Suspect I read most of the Biggles, Worral and Gimlet books as a kid.

Great insight into early pre and post war racial stereotypes. Academic exercise - as WE Johns racist?

Posted By: trustsec on February 14th 2011 at 17:42:20

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fao: otto/berlin (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 14, 17:16:12
- Haven't seen them or read the books (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 14, 17:37:32
  - i have bookmarked that (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 14, 17:48:48
    - Hard to get hold of - it's on Amazon for about 20 quid though (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 14, 17:57:49
- Are they are good as The Da Vinci Code. (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Feb 14, 17:25:11
  - I quite enjoyed it. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 14, 17:26:09
    - only because the interesting plot was stolen verbatim from Richard Leigh and the other one (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 14, 18:52:55
- Quite possibly two of the worst books ever written (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Feb 14, 17:17:36
  - have you ever read Meltdown by Ben Elton? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 14, 17:32:06
    - Man and Boy is truely awful (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 14, 17:41:48
  - i didnt read them (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 14, 17:18:43
    - Do yourself a flavour - DON'T! (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Feb 14, 17:21:08
      - the plot for the second one did descend into lunacy 2/3rds in (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 14, 17:24:49
        
        did it mention Fermat's Last Theorum? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 14, 17:34:21
        
        Ha, yes. She proved it, didn't she. (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 14, 17:37:40
        
        yep, but it took her longer than any other maths problem she'd ever seen though (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 14, 17:44:27
        
        Maybe she just remembered the solution from Singh's book (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Feb 14, 17:59:21
        
        can't recall any mention of cocktails to be honest (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 14, 17:36:51
        
        *Theorem* (General Chat) - Old Git, Feb 14, 17:36:18
      - I found "Biggles of the Special Air Police" at home at the weekend. (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 14, 17:22:45
        
        Suspect I read most of the Biggles, Worral and Gimlet books as a kid. (General Chat) - trustsec, Feb 14, 17:42:20
        
        A classic! (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Feb 14, 17:29:36
    - FFS !! (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 14, 17:19:37

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