The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: Nick on June 21, 2007, 01:28:29 PM
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Just re reading Bob Dylan's Chronicles.
Intriguing!
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I'm cuddling up with Sherlock Holmes
ripping yarns they are..great stuff
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Wicked by Gregory Maguire and The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright here.
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Chickenhawk - back in the world.
Awesome.
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"Famous Five go Morris Dancing" is quite gripping.
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Currently reading "The 4-Hour Week" by Timothy Ferriss
Fascinating account of how to outsource your life to the point that you hardly need work more than 4 hours a week.
Very American in attitude and not at all reserved about telling you, the reader, how brilliant he is but once you have cut through the bullsh*t there are some good lifestyle tips and a few nuggets of real information.
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"Famous Five go Morris Dancing" is quite gripping.
Whereabouts does it grip you?
Precisely?
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Currently reading "The 4-Hour Week" by Timothy Ferriss
Fascinating account of how to outsource your life to the point that you hardly need work more than 4 hours a week.
Very American in attitude and not at all reserved about telling you, the reader, how brilliant he is but once you have cut through the bullsh*t there are some good lifestyle tips and a few nuggets of real information.
What does it cost?
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Currently reading "The 4-Hour Week" by Timothy Ferriss
Fascinating account of how to outsource your life to the point that you hardly need work more than 4 hours a week.
Very American in attitude and not at all reserved about telling you, the reader, how brilliant he is but once you have cut through the bullsh*t there are some good lifestyle tips and a few nuggets of real information.
I am also reading The Life Audit in an attempt to stream line my life so it goes with ease. Why the hell do these things always have to start with making sodding charts!?!
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Currently reading "The 4-Hour Week" by Timothy Ferriss
Fascinating account of how to outsource your life to the point that you hardly need work more than 4 hours a week.
Very American in attitude and not at all reserved about telling you, the reader, how brilliant he is but once you have cut through the bullsh*t there are some good lifestyle tips and a few nuggets of real information.
What does it cost?
$19.95 US or $24.95 Can
Mind I got it from Amazon for ?9.95 IIRC
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Currently reading "The 4-Hour Week" by Timothy Ferriss
Fascinating account of how to outsource your life to the point that you hardly need work more than 4 hours a week.
Very American in attitude and not at all reserved about telling you, the reader, how brilliant he is but once you have cut through the bullsh*t there are some good lifestyle tips and a few nuggets of real information.
I am also reading The Life Audit in an attempt to stream line my life so it goes with ease. Why the hell do these things always have to start with making sodding charts!?!
Because they are designed for dozy americans with the attention span of a brain damaged goldfish. Pictures, charts and glove puppets are the only way to get the message across whistle:
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Currently reading "The 4-Hour Week" by Timothy Ferriss
Fascinating account of how to outsource your life to the point that you hardly need work more than 4 hours a week.
Very American in attitude and not at all reserved about telling you, the reader, how brilliant he is but once you have cut through the bullsh*t there are some good lifestyle tips and a few nuggets of real information.
I am also reading The Life Audit in an attempt to stream line my life so it goes with ease. Why the hell do these things always have to start with making sodding charts!?!
Try "Getting a Life" by Polly Ghazi and Judy Jones.
Only one chart in the whole book. It also has the advantage of being written by two ex-staff journalists from the Guardian (no spelling mistake jokes needed thank you) which means they are Brits and the book is intended for the UK market so no dumb Yankee Advice about getting in touch with your inner self and that sort of crap. I've had the book a couple ot three years now so it may not still be available but have a look on Amazon.
The ISBN is 0 340 68485 2 and it's published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1997
If you can't get hold of it email me and I'll loan you my copy.
It's full of good stuff and does not involve selling up, engaging Phil and Kirsty to buy you a small holding in Wales or any of that crap.
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Hmmm interesting. Off to see if I can track it down. Although a small holding in Wales sounds quite tempting actually!
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Hmmm interesting. Off to see if I can track it down. Although a small holding in Wales sounds quite tempting actually!
Well................. Nah it's (i) Too easy and (ii) Too close to the truth .... to be funny. redface:
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Downshifting-Bestselling-Happier-Simpler-Living/dp/0340834021/ref=sr_1_2/026-0731001-1858024?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182932678&sr=8-2
Revised edition?
