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November 28, 2012

‘Beyond Good and Evil’, F. Nietzche

We really ought to free ourselves from the misleading significance of words! I was recently compelled into reading this work by Friedrich Nietzche. My…

November 27, 2012

‘Samurai, Warfare, and the State in Early Medieval Japan’, K. Friday

I found it quite interesting to pick this book up again after a number of years when on my first read I had managed…

November 14, 2012

Andrew Marr’s ‘History of the World’

As I said before, I was supposed to finish with my thoughts on the recent history programme by Andrew Marr. Now, as my last…

November 10, 2012

‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome’

Is out since yesterday (being annoying about days like that), and I just took a look at the second 11-minute installment. What I saw…

November 9, 2012

‘The Fort’, B. Cornwell

With the good excuse of not being a Massachusetts/Maine/Boston person, the contact previous to this book that I had had with Paul Revere had…

November 8, 2012

‘Churchill’s Desert War: The Road to El Alamein’

I just watched this BBC programme, and I was most surprised by how much I liked it. In general, I consider WWII to be…

November 5, 2012

Andrew Marr’s ‘History of the World’

The series has not finished yet, but I would just like to point out how I would summarize it thus far: aside the omissions…

November 4, 2012

Review: Japanese Castles AD 250-1540, Stephen Turnbull

I did very much enjoy this introduction to Japanese fortifications for the time period mentioned by Mr Turnbull. But as with nearly any Osprey…

November 3, 2012

‘Great North Road’, P. Hamilton

“How many twenty-second century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We’ll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with…

November 3, 2012

If We’re Not Beauts…

I came upon the following event on my scouring of the news and blogs and whatnot. I was rather amused at the brilliance of…

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