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posted at 16/9/2004 6:52 PM BST
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Total posts: 346
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 17/2/2005 |
Originally posted by Chick Thanks Chick! More reasons not to bother! I suspected it would be bad, but at the same time wondered if I should read the thing so I knew what everyone was on about. Am currently reading a lot of fiction, after years of hardly looking at any. Having exceeded my target of 100 pages a day on The Dice Man am on the penultimate chapter. It has some vaguely interesting ideas on human roles, society etc, but these are better handled elsewhere (as is the material on counterculture movements of the period), and the book seems so dated that I fail to see why this remains such a cult classic. 2 friends who've already read it turned out to agree that it is over-rated. Still, it's resulted in a bit of re-desensitisation that will be useful for Filth by Irvine Welsh, which I'm starting next. |
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posted at 16/9/2004 6:56 PM BST
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Total posts: 346
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 17/2/2005 |
Originally posted by VALM When I first read it - in separate volumes - I was craving the sequel the minute I finished the first book. Douglas Adams is one of my favourite authors to read as a pick me up when feeling down or ill; books that are cosy, fun and just clever enough for times like that. :) |
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posted at 16/9/2004 8:22 PM BST
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Total posts: 353
First post: 6/5/2004 Last post: 10/5/2007 |
Not often i post to this thread (if ever!!). I've just finished 'hippopotamus' by Stephen Fry, very witty book with a couple of laugh out loud moments. Not as good as 'the stars tennis balls' which was far superior, may check out 'the liar' next. :) |
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posted at 17/9/2004 12:03 PM BST
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Total posts: 1476
First post: 11/12/2003 Last post: 20/10/2009 |
Originally posted by chocolatedrop Yup. And apparently rips off some other one called Holy Blood, Holy Grail too, which I haven't read but makes the same points better. So say the people on Amazon anyhow!
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posted at 17/9/2004 12:08 PM BST
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First post: 14/9/2003 Last post: 17/7/2009 |
Have been having a bookfest of late. Have recently finished Notes on a Scnadal and Wild Oats. Now reading Shadowmancer as I fancied a bit of sorcery, magic and weird things - not read anything like that since I finished reading Dark Materials about this time last year! |
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posted at 17/9/2004 12:16 PM BST
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First post: 2/3/2003 Last post: 14/4/2009 |
I'm TRYING to read Memoires Of A Geisha.... But to be honest I think it's the biggest load of crap I have tried to read in years. I can't warm to the characters at all! I'm halfway through and stuck. Now I know why I like reading about real life, I'd much rather read something like this... http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552547166/qid=1095418088/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/202-4190017-8471039 inca.x. |
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posted at 17/9/2004 3:03 PM BST
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First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 21/11/2009 |
Bachelorette - it's nothing against HHGTTG or Douglas Adams - it's just that I get bored really easily if I don't mix my genres (oo-er!) and don't want to get bored with this series. Inca - I have just read Memoirs of a Geisha and found it really hard going. Could only read one or two chapters at a time - found it really dull. |
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posted at 17/9/2004 3:12 PM BST
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Total posts: 2117
First post: 19/3/2003 Last post: 17/5/2006 |
Originally posted by Chick Ah, was that the Peter de Rosa? And was he the same one who wrote the Bless Me Father books as Neil Boyd? It was a load of rubbish, by all accounts, anyway, limited and unbalanced research into the Templars. |
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posted at 20/9/2004 11:01 PM BST
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First post: 31/8/2003 Last post: 22/10/2009 |
This http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/508084/ref=sib_rdr_why/103-9050869-4372667 and its amazing :) and i will read *As far as my feet will carry me* next |
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