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czuczu wrote:
radiojamaica wrote:About to end Stephen King's The Dark Tower series...
I love the pre-accident ones!
Its definitely worth checking out The Little Sisters of Eluria and The Wind Through The Keyhole if you haven't read them yet 8)
Just finished the Wind Through The Keyhole and yup, enjoyed quite a bit. Thanx for the tip!

Now started in this one:

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50 pages in and this looks like a very good one 8)
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Phoenix was short & sweet. Man, Chuck is a weird writer :lol: Love em ;D

Just started:
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I've yet to read the book but have seen all the epi's & the movie :)
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Author Iain Banks has terminal cancer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22015175

Author Iain Banks has revealed that he has late stage cancer and is unlikely to live for more than a year.

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Yep.
Saw that all over the twittersphere earlier.
Very sad.
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I've never quite got into Iain Banks, harsh news though :(
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Very sad about Iain Banks.

Me currently reading through the collected Judge Dredd Case Files
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^ waiting for vol 20 to come out in June :)
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I'm a bit behind, I'm on vol 3 at the moment (as per pasted image)

But I have been limiting myself to buying one a month, and I only started on them after watching the Dredd film again (for about the 4th time). It's funny rereading all the old strips and remembering (most of) them from the original run... thirty-mumble years ago!
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You've got the golden age of Block Mania to come - happy days!
They stopped doing them for the duration of the filmes release but ity seems to be back to 2 per year now.
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Yeah I can't wait for Block Mania / Apocalypse War. Also I stopped getting 2000AD round Prog 500ish so anything after that is going to be new for me. w00t!
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George Friedman - The Next decade.
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Valery Panyushkin- Twelve Who Don't Agree
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Thoroughly engrossing. About 2/3 of the way through. It's influencing my dreams and disturbing me generally. It's so subliminal I would have to hail him as a genius.
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Was in Ol' birmingham on Saturday, in waterstones, and saw something by Philip K. Dick that looked somewhat interesting, had Eldritch in the title, or something? :D :lol: :von:
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LyanvisAberrant wrote:Was in Ol' birmingham on Saturday, in waterstones, and saw something by Philip K. Dick that looked somewhat interesting, had Eldritch in the title, or something? :D :lol: :von:
That'll be this then...

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Aaah yes! Not that edition, but the same book.
And also, stigmata is another word that took my interest :lol:
I always imagined :von: trying to sing "stigmata martyr" by bauhaus.

What a horrid thought... :lol:
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while i'm waiting to read reportage from North Korea written by Denis Rodman, i'm reading Barbara Demick's Nothing to envy: an ordinary lives in North Korea
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While having a look through a wee second hand bookshop I found half a dozen Jeremy Clarkson books

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Actually I'm not serious...kindling would be more appropriate for them
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I will start tomorrow this one :D

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Seems promising ;D
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iesus wrote:I will start tomorrow this one :D

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Seems promising ;D
Mmm Yeah! bought that on Thursday...might be able to start it on Sunday.
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let's hope he steers awawy from mis-stating established facts and that he's learnt to write since davinci code. :roll:
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:let's hope he steers awawy from mis-stating established facts and that he's learnt to write since davinci code. :roll:
Doubtful...but none the less entertaining all the same :wink:
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