Just finished reading Jung Chang's biography of Chairman Mao.
A more disgusting, stomach-turning, nose-offending litany of barbarity and self-serving callousness I have never come across.
Chang estimates (she claims conservatively) that Mao was responsible for the deaths of 70 million people, and lifelong misery for hundreds of millions more.
I remember a young woman I knew as a teenager (god, I wanted to get in her pants) patiently explaining to me how Mao and the Communists had created a new and wonderful society where everybody cared for each other more than they cared for themselves.
Boy, was she wrong. Of course, I agreed with anything she said (did me no good), but even then I was pretty sceptical in my heart of hearts.
I look at people like Mao in the same way I look at people like Ted Bundy and Peter Sutcliffe: I know that however long I live or how wise I become I will never understand what went on the heads of people like that. They are, in some sense, inhuman.
Now I have to find a new book to read on the bog...
sounds to me like you need something light to read now.
Tricks to please a woman = by Jay Wiseman could be a good read for you seeing as you had no luck with your little friend..
You'd spend less time in the loo so wouldn't have need of biographies of historic figures to while away the hours. Granted I was assuming you didn't read 1/3 page at a time, standing up. That would be multitasking of an order higher than any man I know could manage.
The reading on the bog is not something I wish to give up, nor is the amount of reading I do proportional to the effort involved ... er ... at the other end, so to speak. So fibre is irrelevant. Though I now see what you were getting at.
And for the others - durr - I understood the reference to fibre I just missed the relevance
Er - also - and here I realise this may be a revelation that could irretrievably damage my reputation - I usually sit down to pee. At home, at any rate.
By the way, anybody want to buy a xsxoxixlxexdx second hand copy of MAO?
Why? and why only at home? (And just wait till DavidJames gets wind of this).How many pages are missing?Originally Posted by Sits-down-to-pee
By the way, I read that choice of bogside reading matter is a class thing. Novels and biography are irretrievably bourgeois. Both the proletariat and aristocracy prefer glossy periodicals: huntin', shootin' and fishin' for the latter, and something a bit more earthy for the former.
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