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Postby Tonyblack » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:07 pm

Time for a new thread as the old one was getting to be too big. :)
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Postby Quatermass » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:30 pm

Okay, um, I'll be first to contribute. I read the graphic novel version of Alan Moore's story The Courtyard. Grotesque, far too short, but is still pretty good.
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Postby BatrickPatrick » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:04 am

Finally started LOTR...60 pages in...

It's a shame books like this probably wouldn't get published nowadays...
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Postby DaveC » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:12 am

Good Omens for the first time! :)
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Postby Willem » Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:25 am

I'm rereading A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin and hope to finish the next two books too before number 5 comes out on the 12th of July. About 2000 pages to go :)
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Postby pip » Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:16 am

A good challenge.
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Postby michelanCello » Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:06 am

DaveC wrote:Good Omens for the first time! :)

...and surely not for the last time :wink:
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Postby DaveC » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:20 am

michelanCello wrote:
DaveC wrote:Good Omens for the first time! :)

...and surely not for the last time :wink:


Who knows, I have never reread a book in my (short) life, apart from bits for exams at school. But who knows. I'm not a fast reader so it's a big commitment rereading when there are always more books around the corner.

I'm already about a third of the way through my life and have read so little.... :oops:
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Postby Who's Wee Dug » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:26 am

Well you still have plenty of time to catch up Dave. :) don't leave it till you retire. :lol:
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Postby DaveC » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:27 am

Who's Wee Dug wrote:Well you still have plenty of time to catch up Dave. :) don't leave it till you retire. :lol:


Hope so...
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Postby Alrik Fassbauer » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:49 am

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Postby poohcarrot » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:34 pm

DaveC wrote:I'm already about a third of the way through my life and have read so little.... :oops:

So how many wimmin have you slept with in the third of your life? :D

Do you always have to find a new wimmin, or do you keep coming back to the wimmin you love because she makes you laugh? :P
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Postby DaveC » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:28 pm

poohcarrot wrote:
DaveC wrote:I'm already about a third of the way through my life and have read so little.... :oops:

So how many wimmin have you slept with in the third of your life? :D

Do you always have to find a new wimmin, or do you keep coming back to the wimmin you love because she makes you laugh? :P


:P

As always Pooh cuts through the bs. :lol:

Yes I am a rereader in my personal life. :wink:
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Postby ShadowNinjaCat » Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:09 pm

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Postby The Mad Collector » Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:59 pm

DaveC wrote:Yes I am a rereader in my personal life. :wink:


Especially braille :)

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