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Pakistani Kite Flying Competition Disaster

Post by OliverG » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:41 pm


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Post by bhsu24 » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:58 am

Wow thats crazy!!!!!
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Post by wilzone » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:14 pm

Interesting co-incidence, as my girlfriend just finished reading and gave to me a novel called "Kite Runner" about 2 Pakistani boys growing up focused around this tradition. Seeing this news article really makes the book seem that much more poignient.

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Post by Jack Straw » Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:53 am

Great story, Ollie, thanks for sharing...puts a busy delta weekend day into perspective.

Can't wait for those warm winds to blow

"going where the wind don't blow so strange,
maybe up on a hightop mountain range....
my old body you're moving much too slow"

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Post by OliverG » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:20 pm

wilzone wrote:Interesting co-incidence, as my girlfriend just finished reading and gave to me a novel called "Kite Runner" about 2 Pakistani boys growing up focused around this tradition. Seeing this news article really makes the book seem that much more poignient.

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Is it a good book that you'd recommend?

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Post by wilzone » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:01 pm

So far I would say yes, though it has fairly little to do with kites.

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Post by OliverG » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:10 pm

wilzone wrote:So far I would say yes, though it has fairly little to do with kites.
O:) That's OK, every book I read usually has little to do with kites, I just like to hear what other people are reading...

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Post by wilzone » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:16 pm

So far it's an extremely well written, very sad story about growing up in Afghanistan.

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Post by Shakedown Man » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:42 pm

Ollie - some good books I've read recently:
1. Blink - a book about our minds, how decisions are made.
2. Life of Pi - great book, about survival in the ocean.

Good wind + waves, Zeev

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Post by OliverG » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:55 am

Zeev,

Excellent. I've seen both of those around lately. I just finished A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson and starting one called In Praise of Slowness, How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed, a book about, you guessed it, slowing down in life.

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