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    #61
    Originally posted by Gibbon
    Caesar - The Civil War
    and
    The Gallic Wars
    But treat it like the electoral propaganda it is.

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      #62
      Originally posted by where did my id go?
      But treat it like the electoral propaganda it is.

      Indeed, that is one of the more interesting things, not the dates of battles etc, but the political purpose and struggle between the main players.

      Two thousand years ago, the human condition was very similar to the present day.
      But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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        #63
        Originally posted by zathras
        Finished that last week.
        Enjoyed it but got a bit fed up with constant references to black eirag and salty tea.

        Now reading "The Book Thief"

        Fave book "When the Star Kings Die"
        I am not qualified to give the above advice!

        The original point and click interface by
        Smith and Wesson.

        Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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          #64
          Good read

          Try "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom - cracking little book. It's food for the soul.

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            #65
            Originally posted by The Professor
            Try "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom - cracking little book. It's food for the soul.
            Prof - make sure you don't mention that the last person is the little girl he killed in Nam... wouldn't want to ruin it for them
            "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


            Thomas Jefferson

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              #66
              Originally posted by Burdock
              Totally agree Hattra! Have you read the whole set?
              Three times
              Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh

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                #67
                Originally posted by Ruprect
                Prof - make sure you don't mention that the last person is the little girl he killed in Nam... wouldn't want to ruin it for them
                Nasty man.
                I am not qualified to give the above advice!

                The original point and click interface by
                Smith and Wesson.

                Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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                  #68
                  Underworld - Don DeLillo

                  Probably the best American novel of the 20th Century.
                  Hard Brexit now!
                  #prayfornodeal

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                    #69
                    Lucy - Book of the year
                    whats the lowest you can do this for?

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                      #70
                      Originally posted by sasguru
                      Underworld - Don DeLillo

                      Probably the best American novel of the 20th Century.
                      Tch, that is one book where the editor should have done quite a bit more work.
                      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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