Nicks
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Just finished it last week.
Brilliant read
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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Brilliant read
Nicks
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Just started The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freeland.
All about the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.
All about the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.
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Beach Hut
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The Collected Stories - Paul Theroux
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South from the Limpopo - Dervla Murphy
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I thought that was pretty widely known
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Should be plural (there were two of them).
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Well it was news to me. Treated his batman like shit, and was generally despised for his rudeness and arrogance.
I may have to invest in a biography.
- Aug 7, 2003
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Katyn Massacre by Louis Fitzgibbon
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Nul Points - Tim Moore
Don Quixote
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The Stand - Stephen King
Jo Nesbo - Killing Moon. The last in the series.....
One of them was Rudi Vrba, who taught me in Vancouver (and signed my leaving pressy - a football). Amazing bloke.
Just discovered this book is about Rudi Vrba. Crikey.
Cheeky Monkey
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There is at least one film made of it, really good watch, part documentary, part dramatisation, with Vrba interviewed. I believe the two protagonists fell out in the end as the other guy didn't agree with Vrba's constant publicity seeking over the story.
Rudi wasn't seeking publicity for himself. And the big row was with people in his own community. He was unbelievably angry about passive gormless complicity. There is a lot of this on the wiki page: "In addition to blaming Kastner and the Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee for having failed to distribute the Vrba–Wetzler report, Vrba criticized the Slovakian Jewish Council for having failed to resist the deportation of Jews from Slovakia in 1942. When he was deported from Slovakia to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland in June that year, the Jewish Council had known, he alleged, that Jews were being murdered in Poland, but they did nothing to warn the community and even assisted by drawing up lists of names.[258] He referred to Jewish leaders in Slovakia and Hungary as "quislings" who were essential to the smooth running of the deportations: "The creation of Quislings, voluntary or otherwise, was, in fact, an important feature of Nazi policy" in every occupied country, in his view.[259]"
Rudi was an amazing bloke. Always courteous, always dapper. His one bit of advice to me was this. Never explain. I understand very well what he meant.
pearl
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Just finished re-reading No Country For Old Men
What a great story
Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy
What a great story
Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy