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A paranoid profession
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/08/2016
» Children know what they want to be. It isn't difficult to see how they make their choices. Emulating a character in a movie, on TV, in the comics, some spend years pursuing that ambition, sometimes actually achieving it. Only to find that it's not all it's cracked up to be.
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Waiting for the Fisherman
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/08/2016
» When asked what I like/love about of the Land of Smiles, its climate is high on my list. Though born and bred in the Big Apple, I never cottoned on to its winter cold. It was worse backpacking through Scandinavia, Finland and Russia. As for racing over icy courses, skiers are welcome to the sport.
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Opposites attract
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/04/2015
» Books are pumped out by publishing houses because tens of thousands of men and women hope to gain fame and fortune. Over the centuries other paths — discovering new lands, coming up with inventions — have been all but closed off.
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Film version awaits
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/02/2015
» Arriving on the literary scene in 1990, American Patricia Cornwell has penned a book every year since. Though she hasn’t a medical degree, her crime novels that focus on forensic medicine are so accurate that she’s regarded as one of the experts in the field. With the profits from her writing, she has founded forensic facilities in more than one state.
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Taiping women
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/01/2014
» Yank author, Thai resident, Dean Barrett is fluent in several Chinese dialects as well as knowledgable in China's history and mythology. He is perhaps best known for his pictorial books about beautiful Thai women. It may be said that he has beauty on the brain. Every woman in his novels is "beautiful". He never tires of using the term, once a page minimum.
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How to be a billionaire
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/01/2014
» Of all books published, the most common belong to the "how to" genre. There's no limit to the advice authors give readers. Experts tell you how to build a house from the ground up, learn a language, be a successful businessmen, become a chef, design, repair, maintain, alter. Anything you set your mind to.
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Psychics in suburbia
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/08/2013
» Want to become rich and famous? Be a psychic who accurately predicts the future. "Accurately" is the operative word. For millennia there were people who claimed to have this gift/ability, but in fact were only guessing. According to the law of averages, they were probably right some of the time.
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Stepmotherly love
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 24/09/2012
» Families are the nuclei of nations, which explains why nations frequently deal with their disputes by going to war. The concept of the happy family is all too often more imaginative than real. Parents bicker, as do siblings. Fathers and mothers stray. Children have bad friends.
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Universal cheating
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/05/2012
» Many of us profess to know it all, but do we? Not all of us, surely. And though there are among us who know a good deal, knowing it all is a bit much. Not even Aristotle or Da Vinci, Newton or Einstein were that brilliant.
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