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I just thank God for Kindles built in dictionary. Do yo know what a 'Maidan" or "Purlieus" is? I do!! |
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Actually the only book I have used my dictionary with. I was actually surprised it had the words. Many were British slang/terms too. BOb |
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Try reading some Aldous Huxley. THAT'LL send you clicking!
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However, as I realise that sounds unbearably smug and more than a bit like showing off, the only reason I know them is purely down to the books that were in the house I grew up in - I lived an aunt and my nanna until I was about 11, and then visited regularly for several years after, and they were both book-a-holics and had no objections to me reading anything I could get my hands on, and explaining what I didn't know. Somehow I never got hold of books like the Jackie Collins ones my aunt had... but that was at least partly to how she had arranged her books! |
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It had it's moments, but as I mentioned elsewhere it had far more moments where I wanted to give either various characters (and I don't think any of the major characters escaped that) or the author a slap and tell them to snap out of it.
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I love getting lost in another time period, and seeing things thru their eyes. OH. Sorry. Early thread hijack! |
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Well, all I had were movie magazines laying around and some novels that I really didn't understand at the time..... |
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Just remembered - I didn't even know there were such things as film and music magazines until I was in my teens!! |
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