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Reply #30 - Jul 18^th, 2013 at 5:52pm

Currently reading (again) The Prince by Machiavelli.

Advice on how to maintain the control of territories after seizing them. The rules differ for seizing principalities compared to republics. Then, he has numerous different strategies for maintaining control of principalities, all depending on how they were seized.

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Lionel Edriess Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1932 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #31 - Jul 18^th, 2013 at 8:36pm 'Future Shock' by Alvin Toffler - again. When he wrote it in 1971, he suggested that the sum total of man's knowledge was doubling every 7 years and accelerating. Now, I've recently read that it's down to 2 years and still accelerating. What have we learnt?
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #32 - Jul 29^th, 2013 at 5:56pm 'Next' by Michael Crichton. All about the commercial and legal aspects of genes and genes technology. It's a pretty heavy subject, but he makes it an interesting read. A real page-turner.
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Reply #33 - Jul 30^th, 2013 at 12:06am

good author
Michael Crichton...
pity he'll write no more..

I'm currently indulging in a little light detective/animal tales.

Have just finished 'New Tricks' by David Rosenfelt

Now on to 'Hush My Mouth" by Cathy Pickens

..both authors I've never read, or heard of before..

looking for a laugh..

New Tricks was quite enjoyable.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 137365 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #34 - Jul 30^th, 2013 at 8:47am Lionel Edriess wrote on Jul 18^th, 2013 at 8:36pm: 'Future Shock' by Alvin Toffler - again. I pulled that off the bookshelf the other day and started reading it again. Also reading this: Good stuff.
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Reply #35 - Aug 7^th, 2013 at 11:05pm

Roger Zelazny's 'The Dream Master' - a wonderful book. Someone has had the insight to reprint them 15 years after his death...

A man who can write this:-

"A mind may holds many things. It learns. It cannot teach itself not to think, though.

..A mind cannot teach itself not to think, but feelings fall into destined patterns."

...deserves to be re-printed...

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Lionel Edriess Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1932 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #36 - Aug 7^th, 2013 at 11:21pm Matthew Flinders' Cat by Bryce Courtenay. A disturbing glimpse into the grooming of a victim by a paedophile with a penchant for pussy.
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ian Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 9451	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #37 - Aug 8^th, 2013 at 1:15am Norstrilia.- cordwainer Smith aka Paul linebarger
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #38 - Aug 15^th, 2013 at 5:55pm 'Hannibal Rising' by Thomas Harris. Damn good writer.
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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #39 - Aug 31^st, 2013 at 4:56pm Father Bob, the larrikin priest, by Sue Williams. Kind funny really as I'm a confirmed atheist. But I respect the likes of Bob Maguire and my favourite books are always a bio.
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Reply #40 - Sep 18^th, 2013 at 8:58pm

Postmodern Trendoid wrote on Jul 18^th, 2013 at 5:52pm:

Currently reading (again) The Prince by Machiavelli.

Advice on how to maintain the control of territories after seizing them. The rules differ for seizing principalities compared to republics. Then, he has numerous different strategies for maintaining control of principalities, all depending on how they were seized.

Me too, Mistie. I’m still getting through the forward - in this case longer than the book itself.

Please tell me - do you think Machiavelli intended it as satire?

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74508 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #41 - Sep 18^th, 2013 at 9:08pm 'Tell my Sons' by Lt Col. Mark Weber If you can't draw some sort of positive inspiration from that, you won't find it anywhere.
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #42 - Sep 18^th, 2013 at 9:21pm Leaving Alexandria, Richard Holloway. "What a deeply lovable man; and what a wonderful book he has written."
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #43 - Sep 27^th, 2013 at 3:45pm I can top that, Soren. Just to irritate the literati here, I picked up a dog-eared soft-cover copy of Thomas Harris' 'The Silence of the Lambs'. So there.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40742 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #44 - Sep 27^th, 2013 at 3:55pm Great Expectations.
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