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Great one.... To think Nigerian youths are busy killing themselves over this folks and all they do is shake hands and enjoy together.


Gentlemen, can Edo ever produce handsome governors like Ekiti just wondering though

midnighter:
what do you think I do?

One flew over the cuckoos nest is about the goings-on in a psychiatric ward in 1960s America. Its a classic

Theres also the catcher in the rye and the great gatsby

I will check the books on pdfdrive.com. and about what you do, how will I know all I do is help govt preserve their books from the library am not a prophet or dibia

midnighter:
What about One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest?

What do you do for a living by the way? U seem like one Dow to earth lady

midnighter:
What about One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest?

Nooooo. What z it abt?

I think the teacher deserves a medal for thinking outside the box

Village people in your brothers fiancee form. U better follow the bible advise and flee

midnighter:
Have you read "How to Stop Time" by Matt Haig? Very interesting

I have. Have even read 4 more of his book.


The dead father's club

Reason to stay alive

The humans.


He writes fine though I feel.......

midnighter:
If you can build it you could probably install some electronic scanners and put tags inside the books to prevent stealing

Besides you are not stealing but...emm.. preserving

As a matter of fact you are just too brilliant . Preserving is the word charming. And for the records am done with MY COMMAND by Olusegun obasanjo. Any book you wanna recommend?

midnighter:
Lol! Thats an amazing story. So do the rest of your siblings love reading too or did it turn them off?

Yeah harlequin series or all this romance junks

midnighter:
Yeah some public libraries, especially state ones are almost as disgusting as public toilets

You can try university or federal libraries instead.

My dream some days is to build the biggest library in the world. To make reading fun and not burden and make people understand reading gets you informed not deformed.



I hope karma won't catch up and somebody will be stealing the books form the library too

ublight:
brian and midnight or whatever u guys call yourselves. A mad man is about to run loose, and u guys are getting romantic.
Biko park well o. Let me see the mad mans cassava dangle

What even became of OP.

midnighter:
The bolded is just the truth. The whole thing is very complicated, it will be difficult to get to the true story in the near future

Hm, i dont know. I have always loved reading since I was a child. Our house was always full of different books. What about you?

My mum was the reason I love reading and the motivation came by Cane. She was a single mum so she was kinda hard on me and my siblings so we can turn out fine and overcome the stereotype of single parents (if you know what I meant). Those days she will give us a book to read in a week and every Sunday evening was always war. Around 8pm after dinner she will calls us all togeda to come give summary of what we read she was a nurse though always very busy I don't even know the magic coz she knows about all the books. She will correct all the errors we make during summary and if you did great with the summary, she will reward you with biscuit or so (I was around 6-7 then). If you can't pinpoint what you read.... Oboy sorry is your case coz the neighbours must not hear u cry.

DAT was my motivation and it made me love reading

midnighter:
Yeah but it depends on which one you visit. Some of them are very nice

Yes some of those librarians are crazy lol. Im sure they havent even paid them and thats why they act like that

I went to a public library in osun state osogbo precisely, the books were so dusty... Men I was left in shock. Couldn't differentiate between the place and a classroom. People were discussing loudly and the said librarian didn't even gv a hoot

midnighter:
Lol you will re-colonise Nigeria, one stolen book at a time...

Like I said, we are just helping the government by stealing books from the library. Nobody z reading them there and the librarian are nonchalant about caring for this treasures so we help them do the job. Hopefully some days when I die and my library z been checked they would gv me some award for having more precious historical books than the major libraries

midnighter:
Can you please modify this and make it clearer? I cant really understand the point youre making

If Nzeogwu joined biafra, then according to someone on the biafran side like my dad, he wouldnt be a traitor. But according to you, he would. Isnt that how military conflict works?

