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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Just started Stefan Heym's "The Wandering Jew".
So far its bloody brilliant
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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The Martian - Or I would be if my dad and the window cleaner hadn't spent the last 15 minutes talking right outside my window. Can't even go round the park until the Tesco order arrives ffs.
Anyway, the book's interesting if you're nerdy, but I think the average person would have given up one chapter in lol. It's very much about the nuts and bolts of survival in his situation. It is good and I'll stick with it but I'm finding I need to be in the right mood for it.
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Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:39 am |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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Would this be the book the new film with Matt Damon is based on?
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Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:50 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That's the one. It's premise is like Tom Hank's Castaway on Mars, for a lazy description. I actually think it would make for a good, self-contained film, but probably something to only watch once. I think you'd love it mate - aren't you of a science background, IIRC? The Kindle app will let you download a few chapters if need be...
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Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:58 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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If you can get into it, it has a lot of humour. I listened to it as an audio book. It was really well read and had me in stitches at times and tears. A real rollercoaster.
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Tue Sep 01, 2015 11:55 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Predator Omnibus graphic novel - some of it's amazing, some of it's arse.
Dunno when I'll go back to The Martian.
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Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:29 am |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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Currently reading books about werewolves and love them. Far too girlie for you lot though so no point posting the names 
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Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:17 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Women - make up your minds. You either want a hairy bloke or you don't! 
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Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:24 pm |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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I don't mind a hairy guy. Don't particularly the OTT metrosexual guys who use more products in their hair tham me lol
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Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:52 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Predator: Incursion - to my knowledge it's the first time they've brought the Alien, Predator, and Marines together in a standard novel. Out at the end of the month, and part of a trilogy 
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Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:35 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Ivo Andric's 'The Bridge on the Drina'
Bloody good so far
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Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:56 pm |
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E. F. Benson
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:42 am Posts: 798 Location: land of the free, Bexhill-on-Sea
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
kind of Catcher In The Rye for the modern day. But the twist, I won't reveal.
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Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:33 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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I'm now on Predator Omnibus 4. Again, some of the stories are brilliant, some terrible. The artwork is bloody awful most of the time.
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Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:44 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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A book on Heath Ledger for the Batman bits before giving it to the girls in work. The book I mean 
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Sun Sep 13, 2015 5:37 pm |
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am Posts: 5550 Location: Nottingham
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I was in a charity shop at the weekend and they had a copy of The God Delusion so I grabbed that. I was intending to only read it once I'd finished Hitch 22 but I couldn't resist and ploughed through the first couple of chapters.
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