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    Kindle Touch is £109 over here Fuck them, the robbing bastards ain't getting my money

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    Kindle Touch is £109 over here Fuck them, the robbing bastards ain't getting my money
    the plain kindle is pretty neat, too. If you use software like calibre to organize your books, you don't really need the touchscreen in my opinion.

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    finally broke down and figured I'd give this a shot



    I am fixed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joebob034 View Post
    finally broke down and figured I'd give this a shot



    Just finished that series and though they were great...and enjoyed the movies as well...into the first book of GOT right now...

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    I usually have a few books open at once. Usually nonfiction reference stuff.

    Right now,
    Zen and the Brain (Austin)
    Esoteric Anatomy (Berger)
    The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine (Maoshing Ni)

    and perpetual books of study, Charles Luk's Taoist Yoga, Deadman's Manual of Acupuncture

    actually you can include yellow emperor in perpetual study...very deep subject

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    All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

    Beautifully written book that takes place right at the onset of WW2 featuring two main characters. A young blind girl that lives in Paris with her father and a young German boy who has a fascination for science and radios.

    The author is a subtle and gifted writer. In one brilliant sentence he can convey the horrors of the German occupation and paranoia as it was happening.



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    Tripwire by Lee Childs

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    Very interesting memoir, but i can't recommend it. The writing is so flowery, metaphors on top of similes on top of strings of adjectives - annoying and distracting. And if you think there is some grand redemption, nope.



    I chose this because it was outside my political echo chamber. I expected to eye roll and swear - but no. Bryan does an amazing job explaining how things worked in rural Alabama, and national, criminal justice. Highly recommended.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    I was reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I took off from it for a few weeks but it's sitting there staring me right in the face. I hate leaving things unfinished, so I should probably pick it back up and finish it.

    The only 2 books I haven't ever been able to finish in my entire life were Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I couldn't finish Moby Dick because of the exposition on whales near to the center of the book. I honestly struggled to get to that point, the damn thing was just putting me to sleep, but I ended up throwing the book across the room in anger when I got to the extended discussion of whales. Rich Dad, Poor Dad was a bunch of horseshit from the get go. It's a genuinely intellectually insulting book. I dropped it off at a used bookstore and started looking for better books on investing.


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    Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton: The Gruesome True Story of a Man Who Survived Thailand's Deadliest Prisons


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    Neuromancer by William Gibson

    Sci-fi cyberpunk by the creator and master of the genre.


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    Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.

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    really good book , not sure i'd like to be in his boots

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    The Story:

    This is a true story, told for the first time.

    Glen McNamara joined the NSW Police Force when he was 17 and was sworn in as constable at 19. A career as a detective beckoned and soon Glen was tracking down the notorius Warren Lanfranchi who was dealing drugs with Neddy Smith, and disgraced copy Roger Rogerson who was making deals in Redfern. This is inner Sydney in the heat of the 1980s and the cash and drugs are flowing freely.

    Glen is posted to ‘Goldenhurst’, the area of inner Sydney that contains the police beats of Kings Cross, Darlinghurst and Redfern. He is confronted by the shocking and appalling reality of a protection racket that is saving notorious paedophiles Dolly Dunn and Colin Fisk from charges as long as they supply enough drugs and cash. The stench of police corruption is high.

    Going deeply undercover against his own superiours, Glen risks his own life to get precious eveidence against them. His double identity is betrayed from within the police ranks and with a murder threat hanging over him, Glen and his young wife flee to the United States. But fear is not in his character and he decides to head back to the dirty streets of Sydney to finish the job.

    This is a hard-hitting story about the fight for justice by one lone policeman in a sea of corruption.

    About the Author

    Glen McNamara was not a whistleblower. He was just doing his job. He worked as an undercover cop in Sydney's Kings Cross in the late 1980s. He was good at his work - and because he was effective against criminals, he was treated just like a whistleblower.

    About the author now:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Rogerson

    On 27 May 2014, Rogerson was charged with the murder of Sydney student Jamie Gao, allegedly after a drug deal having gone wrong.[20] On 21 January 2015, Rogerson and his co-accused, Glen McNamara (also a former police detective), were committed to stand trial over the alleged murder.[21] On 6 March 2015 both accused were arraigned at a hearing in the NSW Supreme Court. Both pleaded not guilty to the murder of Gao and also not guilty to supplying 2.78 kilograms (6.1 lb) of "ice" (methamphetamine). The men were due for trial in the Supreme Court on 20 July 2015.[22] On the second day, the trial was aborted for unpublished reasons.

    A new trial started on 1 February 2016. On 15 June 2016, Rogerson and McNamara were found guilty of Gao's murder.[23]

    If you are into this kinda shit its worth following

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    been a long ass time since I read any fiction, I'm trying to decipher some ancient scroll right now

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    Based on a true story of corruption in law enforcement and illegal drug busts in and around Tyler, TX in the late 70's early 80's. This book is still banned here in Smith County. That's what Amazon is for.

    Thank you, Jezter, for my signature :-)

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