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An imaginative thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 01/10/2012
» When President Obama showed a select audience an ongoing closed circuit television mission that killed the most wanted man in the world enjoying sanctuary in Pakistan, he emphasized that locating and taking out the notorious Muslim terrorist by the US elite SEALs was a wholly American undertaking. It will certainly earn him votes at the next election.
A plausible solution
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/07/2012
» While what the vast majority of people know about Egypt are its pyramids and mummies, there are Egyptologists _ not all scholars _ who find it, particularly its ancient history, fascinating. Indeed, what is called the ancient world.
High on adrenaline
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/07/2012
» A steady stream of books come from James Patterson _ with co-authors and wholly his own, hardcover and paperback, reprints and new. He's probably the most prolific American scrivener around. His literary creations include several police detectives, the most popular of which is Washington, DC's Alex Cross.
The real thing
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/07/2012
» It is one of this author's peeves that contemporary authors writing about a variety of subjects throw in Islamic terrorists in the hope that it makes stories more exciting. This ploy doesn't work. To be sure Islamic terrorism is the flavour of the 21st century, heinous and vile, but ought to be written about in context.
Abusers need killing
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/07/2012
» There is a saying: "Some people deserve dying." Cynical. Heartless. Yet not without more than a grain of truth. Child abusers for one. Wife beaters for another. Not to say terrorists, white slavers and human organ stealers. Do prison terms pay for their crimes? Not according to their victims.
Nature is cruel
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/06/2012
» The theme of shrinking people and having them prey on naturally little predators has been done in novels and films as thrillers and comedies. After chapters and scenes of suspense, they've survived their perils and returned to their true size. It's up to the authors and directors to keep us uncertain of the outcome until the end.
Flying machine thrills
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/06/2012
» 1911 was an in-between year in aviation. Eight years after the Wright brothers had invented the airplane in the US and three years before the Great War in Europe, improvements in design and performance made preceding models obsolete. Curiously, the US lagged behind the Continent in developing new models. A number of Yankee stalwarts took this to heart, determined to play catch-up.
A Roman bladewielder
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/08/2012
» There are anomalies about the ancient world that defy explanation. Such as why Mussolini's efforts in the 20th century to revive the glory that was Rome two millennia before failed. Excuses about poor modern-day equipment don't cut it. Clearly they lacked the requisite vital ingredient of their ancestors. They needed poison gas to subdue the backward Ethiopians.
An exciting thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 23/07/2012
» When a book is co-authored, the form is to have both their names on the cover, one in bigger print if he or she is more popular than the other. The Hypnotist is an exception. Penned in Swedish by a man and a women, only the single pseudonym Lars Kepler is given. The reader isn't told their actual names.
Be wary of friends
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/06/2012
» I don't know how typical I am as I made _ and lost _ quite a number of friends through the years. Neighbourhood friends, school friends, army friends, social work friends, backpacking friends, foreign friends, family friends, male and female. Some best friends.