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"film & bookaholic"

Location:: Mississauga, Ontario Canada

Reviewer Rank:: 19,219

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Nickname:: filmaholic

In my own words: I'm a New Zealander by origin who now lives in Canada, works in the IT industry and reads prolifically in my not so copious spare time. Have a few thousand books in the basement, with my major areas of interest being Science Fiction / Fantasy, Military History (particularly the Russo-Finnish War, Rhodeasia and Southern Africa and the Burma Front of WW2), Mountaineering, Travel and project management methodologies (with a bent towards Agile). In general, I tend to review more obscure books that ...[more]
Interests: Travel (back-packing, not 4 star stuff), Reading (anything and everything), History, currently learning Finnish...ja suomen oppiminen on haaste, uskokaa minua...

Favorite Items

Favorite Books

Books I'm currently reading or rereading

A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William Trotter
The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise by Ian Baker
Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-team at War by Frank Antenori
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team by Michael Smith

Favorite Movies

Movies I've watched recently

Michael Collins DVD ~ Ian Hart
Into the Tsangpo Gorge DVD ~ Dustin Knapp
House of Flying Daggers DVD ~ Takeshi Kaneshiro
Pride & Prejudice DVD ~ Keira Knightley
Tears of the Sun (Special Edition) DVD ~ Bruce Willis

Latest Activity

July 3

Reviewed We Live in Alaska by Constance Helmericks and rated it

A Year in the Alaskan backcountry in the mid 1940's [more]

July 3

Reviewed Guns for Hire: How the CIA & US Army Recruit Mercenaries for White Rhodesia by John Dough and rated it

Like so much left-wing garbage, this book is utter unmitigated rubbish [more]

June 30

Reviewed The Cot Death Cover-up? by Jim Sprott and rated it

Why is everyone so perplexed about SIDS? It's so easily preventable! [more]

June 30

Reviewed Biting the Bullet: Living with the SAS by Jenny Simpson and rated it

How the "other half" deals with a partner in a Special Forces Unit.. [more]

June 30

Reviewed Married to the Sas by Frances Nicholson and rated it

Enjoyed this one..... [more]

June 28

Reviewed Hmnzs Achilles (Naval Series / Battery Press) by Jack S. Harker and rated it

A history of New Zealand's most famous warship [more]

Reviews

We Live in Alaska by Constance Helmericks

A Year in the Alaskan backcountry in the mid 1940's, July 3, 2008

Published in 1945, this book is the story of a year in the life of Constance and Harmon Helmericks. Packing what they needed into a canoe powered by a small outboard, they headed up the Denali River as far as they could get, built a log cabin, lived off the land, primarily hunting and eating... Read More

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The SBS (Special Boat Service) (June 5, 2008)

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• Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick

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• Special Boat Squadron - the Story of the SBS in the Mediterranean by Barrie Pitt
• Sbs in World War Two by G.B. Courtney

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	Guns for Hire: How the CIA & US Army Recruit Mercenaries for White Rhodesia by John Dough Kiwi's tags: left-wing garbage, nonsense Customer tags: left-wing garbage (1), nonsense (1), rhodesia fiction (1)

	Friday's Tunnel by John Verney Kiwi's tags: john verney