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sprout Posted Mar 31, 2008
And very good it is too (the film and the comic in fact)
Saw it in France so no James Osterberg, whoever he might be.
sprout
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 31, 2008
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MrMaven Posted Mar 31, 2008
Have just finished "Playing with Fire". Things I have learnt running a kitchen and a company by Gordon Ramsey. Excellent. Unless of course you like strong language
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Steve K. Posted Mar 31, 2008
"The Zero Game" by Brad Meltzer, a clearance book on cassette for my long drives. I paid next to nothing, and it was too much. A political thriller with a contirved plot, characters from central casting and writing that repeatedly uses the same riffs ad nauseam. Maybe the author's long shot at somebody in Hollywood needing a story for the next mindless action thriller (settings for chases include the roof of Congressional buildings with the Washington Monument in the background, an 8000 foot deep mine shaft, ...)
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Mar 31, 2008
HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Mar 31, 2008
A fellow addict!
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Mar 31, 2008
I'm currently reading a book about Floella Benjamin called 'Coming to England'.
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Mar 31, 2008
"A fellow addict!"
Not just O'Brian. I'm into C. S. Forrester (Hornblower) and Alexander Kent (Bolitho) as well!
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Sho - employed again! Posted Apr 1, 2008
Hornblower I loved. The O'Brian gave me way too much information about the rear-spar-gibbet-top-mains'l-forrard-mast-crow's-nest thingy. So... Alexander Kent. Where does he come? more towards Forrester or more towards O'Brian?
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 1, 2008
Yeah - but you're not meant to pay any attention to all that fore topgallant huffing. Unless you want to.
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KB Posted Apr 1, 2008
After joining Ed in bashing its flabbiness not long ago, I've picked up Mr Fry's 'Ode Less Travelled'. Mainly because I can't remember much about it now.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 1, 2008
I bemoaned it rather than bashed it. It's quite useful as a textbook. It just needed the Fry-isms editing out.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Apr 1, 2008
thanks to Swallows and Amazons I knew what a jib and a boom were, and I knew about luffing and tacking - after that... there is just no need for it!!
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Milos Posted Apr 1, 2008
Ed's just reminded me I've been loaned Persepolis, and should read it soon.
Meanwhile, still plodding through The Hobbit, and I've started on The God Delusion.
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Tumsup Posted Apr 1, 2008
About halfway through 'The Stuff of Thought' by Steven Pinker. It's about how our language displays how our minds work.
The idea that language determines the way that we think is making a resurgence today. Pinker shows that that Idea is wrong.
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 2, 2008
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Sho - employed again! Posted Apr 2, 2008
I want more elves, though, not less...
now there's an idea for a nice crossiver fanfic type thingy: Legolas & Gimli finally set off for the undying lands, and run into Captain Aubrey on the way...
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted Apr 2, 2008
Dr Maturin would have thm disected in no time.
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night-eyes Posted Apr 10, 2008
Just started Ursula Le Guin's Four ways to forgiveness. It seems that I have had this book for ages but somehow managed to forget about it - I actually discovered it while cleaning the house the other day and I am very happy with the finding!
It goes very well so far - I am reading the first story now and I am very curious about the remaining 3!
Making a cup of and going back to reading...
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