What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Post by Svartalf » Sun Oct 26, 2014 3:58 pm

Man of Gold, a nice fantasy by linguist MAR Barker abut the world he built for his languages.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:47 pm

And God Created Cricket: An Irreverent History of the Greatest Game on Earth by Simon Hughes.
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:15 am

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Very interesting so far.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:07 am

rEvolutionist wrote:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Very interesting so far.
Read it when you were still in nappies... :tea:
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:15 am

I read it in the womb. :coffee:
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Post by Hermit » Tue Nov 04, 2014 8:37 am

Interesting? I read it almost 40 years ago. Or, rather, I should say I started reading it. When I got to Pirsig's comments on David Hume I gave up. His take on Hume's writings was - shall we say - extraplanetary. So I read the last three pages. It made me glad that I had decided to skip the 300 or so between where I stopped reading and resumed. Fucking New-Age waffle.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:30 am

JimC wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Very interesting so far.
Read it when you were still in nappies... :tea:
Read it now he's back in nappies.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by klr » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:32 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:And God Created Cricket: An Irreverent History of the Greatest Game on Earth by Simon Hughes.
Sounds like something I should invest in.

Or maybe wait for one of my cricket-mad brothers to invest in, and then I can borrow it. :read:
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:22 am

klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:And God Created Cricket: An Irreverent History of the Greatest Game on Earth by Simon Hughes.
Sounds like something I should invest in.

Or maybe wait for one of my cricket-mad brothers to invest in, and then I can borrow it. :read:
I'd say borrow it. Interesting facts but the quality of the writing is functional rather than inspired.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by rainbow » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:46 am

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:00 pm

Should I worry that I liked Adam Trask? I think I'll avoid the character analysis elsewhere.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by tattuchu » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:31 pm

I'm reading an Agatha Christie mystery :awesome:
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.

But those letters are not silent.

They're just waiting their turn.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:39 pm

The butler did it!
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Sean Hayden » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:27 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:I think I'll avoid the character analysis elsewhere.
Oh, I regret not listening to myself. Idiots, all of them. :dq:
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:30 am

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge. Surely one of the most alliterative titles ever. Her fictionalisation of the last days of Cpt. Scott and co.
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