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Originally posted by xchaotic View PostCan you actually learn yourself into a data analyst role this way, just curious?
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On another note why does most sci fi have poor writing and characterisation (e.g. Dune.) and what does that say about the people who like it?
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Originally posted by PRC1964 View PostI'd put 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez high up the list as when I read that aged 16 it was the first book given to me as part of a school course that had been written within my lifetime (just).
I read it in both English and Spanish and loved every moment of it.
I re-read it a couple of years back and while it brought back memories, the impact of the first reading is no longer there.
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i read flanagans run years ago. 1983 - the year it was published. it is about a marathon of marathons or something. i certainly enjoyed it though i can't remember much other than the cheating germans and a train that gets in the way.
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Catch 22
...makes some very good points and is laugh-out-loud in parts but I'd say it's a few steps off greatness. It retells the same joke over and over again (& some may argue that's the point of it) with varying success. Somebody (a lecturer) once told me that if you remember it was originally a newspaper serial, that goes some way to explaining its deficiencies. Unfortunately...it wasn't!
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Fiction: Dune by Frank Herbert (2nd choice would be Catch 22)
Non-Fiction: Data Analysis using SQL and Excel by Gordon S Linoff.
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just to balance out a little i think catch 22 is a truly great book.
by turns hilarious and horrifying. as it develops the hilarity lessens and the horror increases. a descent into hell.
war and peace is not better nor worse - just different (though it is like catch 22 a truly great book)
there are plenty of truly great books from 1001 nights to jonathan strange and mr norrel (and beyond) but if i was to choose one....
shardik by richard adams.Last edited by DS23; 5 October 2009, 13:58.
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For anyone that has done any serious running, Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab is pretty good. Also Trinity by Leon Uris.
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Originally posted by nomadd View PostHow to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Frien...4746111&sr=1-7
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Originally posted by PorkPie View Post
Cheers,
Sasguru.
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