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JMULV is a fraud, obviously

I’ve been saying for quite a while that fat alcoholic JMULV was obviously full of shit. It was immediately clear just from watching him talk: fat face, flat affect in the eyes, and zero charisma. He also just oozes liar. …

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#76 – Chicot De Jester, Alexandre Dumas BOOK REVIEW

The thing about reading Dumas is that his novels are such page-turners that I just can’t stop. After dispatching La Reine Margot last weekend I immediately turned my attention to the epic 100-chapter Chicot De Jester, also known as La …

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#75 – La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas BOOK REVIEW

“Nick, what’s with all these lurid spy novels? I thought you were attempting to become The Most Interesting Man In The World. Wasn’t your reading project meant to be studying world history, high-falutin’ theory, and the Classics?” Well yes, but….. …

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#74 – Murderer’s Row, Donald Hamilton BOOK REVIEW

Have you ever wondered if spies and assassins go through troublesome periods of weak inner game? Daygame can be pretty tough, as we all know. There is so much to learn, technically, that it can feel like juggling ten balls …

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Ask Jimmy #2

We are quite pleased at the amount of interest shown in the first Ask Jimmy post and he’s had a look at the questions readers left in the comments below. I’m leaving it entirely up to him which ones he …

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#73 – The Wrecking Crew, Donald Hamilton BOOK REVIEW

There’s a reason I try to review books immediately after finishing them: everything is fresh in my mind and there are usually a few ‘hot takes’ I have on the content or writing style. It wouldn’t seem a big deal …

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#72 – Straight And Crooked Thinking, Robert H. Thouless BOOK REVIEW

Some Jordan Peterson fans are cunts. Let me explain. One of my favourite courses at university was called Introduction To Informal Logic given by the philosophy department [1]. The idea was to clarify the thinking of students when reasoning verbally, …

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#71 – The Silencers, Donald Hamilton BOOK REVIEW

  There’s something strangely alluring to me, in fiction, about the border towns of Mexico. It’s puzzling why this should be but it is so and I shall attempt to reason it out. Before I go any further, why don’t …

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Ask Jimmy #1

Most readers will be only dimly aware of Rock Solid Game founder Jimmy Jambone [1] who was my next-door neighbour at Chateau Hampstead. Those of you who’ve read Balls Deep and A Deplorable Cad will have a rather more fleshed-out …

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Younger Hotter Tighter – Review #2

A week before announcing the release of my latest book, Younger Hotter Tighter, I sent a copy to a friend and asked him to give me a review for the blog. Here it is: I was very fortunate to be …

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