Yes, Pratchett's got quite the imagination, that's for sureI'm more fond of Sir Samuel than any of the witches myself...
Currently reading: "Gai-Jin" by James Clavell.
Yes, Pratchett's got quite the imagination, that's for sure
Currently reading: "Gai-Jin" by James Clavell.
...and a hopeful new year!
Splinter Cell: Operation Baracuda
Dan Simmons - Hyperion
A Cabeça do Italiano (La Bella Figura) - Beppe Severgnini
I bought this book in Belo Horizonte (the third larget city in Brazil) and It's one of the best books I've read.
Brazil Argentina Uruguay Paraguay
Hiroki Azuma - Otaku - Japan's Database Animals.
It's tough going for those without a good grasp of postmodernity such as myself.
Originally Posted by gogeta
I've just worked my way through the latest Jeremy Clarkson hardback Driven to Distraction, another series of previous columns he'd written for the "Sunday Telegraph". I'm also reading Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, though this is a large hardback and it's tougher for me to read on the train to and from work which is where I normally need most of my humour to make it bearable, so I've been reading the Clarkson at bedtime and lugging the Pratchett back and forward to London every day. I will now be reading the Pratchett at home, so I should get through it a bit quicker
Are Clarkson's books any good? It's hard to imagine them being anything but extremely obnoxious...
Just some days ago, I got my hands on "Pelastakaa kummitukset" by Eva Ibbotson (1979). It seems to be the only printing of the translation of "The Great Ghost Rescue" (1975), Ibbotson's debut as a novelist.
I read the book back in comprehensive school, and its message must have affected my view of the world quite a bit. Now I would like to take another look at it with grown-up eyes.
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they are obnoxious, extremely so, in fact, but the man's a riot. His opinions do not reflect my own, the majority of the time, but he's a good writer, and funnier than a car writer has a right to be. I'm not interested in cars, per se, but I read his columns fairly avidlyI've read almost all his books, aside from Planet Dagenham, I think...
Yeh, that's sort of how you'd expect them to be. They should annoy you, but you can't help but enjoy the ride.
The books I remember reading back in school I read all the time now. I got into Pratchett in secondary school, and read his work almost constantly.
I'm glad you were able to revisit that, mate. Let us know how you get on with it
They're not the best books...
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...in the world, but they're a great read
At the top?
...preferably on a boat driven by someone else in a riviera surrounded by the rich and famous and suitable, and with pots of money. Perhaps not quite at the top, but more comfortable than the plebs
"get out, get out with your muddy shoes!"
Currenty reading "Sofies Verden" ("Sophie's World") by Jostein Gaarder.
...and a hopeful new year!
I'm now reading, uhm, ColemanBalls 9 >_< it's a collection of quotes from Private Eye, a satirical publication that picks some of the best snippets of rubbish that come out of commentators' mouths
Trouble is, it's only a pocket book :/
Aww, shame. I love ColemanBalls. One of my favourites came from Kevin Keegan (a true master of the art). Let's see if I can find it...
When asked what he thought of the newly-introduced transfer window:
“Well, that’s like asking me who is on my Christmas card list. I sit down with the wife and I say ‘Did they send us one last year or this year’, and if they haven’t we rip the name up and throw it in the bin. But then, a couple of days after Christmas the card might arrive late so we do a card for them on the 28th and date it the 22nd and send it off and hope they don’t notice…I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about."
that's awesome
"What disappointed me was that we didn't play with any passion. I'm not disappointed, you know, I'm just disappointed."
Kevin Keegan
"We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half."
Kevin Keegan
"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose."
Kevin Keegan
oh, and one from the magical David Pleat:
"Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some – or occasionally lose.”
I'm reading Walter Isaacson's biography on Einstein: "Einstein - hit life and universe". Kind of a crazy guy at times, that one...
...and a hopeful new year!
you got that right. Had some very strange ideas but could usually back them up with compelling evidence
I'm now reading the QI Book of the Dead. It's a book detailing the lives of people: some notable, some obscure, all quite interesting
Delving into the lives of people like John Harvey Kellogg, William Morris and Catherine the Great is a joy, but the most interesting I've found so far were William Blake, Richard Feynman and Giacomo Casanova
I've finally got round to picking up Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, which my friend lent me about 5 years ago and I've never got round to reading. It's dead short, too. It's very funny and very witty.
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