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Rodney’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Rodney’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
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Supreme Bowling: 100 Great Test Performances
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Q&A with Jason Cowley, 16 November 2019
Q: "Should respectable weeklies be in the habit of giving prominent moderate politicians, who don't want for platforms already, a whole page to jot down their unmediated, self-loving self-justifications? No doubt there is a place for "The Diary" -- see Alan Bennett's imperishable feuilletons for The London Review of Books -- but have Margaret Hodge (8 November), Rory Stewart (1 November), Joanna C
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Rodney Ulyate
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bookshelves:
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1882,
t1,
non-fiction,
digitised,
australia,
australian-aborigines,
australian-nationalism,
history,
ancestried
Rodney Ulyate
is currently reading
bookshelves:
1882,
t1,
currently-reading,
newspaper,
australia,
crime,
gossip,
books-that-made-me-lol
Rodney’s Recent Updates
“You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.”
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“Political centrism ≠ neutrality. Being a centrist doesn't make you unbiased; it biases you in favour of the centre.”
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“Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
“Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real instrument of its revenge before all the world as a mortal enemy and nail it to the cross, so that 'all the world,' namely all the opponents of Israel, could unhesitatingly swallow just this bait? And could spiritual subtlety imagine any more dangerous bait than this? Anything to equal the enticing, intoxicating, overwhelming, and undermining power of that symbol of the 'holy cross,' that ghastly paradox of a 'God on the cross,' that mystery of an unimaginable ultimate cruelty and self-crucifixion of God for the salvation of man?”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
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“As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.”
― Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
― Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
The Rachel Maddow Show
— 6 members
— last activity Jan 27, 2011 06:25PM
Books by guests/interviewees on TRMS.
Tolkien’s Middle Earth
— 9 members
— last activity Mar 31, 2010 08:49AM
A book club for those interested in JRR Tolkien’s works which mostly pertain to Middle Earth.
The Inklings
— 506 members
— last activity Jul 14, 2025 07:19AM
The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1930s and the 1960s. Its most re ...more
The Four Horsemen
— 115 members
— last activity Jan 07, 2019 09:45AM
A harmonious place to discuss and consider the offerings of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
The Atheist Book Club
— 1656 members
— last activity Jul 21, 2025 02:56AM
In these gilded halls we shall discuss the presence of the atheistic viewpoint in the written form. Are you a fan of Douglas Adams' scientific view of ...more
J.M. Coetzee
— 14 members
— last activity Jul 16, 2010 04:31AM
J.M. Coetzee is a South African writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. He earned undergraduate degrees in English and mathematics ...more
Daily Show / Colbert Report / Nightly Show / The Opposition
— 386 members
— last activity Nov 21, 2025 10:57AM
Books featured by these shows.
Marxism
— 1056 members
— last activity Aug 12, 2025 04:21PM
Reading works by and about Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels.
The Susan Sontag Club
— 22 members
— last activity Feb 20, 2014 04:46PM
The aim of this group is to identify and discuss exceptional works of original critical thought similar to those of Susan Sontag and the thinkers who ...more
420 readers
— 74 members
— last activity Nov 13, 2020 06:01AM
This a group for people who are 420 friendly, into mind expansion, and love to read! We discuss & recommend books, discuss LOTS of different topics, a ...more
I see that you have listed my first book "Mother Lode" in a trilogy. Hows your reading progressing on my book. I just received my first comment on Amazon, looking for yours.
Gracias,
John