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« Reply #1325 on: July 30, 2015, 02:59:39 AM »
Quote from: MooseMom on July 29, 2015, 04:06:16 PM
Kristina, it's called "Queen Victoria's Children".

Many thanks MooseMom, I have checked-up on youtube and there are a few different films on offer i.e. "Young Victoria " "Victoria and Albert: Part 1,
 Victoria and Albert: Part 2 ... Queen Victoria's Empire... Queen Victoria ... Queen Victoria's Children - Episode 1: The Best Laid Plans (Documentary) ...
... There is quite a lot about Queen Victoria on youtube and unfortunately the titles here are different from tv-titles in America...
... But I shall try "to isolate the straw from the hay" and find the proper educating films about this matter....
Thanks again for letting me know and I send you my best wishes,
Kristina. :grouphug;
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« Reply #1326 on: August 20, 2015, 07:58:56 PM »
I just finished reading The Godfather (or rather, re-reading, since I've read it before). Followed it up with getting the DVD set (Godfather I, II, and III) from the library and just returned it. I would consider this movie (series of movies) among the best ever made. Of course, you have to like crime drama.... 8)
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« Reply #1327 on: August 25, 2015, 02:52:22 AM »
Dial M for Murdoch by Tom Watson & Martin Hickman...
subtitle: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain...
... this story is about corruption by power and ... it's all about business...
... "They" listened to phone massages, but they also bribed, spied and bullied
and imposed their will through blackmail, corruption and intimidation...
... Rupert Murdoch was not runnng a normal business but a shadow state ...
This book is must-read for anyone who sometimes appears in the public eye
and/or sometimes (has to) deal with newspapers ...
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Bach was no pioneer; his style was not influenced by any past or contemporary century.
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« Reply #1328 on: August 25, 2015, 08:43:09 AM »
The latest fantasy fiction from David Weber, The Sword of the South, it's the fourth book in a series that I started in 1995. I just hope to live long enough to see the end of the series to know how it comes out. Additionally as a change of pace I am reading the West Point course on the Civil War available on iTunes.
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« Reply #1329 on: August 25, 2015, 03:45:01 PM »
I am reading C.S. Lewis' The Screw Tape Letters. 

Interesting...
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« Reply #1330 on: August 25, 2015, 07:12:28 PM »

Found 5 of the Left Behind series at the resale shop.  Already into #3 and now noticed the next two are NOT 4 and 5.  They are 5 and 7.  I can't read them out of order so I just made an offer on eBay for the whole 12 book set.

I still have a big stack of 'other' books I can read while waiting so it isn't like I won't have anything at all to read.
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« Reply #1331 on: August 30, 2015, 03:21:05 AM »
Mafialand by Douglas Thompson.
Subtitle: "How the Mob Invaded Britain".
The book "Mafialand" recounts events from the viewpoint of the pawns as well as the kingmakers
and it is an account of the Mob's Machiavellian global manipulation of governments and officials...
... and London, the capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a city of gambling, guns and gangsters
and the author Douglas Thompson writes about details & secrets of one of the most dangerous criminal conspiracies...
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« Reply #1332 on: September 11, 2015, 01:24:12 AM »
P.S. I am still going over Mafialand by Douglas Thompson
... and I have noticed that it is very difficult to "digest" all the given information,
expecially for people like myself, who have never suspected or experienced any of it ...
... So many events are being explained in this book, including the reason (?)
for the assassination of the Kennedy-brothers ... and so much more...
...In short, it is a book that wants to be read very carefully and slowly,
because it is very difficult to take it all in...
... and perhaps certain events should be checked-up as well ...
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  He was completion and fulfillment in itself, like a meteor which follows its own path.
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                                          ...  Oportet Vivere ...
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« Reply #1333 on: September 11, 2015, 11:09:26 AM »
I just finished the Divergent trilogy.  Liked it, but so disappointed in the ending :(.
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« Reply #1334 on: September 18, 2015, 10:15:34 PM »
Just started Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.  I've been watching Poirot on Netflix and wanted to read some of the books that the show is based on.  I had a heck of a time finding it.  My library didn't have it in any form at all, and I ended up having to buy the ebook version from Kobo.
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« Reply #1335 on: October 20, 2015, 02:38:00 AM »
The Suicide Club by Andrew Williams...
During the First World-Disaster sensitive information about future-campaigns fell regularly into the hands of enemy-camps  ...
Naturally, this had a devastating effect with even more losses and because of this,
specially selected officers were specially trained and educated to spy on other officers and/or soldiers to find out,
where these sensitive-campaign-loopholes originated from.
This was - of course - a very life-dangerous activity to take on and because of this,
all the officers/soldiers involved in this particular activity were called "The Suicide Club"...
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Bach was no pioneer; his style was not influenced by any past or contemporary century.
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« Reply #1336 on: October 27, 2015, 09:48:29 AM »
Hubby recently got me a kindle so been reading quite a bit.  Currently reading the detective Helen Grace book eeny meeny, after stumbling upon the 3rd in the series. So far there's only 4 but I've enjoyed what I've read
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« Reply #1337 on: October 27, 2015, 02:09:50 PM »
I started with Lost Books of the Bible.  Since then I have been steadily reading.  Studied through the Books of the Disciples, (New Testament), Clement a follower of Peter, the Other Bible,  The Jewish Torah, (the five books of Moses which is most of the Old Testament.  Skimmed most of the KJV of the Bible and see how closely it parallels all my previous readings.

Just started into the Qu'ran and surprised that Mohamed wrote 500 years AFTER Christ yet very closely follows the writings of Moses.

