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Let's Talk About Books
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#52
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Currently I'm reading- Crime Doesn't Pay by Laura Norda, it's a cracker.
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#53
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What's a cracker? Something to do with code breaking and info security?
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#54
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I think it means it’s funny. I don’t know.
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#55
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I'm currently reading "The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu".

It's a description of how jihadis took over Mali and how some ancient illuminated manuscripts were hidden or smuggled out of the country to preserve them. Some of the manuscripts go back to the 13th century during Mali's heyday.
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#56
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(January 20, 2018 at 7:08 pm)Shell B Wrote: I think it means it’s funny. I don’t know.

No it doesn't mean that, it means it's very good.
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#57
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(January 21, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Cod Wrote:
(January 20, 2018 at 7:08 pm)Shell B Wrote: I think it means it’s funny. I don’t know.

No it doesn't mean that, it means it's very good.


Any idea of the derivation of the expression?  Makes me think of Wallace and Grommet somehow.
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#58
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(January 20, 2018 at 7:08 pm)Shell B Wrote: I think it means it’s funny. I don’t know.

"It cracked me up."  Cool
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(January 21, 2018 at 1:00 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(January 21, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Cod Wrote: No it doesn't mean that, it means it's very good.


Any idea of the derivation of the expression?  Makes me think of Wallace and Grommet somehow.

No idea sorry, makes me think of the comedian Frank Carson though Smile
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#60
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I'm reading "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder and "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff.

Sophie's world is a history of philosophy told as a fictional story of a teenage girl receiving philosophy lessons from a mysterious philosopher.

I've given up on trying to commit each individual philosopher and their beliefs to memory. Way too many foreign names. I wasn't good at that sort of thing in school.

Most of you know about "Fire and Fury" The book about what people who interacted with Trump really thought about him.

I'm still in the first chapter and I'm already seeing that creep Ailes didn't even take him seriously and thought he lacked true will or commitment to a cause. Of course that cause was likely right wing bullshit.
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