Henning Mankell
                      Ah, yes. Great writer. Has a name one shouldn't think was difficult to pronounce, but it seems all we Norwegians do. I found out of it after my dad had him in a show of his. My dad introduced him as Henning Mankell, with the weight on "ell", as would be right over here. Mankell then looked at him and said: "Uh, it's Mankell", with the weight on "an[n]".

                      Swedes/Swedish.
                      Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
                      I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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                      • Can I make the "This Thread" joke again now?
                        You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                        • Originally posted by DinoDoc
                          Horus Heresy.
                          Got the first 2 books today, seems okay so far.

                          ACK!
                          Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                          • Originally posted by Nikolai


                            Ah, yes. Great writer. Has a name one shouldn't think was difficult to pronounce, but it seems all we Norwegians do. I found out of it after my dad had him in a show of his. My dad introduced him as Henning Mankell, with the weight on "ell", as would be right over here. Mankell then looked at him and said: "Uh, it's Mankell", with the weight on "an[n]".

                            Swedes/Swedish.
                            Bad norwegian research...
                            I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                            • Yeah, yeah, whatever.
                              Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
                              I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
                              Also active on WePlayCiv.

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                              • I'll be finished with The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb soon.

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