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.Mein Kampf
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by: Adolf Hitler

November 21, 2007
Well, may be I m going against the flow here, but this book, is one of the most boring, poorly written, waste of money and paper i ve ever read for ages.. Its full of hate, written by a guy who throw up his bitterness and hate of everything non German during pages after pages after pages..., like you would throw up when You re drunk....

It s brilliant to put you to sleep if you ve got insomnia though...

we all know about the context in which it was written and what it lead to. so, no need to make some fuss about it and call it a must read. when it s an absolute piece of human junk.and fuel for hate...
well. i read it.. did not like it, .. but that s my personal opinion.
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.The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
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by: Charles Nicholl

July 03, 2008
Nicholl is a very eloquent writer, engaging the reader who is willing to suspend his disbelief. My reading of Shakespeare's evidence is that he was at best evasive, at worst perjurious. As a book about Shakespeare the book is a non-starter. As an imaginative description of early seventeenth century London life, the book succeeds quite well.
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.The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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by: Neil Strauss, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx

July 04, 2002
It's a miracle that these superjunks are still alive. I also think it's a miracle that they sold so many records. The book is awesome, the junks are pretty honest about their mistakes, luck, career etc. Sometimes i laughed, wondered and i must admit that the part about Vince's daughter brought tears in my eyes. A must read.
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.Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
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by: Ben Macintyre

June 04, 2007
If you like adventure then you can't go far wrong with this book. During World War II, petty East End criminal Eddie Chapman finds himself banged up in occupied Jersey's prison. He is given a lifeline that he cannot refuse - come and work for German secret intelligence as a spy or face the consequences. Eddie opts for the former and is thrown into the grandiose world of a German spymaster. Now he is faced with the moral dilemma of double-crossing his country or the gamble of double crossing his new found boss. You'll have to read the book to find out which choice he makes ... I thoroughly recommend this book!


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.Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift)
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by: Henry David Thoreau

1995-08
In a topsy-turvy world where madness, greed, and evil are now the perceived normailty and "common sense", books like Walden are confirmation that it is better to be different to the majority.

Thoreau elaborately discusses the wisdom which some of us may at times have pondered on. Many future denizens of Hell, jealously target human beings who are earning more Heaven with each passing moment, and attack them to try and weaken their soul. But a well-read and discerning individual perseveres with ease, and remains authentic.

A wonderful example is where Thoreau speaks of the utter futility of those who profess to be charitable, but are in actual fact a part of the problem. Thoreau gives an analogy of a slave breeder, who donates the proceeds ... Read More:
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.Snowdon: The Biography
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by: Anne De Courcy

June 04, 2008
I have just finished a book on Princess Margaret, and was told that accomplished author Anne de Courcy had written an authorized biography about Antony Armstrong-Jones,also known as Lord Snowdon.
The book was written with his approval and full support, and he asked his many friends and acquaintances to make themselves available to Ms deCourcy
should she wish to interview them.
And it is a detailed, warts and all account of Snowdons life and many loves.
Tony's mother was an English Jewess, his father a Welshman. They divorced when he was just a boy. His mother was vain, unreasonable, demanding and self centred. She reminded me very much of the actor Peter Lawford's mother.
His father, a barrister was not a constant figure in his son's life ... Read More:
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.Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)
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by: George Orwell

June 05, 2003
Note how the great Orwell never says anything positive about those doing the bulk of the fighting against Franco - in fact, note how he barely mentions Franco and fascism at all! In the course of the events he descibes in this book, he spends most of his time doing nothing, like the rest of his Trotskyist and anarchist friends. Meanwhile, the Republicans, whom he slanders from afar, were fighting and dying in the front line against the Nazi and Italian forces who enabled Franco's victory. Note also how he never says a positive word about the Soviet Union, which was the only country to help the Republic, while the British and French governments helped Hitler and Mussolini to intervene.
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.Hitler
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by: Ian Kershaw

August 07, 2008
The best yet biography of Hitler, discussing in extent the first years of his life. Presents theories of how his ideas were formed backing them or dismissing them with extensive bibliography research. Even though the crucial matter on how and when his ideas were formulated is not definitely answered it is the best effort on summarising the available data up to date. Reccomended to the serious in depth researcher, with excellent notes for further reading.

V.A.Kouts
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.The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
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by: Ryszard Kapuscinski

March 28, 2002
Read this in Siberia recently. Awesome. K's descriptions of Africa went oddly well with snow and ice...
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.Elizabeth
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by: David Starkey

March 01, 2001
This is not the kind of history that I was expecting - highly populist, focussed more heavily on Elizabeth as a person than on the politics and her decisions as a Queen. Beware.
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