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Douglas Adams - The long dark Tea-time of the Soul
Ahhh YES! Dirk Gently, we've spent many an hour together. Nice chap.
Have you read: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and/or The Salmon of Doubt?
The sun will never set if you keep walking towards it. - my son
Being positive doesn't understand physics.
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Douglas Adams ... I can only say:
BTW, I recommend the book: Starship Titanic, a Douglas Adams book(!), written by Terry Jones(!). Naked(!!). 'Nuf said.
Read it several times ... will read it next year probably once again.
Postpone all your duties; if you die, you won't have to do them ..
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HEY! Nice - never heard of that one and a game too, for that other OS.
One can even tour the ship online.
{grabbing a coffee - I'm going for a walk}
The sun will never set if you keep walking towards it. - my son
Being positive doesn't understand physics.
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Few books by Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Mons Kallentoft and Kjell Eriksson in English and in Polish.
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HEY! Nice - never heard of that one and a game too, for that other OS.
One can even tour the ship online.
{grabbing a coffee - I'm going for a walk}
Nice find ... wasn't really aware there is such thing as "tour the ship"?!?
As for the game ... I have to try it once ...
Postpone all your duties; if you die, you won't have to do them ..
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Right now I'm reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", by Ken Kesey. So far so good.
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Finished up Silent Spring - the open sourced .epub edition from Fadedpage.com
Still churning on my maybe 5th time reading The First Circle by Solzynitsyn, but the uncensored version,
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@paxmark1: If you like Solzhenitsyn, his Gulag Archipelago books can be downloaded in various formats here. I read all three volumes quite awhile ago; mind-numbing inhumanity.
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“Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.” — Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII., 18.
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Slade House - David Mitchell
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Slade House - David Mitchell
You know, after I read Mitchell's Cloud Atlas...I really tried getting into his other books. I tried the "Thousand Autumns of Jacob" and "Ghost Written" but I just couldn't get into them. I may try Ghost Written again, but it seemed to be much more unpolished than Cloud Atlas was, and a bit more disjointed and harder to follow. This of course my just be the fact that I listen to all of my book on audio, so I find that some books that people really really love, I can't really get into cause either of a crap narrator.
"I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that will not work" -Edison
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This. Great read if you like this sort of thing.
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Obssesive Metalhead and practiced beer drinker
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Dobbie, is that written like an actual history or is it written in narrative form? I love the Games of thrones series, (I finished A Knights of the Seven Kingdomws just a month back or so) but I'm not really in the mood of a book that is going to read like the Simillarion from the lord of the rings series lol...
"I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that will not work" -Edison
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Dobbie, is that written like an actual history or is it written in narrative form? I love the Games of thrones series, (I finished A Knights of the Seven Kingdomws just a month back or so) but I'm not really in the mood of a book that is going to read like the Simillarion from the lord of the rings series lol...
haha, nah it is written like a actual history. Very interesting for a totally fictional world.
I am halfway through a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, this one interrupted my read I personally found the Simillarion a good read
I have learnt to have epic amounts of endless patience with Tolkien books.
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Just finished: Discovering Jesus: Why Four Gospels to Portray One Person? by T. Desmond Alexander
Started: The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and Destruction of the Middle Class by Frederick Taylor
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Recently read:
Umberto Eco: Baudolino
Jan Guillou: Dandy (2nd in Great Century series)
Hannu Rajaniemi: The Causal Angel
The Causal Angel forced me to read the whole Jean le Flambeur trilogy over again, almost finished Quantum Thief now.
Third time reading Baudalino.
Q: Am i becoming recursive?
A: Yes. Next I'm going to borrow all Erast Fandorins I can find in the library.
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By the way, if any of your good folks are on GoodReads.com Feel free to add my as a friend there:
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"I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that will not work" -Edison
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@ HorizonBrave - Love GoodReads one of the best IMHO...
Recently read:
"Capital Dames" by Cokie Roberts and
"Economics After the Crisis" by Adair Turner
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I just finished Epic of Gilgamesh -- from now on it can only be more recent literature :-)
Baudolino is a good read.
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"Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by hitting back."
Piet Hein
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I just finished Epic of Gilgamesh -- from now on it can only be more recent literature :-)
Indeed. It's a timeless tale though, and an important part of our social narrative. "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."
Be excellent to each other, and...party on, dudes!
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Up until a few days ago, I was reading IPCC's wg1AR5 on climate change. Interesting read, if you have the patience. But, if I had written it, I'd have probably titled it "A Million Ways To Say We're Screwed"...
Now I need to read wg2 and wg3, But I think I'll wait a bit.
Meanwhile, yesterday I started reading this book:
May not be "epic", but it sure promises to be a battle for me...
Imagination is intelligence having fun. (Albert Einstein)
The thing about the Internet is you can create a phrase, and make up its author, and everybody will fall for it. (Aristotle)
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Meanwhile, yesterday I started reading this book:
http://s20.postimg.org/6jg6uoypl/cover.jpg
May not be "epic", but it sure promises to be a battle for me...
A very very good book! I printed out the entire PDF lol
"I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that will not work" -Edison
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A very very good book! I printed out the entire PDF lol
Yep, looks like it, so far.
I'm also thinking about it, as soon as I can buy me a printer...
Imagination is intelligence having fun. (Albert Einstein)
The thing about the Internet is you can create a phrase, and make up its author, and everybody will fall for it. (Aristotle)
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