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omphaloskepsis 
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Essays by Michel De Montaigne
(28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), Michel de Montaigne, was a philosopher of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
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essexboyinwales
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Lifting Shadows, the “official” biography of Dream Theater. Really enjoying it, learning much I didn’t know about the early days …..
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Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell
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dr wu23
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Like most I have favorite authors and series.....right now reading the newest from Christopher Fowler in the Bryant and May : Peculiar Cime Unit Series. Its called London Bridge Is Falling Down.
Wonderful contemporary murder mysteries set in London concerning odd quirky cases.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: February 21 2024 at 02:27 |
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Currently on loan from Nottingham's brand new Central Library:-
Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 - by Max Hastings The Age of Jihad - Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East - by Patrick Cockburn Books Do Furnish a Life - Reading and Writing Science - by Richard Dawkins The Briefing - Politics, the Press and the President - by Sean Spicer Boris Johnson - The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 - by Andrew Gimson Fall and Rise - The Story of 9/11 - by Mitchell Zuckoff Never Grow Up - by Jackie Chan A Passion for Poison - Schoolboy, Poisoner, Serial Killer - by Carol Ann Lee One Party After Another - The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage - by Michael Crick What I Learnt - by Jeremy Vine
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essexboyinwales
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Posted: February 21 2024 at 05:11 |
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How do you have time to read all these as well as listening to all the music that you say you do?!! If you’re this good at multitasking may I suggest that you reveal your true identity…..as Psychedelic Pauline😲😀🤷🏼🤨😊 |
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: February 21 2024 at 05:31 |
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Cockburn's book was eye-opening. I've read several of Richard Dawkins's publications, but not that particular book. The Boris Johnson book is buried in my to-be-read pile. I'd like to understand Farage more. I've often wondered if he is genuinely concerned about the people of the UK.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: February 21 2024 at 05:39 |
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Having a pile of good books to read gives me something to do while I'm listening to music.
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Jared
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Some time ago, we established that most of Paul's album ratings are based on a single listen (or significantly less if he doesn't like it), whilst reading Volume 4 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall and watching Countdown with the sound off...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Psychedelic Paul
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The only Richard Dawkins book I own is The God Delusion, which I imagine would be about as popular as a mad mullah officiating at a bar-mitzvah in the USA's Bible-Belt states.
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Psychedelic Paul
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My album ratings for prog polls are often not even based on a single listen, but just listening to snippets of albums, and when it comes to Countdown, I only watch it (with the sound off) mainly to see lovely Carol Vorderman, and besides, I'm hopeless at the numbers game anyway.
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^^ I'm the other way round... I'm not sure how many times during my life, I've listened to Wish You Were Here, but it's on again as I speak, just to see if I've missed anything...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Brittiskt Allehanda - Litterära Strövtåg - Håkan Anderson (2017)
The Awakening - Nora Roberts (2020) All of the Marvels - Douglas Wolk (2021) The Sacred History Jonathan Black (2013) The Very Pointless Quiz Book - Armstrong/Osman (2014)
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Across the evening sky,
all the birds are leaving, But how can they know, it's time for them to go? Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming, I have no thought of time. |
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"Milestones - the Music and Times of Miles Davis" - Jack Chambers
before that: "The Monkees, 'Head', and the 60s" - Peter Mills |
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Thanks, I'm through about 7 chapters so far. Quite a lot of revelations and I'm learning all sorts of stuff about the music industry (ie ghost musicians on albums/singles that went uncredited) as well as Linda and Paul's relationship. She also defends a lot of what he did after the Beatles and also debunks the myth that Decca turned down The Beatles. Fun 'read' (although I'm doing the audio book version!)
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Posted: February 22 2024 at 20:47 |
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Even though this book is 600 pages and only covers UK prog from the (for the most part early) seventies, it still can't, by the authors own admission cover every group of that era. But it still manages to cover a lot of ground. It starts of sort of chronologically and then goes on to give each featured group a chapter, which allows the reader to skip over artists they are not interested in if they so choose, with some diversions into fashion, politics and sundry other topics. Sure, as always with this kind of topic there might well be things that some readers might not agree with, however it is very well researched, and includes a lot of first-hand interviews with some big players in prog. It's worth the slog for those interested in the formative years of classic UK prog. Edited by Hugh Manatee - February 22 2024 at 20:50 |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
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Posted: February 23 2024 at 04:39 |
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VG book
Easy to read even for a non english native |
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I literally don’t know where to start…… 🤣🤣🤣 |
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Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell
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Posted: February 23 2024 at 14:00 |
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All I ever do is read the introductions and look at the pictures. By the time I'm done with the pictures, I have to go to the bathroom.
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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: February 23 2024 at 14:12 |
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You could start with Countdown. |
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Posted: February 23 2024 at 15:10 |
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:-)
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