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Post by The Escapist on Feb 6, 2019 19:24:08 GMT -5
Since November I've read Ulysses (again), Wuthering Heights, A Farewell to Arms, and the first part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hemingway is cementing himself as my favourite author. Now at the half-way point of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and finishing Great Expectations on the eighth. Starting Love in the Time of Cholera on the ninth, whilst on the train to Edinburgh.
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Post by nataliemckinney on Feb 6, 2019 21:06:50 GMT -5
<-------- This one
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Post by welshylad on Feb 8, 2019 7:51:57 GMT -5
Just finished the Harry Potter series, quite enjoyed them to be fair, didn't think I would
Just started Stephen Hawking - Brief Answers To The Big Questions
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Post by mossy on Feb 8, 2019 8:24:47 GMT -5
Since November I've read Ulysses (again), Wuthering Heights, A Farewell to Arms, and the first part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Hemingway is cementing himself as my favourite author. Now at the half-way point of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and finishing Great Expectations on the eighth. Starting Love in the Time of Cholera on the ninth, whilst on the train to Edinburgh. I’m rereading Hitchhiker’s Guide at the moment. Haven’t read it since I was a kid so I’d forgotten a lot. Really enjoyed the first one, but the second one was harder work and now the third one is a bit of a slog tbh. X
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Post by The Escapist on Feb 8, 2019 9:50:00 GMT -5
Now at the half-way point of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and finishing Great Expectations on the eighth. Starting Love in the Time of Cholera on the ninth, whilst on the train to Edinburgh. I’m rereading Hitchhiker’s Guide at the moment. Haven’t read it since I was a kid so I’d forgotten a lot. Really enjoyed the first one, but the second one was harder work and now the third one is a bit of a slog tbh. X Are you reading it all the way through? With stuff like that and Ulysses, I think you enjoy them more if you break them up a bit with other novels. I'll be coming back to Hitchhiker's either at the start or in the middle of March, depending on whether I feel like that or One Hundred Years of Solitude first. I agree that the first part was the best of the first two, though. In fact, I think it was funniest when on Earth - particularly when they went to the pub, announced the end of the world, and it was agreed by all that that was a let-off for Arsenal.
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Post by mossy on Feb 8, 2019 10:37:42 GMT -5
I’m rereading Hitchhiker’s Guide at the moment. Haven’t read it since I was a kid so I’d forgotten a lot. Really enjoyed the first one, but the second one was harder work and now the third one is a bit of a slog tbh. X Are you reading it all the way through? With stuff like that and Ulysses, I think you enjoy them more if you break them up a bit with other novels. I'll be coming back to Hitchhiker's either at the start or in the middle of March, depending on whether I feel like that or One Hundred Years of Solitude first. I agree that the first part was the best of the first two, though. In fact, I think it was funniest when on Earth - particularly when they went to the pub, announced the end of the world, and it was agreed by all that that was a let-off for Arsenal. I found the later books recycle jokes from the first book wholesale. Almost word for word. Which you might not notice if you read them years apart, but it’s very noticeable when your read them back to back. I recall One Hundred Years Of Solitude being very good but I read it donkeys years ago. X
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Post by sgtpeppr on Feb 8, 2019 10:47:47 GMT -5
just finished 'magician' by raymond feist. not really into fantasy, but this was pretty good. about to re-read 'trainspotting' as soon as im finished with 'the running man' (s.king short story).
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Post by mossy on Feb 17, 2019 10:43:40 GMT -5
Just got round to reading this after finding it on a shelf in a house I moved into in 2002. X
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Post by eva on Feb 17, 2019 13:27:28 GMT -5
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Post by mossy on Feb 17, 2019 14:59:51 GMT -5
The kind of swine who doesn’t order their record collection alphabetically, that’s who. X
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Post by mossy on Feb 19, 2019 10:22:16 GMT -5
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Post by shannee on Feb 19, 2019 22:08:49 GMT -5
I’m on a Virginia Woolf kick. I read a couple of her books a few years ago but wasn’t that into them. For some reason I’m loving them this time. Funny how books are like that. Sometimes you just are not ready for them, not in the right state of mind or place in your life yet
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Post by bogaloo on Feb 26, 2019 17:43:26 GMT -5
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Post by daviesh on Feb 27, 2019 9:31:14 GMT -5
The Rising Damp Myth by Jeff Howell
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Post by mossy on Mar 2, 2019 12:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by Little Carmine Lupertazzi on Mar 18, 2019 12:48:22 GMT -5
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Post by Little Carmine Lupertazzi on Mar 26, 2019 4:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by draper on Mar 26, 2019 4:27:03 GMT -5
Stephen King - Deadzone. Loved it.
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Post by rorymcbride on Mar 26, 2019 5:58:10 GMT -5
"Captain Fantastic- Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s" by Tom Doyle and I've now moved onto "The Monkees, Head and the 60s" by Peter Mills.
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Post by The Escapist on Mar 27, 2019 18:03:26 GMT -5
Read The Day of the Doctor (thinking of writing a review for my blog, theyknowwhatimean), and am now into Hemingway's To Have and Have Not.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Mar 27, 2019 21:12:45 GMT -5
Did that last speech of Robin’s register in your fanboy’s brain? “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear...”
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Post by mossy on Mar 28, 2019 6:43:52 GMT -5
Did that last speech of Robin’s register in your fanboy’s brain? “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear...” I clocked that as soon as the be here now reissue was announced :-) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is basically about kids taking psychedelic drugs and shagging around - totally up Noel’s street. X
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Post by mossy on Mar 28, 2019 16:01:57 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Mar 30, 2019 10:14:44 GMT -5
Limmy - Surprisngly Down To Earth and Very Funny
Very conversationalist in its prose so very straightforward to read, and so funny and very compelling. Pretty bleak at times but humorous with it too.You definitely get an insight into his style of humour. And yes, he is actually very down to earth!
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