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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited April 2019 Posts: 18,282
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Revelator wrote: »
    Perhaps we could start a "Crime Fiction and Comics" thread that would include Tracy and all other great detectives.

    There's already a crime fiction thread (started by me) where we can also talk about comics.

    Yes, I'd forgotten about that one. We could revive that thread then instead perhaps.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    EMOTION; INTELLECT AND SPIRITUALITY (1911) by Annie Besant.
  • Mack_BolanMack_Bolan
    edited April 2019 Posts: 377
    James Bond.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
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    https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/93393834-philip
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    EVOLUTION AND OCCULTISM (1913) by Annie Besant.
    Now, in past Universes a process of development has gone on similar to that which is going on in the present world to-day; in those past Universes minds were developed as we develop minds now, and their process of development will be clearer when you follow the process of development amongst ourselves. The minds that developed in those preceding Universes, that passed into Nirvana, that passed out of Nirvana again at the beginning of the present age, have many names both in The Secret Doctrine and in other books. Let us take the name of "Sons of Mind" because it describes their most salient characteristic. They are sometimes spoken of under the name of Kwanaras, which means "youths," sometimes they are called Solar Pitris; but I prefer to take the name most often used in The Secret Doctrine, where of course you get it in the Sanskrit form, Manasa Putra; we will take it in English, as "Sons of Mind." They have developed Intelligence. Now what is Intelligence? Intelligence is the result of vital activity working in a particular form of matter and developing connecting links between the external Universe and itself. It is a thing of slow growth; it is made by experience; it is evolved, it does not come into existence suddenly. Intelligence is the outcome of these repeated contacts, and of the working of life on the contacts; so that you never can get Intelligence apart from organism. You have something which may be called the Supreme Life; but it is a mistake to speak of It then as Intelligence; it is higher and deeper and sublimer than anything we know as Intelligence, and Its processes are far beyond and above everything that we call thought. Thought always consists in this linking together of the external and the internal, of making ideal links between the two, and hence images--ideas, as we call them; and Intelligence is only developed by the Supreme Life manifesting Itself, as what we for want of a better word, are obliged to call Spirit in the English tongue--Atma is the familiar name in our own philosophy--by thus manifesting Itself in the subtlest form; and then gradually working through matter and thereby evolving what we call Intelligence. That is, all these connecting links that go to build mental faculties.
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited April 2019 Posts: 2,918
    Thinking about re-reading Jeremy Duns's book Rogue Royale, which is currently available for free on Amazon in kindle format. If you haven't read this story about the greatest Bond film never made, read it now!
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    There's already a crime fiction thread (started by me) where we can also talk about comics.

    Found it!
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Just received the new John Connolly, this new Charlie Parker like the previous books will undoubtedly be bloody brilliant.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    1911
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    1912
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Perfected since 1912. I had no idea.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
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  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Just finished "Th Scarlet Pimpernel" the first "hero"with a secret identity, it is still a classic story and I do have a 1909 copy which makes reading these antic books a lot more fun.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE LAWS OF HIGHER LIFE (1903) by Annie Besant.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Two early novels, only published after Shute's death. Not bad.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe and Vietnam by Max Hastings.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Novels. Starting with A Study in Scarlet.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    MEMORIES OF PAST LIVES (1911) by Annie Besant.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    MEMORY AND ITS NATURE (1935) by Annie Besant.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
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    NOTES ON A FOREIGN COUNTRY (2017) by Suzy Hansen
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    1914
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Damn it, how many books has this Besant woman written?!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    A few more.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    She's probably writing one in her coffin at this very moment.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited May 2019 Posts: 12,480
    Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch. Again. I LOVE this series. Great characters, humor, magic, police procedures, etc. Oh and London. I love reading about London. And the main character, Peter Grant, has developed to have a very enjoyable style, the way he tells us the stories.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    That's the second recommendation for Ben Aaronovitch I've had in 2 days. I must try them. (Remembrance of the Daleks is one of my favourite Dr Who stories, so...)
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    The Making of Star Wars by J W Rinzler.

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