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Just started Stefan Heym's "The Wandering Jew".

So far its bloody brilliant

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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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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.


Would this be the book the new film with Matt Damon is based on?

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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.


Would this be the book the new film with Matt Damon is based on?


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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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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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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Currently reading books about werewolves and love them. Far too girlie for you lot though so no point posting the names :lol:

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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 :lol:


Women - make up your minds. You either want a hairy bloke or you don't! :roll: ;)

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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 :lol:


Women - make up your minds. You either want a hairy bloke or you don't! :roll: ;)


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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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 :D

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Ivo Andric's 'The Bridge on the Drina'

Bloody good so far

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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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A book on Heath Ledger for the Batman bits before giving it to the girls in work. The book I mean :lol:

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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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