What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Ballistics tables for 100 different types of cartridges each with different loads, powders, and bullets.
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The essential works of Lenin slow going but enjoyable.
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Down and out in london and paris by george orwell
Holy shit its good.
Holy shit its good.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Christ, has that series finally been completed? I got to book 3 and realised that nothing had happened for three thousand pages. Just couldn't get onto it.JimC wrote:I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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No staying power, that's your problem...Clinton Huxley wrote:Christ, has that series finally been completed? I got to book 3 and realised that nothing had happened for three thousand pages. Just couldn't get onto it.JimC wrote:I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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I like 'em short and sweetJimC wrote:No staying power, that's your problem...Clinton Huxley wrote:Christ, has that series finally been completed? I got to book 3 and realised that nothing had happened for three thousand pages. Just couldn't get onto it.JimC wrote:I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
http://25kv.co.uk/date_counter.php?date ... 20counting!!![/img-sig]
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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But enough of your preferences for chambermaids...Clinton Huxley wrote:I like 'em short and sweetJimC wrote:No staying power, that's your problem...Clinton Huxley wrote:Christ, has that series finally been completed? I got to book 3 and realised that nothing had happened for three thousand pages. Just couldn't get onto it.JimC wrote:I'm reading books 12 and 13 of the epic fantasy series "Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan (with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson, since Robert passed away after book 11), in preparation for the final volume, "A Memory of Light", which has arrived...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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JimC wrote:
But enough of your preferences for chambermaids...
I'm reading perfume: The story of a murderer by patrick suskind the protagonist is one screwed up little munchkin.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
Cormac wrote: One thing of which I am certain. The world is a better place with you in it. Stick around please. The universe will eventually get around to offing all of us. No need to help it in its efforts...
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I've currently got the following on the go:-
Ottoline and The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell. Handsomely illustrated kids book, reading it to MH2
The Snow Merchant by Sam Gayton, reading to MH1
A Darkling Plain by Phillip Reeve - 4th book of the Mortal Engines quartet. Good escapist sci-fi
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Ottoline and The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell. Handsomely illustrated kids book, reading it to MH2
The Snow Merchant by Sam Gayton, reading to MH1
A Darkling Plain by Phillip Reeve - 4th book of the Mortal Engines quartet. Good escapist sci-fi
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
http://25kv.co.uk/date_counter.php?date ... 20counting!!![/img-sig]
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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Not the easiest read, but well worth it.Clinton Huxley wrote:I've currently got the following on the go:-
Ottoline and The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell. Handsomely illustrated kids book, reading it to MH2
The Snow Merchant by Sam Gayton, reading to MH1
A Darkling Plain by Phillip Reeve - 4th book of the Mortal Engines quartet. Good escapist sci-fi
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
God has no place within these walls, just like facts have no place within organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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Aye, have to concentrate to keep track of who did what to who, when.klr wrote:Not the easiest read, but well worth it.Clinton Huxley wrote:I've currently got the following on the go:-
Ottoline and The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell. Handsomely illustrated kids book, reading it to MH2
The Snow Merchant by Sam Gayton, reading to MH1
A Darkling Plain by Phillip Reeve - 4th book of the Mortal Engines quartet. Good escapist sci-fi
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Got Goldsworthy's The Fall Of The West waiting in the wings.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
http://25kv.co.uk/date_counter.php?date ... 20counting!!![/img-sig]
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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Have that as well, plus The Fall of Carthage (aka The Punic Wars) and In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire. It seems he's written a lot more books though, some of which I wasn't even aware of.Clinton Huxley wrote:Aye, have to concentrate to keep track of who did what to who, when.klr wrote:Not the easiest read, but well worth it.Clinton Huxley wrote:I've currently got the following on the go:-
Ottoline and The Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell. Handsomely illustrated kids book, reading it to MH2
The Snow Merchant by Sam Gayton, reading to MH1
A Darkling Plain by Phillip Reeve - 4th book of the Mortal Engines quartet. Good escapist sci-fi
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Got Goldsworthy's The Fall Of The West waiting in the wings.
God has no place within these walls, just like facts have no place within organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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