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A force of nature
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/09/2017
» Lee Child was a passable British author when he decided to try his luck in the States. It was a fortuitous decision. While the US doesn't lack detective thriller writers, he proved better than most.
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Hail and farewell
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/05/2017
» Contemporary historians are predictable -- penning book after book about Atlantis, ancient Rome, the Templars, World War II. But then a few looked at the calendar and the penny dropped. 2017. Isn't this the anniversary of something? Indeed. The Russian Revolution a century ago.
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Never volunteer
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/05/2017
» For millennia, the essential part of every tribe and nation has been its military. Whether called war councils, war offices or war departments, their concern was having sufficient arms and training men to use them to the best of their ability.
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A business epic
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/11/2014
» British author Lord Jeffrey Archer is often regarded as the foremost novelist of our age. Like Enrico Caruso, the greatest of opera tenors, their fame rests on their delivery, not the words themselves. This reviewer enjoys his short stories most of all, yet I can't recall any.
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Much wisdom here
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/10/2014
» A Free Thinker but not an atheist, I evaluate the world's various religions not by their holy books, but by how their followers act when away from their temple/church/mosque. Alas, all too often, they forget the "be good, do good" sermons. Love, compassion, peace, forgiveness are sung about in hymns, but hardly ever practised.
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Yes? No? Maybe?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/09/2014
» We know what history and historical fiction is, but pseudo-history? It is fiction made to seem fact. Untrue, yet commonly believed. The origins of religions is an example, founded by an interplay between God and humans. Another is how countries came to be, such as Romulus and Remus raised by wolves. Brits are pretty sure that Robin Hood was a literary creation, but tend to accept King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Gregorian chants
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/07/2014
» Since The Da Vinci Code, novelists have been trying to outdo Dan Brown with plots to rock the foundations of the beliefs of 1 billion Roman Catholics, but have had no discernible effect on Holy Mother Church. What became of Jesus, who lived and died a Jew, is a moot question.
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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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Until death, anyway
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 01/04/2013
» Glancing at the title Friends Forever by Yank author Danielle Steel, who has been penning romantic fiction like forever, this reviewer realised that I wouldn't be able to identify with the story, the characters or the plot. Because while I've had friends in my life, they came and went, none lasting the course.
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A mixed brew
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/03/2012
» While it is conventional for a novel to have both a main plot and a subplot, this reviewer notes that one generally distracts from the other, successfully.
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