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  • #76
    Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
    Oh, sorry, The Idiot. Dostojevski.
    Oh, that was just plain mean!

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    • #77
      Originally posted by LDiCesare
      I'm reading Valmiki's Ramayana.
      It's an interesting epic, a bit verbose at times though I suppose much of the sanskrit poetry gets lost in translation. A good story and view of brahmanic religion and culture. Although it's often heavy handed, which is common for epics.
      Which translation?

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      • #78
        The Mahabharat, in Hindi.

        An Area of Darkness (by V.S. Naipaul) in English.

        Nothing much in Marathi right now.

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        • #79
          Collapse - Jared Diamond.

          Also, 2003 Iraq threads from the OT archives.

          Both are quite interesting.

          -Arrian
          grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

          The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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          • #80
            Originally posted by Arrian
            Collapse - Jared Diamond.
            This any good? I own it but haven't gotten around to read it yet.

            Also, 2003 Iraq threads from the OT archives.
            You have quite an attention span.
            Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
            "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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            • #81
              Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Earth
              Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Zkribbler


                Oh, that was just plain mean!
                Allways wanted to do that to somebody...

                Good book, thus far.
                I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                • #83
                  Originally posted by Lorizael


                  It actually sounds interesting. I love backstory. Man, if I weren't so poor, and GW wasn't so keen on raping its customers, I'd still pay attention to 40k.
                  Buy the Omnibus's.

                  I'm reading through Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium which has three short stories and three novels in it.
                  Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                  • #84
                    The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
                    Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
                    Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
                    Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.

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                    • #85
                      Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

                      Though, I guess to be fair, the experience is REALLY enhanced if you know Hindi/Urdu, because there are phrases transliterated throughout the book.
                      Very true. I'd have missed half the fun otherwise.

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                      • #86
                        'The Hitler Emigres' by Daniel Snowman and 'Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting' by Nicola Fletcher.
                        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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                        • #87
                          Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
                          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                          • #88
                            Inside the Global Jihad by Omar Nasiri

                            And

                            Metal Swarm by Kevin J Anderson
                            I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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                            • #89
                              Charles Cumming, The Spanish Game
                              Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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                              • #90
                                Deadhouse Gates, 2nd book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson
                                Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin
                                Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
                                One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD

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