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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.
SAS or Navy Seals?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/04/2012
» Every country has elite troops, but which are the best in the world? I used to think it was the Gurkhas, but they appear to have faded from the scene. The Russian Spatznaz get good marks, but in this day and time it comes down to Britain's SAS and America's Navy Seals.
Botswana's Kipling
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 11/06/2012
» Landlocked in Southern Africa, Sarah Palin doubtless isn't the only person who doesn't know that Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa border the Republic of Botswana.(Think Kalahari Desert). Yet it isn't altogether obscure due to the efforts of a Brit, who lives among its two million people.
The Dragon Lady?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/05/2012
» First ladies _ wives of presidents and prime ministers _ have generally been innocuous. On display during election time, they then faded into the background. Few made a name for themselves afterwards, most notably Hillary Rodham Clinton, appointed secretary of state when her husband was no longer in the White House.
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.
Tourists beware
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/03/2012
» When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tried to put Sherlock Holmes to rest a century ago, more than one literary critic noted that he was running out of the plots. The last involved a killer on stilts, which raised yawns as well as eyebrows. Yet in the hundred years since, other crime-thriller authors and scriveners of TV detective series demonstrated that there are no end of plots.
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.
Religious thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/01/2012
» Those of one religion or another vary widely about how much of it they accept. When their senses repel what they regard as unbelievable, members of the flock don't make an issue of it and go through the motions of what is expected of them. After all, there's much in their religion they fully accept.
All in a day's work
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/01/2012
» On his own or with a co-writer, James Patterson pens more crime thrillers than any two or three other authors combined. Nary has a year passed in which a couple or three of his latest books doesn't cross my desk. A number of homicide detectives and private eyes are his literary creations. The most popular is Alex Cross of the Metro Police Department (Washington, DC).
A Washington thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/02/2012
» No country is free of corruption, least of all the US as stateside author David Baldacci has been reiterating in his two dozen political thrillers to date. He doesn't name names, but he names titles all the way to the top.