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Dec 1, 2007 16:44:36 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Dec 1, 2007 16:44:36 GMT
Perhaps I should set up a library commune. We can have those special sliding ladders, and spray on dust and cobwebs ...
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Dec 1, 2007 18:58:21 GMT
Post by Darkness on Dec 1, 2007 18:58:21 GMT
That sounds really nice, Thrin. I sometimes think I'd like to just live in a library! A library with a corner set aside with a big squashy sofa/bed type arrangement and a tea making area. Books are my friends...
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Dec 4, 2007 1:23:57 GMT
Post by lollipop on Dec 4, 2007 1:23:57 GMT
Sorry, Lolli, only realised today that Stardust is a Gaimen book. My boyfriend gave me a book of Gaiman short stories for my birthday
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Dec 4, 2007 1:40:22 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Dec 4, 2007 1:40:22 GMT
Wicked.
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Dec 8, 2007 1:28:59 GMT
Post by Darkness on Dec 8, 2007 1:28:59 GMT
Been looking at book about life and work of Van Gogh, earlier tonight. Now THERE was a troubled genius. Bloody good stuff though. I especially really like the painting of his room in the house in Arles, and also the many cypress tree ones. Also looking at the paintings of huge fields under stormy brooding skies, which he did right at the end of his life. Really moving. Can almost see the turmoil in his mind in the patterns of his brush strokes. Sense of urgency about it all.
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Dec 9, 2007 21:30:10 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Dec 9, 2007 21:30:10 GMT
Remember, kids, Van Gogh is a not a good role model. Hear me when I say this!
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Jan 2, 2008 19:39:04 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jan 2, 2008 19:39:04 GMT
Currently enjoying:
Charlie Brooker's Dawn of the Dumb and Nick Johnstone, A Head Full of Blue.
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Jan 3, 2008 23:35:08 GMT
Post by someone on Jan 3, 2008 23:35:08 GMT
'Chinese Whispers' by Marisa Mackle...
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Jan 9, 2008 22:48:31 GMT
Post by Thrin on Jan 9, 2008 22:48:31 GMT
Current book is Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor.
f?cking depressing so far I must say. Too cynical even for me!
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Jan 9, 2008 22:53:03 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jan 9, 2008 22:53:03 GMT
Don't talk like that, Thrin, you're making me nervous.
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Jan 9, 2008 22:56:33 GMT
Post by Thrin on Jan 9, 2008 22:56:33 GMT
It's true! Though it could just be that first thing in the morning on the train to work possibly isn't the best time to be reading it
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Jan 10, 2008 2:00:24 GMT
Post by DAT500 on Jan 10, 2008 2:00:24 GMT
Is it wrong to have spent £65 on a book?
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Jan 10, 2008 3:08:40 GMT
Post by lollipop on Jan 10, 2008 3:08:40 GMT
My little sister had £85 books on her reading list (she's doing an English degree) - and one that was a hundred and something, and one out of print one only stocked by Amazon marketplace dealers, the cheapest of which was selling for £880!
So, in comparison, £65 seems quite cheap.
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Jan 10, 2008 4:09:33 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jan 10, 2008 4:09:33 GMT
It's never wrong to spend any amount at all on a book. Books are exempt from such issues and rules. They are also exempt from the issues of having not enough space to store any more of them because have already got so many. Books are speshul.
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Jan 10, 2008 4:55:57 GMT
Post by lollipop on Jan 10, 2008 4:55:57 GMT
I would like to add that my sister didn't buy the £880 book, in case that wasn't clear.
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Jan 12, 2008 16:14:35 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jan 12, 2008 16:14:35 GMT
Very posh! I love the illustration.
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Jan 21, 2008 20:06:32 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jan 21, 2008 20:06:32 GMT
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Jan 21, 2008 22:21:32 GMT
Post by Kelly on Jan 21, 2008 22:21:32 GMT
Terry Pratchett ;D
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Jan 22, 2008 19:41:52 GMT
Post by someone on Jan 22, 2008 19:41:52 GMT
no time for books... research... currently wading my way through user manual after user manual...
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Jan 28, 2008 1:56:34 GMT
Post by Goblin King on Jan 28, 2008 1:56:34 GMT
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Jan 28, 2008 2:11:39 GMT
Post by Darkness on Jan 28, 2008 2:11:39 GMT
Books are gud. Books are speshul.
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Feb 9, 2008 23:15:04 GMT
Post by Darkness on Feb 9, 2008 23:15:04 GMT
Talk to me about books, somebody...? I'm going insane here.
Neeeeeeeed Boooooooks!!!!
Help...??
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Feb 9, 2008 23:32:40 GMT
Post by someone on Feb 9, 2008 23:32:40 GMT
i found a book on my bookcase today that i havent read yet... i got it for £2 in a charity shop and its called 'after you'd gone'... i know i shouldnt start reading it until after my deadline on tuesday or i'll be so stressed and stupidly busy trying to finish things because id much rather read than work... but its soooo tempting...
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Feb 9, 2008 23:40:56 GMT
Post by Darkness on Feb 9, 2008 23:40:56 GMT
By Maggie O'Farrell? I have that book, but haven't read it (story of my life, yeah yeah..). It looks good though. I've got all of hers (4 in total) but haven't read any of them. After You'd Gone was her first.
I was supposed to read Unless by Carol Shields, for my mad people's book group, which met on Friday afternoon, but I hadn't made it past the first page. I should be ok with the book for next month - it's Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, which I've read twice before, although not for a long time.
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Feb 9, 2008 23:44:13 GMT
Post by someone on Feb 9, 2008 23:44:13 GMT
indeed by Maggie O'Farrell... it does indeed look good... the cover is a lovely colour... and the blurb is actually written on the back for once!!!
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier is a damn good book... I've read it a few times too... a few years back... and then again because id forgotten i'd read it...
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Feb 9, 2008 23:47:43 GMT
Post by Darkness on Feb 9, 2008 23:47:43 GMT
Have you read any of the linked books - sequels/prequels and all the rest of that nonsense? I admit I haven't actually read any of them, but I just don't like the idea of another author coming along and 'tampering' with an original text. But if you're interested, other people tell me some of them are quite good...
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill (I think, or it could be Emma Tennant, not sure off the top of my head).
That sort of thing....
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Feb 9, 2008 23:52:08 GMT
Post by someone on Feb 9, 2008 23:52:08 GMT
I'm not sure if i have or not... to be honest im totally crap at remembering the titles of what i ahve read!!! not overly keen on reading sequels/prequels as they are never written in the same style as the book i originally enjoyed...
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Feb 9, 2008 23:58:39 GMT
Post by Darkness on Feb 9, 2008 23:58:39 GMT
Talking of sequels/prequels, Sebastian Faulks has written a new James Bond novel, "Devil May Care", due to be published at the end of May. I'm not really into Bond at all, but there's been controversy about who should write the new Bond books and indeed if any should be written at all. But I think the film franchise makes too much money to allow them to run out of potential new movies... Cynical - moi??
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Feb 10, 2008 0:04:00 GMT
Post by someone on Feb 10, 2008 0:04:00 GMT
the James Bond films (before HP) were the biggest relatively recent films to be shot in england... one of the things we were told in school was no matter how small the job to never turn down working on a james bond film..
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Feb 10, 2008 18:55:19 GMT
Post by lollipop on Feb 10, 2008 18:55:19 GMT
Oh, I liked Rebecca. Only read it the once but it was very cool. I'd read it again if I saw a copy anywhere (can't spend money on books atm though - need to buy course texts).
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