I had that Ben Gbulies book as well but I didnt finish it

I finished Gbulies book though. But the book lactlk content to me. About nzeogwu. I feel he is the only real patriotic officer fighting for a reason. He wasn't in support of Biafra, he just wanted a better Nigeria. You should get the book why we struck. You will understand things better. Even from Adewale Ademoyega Book I realised he told Ojukwu he was not after making Biafra a sovereign state he was just after making Nigeria a better abode to hand power to Awolowo who was regarded to have an integrity then.

See I think its all abracadabra. The more you read the less you understand. And by the way what makes you so interested in books

Make me an offer I can't refuse..

alizma:
Those guys are wounded and crippled so that you may have peaceful sleep.

Don't mind that guy he will write anything to get audience and attention. And he claimed to be an officer in one thread like that.

Just 2 pages assuming its Opposite children of hate would hv elongate the pages to like 12 all cursing and abusing the most Nobel and selfless profession.

midnighter:
Lol it means what

Maybe some days Nigeria will be great again and I might be a colonial ruler or smfin. Coz I feel somewhere in this world are still some folks hiding in some bush who are yet to have a country or so they just live in a niche etc. The movie Apocalypse fuelled my imagination of this though

midnighter:
Yeah he said he was a traitor. I was curious as to why so I decided to read it

Thanks... it would be nice but the problem with curator, librarian, agents and jobs like that is that they are less stable than science-related jobs. Once they cut your funding, you are finished

Was he a traitor because he fought with the Federal troops? Don't forget he wasn't the only Igbo officers who had an allegiance to the federal troop. Though after kano massacre and all officers were to leave for their home states, some few officers still remained in the north Olusegun obasanjo and don't forget during the war, Chief justice Dr MI okpara, Dr Pius Okigbo, Chief Ekukinam, sir Louis Mbanefo and kalu still met Obasanjo in owerri for a meeting would you consider them traitors as well? And ifeajuna who was so loyal want to came of him? Kaduna nzeogwu has been a role model to me even before I joined the military what I came of him? This was a man loved and idolised by men of the Nigerian army and after he was released from jail prior to civil war he had the chance to join the federal forces again but he decided to allign with Biafra. What became of him? Even Ben gbulie and the rest.



Sorry for this I felt Biafra war was uncalled for and Ojukwu had alterior motives its not just about the war but he had some selfish ambition to fulfil. Were u aware he sworn he won't back down till his last drop of blood but when the federal forces besieged him he handed over to Maj Gen Effiong and passed the back door with his family out of nigeria?

all I see z a bag of money not a child....


Hbd money bag

midnighter:
He was a captain for the Nigerian army so he told from it Nigerias perspective

I dont know why my dad even kept the book in the house since he hated the guy

Wow..... I guess I came across his name in the MY COMMAND by olusegun obasanjo during the liberation of orlu or so. Meanwhile your dad doesn't like me coz he fought for the federal force or what?... and by the way you should consider a career in been a curator.

midnighter:
Thats the exact reason the colonialists give for refusing to return our Benin bronzes and masks worth billions of naira, hope you know that??

Take me to school charming. So are you saying am thinking the colonial masters way.... And that means some days.... Well lemme stop hallucinating before folks here take me for OP

midnighter:
Yes by Elechi Amadi. It was an interesting book...it had been lying around my house for years and I one day I decided to read it

Whose point of view did he write from

midnighter:
Lol why do you keep stealing from the library? Its not fair now

Okay, I will look for it.

Gaskia that z the only way I can get my part from the dividends of democracy. And again z not as if they have use for the book so I help them maintain it inside my own library

midnighter:
What was vague about it? He really captured the chaotic nature of turbulent African countries in his storytelling

He is actually Angolan of Portuguese heritage. He was a teenager at the time of the war of independence

I had a lot of those kind of books at home but didnt read all of them...I guess youve read There was a Country and Sunset in Biafra?

