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  1. saliotthomas

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    Thanks for the rescue Libra. To be honest,i getting use to it and mostly deserves it.Somehow it seems i alway check the wrong words for spelling.I'm amazed at the patience of people with my posts(though some must be boiling inside). As for miss-world-Stinson,the only thing i can say is that...
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    What are you listening to Right now?

    Betty Lavette -let me down easy YouTube - Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy
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    Stephen R. Lawhead: King Raven Trilogy

    I got those a while ago but my killjoy of brother told me they were not very good.So i put them on hold. Some enthusiame from someone here might rekindle it.
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    Literary Travelers

    I don't think i did.The one i read the boat was made of coconut tree and vines of sort.Not nails or metalic parts.Very impressive. I think he specialize in old technic of ship building and then travels on them.The most amazing is that he is still alive to tells about it after all these years!
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    Literary Travelers

    You have to be carefull ABC.Try one first.I did that with Simon Scarrow books about the legion,baught 3 of them and could hardly finish the first...But Tim Severin should not be a desapointement.
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    Literary Travelers

    I just got Corsair and plan to read it next. I remenber a passage in one his book(non fiction)where they find,after week of hardship at sea, the Indian cook washing his feet in their main cooking pot....:D
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    Two brazilian girls in Austalia looking for the Aborigines ways. Lost paradise-Cees Nooteboom
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    Literary Travelers

    I found a book yesterday by a guy called Meatball Fulton(aka Thomas Lopez) called Moon over Morocco. Has any of you heard about him?
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    Suggestions: June 2009 Book of the Month

    Paolo Cuelho-The alchemist:D
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    Marguerite Yourcenar: Coup de Grâce

    Hard to summerize without revealing the end. One of those book,short(little more than 100 pages) but full of meaning and where the final make one reconsider the all story,giving it even pore weight. Perfectly mastered and with efficent and beautifull prose. Conrad play the role of the friend...
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    March 2009: Edward P. Jones: The Known World

    At the end of the audio book,there was an interview of the Author.He explain that what triggered the idea of a ex-slave owning slave was something he read about a jew joining the nazi parti.The all book revolving around a that paradoxe.
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    Whaooo It's ABC birthday

    So Mr ABC was a birthday present?:)
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    Whaooo It's ABC birthday

    Yeah ABC happy birthday. Have a good one. Hope the tribe gone spoile you rotten. They'd better. Happy birth day to you ABC,happy birthday to yoouuuu,HHHappy birthday touuu youuuu (sang with French accent) Lads go loud and clear,we'd better break the post record fo AB
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    75 questions for fantasy writers

    Very good,:D Terribly true,but can't think of a single fantasy book thatwould survive the test. I could be easely done with thrillers and mystery. Does One of you charactere has a probleme with drink? Does one of your characteres a retired cop turned private investigator because of shoot...
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    Beatifull but chilling.I look forward to hear what you think. In London just before midnight on the 31th december 1999 awaiting the big computer crash,doing back up of all my files.:D Jonathan Coe-closed circle
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    Favorite Cookbooks

    The only one i ever used is The French Pocket Cookbook by Ginette Mathiot.I don't know if you heard of it,it's simple,a bit like a dictionary.My wife has plenty of the Darina Allen an Irish Cook with big red glasses.
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    How do you like your coffee?

    hmmm
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    March 2009: Edward P. Jones: The Known World

    Funny you metion it Libra,because it is what braught to mind Hundred years of solitude were there is also dirt eating in the begining(if i remenber well).The way the tale is told also,a saga with the life description of every charateres to forme an all comprehensive story. I'm nearly...
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    March 2009: Edward P. Jones: The Known World

    Plus head scratching sounds,then snoring....:D
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