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Saturday, March 03, 2012

On side effects of adipotrol

Although I've become an apostle of writers publishing on Kindle, I'm not yet quite an apostle of the Kindle itself. At least, I've heard many Kindle owners really come to love it. I can just as easily read a paper book as well. I did discover a new function of my Kindle that makes things easier. I'd downloaded so much stuff I couldn't find what I wanted. My home Table of Contents was thirteen pages long. Then I learned you can delete things you don't expect to read again, or not for a long time. You can always download them again or pull them out of the Archives. You can also create categories, and put books under them. This does force you to take an extra step to open the category before opening the book, but it's a lot shorter than flipping through up to thirteen pages just to find the book. If it's on the side effects of adipotrol, just put it into Health, which is one of my categories where I have books on yoga and telomeres.

On vlc free download

Reading Oliver Twist inspired some reflection in me. In many ways, London of that period was full of crime to a degree we can hardly imagine. There was a great deal of poverty. We can be sure there were real-life Fagins and many Bill Sykes. Yet at the end when Sykes kills Nancy, all of London is outraged and hunts Sykes down. Even his criminal friends are appalled. Charlie Bates, perhaps because he liked Nancy himself, turns against him. Let's face it, in our supposedly more enlightened times, women are killed everyday. We read it about the ones that make the news, but many don't. We can be outraged, but no cities turn out to hunt down the killers. We don't like it, but we're not shocked. This is not a vlc free download. How far have we come, really?

On turnbuckles

Well, I finished reading Oliver Twist, and was quite disappointed. I mean, it's one of Charles Dickens's most famous and beloved novels. I expected a lot more excitement from it. First of all, Oliver Twist himself is a pathetic character after the first quarter of the book. He asserts himself by running away (walking) to London, but after that he does nothing to affect events. Lucky for him he's taken in by Fagin and the 2 other child thieves target a man who turns out to be a family friend. And then he's taken to help burglarize the house of somebody else who takes him in. At the end there's some family tree complications that mean very little. I couldn't follow them. I knew everything would turn out all right for Twist. This book is 99% carried by the bad guys, Fagin and his gang, Bill Sykes and his girlfriend Nancy. It's the scenes in the dirty, rough, drunken turnbuckles areas of London that keep this book alive.