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random fat bird

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 bookcasesmiley - smiley


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The Ghost of Polidari

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

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. smiley - smiley


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JimSanity

'Well Remembered Days' - Arthur Matthews (Father Ted co-writer)


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Post 425

inesse

robert jordans weel of time,
(also known as rand land)
for the second time so far


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Post 426

Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki

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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Post 427

Odo

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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Post 428

inesse

wot is just so long but i have been enjoying
ome stephen king in the interval


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Post 429

171750 Baggyfish

1984 for the second time this year. I just can't get enough of George.
I'm updating my paranoia smiley - smiley


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Post 430

The Ghost of Polidari

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)

'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...smiley - bigeyes


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Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly

Lost Horizon by hmm, someone who's name begins with 'H', can't recall atm... Soldiers Live, Glen Cook... that would seem to be itsmiley - yikes

Ekki, have you read "Expecting Someone Taller", also by Holt?smiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

::Just placed order on amazon for salmon of doubt::

That will be my May reading then. smiley - ok


smiley - hsifsmiley - huh


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Post 434

The Ghost of Polidari

Wayfarer - I think you may find that it's by James Hilton. He wrote Goodbye Mr Chips as well....


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Post 435

inesse

the warhammer 40 000 rule book


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GreyDesk

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 smiley - sadface


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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

oooh Warhammer 40K not thought 'bout that in years. which team do you (are thinking of) collect(ing)?

smiley - smiley


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Post 438

inesse

i'm a tyranids player in 40k, and dark elves in fantasy


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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

::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. smiley - groan)

smiley - run


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GreyDesk

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 smiley - smiley


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