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itsjustryan
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 Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:54 am Post subject: Whats Frank reading these days? |
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| Well, whats Frank reading these days? Or during the last time you weren't too busy to read. The tour looks like a ridiculous schedule. |
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frank
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| hello ryan. right now i'm finishing off a biography of stalin (evil fucker) and about to start on a history and technical exposition of folk music in the british isles. |
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BenMD
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| looking for tips, Francis? |
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Pete
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| From the folk book or Stalin? |
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BenMD
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| Stalin, obviously. My eyes blocked out the folk book. |
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Pete
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| One harmonica is a tragedy, a million harmonicas just a statistic? |
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David
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:27 am Post subject: |
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may I ask which Stalin biography it is?
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rockface
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| David wrote: | | may I ask which Stalin biography it is? |
I'd imagine it's the biography of Eddie Stalin, a fishmonger from Minsk who revolutionised the industry with the introduction of serated blades |
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David
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| rockface wrote: | | David wrote: | | may I ask which Stalin biography it is? |
I'd imagine it's the biography of Eddie Stalin, a fishmonger from Minsk who revolutionised the industry with the introduction of serated blades |
I was more wondering whether it was service, sebag montefiore, volkogonov etc.
I find montefiore the most readable, but I think service's work is probably the one with the most 'academic' merit.
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frank
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| montifiore. actually i find his style slightly annoying at times. but it's very interesting. |
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suze
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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I'm just finishing that Montefiore book. I find his writing *rather* irritating at times - a little too colloquial for the subject matter maybe. Or maybe it's just the tone. Or alternatively I'm just jealous as I'd love to write a Stalin Biography.
Sigh. |
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suze
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, and yes, Stalin is a sick bastard, but without his rapid industrialisation of Russia would the outcome of WW2 been significantly different?
Not saying he was right or owt, but, you know, it's a point... |
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Pete
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a pretty moot point though. You can't justify his actions on the basis of a future war no one could have predicted. Akin to the loom of fate from Wanted |
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