Sunset in Biafra was by Elechi Amadi right? I didnt get to read it. All of them were speculating since I saw the full account why we struck I let go of all stories of the civil war. Right now am on my command by OBJ and the book has been worth my time. I started yesterday Ceteris paribus I should finish today

midnighter:
What was vague about it? He really captured the chaotic nature of turbulent African countries in his storytelling

He is actually Angolan of Portuguese heritage. He was a teenager at the time of the war of independence

I had a lot of those kind of books at home but didnt read all of them...I guess youve read The was a Country and Sunset in Biafra?

HaVe read there was a country. Seriously I will tell you to find WHY WE STRUCK. D copy I had I stole from a library in osun state and another copy I bought was pirated all thanks to our Igbo brothers. (I know u r 1). But you should read the boom it was a direct account of it from one of the perpetrator.

midnighter:
I really enjoyed that book...it was kind of sad though how that woman just ended up wasting away for so many years. Recently I have been avoiding those topics but that book brought it back to life for me

Is it his autobiography? I have only read Bill clintons AB but i dont really trust the writing of all those people. At times I feel they are somewhat insincere

I think David and Goliath is just trying to get us to see the bigger picture and not limit ourselves. Not that we should be illogical and careless with our lives but that we should consider taking a risk if its for our betterment.

You are wise. I really need to get to bed headache already and judging by your moniker, NO SLEeP for you. Catch you some other days

midnighter:
Really? What did you think?

I didnt know there was going to be a madman in The Fishermen lol. But I do get interested in things concerning the brain



Hahaha Why! Thats terrible, the man is a very talented writer

There is also "A General Theory of Oblivion" by Jose Eduardo Agualusa about the Angolan war of independence. A stunning piece of writing

I feel the book A General theory of oblivion is vague. Jose Eduardo is a Portuguese woman she can't tell the story like its from the horse mouth. Have read many books about the Nigerian civil war. But the major one I love and found useful most was by adewale ademoyega one of the coup plotters

midnighter:
Really? What did you think?

I didnt know there was going to be a madman in The Fishermen lol. But I do get interested in things concerning the brain



Hahaha Why! Thats terrible, the man is a very talented writer

There is also "A General Theory of Oblivion" by Jose Eduardo Agualusa about the Angolan war of independence. A stunning piece of writing

Hv read that and I think I still have the hardcopy I stole from a library. I also read why we struck by adewale ademoyega, and many more books about African civil war etc.


Presently am enjoying my command by Olusegun obasanjo.


Talking about David and Goliath by galdwell. I think the book isnjust focused on a lopsided conflicts – where the underdog battles through and wins against the odds. But in real life, we often mis-read the odds. The book z good etc. But I feel its not practicable

midnighter:
Its a stereotype but its fuelled by guys who keep the demand for such things high

Hmm! What a question. Well at the moment I am reading "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks. Its about the case studies of people who had different brain disorders...the author is a neurologist

Then "David and Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell, about different situations where people overcame obstacles and hardship

I read "The Fishermen" by Chogizie Obioma a few months ago...it was captivating and also had a mentally ill character full of funny revelations like OP

And "Adjustment Day" by Chuck Palahniuk about a fictional revolution caused by an excess of young men in the world... the "youth bulge" . Though I didnt finish that one, it was still pretty interesting

I came across the fishermen but I must confess I just passed when I saw a Nigerian author

midnighter:
Its a stereotype but its fuelled by guys who keep the demand for such things high

Hmm! What a question. Well at the moment I am reading "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks. Its about the case studies of people who had different brain disorders...the author is a neurologist

Then "David and Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell, about different situations where people overcame obstacles and hardship

I read "The Fishermen" by Chogizie Obioma a few months ago...it was captivating and also had a mentally ill character full of funny revelations like OP

And "Adjustment Day" by Chuck Palahniuk about a fictional revolution caused by an excess of young men in the world... the "youth bulge" . Though I didnt finish that one, it was still pretty interesting

Y u so interested in mad men novels. Hmmm. And for the records hv read two of those books. The man who mistook his wife for a hat. And Adjustment Day.