This is interesting!
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« Reply #1338 on: November 18, 2015, 10:42:39 PM »
I am reading the newest book in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind: Warheart
If you like Sci fi and fantasy read this series!
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« Reply #1339 on: November 19, 2015, 05:45:06 AM »
Alexander Pushkin: The tale of Tsar Saltan with drawings by I.Biblin
dedicated to the Russian Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow, first published in 1905
and re-published in facsimile by Progress Publishers Moskow 1975 .
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« Reply #1340 on: November 27, 2015, 04:55:42 PM »
Pierrpoint...

The autobiography of the last Official Executioner in Ireland and the UK... Very interesting... He didn't have lots of work, so he ran a pub in the UK... Called, believe it or not 'Help the poor Struggler'.....
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« Reply #1341 on: November 27, 2015, 05:14:12 PM »
Dean Koontz- The City
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« Reply #1342 on: January 06, 2016, 03:39:31 AM »
Quote from: Charlie B53 on October 27, 2015, 02:09:50 PM
I started with Lost Books of the Bible.  Since then I have been steadily reading.  Studied through the Books of the Disciples, (New Testament), Clement a follower of Peter, the Other Bible,  The Jewish Torah, (the five books of Moses which is most of the Old Testament.  Skimmed most of the KJV of the Bible and see how closely it parallels all my previous readings.

Just started into the Qu'ran and surprised that Mohamed wrote 500 years AFTER Christ yet very closely follows the writings of Moses.

This is interesting!
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Hello Charlie,
Could there be several different versions (interpretations?) of the Qu'ran ?
I am wondering, because only recently I was told that according to the Qu'ran deocrative art is never wanted.
But in the shortened translation (version?) of the Qu'ran which I have read, decorative art was not even mentioned...
What do you think?
Thanks from Kristina.
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  He was completion and fulfillment in itself, like a meteor which follows its own path.
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« Reply #1343 on: January 06, 2016, 03:42:51 AM »
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Quote from: Charlie B53 on October 27, 2015, 02:09:50 PM
I started with Lost Books of the Bible.  Since then I have been steadily reading.  Studied through the Books of the Disciples, (New Testament), Clement a follower of Peter, the Other Bible,  The Jewish Torah, (the five books of Moses which is most of the Old Testament.  Skimmed most of the KJV of the Bible and see how closely it parallels all my previous readings.

Just started into the Qu'ran and surprised that Mohamed wrote 500 years AFTER Christ yet very closely follows the writings of Moses.

This is interesting!

Hello Charlie,
Could there be several different versions (interpretations?) of the Qu'ran ?
I am wondering, because only recently I was told that according to the Qu'ran deocrative art is never wanted.
But in the shortened translation (version?) of the Qu'ran which I have read, decorative art was not even mentioned...
What do you think?
Thanks from Kristina.
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« Reply #1344 on: January 06, 2016, 06:34:06 AM »
I read very few books any more (and a LOT of stuff online), but I have picked up a book to read during in-center D that I've had for years.  It's "Man Meets Dog" a classic by Konrad Lorenz. Fascinating.  About the origins--and everything else-- in the human-dog relationship.
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« Reply #1345 on: January 06, 2016, 09:32:25 AM »
Three Magic Words....currently.;
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« Reply #1346 on: January 06, 2016, 12:51:46 PM »
Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz.  I'm also currently reading a book about Spain in the Golden Age.
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« Reply #1347 on: January 06, 2016, 03:48:57 PM »
Quote from: kristina on January 06, 2016, 03:42:51 AM

Hello Charlie,
Could there be several different versions (interpretations?) of the Qu'ran ?
I am wondering, because only recently I was told that according to the Qu'ran deocrative art is never wanted.
But in the shortened translation (version?) of the Qu'ran which I have read, decorative art was not even mentioned...
What do you think?
Thanks from Kristina.

I have only read the one English translation, there may be more but I wouldn't expect them to vary by much.  I hope!

IIRC,  art and music are considered a waste of time and effort and could be considered a sin as that time and effort should be spent on meaningful worship of God.

Islam, Muslims do NOT believe in violence.  And adhere very strictly to the commandment 'Do NOT Kill'.  The only couple of exceptions are in self-defense.  If you or one near you is attacked by an animal or another human and the threat of death is eminent, only then is one allowed to kill.  And even then that person is considered UN-clean and must be segregated until a period of time and process of 'cleansing' is completed.  This included the Muslim warriors that fought in their Religious Wars when other tribes of the Mid-East wished to take over Muslim lands.  These successful warriors had to be 'cleansed' before they could return to their society.

Radical Muslims have to be quoting some other copy other than the one that I read.
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« Reply #1348 on: January 06, 2016, 11:09:14 PM »
Just a note too; 0n a sea going tug boat I read 13 books one trip.... to Dekar Senagal ,Africa. via Cape Verde Inlands.  Dec. of 1989.....We departed from San Jaun Porto Rica due east ( corse was 93 degress psg I remember well.)  IT took 33 days to get there so I had allot of time. Once in port  it took 30 days to off load the two barges , as they did it by hand..( 6,500 meteric tons of rice... aid.)ANYWAY...  then 30 long days (apprx.) to return,.... tug had a lounge with shelves books  like a library on the walls..(bulkhead) '  I think my favorite was Pillars Of The  Earth by Kennieth F.... I discovered the gift of reading ....for me.   
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« Reply #1349 on: January 07, 2016, 10:44:32 AM »
Pillars of the Earth was a GREAT BOOK! It's sequel was almost as good - World Without End by Ken Follett . You can sink yourself in one of these - no pun intended!
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