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What are you reading?
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05 Oct 2008 Sun 11:15 pm |
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The Long Way Down, by Ewan McGregor (of Trainspotting and Star Wars fame) and Charlie Borman.
These intrepid travellers decided to travel around the world on motor bikes about three years ago, along came book and film etc etc.
This was so successful they devided to ride the Long Way Down, from John O´Groats (Northern tip of Scotland) to Cape Town South Africa.
The support Unicef and visit unicef run projects on their way.
It is a good read, written as they are both speaking, i.e. taking it in turns, and you get a different perspective on one situation.
I would highly recommend this book and the Long Way Round - any motorcycle enthusiasts would love the adventure!
Just finished the Long Way Down and I must say, not a patch on Long Way Round. Not such an interesting journey I felt and one African country sounded very much like the next one. Really skipped the journey through Namibia to South Africa in a few pages.
So I am now beginning the latest Joh Le Carre book, "A most Wanted Man". A spy book about a Russian Muslim, so it says in the front cover........................... it begins:
A Turkish heavy weight boxing champion sauntering down a Hamburg Street with his mother on his arm can scarcely be blammed for failing to notice that he is being shadowed by a skinny boy in a black coat..........................
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06 Oct 2008 Mon 03:01 pm |
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´Dinner of Herbs´ by Carla Grissmann - a travelogue of autobiographical experiences in remote Anatolia in the 1960´s - fascinating and informative read
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07 Oct 2008 Tue 09:32 pm |
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Two O´clock Eastern Wartime - John Dunning
Tale of an outcast novelist writing scripts for a Radio Station in 1942 New Jersey,
looking for a radio actor friend of his, at the same time hoping to hook up with
the lost love of his life who now sings in clubs.
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 11:17 am |
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Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad by Dave Fox
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 11:20 am |
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Tony Wheeler´s Bad Lands (founder of the Lonely Planet) - about ´evil´ countries. Guess which is number one on his list? (No, of course not Turkey!)
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 12:27 pm |
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 12:28 pm |
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Tony Wheeler´s Bad Lands (founder of the Lonely Planet) - about ´evil´ countries. Guess which is number one on his list? (No, of course not Turkey!)
Evil Britain? 
Evil Amerika?
(By the way, I think you spelled it wrong, it should be "Bed Lands"  )
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 12:50 pm |
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Evil Britain?
Evil Amerika?
(By the way, I think you spelled it wrong, it should be "Bed Lands" )
Amerika is mentioned in a way, but not in the top-10. About Britain, I think Tony forgot that.... 
PS. Sory vor my bet speling.... 
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 12:51 pm |
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Gardens of Water by Alan Drew.
Quote: ´A powerful story of survival and love ´Gardens of Water´ follows the seismic shocks that reverberate through two families in the aftermath of Turkey´s devastating earthquake of 1999´
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 07:40 pm |
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Right now I´m reading two books, Bernal Diaz, Historian of the Conquest by Herbert Cerwin, and The Life and Death of Gandhi by Robert Payne.
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23 Nov 2008 Sun 10:21 pm |
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Chlorine Derivatives of Syndiotactic Polybutadiene
By M. I. Abdullin, A. B. Glazyrin, R. N. Asfandiyarov, V. R. Akhmetova and V. N. Zaboristov
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