Interesting to note that Gavin Menzies' book was published around the world as: 1421 - THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED THE WORLD
Except in the USA. In that modest land: 1421 - THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED AMERICA
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Wait wait wait! You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity!
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We loved reading:
- Midnight's Children
- Alice in Wonderland
- A Play of Giants
- Bhagavad Gita
- Chander Pahar
- Cracking India
- Declaration of Independence
- Flashman series
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- His Dark Materials trilogy
- Kim
- Liberty or Death
- My Name is Red
- Our Dumb Century
- Shame
- The Book of the Book
- The Complete Nigerian
- The Crow Eaters
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
- The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi
- The Prophet
- The Proteus Operation
- The Pyrates
- The Quran
- The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- The Satanic Verses
- The Sign of Four
- Tryst with Destiny
- When You Hear Hoof Beats Think of a Zebra
We loved watching:
- Analyze This and That
- Belleville Rendez-vous
- Black
- Casablanca
- Company
- Der Untergang (Downfall)
- Dil Chahta Hai
- Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Fight Club
- International Gorilley [never seen]
- Kill Bill 1 and 2
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Life is Beautiful
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Nayak
- Qurbani
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Rang de Basanti
- Shichinin no Samurai (The Seven Samurai)
- Sholay
- Sin City
- Sonar Kella
- Star Wars series
- The Dollar Trilogy
- The Godfather Trilogy
- The Life of Brian
- The Maltese Falcon
- Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
- Wong Fei Hung (Once Upon a Time in China) series