Was given "Thud" for Christmas so I am just about to embark on another trip to Discworld.
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Was given "Thud" for Christmas so I am just about to embark on another trip to Discworld.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
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Bacchae - Euripides
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D. Adams - So long and thanks for all the fish
Chew E. Bakke
So did I.Originally Posted by Biggles
I started last night and the first chapter is certainly more interesting than Lords & Ladies, the only other Discworld novel that I've read.
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Books I got for Christmas:
The Theban Plays - Sophocles
Gallia - Menie Muriel Dowie
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
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Kilgore Trout was a fictional novelist who appeared as a character in some Kurt Vonnegut books. He was a pulp sci-fi / soft porn hack.
Then a novel by Kilgore Trout was published
much to the assumption that Vonnegut had written it. It was actually Phillip Jose Farmer.
A subsequent cover, after Farmer had revealed that he had written the book
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Currently reading Mary Shelley's FrankensteinHope it is as good as it is hyped up to be. I'm liking it so far ....but i guess i am not really that far in yet
Single handedly destroying the NHS from the inside
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Frankenstein is a superb read, Gems; you must forget any of the cinematic versions when reading it, as they fall far short of the novel.Currently reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Hope you enjoy it!
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
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i finished angels and demons by dan borwn and im starting the the da vinci code!
mostly harmless
Just finished "Hidden Empire" by Kevin J. Anderson, and now onto the next one in the series, "Sea of Stars" (maybe?).
Not bad, but devoid of anything particularly new in terms of ideas so far...
Quite bizarrely these books deal with aliens that live in gas giants, and also the last book I read (The Algebraist by Iain Banks) also deals with aliens that live in gas giants, but previously I hadn't read a book that even lightly touches on the subject of aliens that live in gas giants since, oohhhhhhh, Arthur C. Clarkes 2001....
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Hope it is as good as it is hyped up to be. I'm liking it so far ....but i guess i am not really that far in yet
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