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What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
These two
I like diametrically opposed books.
I like diametrically opposed books.
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This is pretty good but not as rollicking as I expected... (so far, anyway)
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Just started it. Handsomely illustrated but very heavy! Trying to read this whilst fending the cat off my lap is quite a work- out.
Also reading Captain Cooks Journal. Don't tell me how it ends!
"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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It ends with the founding of a country which will one day rule the world!Clinton Huxley wrote:
Just started it. Handsomely illustrated but very heavy! Trying to read this whilst fending the cat off my lap is quite a work- out.
Also reading Captain Cooks Journal. Don't tell me how it ends!
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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JimC wrote:It ends with the founding of a country which will one day rule the world!Clinton Huxley wrote:
Just started it. Handsomely illustrated but very heavy! Trying to read this whilst fending the cat off my lap is quite a work- out.
Also reading Captain Cooks Journal. Don't tell me how it ends!
sounds like a terrible mistake...."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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JimC wrote:It ends with the founding of a country which will one day rule the world! penal colony to send the overflow of Great Britain's alleged criminals to that the local gaols could not cope with.Clinton Huxley wrote:
Just started it. Handsomely illustrated but very heavy! Trying to read this whilst fending the cat off my lap is quite a work- out.
Also reading Captain Cooks Journal. Don't tell me how it ends!
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This just arrived in the mail from Houston.
This is right up my alley.
This is right up my alley.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Leo Tolstoy's A confession
and a fair bit of AA literature...
and a fair bit of AA literature...
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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Lady Chatterley's Lover dunno whether i like the sexual innuendo more or the fact it is very well written more?
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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Just flicking through the A-Z of Whisky by Gavin Smith. Thirst-making. Favourite quote - "Water is for drowning in, not drinking"
"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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http://www.amazon.com/City-Fortune-Veni ... 1400068207
Highly readable, just like his other books. The ideal material for whiling away long train journeys.
Highly readable, just like his other books. The ideal material for whiling away long train journeys.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I picked up 'Splendour & Squalor' by Marcus Scriven on the train.. not very readable.
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I just re-read "Tank!" by Ken Tout, an account by a British corporal Sherman tank commander of a battle in Normandy...
Achtung, Tiger!
Achtung, Tiger!
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I'm reading The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson and Rulers of India:Akbar by George Bruce Malleson. And reading Four Children and It by Jacqueline Wilson to the MHs.
"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"
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Reading The Butterly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham. Lovely book about a chap's quest to see all 59 of Blighty's butterflies in one year.
Also, The Kings Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi. The book on which the film was based, with more biographical stuff about Lionel Logue.
Also, The Kings Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi. The book on which the film was based, with more biographical stuff about Lionel Logue.
"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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