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@cicerone imposter,

It was during Tony Blair's tenure that the wartime debt was finally paid off. I don't know the exact year.

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@cicerone imposter,

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Wikipedia:

The final payment of $83.3 million (£42.5 million), due on December 31, 2006 (repayment having been deferred in the allowed five years and during a sixth year not allowed), was made on December 29, 2006 (the last working day of the year). After this final payment Britain's Economic Secretary to the Treasury formally thanked the U.S. for its wartime support.

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I'm reading a sci-fi novel on Wattpad. "I Don't Seem So Bright in a Well-Lit Room." Not sci-fi, actually, but a fantasy. Frenetic, funny, different from my usual fare.
Has many sentences like this: "He was so scarred that he had to wear protective goggles just to hold his eyeballs in."

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The Spell of the Sensuous - Perception and Language in a More than Human World by David Abram

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@hightor,

Currently reading (and enjoying) A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher.
Since my previous post:
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson.
The Broken Vow (Spill Zone, #2 after rereading Vol.1) by Scott Westerfield
The manga version of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas by Yuro Sumino
Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin

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@hightor,

I got sucked into the Abrams book after reading his last one on the natural world. That one was EXCELLENT, This one was a bit too much "fine writing" for me.

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@farmerman,

Interesting...I do get the sense that he's using a lot more words than necessary to make his point. (Of course, I'm guilty of that myself sometimes;I just enjoy putting words together.)

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@hightor,

Im an Elmore Leonard fan ,and that carries over to my text books and journals. I just love reading developd thoughts that are sparely set out.

"If I had more time I could have explained it simply"

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@farmerman,

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I just love reading developd thoughts that are sparely set out.

For sure; efficiency has its place. I take it you're not a fan of Joyce...or Proust? Very Happy

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@hightor,

nver read anything by Proust, Joyce, to me, was Ok . He at east had a tale, like Lovecraft(who is my fav gothic horror guy)

Reading techy papers where the authors tried more to impress rather than communicate.
I read this paper about (in my words), "We can miss the full geographic extent of fossils throughout their reported ranges but that does not mean they werent there".
That entire paper could have been summarized in that thought , and the authors could have presented some graphs to say "SEE?"

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@farmerman,

Just finished
The Last Grain Race-Eric Newby
Its a 1950's book on a guy who after some life slams gets on the last grain delivery by sail .Its really a song to the barque "Mushulu". Its a sail, (not a fully peaceful one" from the corn fields of AUstralia to the Atlantic .
I like sea adventures .This was almost as good as that Canadian Guy Joshua (forgot the last name) "Sailing Alone Around The World". Thats a sailing page turner. Its way bttr than Moby Dick, in which Mlville often just tries to impress us with his knowledge of whaling sail.

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Midway through the second of the N.K. Jemesin's Broken Earth trilogy 'Obelisk Gate' - worthy Hugo winner

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@farmerman,

Goddam. Full name of author ofSailing Alone Around The World.Its JOSHUA SLOCUM. He rescued and rebuilt a gaff rigged fish'man sailboat and sailed around the world. I comapre it to Sea of Cortez ecxept alone

"Sailing Alone..." IMHO, is best experienced as an AUdioBook, its a great tale that should be told so an auf=dio book frees up more of your imagination

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@farmerman,

Perchance, the audiobook isn't Christopher Cross' song on a loop?

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@tsarstepan,

oy, next to Enya's , Orinoco Flow, Christopher Cross
"Sailing" is one of the most puke inducing songs I know

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I'm reading Dune by Frank Herbert, hoping to finish it before Warner Bros releases the first footage of the 2020 film adaptation.

Recently finished Vengeful by VE Schwab. It is a follow up to Vicious, which is about a superpowered criminal going after his former friend, a serial killer going after other superpowered people. Vengeful was ok, though the ending was unfulfilling.

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Jack Tar, a book about the life of ordinary seamen aboard British warships like Nelson's HMS Victory. Lots of contemporary sources like sailor's letters, diaries, and journals are used. Fascinating.

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@hightor,

Love anything seafaring. Maybe youd like the historical novels about the Bolitho Brothers by Alx Kent (a pen name of a guy name Reeman)
They were age of sail novels .
Im gonna go and see Amazon ad for Jack Tar. I m reading cereal boxes

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@farmerman,

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...the historical novels about the Bolitho Brothers...

Thanks — I'll check them out for sure. I loved the Master and Commander series.

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@littlek,

I'm reading The Stranger now

I recommend reading it, but not everyone will like it.

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