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No end in sight
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 01/09/2014
» While new authors keep appearing, older ones keep at it until they run out (Hemingway) or pass away (Clancy). Those who retire return (Rankin). Those staying on may no longer be in top form (le Carre). But several are (Rendell). Not that this reviewer rates Ruth Randell on a par with Agatha Christie.
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An honest lawyer
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/02/2014
» Truth be told — I’m a sucker for courtroom dramas. Inherit The Wind, Witness For The Prosecution and Judgement At Nuremberg are my all-time favourites. Some courtroom novels or plays are adapted to the screen, others made into movies or television shows. Many remain in book form.
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A gay first lady
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/01/2014
» People in every social, economic and political sphere share a fondness for rumours. True or not, they spread like wildfire. Men, women, children are fair game. Family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquaintances are embarrassed, reputations tarnished, careers ruined. The more they are denied, the more they are believed.
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A mixed bag
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/11/2013
» If I didn't love books _ I read more than 100 a year _ I wouldn't be a professional reviewer. Over 40 years, 4,000 plus perused. Compared to the 4 million books in the public library perhaps not a drop in the bucket, but a small puddle.
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A point of view
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/12/2013
» Way back when, I majored in social sciences. At university, one of my professors gave a course "The History of History". It consisted of historians, with axes to grind, purporting to pen impartial histories through the ages. His point was that what we accept as factual was only their biased point of view.
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The aggrivated
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/07/2013
» If there's one thing people the world over agree on is that while they love their country, it needs improving. The Establishment isn't right. Election promises notwithstanding, national and private grievances are being ignored, if not aggravated. Is too much expected of democracy?
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Winners and losers
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/08/2013
» Among our basic instincts are survival, sex and competition _ the urge to win. To be the fastest, the strongest, the smartest, the best. In sports, in school, in business, in politics, in war. There is no second best. If you are not best, you're a loser. There is pride in being best _ honours, rewards.
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A religious relic
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/06/2013
» If the founding fathers of old are to be believed, it was God who told them to bring into being their respective religions. In return, they were to obey his commands without demur. To demonstrate how serious and powerful He is, He left incontrovertible, magical evidence of His existence.
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Terrorist or informer?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/11/2012
» I first heard the term as a child when my parents took me to see the John Ford movie, The Informer. Victor McLaglen played Gypo Nolan who, for 50, betrays his fugitive friend to the British. McLaglen and hangers on soon drink down the reward and he regrets his act, but it's too late.
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The one percent
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 03/09/2012
» Having written for decades a column about the vibrant night life in the Realm, I felt that I knew the subject better than anyone else and said so. To a large extent, this was no idle boast. My approach was non-judgemental. Others writing about it knew only a fraction as much as I did and had an axe to grind.
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