What are you reading right now?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
If it's anything like as good as 'Good Omens' it must be a good read/listen. Can you have Jeremy Irons reading it to you?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
Still on Casual Vacancy. I've never read such a boring book.
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Griffin wrote:Still on Casual Vacancy. I've never read such a boring book.
Try Middlemarch or Jude the Obscure. :fsm_yawn:
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
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English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
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...or Ulysses...ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:Griffin wrote:Still on Casual Vacancy. I've never read such a boring book.
Try Middlemarch or Jude the Obscure. :fsm_yawn:

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...or Look Homeward, Angel.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
Roy Hunter wrote:...or Ulysses...ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:Griffin wrote:Still on Casual Vacancy. I've never read such a boring book.
Try Middlemarch or Jude the Obscure. :fsm_yawn:
Now those are real books.

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If it wasn't for the fact that Thomas Hardy's books are so beautiful, you would probably commit suicide after reading them.
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Reader's Digest compilation of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." Funny how all these modern adaptations get him so unbelievably wrong.
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I think I am about to read "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman...good choice?
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black bart wrote:I think I am about to read "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman...good choice?
Not bad, not bad. Personally, I preferred American Gods, but that's me. Neverwhere was good, but it didn't stick with me.
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black bart wrote:I think I am about to read "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman...good choice?
I enjoyed it tremendously.
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Helium Hands wrote:black bart wrote:I think I am about to read "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman...good choice?
I enjoyed it tremendously.
I have (but have not yet read) the book. I acquired a dvd set from the BBC production; it now has a lovely silver marker inscription bidding me to Mind The Gap.

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pieces o'nine wrote:Helium Hands wrote:black bart wrote:I think I am about to read "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman...good choice?
I enjoyed it tremendously.
I have (but have not yet read) the book. I acquired a dvd set from the BBC production; it now has a lovely silver marker inscription bidding me to Mind The Gap.
If you keep in mind that "Neverwhere" was originally a television series, then it's easier to forgive the book's episodic structure, IMHO.
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I have come to love the "foe" feature - my own private banhammer.
Re: What are you reading right now?
P.264 of Casual Vacancy. I'm so bored I thought I'd pass it on and bore you all too.
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Bad Pharma, Ben Goldacre.
Oh my FSM!
I knew quite a lot of this stuff, but bits of it I did not know, and when you put all the pieces together it paints an even uglier picture of the pharmaceutical industry than I thought.
Oh my FSM!

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