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  1. saliotthomas

    How do you like your coffee?

    Black,bitter with sugar, and a fag. I like how they serve it in small glasses over here. Nespresso is a killer but a richman drink.
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    Do you read in the toilet, and what reading material usually goes in there?

    Definitly not. Dolly and Landslide. They should print short stories and poemes on toilet papper.But maybe we would feel ashamed and not use it then.Or toilet papper with a selection of very bad prose,Dan brown,John Ringo,Terry goodkind,Paolo Cuelho,Mein kampf,...
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    Question Game

    The Return of Frank James,Fritz Fang I had to look up. The last goose pimple listening to music.
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    Which Books Did You Read In February?

    Mostly audio books,i listen to them while working.And a good few short stories among those.
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    Which Books Did You Read In February?

    Sound interesting! Andrei Makine-The crime of Olga Arbelina 4 Gabriel garcias Marquez-Of love and other demons 3 Knut Hamsun-In country of Tales 3 Robert van Gulik - The Phantom of the Temple 3 Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler Tale of an American dreamer 2 Jacques...
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    Underdogs

    Some authors just have no luck. While Philip Roth or very recently(and slowly subsiding)Cormac Mccarthy or Richard Yates are mention everywhere and their elegies sang by all some worthy writers seems to be doomed to oblivion. Huberts Selby,Jim Harrisson or just brought back to mind yesterday...
  7. saliotthomas

    March 2009: Edward P. Jones: The Known World

    A third in and happy. I was a bit reserved about subject but the light tone make it an easy read.A sort of Hundred years of solitude by Garcia Marquez but set Virginia. Very good so far.
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    Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

    Dear Victor First Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment and talking about heavy writing your review could serve as exemple.A good bit of the novel is in the country with Levin and the women might seem superficial to you but a lot nuances might have escape your sharp mind. As for your...
  9. saliotthomas

    Do you read in the toilet, and what reading material usually goes in there?

    Toilet Reads Do you read in the toilet?Books or magazines? I absolutly need to read in there,comics are best(in my parents places)catalogues are interesting(specialy office material and furnitures). In my house we now keep two Arabic-French and Arabic English dictionary,as well as 4 guide...
  10. saliotthomas

    Signature

    To be honest,i think the rule of the 20 post before putting a link in the signature is a nuisance. Look a what's-her-name-stinton,she posted like mad for a day just to put it and then was gone.This happen a lot around,specialy on sundays. If someone want to put a commercial link he has to...
  11. saliotthomas

    Mysteries in translation

    and also Fred Vargas Tonino Benacquista Jean claude Izzo Boris Akounine
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    Patrick Rambaud: The Napoleon series

    The battle,The retreat,The exile Tree superbe books were Rambaud find the perfect tone,classic but without fear of digging in the gutters for flowery expressions.It's dirty, bloody and a little mad.The characteres shows panache and guts,the feeling of battles peferctly reproduce and trully ,if...
  13. saliotthomas

    Real-life Authors As Characters

    Two from Dan Simmons-Crook Factory with Hemingway in Cuba and the recent Drood with Dickens Also in The Exile by Patrick Rambaud there is a mercyless description of Chateaubrian
  14. saliotthomas

    Nelson DeMille

    Plum island was audio,and believe me ,you would regret it.The main charactere is a self satisfied Moron(capital M) with a 2 pennies sense of humour.
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    Nelson DeMille

    I tried Plum Island last year and gave up half the way.It's a rare thing for me with thriller.I don't think i will read any more Demille,ever.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In XV century Bologna,Italie waiting to sail to Constatinople. Mika Waltari-Jean le Peregrin
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    50 Fantasy & SF books for socialists

    It would be interesting to have a list of the ones conservatives should read.Starting with Robert Heinlein Starship trooper,...
  18. saliotthomas

    Question Game

    Classic French bistro food also called Lyonnais. The last book you lost?
  19. saliotthomas

    Happy Bithday Stewart!

    So you will be able to join the "mature discussion" section now. Joyeux Anniversaire.
  20. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I 'm a country doctor near Grenoble in France,nearly a saint. Honore de Balzac -The country doctor
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