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12-10-2013, 09:38 AM
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I am glad you like it this will help with the contemporary references we do not understand today: http://www.kipling.org.uk/bookmart_fra.htm an excellent guide I just finished Stalkey and Co ...very good too just go to the section called the main works on the left hand of the page and find Kim and then look up the notes as you read each chapter
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12-10-2013, 10:00 AM
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Thanks, that link is excellent!
Pete
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01-24-2014, 11:52 AM
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I did finish Kim. I really liked it but at one point thought it might end that way and it did, a little bit disappointing but still a great book.
I'm currently reading 'The Autobiography of a Supertramp' by William H. Davies, just a little way in, it seems very good. Pete
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01-24-2014, 01:50 PM
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I am still on Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch.....
I have compeleted my CEU requirement for my x-ray license so I am taking a few deep breaths before I try the magnum opus: War and Peace. I found the translation that Tolstoy approved of...and that translates the French diaglog....so I will not have to use Google translate lol. It will take me most of 2014 lol...
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02-07-2014, 11:17 PM
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Patty and I were watching Bill Mahrs' show tonight and PJ O'Roarke was shilling his new book, 'The Boomers'. Finally one his books I may actually pay good money for.
 Naw, I'll wait for it at the next AARP raffle. 
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02-08-2014, 03:33 PM
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Finally finished 'Autobiography of a Supertramp'. It's very good, a story of a Brit (Welsh?) who among other things came to the US and travelled the country as a tramp around the turn of the last century. His writing is compellingly severe after a fashion:
"As we neared the coast [of the US] we had a thunderstorm, and I was suprised and somewhat awed at the sound of its' peals, and at the slower and larger flashes of lightning. Nature, it seemed, used a freer and more powerful hand in this country of great things than is her wont among our pretty little dales, and our small green hills. I thought the world was coming to an end, and in no way felt reassured when an American, noting my expression, said that it was nothing to what I would see and hear if I remained long in Gods' own country of free and law abiding citizens.' Pete
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02-08-2014, 04:22 PM
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Hey, the SO just got the mail and I got a package. Kiplings' 'Stalky & Co' and a Mel Torme CD! Thanks Robbin!!
Pete
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