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Unpealing the Onion: Growing up in a tough neighborhood in South Africa

Filed under Ecology by rallyround on March 21, 2010 at 12:59 am no comments

My wife does not take any inter­est in the books I read. She prefers non-​fiction. She thinks I am still into Walt Dis­ney.
I dis­ap­pear from her life with a J.M. Coet­zee or a Wilbur Smith novel. I am also into Stephen Leather and Michael Con­nelly. I am one of those guys who lives in real­ity. My life is adven­tur­ous enough with­out a fic­tional fix. I grew up, and sur­vived, with respect until today, in one of the tough­est neigh­bor­hoods and envi­ron­ments in the world.
My par­ents were work­ing class.
Out­side toi­lets, show­ers, and hav­ing to walk past the angry dom­i­nant cock , who ripped open my back, only once, with his 1 1/​2 inch spurs, was the order of the day.
These writ­ers seem to have the abil­ity to sum­marise and cap­ture some of these things which I know, put them in order, and always bring the lat­est tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments in the field to my attention.

http://​www​.michael​con​nelly​.com/

http://​nobel​prize​.org/​n​o​b​e​l​_​p​r​i​z​e​s​/​l​i​t​e​r​a​t​u​r​e​/​l​a​u​r​e​a​t​e​s​/​2​0​0​3​/​c​o​e​t​z​e​e​-​b​i​o​.​h​tml Coetzee

http://​www​.stephen​leather​.com/

http://​www​.wilbur​smith​books​.com/

My next com­ments will be on John Grisham , whom, I believe that I have read every sin­gle book, but will admit that I wait for the paper back.
His new book, Appeal is a block­buster.
The next arti­cle is going to cover the fol­low­ing links, so be prepared.

http://​www​.flag​-sa​.org/​b​l​o​g​/​2​0​0​7​/​0​7​/​u​s​-​g​o​v​e​r​n​m​e​n​t​-​b​u​s​t​s​-​m​o​n​s​a​n​t​o​-​f​o​r​_​2​8​.​h​t​m​l​#​l​i​nks

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0317,charles,43542,1.htmlhttp://www.blackcommentator.com/20_commentary_1_pr.html

That is just a start.

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