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Is that a sandwich?
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Next is a freebie. On Basilisk Station by David Weber. Immediately, I'm disappointed. The galactic map is truncated in the prologue. At least it is on my 650. The entire map is displayed on Baen's sample online so it must be due to ebook conversion. |
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01-14-2013, 04:59 PM | #15242 |
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01-14-2013, 05:00 PM | #15243 |
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Cat fight! Cat fight!
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01-14-2013, 05:07 PM | #15244 |
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01-14-2013, 05:13 PM | #15245 |
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Or cats and birds or something....
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01-14-2013, 05:32 PM | #15246 |
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I can see a book from where I'm sitting that I've had for at least 25 years, and have never read, although I still kind of want to. I might have started it once. I'm thinking of reading it this year. I don't see what the hurry is.
I've read The Gun Seller. I seem to remember that I enjoyed it, but it wasn't anything really extraordinary. I used to have a bit of a thing about reading novels by TV comedians (UK TV, I guess I should specify), and Hugh Laurie is still half of Fry and Laurie, to me. I have novels by Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, Rob Newman, David Baddiel, Sean Hughes, Ardal O'Hanlon, Adrian Edmondson, Stewart Lee, and possibly others I can't remember right now. None of them are terrible, but some of them are ordinary. Anyway, I managed to finish Mage-Guard of Hamor by L E Modesitt Jr, finally. The fifteenth Recluce novel, apparently, and the second half of Rahl's story. Kind of like a comfortable pair of slippers. My first completed book of the year. Next up I've started The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie. The second Poirot novel, and first of many Christie books I bought cheaply from charity shops last year (so a used paperback, rather than an ebook). Not much has happened so far, but I don't remember any key plot details from the TV adaptation yet, so maybe I'll manage to be surprised. |
01-14-2013, 09:54 PM | #15247 |
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01-14-2013, 09:57 PM | #15248 |
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01-15-2013, 12:11 AM | #15249 | |
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They had a sketch comedy show too, A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Last edited by BenG; 01-15-2013 at 12:17 AM. |
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01-15-2013, 02:02 AM | #15250 | |
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01-15-2013, 02:56 AM | #15251 | |
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But I suppose about half my current TBR must be from more than a year or two ago. Last edited by pdurrant; 01-15-2013 at 02:58 AM. |
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01-15-2013, 03:58 AM | #15252 | |
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Next, I'll try Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. |
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01-15-2013, 06:31 AM | #15253 | |
Did someone say Python?
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I started reading one thread here about recommendations for SF that would appeal to women. Have found it helpful. Now that I think about it, I recall reading a couple of SF novels that people just handed to me years ago, both of which I liked: The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner and Black Milk by Robert Reed. Well, I've gotten side tracked. I actually came online just now to look for a recipe for chopped liver. Wrong forum. |
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01-15-2013, 06:42 AM | #15254 |
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John Brunner is great. - Stand on Zanzibar is a fond memory for me.
Up the Line is his time-travel novel. oh and reading is always better than chopped liver. |
01-15-2013, 06:54 AM | #15255 |
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I'm currently reading the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. I'm a huge fan of SF, and Asimov is one of the best authors (to me). I'm also reading End this depression now! by Paul Krugman, and have some other books on my ereader ready to be read.
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