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Is the UN really of any use in today's world scene? It seems impotent, an exclusive club for constantly wining and dining retired diplomats...and the haste in which this Israeli assault was launched, in the very last days of the tame Bush administration, with the withdrawal as Obama comes on...

Havelock Ellis wrote a remarkable series of in-depth, no pun intended, sexual studies at the start of the last century, much of which deals with all aspects of homosexuality- second on the list would be Kraft-Ebbing's work.

A classic it certainly is, and one of the few where the remarkable Sir Peter Brooks 1961 BandW movie sticks to the oriiginal storyline. LOTFHOMEPAGE

:lol: brilliant.

Are you enjoying his work, MonkeyCatcher? I have to say I tried those two after reading about him on the James Lee Burke board, and couldn't finish either of them...I found them very dull, disjointed, and his stream-of-conciousness writing style had me ( yawn) sliding into unconciousness, on...

... given that Bush sounds exactly like Maxwell Smart..maybe the guy thought Bush asked for a phone? OK..would you believe two phones? Even more than showing the soles of the feet, calling someone a ""dog"", as Bush was called, is a grave insult in the Arab world because dogs will, if allowed...

..I was wondering what style of guitar you play?

James Lee Bourke, one of my favourite crime writers, has a brilliant series set in New Iberia in the US South, and another set in Montana. Both series are earthy and very much warts and all. He also has a very busy forum, where he answers readers questions, etc.

I read all his books as a child, and loved every one of them. One thing that is obvious in his work is the way the concept of ""childhood"" has changed in the period since they were written- the boys are treated, and act as, small adults in many ways.

:)...""you want hair with that? " Even worse is, your sitting there, chewing on a Big Mac, and the piped music is playing Horse With No Name, and you notice just how gristly and chewy the meat is, and you start to wonder........

I remember when this was all the fashion, around the mid '90's. I got a BC Rich with this dumbo set-up, and sold it after the first string change. A good idea in principle, but very user un-friendly.

Transfusion, transfusion, I'm one solid mass of...contusions, I'm never never never gonna speed again- Put a gallon in me, Allan... Put a litre in me, Peter. ""Transfusion"" by Nervous Norvus c.1956

Dvorak's Cello Concerto.

No...but Love In The South Seas is always popular :) Hi Eva.

I have never heard it played here in Australia in the context of christmas music- and there is certainly nothing christmasy about the content of the song.

Hi from an aussie bookfan.

What a brilliant novelist he was- although some of his pre-Aubrey/Maturin works were very ordinary, I feel - the description of the everyday foods and music of the era alone make his work unforgettable. Soused Pigs Face..followed by Drowned Baby? Yum...lead me to it;)