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Old 08-18-2012, 03:30 AM   #2416
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I know the person that's dedicated to.
Well, I knew her at drama college, if that counts.
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Old 08-18-2012, 04:40 AM   #2417
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Y'all are welcome at my house, with the exception of you have to leave when people are coming to view it to see if they want to buy it.
that is so sweet of you and I'd take you up on it in a minute except we go to the north western-side of PA. New Castle. Right across from Youngstown and straight on til dawn.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

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Old 08-20-2012, 01:20 PM   #2418
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I have officially given up on 1Q84. The library sucked it back off my Kindle. In three weeks I had made it to the end of the first section. I don't know if I'll try again at some point in the future.

It was going nowhere with breakneck slowness.

I think I figured out the main intention, but of course, those Orientals, they're inscrutable, so I could be entirely wrong about it.
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Old 09-10-2012, 02:37 PM   #2419
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"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allen Poe

Man, this is a tough read.

Poe's only complete novel, so I've read.
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Old 09-10-2012, 02:41 PM   #2420
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Read "Witch & Wizard" by James Patterson in a single sitting a couple weeks ago.

Decent story, but, kinda teenagery.
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Old 09-10-2012, 03:01 PM   #2421
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Old 09-10-2012, 03:10 PM   #2422
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Old 09-10-2012, 03:23 PM   #2423
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My wife just read Reliable Wife. Is that the one about amnesia? If so, she liked it.
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Old 09-10-2012, 03:25 PM   #2424
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No amnesia, but some arsenic is involved.
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Old 09-23-2012, 07:10 AM   #2425
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I'm reading "The Earth has a Soul" by Jung.

well, it DOES have a soul you godless heathens!
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

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Old 09-23-2012, 07:55 AM   #2426
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No amnesia, but some arsenic is involved.
I believe they can both have devastating effects. I will try to remember which one is which though.

Am working my way through Limey's Kindle. Sorry, I mean my Kindle. You're my Kindle now!
Am reading the Etymologicon (Mark Forsyth) which is amusing me enormously. I keep wanting to come on here and share some of the connections, and then remember that at least one other Dwellar already knows them.

Last paper book was The Blackhouse by Peter May.
It only cost £1 thanks to a voucher in the newspaper and Mum paid that anyway!
I mostly enjoyed it. I would read it again, having absorbed much of the pronunciation that originally grated (it's set on the Isle of Lewis where Gaellic is still spoken) but Mum gave it to the charity shop after she finished it. I like longer to digest a book.

One of the pivotal points was the skua cull which takes place every year. I had heard of it - there was a chef that travelled there and cooked guga, but was thoroughly revolted. The locals love the taste of a bit of gannet and look forward to obtaining it every year. Wish I could remember who it was and find the clip *

Anyway - enjoyable read. If I can pick up any more Peter May books cheap, especially those based on Lewis (trilogy apparently, sad to waste the knowledge I've already attained) then I'll have a punt.

ETA - it was Gordon Ramsay on the F Word in 2005 and is available on Youtube. And he didn't hate it, he quite liked it, although Giles Coren said it was less appetising than poo and Ramsay's maitre d' (Jean-Baptiste) politely palmed his and dropped it on the floor.
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Old 09-23-2012, 01:18 PM   #2427
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Shada, partially by Douglas Adams.

It really feels like a Tom Baker episode, even in prose.
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Old 09-23-2012, 02:57 PM   #2428
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I just finished "Gut Shot Straight" by Lou Berney.

Entertaining writing, but a little anticlimactic, and predictable. I like the guy's writing style though.
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Old 09-23-2012, 02:59 PM   #2429
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Anybody ever read Mo Hayder?
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Old 09-23-2012, 04:34 PM   #2430
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No. Any good?

I'm reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds which is interesting so far and I grabbed a book of short sci-fi from the library called Alien Contact written by a bunch of most favored peeps like Baxter, Card, Gaiman...
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