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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.
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.
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.
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.
Hearts and minds
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/08/2012
» The basic assumption in the West is that the rest of the world is comprised of savages, barbarians and ignoramuses and that the West has the moral obligation to civilise them. Not least by bringing them to God, the West's God of the New Testament of course. Hence the missionaries of every shape and form.
Crime in Chinatown
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/08/2012
» Novels about innocent young girls being abducted by dirty old men for sexual purposes fill shelves in libraries. They are based on real life tragic stories reported by the media. Despite the efforts of the law enforcement authorities, few of the perpetrators are caught.
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.
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.
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.
Torture is justified
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/05/2012
» It would appear that every Western novelist feels that if he doesn't pen at least one story about Muslim terrorists, he isn't being patriotic. Doesn't matter if it's plausible, it is the subject matter that counts. After all, is there any atrocity Muslim terrorists aren't capable of?