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7th Jun 2011, 3:15 PM #151
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8th Jun 2011, 1:28 PM #152
Pompeii by Robert Harris. I have a feeling I know what's going to happen to that town...
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8th Jun 2011, 1:54 PM #153
What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe. Good so far!
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12th Jun 2011, 2:47 PM #154
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane. I gather he may have written a Holmes novel before...
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12th Jun 2011, 8:01 PM #155
About a third of the way through The City and the City by China Mieviile and its rather good. After starting like a crime novel with the odd weird sentence, its suddenly just become clear what the main concept of the novel is and it changes how the story is viewed. I've no idea if it was written that way or if I've just been a bit slow to cotton on.
I've also started on Judge Dredd the Complete Case Files Vol 2 and thats wonderful as always. (No full frontal nuditity Mr Wallis will be pleased to hear!) Interesting that some chapters of Cursed Earth couldn't be printed due to copyright. Could a certain clown and Colonel have complained I wonder?
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12th Jun 2011, 11:52 PM #156
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13th Jun 2011, 2:25 PM #157
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17th Jun 2011, 7:11 PM #158
Short Trips The Muses
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18th Jun 2011, 3:13 PM #159
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...which, by coincidence, I'm waiting for from the library.
Til it arrives, I'm reading Mistress Of The Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts.
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20th Jun 2011, 1:36 PM #160
The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell.
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30th Jun 2011, 8:31 AM #161
The Thief of Time by John Boyne is up next for me.
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30th Jun 2011, 8:50 AM #162
Oh yes, I'm reading Love And Poison, a book about Suede.
Man, they took a lot of drugs.
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30th Jun 2011, 6:26 PM #163
I started Duma Key by Stephen King this morning.
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30th Jun 2011, 7:19 PM #164
I finished The Handmaid's Tale earlier this week and absolutely loved it, it's a rare modern novel that deserves it's status as a classic. The ending wasn't quite as bleak as I thought it might be, too, which was a pleasant surprise.
I'm on to David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas now, which is also superb, I really don't know why I didn't get round to reading it years ago after loving Number9Dream so much...It's 500 pages + though, so don't expect a review any time soon..."RIP Henchman No.24."
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1st Jul 2011, 9:08 PM #165
I'm reading the ever-thrilling Introduction to Bible Studies. Oh yes.
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2nd Jul 2011, 9:57 AM #166
Surely you and Bible Studies need no introduction? I thought you'd already done some of that?
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4th Jul 2011, 3:25 AM #167
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4th Jul 2011, 11:03 AM #168
Apparently, it had some influence over the development of modern English language and literature.
Might just be a rumour, I think I heard it somewhere.
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4th Jul 2011, 3:00 PM #169
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They say it's had some sort of effect on world history as well, but I've never been one to listen to the idle gossip of the proletariat.
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4th Jul 2011, 10:49 PM #170
Tom Sharpe
I'm a big fan of Tom Sharpe's books - so pleased he's written a new "Wilt" novel. I do like a good farce! Can anyone recommend any other authors who write in a similar vein?
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5th Jul 2011, 9:01 AM #171
I'd think the obvious ones would be Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett and PG Woodehouse! Try out 'Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls', 'Nation' and 'Summer at Blandings' respectively.
I did read a Tom Sharpe ages ago, but didn't really get on with it sadly. I think it was 'The Walled Garden'.
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5th Jul 2011, 8:05 PM #172
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6th Jul 2011, 8:55 AM #173
Don't worry, if they click with you then you'll tank through them.
I'm reading my (signed copy!) of Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter. Goddam I should have asked him what happened to his Doctor Who story he was supposed to be writing for Big Finish.
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6th Jul 2011, 6:33 PM #174
I've never read Wilt, but really must as I was taught by the man who the character was based on whilst at University (Anglia Ruskin, though it was known as Cambridge College of Arts and Technology at the time) - Sharpe was also a lecturer their back in the 70's, and based the novel around his life apparently.
"RIP Henchman No.24."
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6th Jul 2011, 8:07 PM #175
Some of Sharpe's stuff can be patchy, but often he's simply brilliant. Ones which I really enjoyed included The Throwback and a couple of novels about a corrupt South African police force, the titles of which I forget for the moment.
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