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Downshifting-Bestselling-Happier-Simpler-Living/dp/0340834021/ref=sr_1_2/026-0731001-1858024?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182932678&sr=8-2
Revised edition?
That'll be the one ..... Different cover but same authors and "The Downshifters Guide to Happier, Simpler Living" is the sub title of my copy. They have probably up-dated some of the info and taken out refs to 1990s items which mine has. Good way to make a living, when you think about it, recycle the same book over and over ..... But then a certain J Archer cottoned onto that idea years ago.
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Will stick it on my list for the next mass purchasing then. Thanks for the recomendation. lol:
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Wicked by Gregory Maguire and The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright here.
Spooky. before reading this I had looked at my boss's desk and saw a copy of The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright - had never heard of the author before.
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It was on lists everywhere last Summer. I wasn't too sure and then found it on amazon for a couple of quid.
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Fraid I don't do lists
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Fraid I don't do lists
You would if holed in your port beam.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Downshifting-Bestselling-Happier-Simpler-Living/dp/0340834021/ref=sr_1_2/026-0731001-1858024?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182932678&sr=8-2
Revised edition?
Added charts and diagrams no doubt! whistle:
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Chickenhawk - back in the world.
Awesome.
Chickenhawk? Has Robert Mason written a follow up?
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Chickenhawk - back in the world.
Awesome.
Chickenhawk? Has Robert Mason written a follow up?
Yes, it?s awesome!
It is about his life after Vietnam ? coming to terms with not being in combat and trying to make a living in various business ventures.
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=1047735&wauth=robert%20mason&matches=8&qsort=r&cm_re=works*listing*title
I have to say it is one of the most amazing books I?ve ever read ? it also documents his attempts to become a ?real? author (Chickenhawk was an unexpected success) and the writing of his two books about robots which I?ve also ordered from Alibris.
Recommended.
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Hmmm interesting. Off to see if I can track it down. Although a small holding in Wales sounds quite tempting actually!
noooo:Be careful what you wish for, someone sugested that to me once, "Lets get away from the rat race", I believe was the phrase use. Next day looked up smallholdings in Wales and somehow ended up in Rural France for 10 years. It is a long and very involved story, of Nick like proportions. rubschin:
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Hmmm interesting. Off to see if I can track it down. Although a small holding in Wales sounds quite tempting actually!
noooo:Be careful what you wish for, someone sugested that to me once, "Lets get away from the rat race", I believe was the phrase use. Next day looked up smallholdings in Wales and somehow ended up in Rural France for 10 years. It is a long and very involved story, of Nick like proportions. rubschin:
France! eeek: Ummm no thank-you! That would never happen, far too far from Mr Wench's beloved football team!
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Hmmm interesting. Off to see if I can track it down. Although a small holding in Wales sounds quite tempting actually!
noooo:Be careful what you wish for, someone sugested that to me once, "Lets get away from the rat race", I believe was the phrase use. Next day looked up smallholdings in Wales and somehow ended up in Rural France for 10 years. It is a long and very involved story, of Nick like proportions. rubschin:
France! eeek: Ummm no thank-you! That would never happen, far too far from Mr Wench's beloved football team!
That would be the one on my doorstep, I believe, aka blue feathery things. I used to have to go there every other Saturday, but keep my back to the field for the whole match, this was before opting out of the rat race, many years ago, in my salad days.
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Indeed, god forbid we move too far away from them. ::)
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Chickenhawk - back in the world.
Awesome.
Chickenhawk? Has Robert Mason written a follow up?
Yes, it?s awesome!
It is about his life after Vietnam ? coming to terms with not being in combat and trying to make a living in various business ventures.
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=1047735&wauth=robert%20mason&matches=8&qsort=r&cm_re=works*listing*title
I have to say it is one of the most amazing books I?ve ever read ? it also documents his attempts to become a ?real? author (Chickenhawk was an unexpected success) and the writing of his two books about robots which I?ve also ordered from Alibris.
Recommended.
Another good one I read about Vietnam was The Dying Place. Its the experiences of a special forces officer who by the end of the book I am convincd would have lost it completely when he is sent home.