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random fat bird Posted Apr 22, 2002
Am out of Pratchett (shock horror!) so am reading The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K Hamilton. Resisted the urge to buy The Salmon of Doubt today while was in town shopping with the other half. Am going to be good and wait for it to come out in paperback so it will actually fit on my bookcase
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The Ghost of Polidari Posted Apr 23, 2002
I appear to be reading a short story selection by Dorothy L. Sayers, the title of which alludes me at the moment. 12 detective stories, some featuring Lord Peter Wimsey...
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Abi Posted Apr 23, 2002
I finished Crime and Punishment. Went a bit stodgy in the middle but still worth reading.
Now started 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens which is one of my all time faves.
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JimSanity Posted Apr 23, 2002
'Well Remembered Days' - Arthur Matthews (Father Ted co-writer)
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inesse Posted Apr 23, 2002
robert jordans weel of time,
(also known as rand land)
for the second time so far
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Apr 23, 2002
Still doing battle with The Great Game ... not using pubic transport means that I don't have time to indulge ...
Also reading Who's Afraid of Beowulf by Tom Holt ... very Dirk Gently it has to be said - most amusing!
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Odo Posted Apr 23, 2002
Half way through Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures.
This is the third Discworld book I have read and I have the feeling I am begining to get addicted.
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inesse Posted Apr 23, 2002
wot is just so long but i have been enjoying
ome stephen king in the interval
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The Ghost of Polidari Posted Apr 23, 2002
A little lunchtime reading :
'Bomber Harris : His life and Times
(The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, Wartime Chief of Bomber Command)'
by Henry Probert.
Have to say I don't read biographies usually, but I am enjoying it...
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Apr 23, 2002
'The Songlines' by Bruce Chatwin
I came across it much in the way I came across the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - hearing about it, reading about it, stumbling across the title high and low, until finally deciding that I have to find out what it's all about...
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Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Apr 23, 2002
Lost Horizon by hmm, someone who's name begins with 'H', can't recall atm... Soldiers Live, Glen Cook... that would seem to be it
Ekki, have you read "Expecting Someone Taller", also by Holt?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Apr 23, 2002
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The Ghost of Polidari Posted Apr 24, 2002
Wayfarer - I think you may find that it's by James Hilton. He wrote Goodbye Mr Chips as well....
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inesse Posted Apr 24, 2002
the warhammer 40 000 rule book
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GreyDesk Posted Apr 24, 2002
Toby Young's "How To Lose Friends and Alienate People".
It describes his downward spiral as a contributing editor to Vanity Fair in New York in the late 1990s. Very well written and very funny indeed. I couldn't bear to put it down, and managed to read about 80% of it yesterday until I got too tired and just had to go to bed
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Apr 24, 2002
oooh Warhammer 40K not thought 'bout that in years. which team do you (are thinking of) collect(ing)?
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inesse Posted Apr 25, 2002
i'm a tyranids player in 40k, and dark elves in fantasy
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Apr 25, 2002
::off to continue this one on inesse's space::
Carry on people.
oh and "problems of the self" by bernard williams (essay, before you ask. )
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GreyDesk Posted Apr 25, 2002
I've finished the Toby Young book and I'm now rereading Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of America". Probably my all time favourite history book
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