Douglas Adams Continuum (DAC)

I am currently reading Thoreau's Walden from an online library. Amazing how many complete books are available for free online.

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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."--H.L. Mencken

www.campaignforliberty.com

Home From the Vinyl Cafe - Stuart McLean

I've just cought five episodes of this on BBC7. They are a joy to listen to, so I bought the book.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/wednesday/rams/1145.ram

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/thursday/rams/1145.ram

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/friday/rams/1145.ram

yeah, Crime and Punishment is quite good. Even for someone like me who can never seem to see the deeper meaning of things it has witty and clever dialogue, a decent plot and the names used reminds you of Roald Dahl and Dickens; the names say something about the characters, which is cool.

Still reading 'Great Expectations', nearly read 1/4 of it now

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

"Eric" is finished. Eh. On to "Moving Pictures".

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vagabond
birds, any birds, anywhere, any time

Boccaccio's Decameron. Whoa, this is a really good book.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

not to mention full of naughty bits.
don´t think we wouldn´t catch you, waux.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

I'm still reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. And I guess, since I still haven't finished them, I'm also "reading" Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, The Anthology at the End of the Universe, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and the never ending, constant reread of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm gonna start Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency again in the next week or so.

And this morning my mom told me she wanted to read Hitchhiker's. !YaY!

(This thread should never go a month without being posted in)

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So long...etc.

"Snow" by Orhan Pamuk

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vagabond
birds, any birds, anywhere, any time

Who on Earth is Tom Baker by Tom Baker

The Greedy Bastard Tour Diary by Eric Idle

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Just finished through with my first re-read.

Cat's Cradle

Forgot how good that was, probably one of my favorite books.

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Personally, I believe joblessness is one of the core prerequisites for creativity. - OZ

just finished Guards! Guards! by PTerry, and Good Omens by PTerry and Neil Gaiman, now reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, as well as Fables & Reflections by the very same

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Carpe aleae

I've just finished The Vampire's Assisstant. I read Cirque du Freak in two days, which is only relevant because I should have spent that time with doing something else.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett


I lost my TP virginity!!! And so far I like the ride ...

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See")

Love the Vinyl Cafe shows....listen to them most Sundays....

Reading this at the moment...

The Arthur C Clarke Rama series. I've been meaning to read them fo a few years now so this summer I picked up the first one from the bookstore. Now I have no life, HELP ME!!! the books control my life.

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Bye bye Ronnie B, we'll miss you.
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A Long way down - Nick Hornby
Ive liked Nick's previous books but I'd avoided this one 'cause it got such lousy writeups.
Off work sick at the moment so I've been reading it and it's actually quite good.

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The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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Jeeves in the Offing - You-Know-Who.
This is the best Wodehouse book I've read so far. Truly enjoyable and makes You happy while You read it. You just think that whatever happens, happens and since You can't do anything to stop them happen, You just have to sit back and laugh. Kinda like the book version of Don't Worry, Be Happy.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
Its really funny. Funniest bit: Adolf Hitler: the Larry KIng Interview (its exactly what it sounds like!)

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

I'm getting back into Le Petit Prince and I just picked up Salmon of Doubt.

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Zombies make bad gifts.

I thought i would give Pride and Prejudice another try...so...yeah, so far, it's good.

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

Just finished Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves!.
Wodehouse is a genious.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

That's what we've been trying to tell you for ages, try a Blandings book or some of the short story collections, there's more than Jeeves you know.

Oh, and give my regards to Holland.

The Odyssey of Homer

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Personally, I believe joblessness is one of the core prerequisites for creativity. - OZ

I have always said that he is a genious.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Monkey, A Journey to the West, a retelling by David Kherdian of the old Chinese legend.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

These are the books I am currently reading:

How To Be Good by Nick Hornby.
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore.
An Echo in the Darkness by Francine Rivers.
Firestarter by Stephen King.
Bad News by Donald E. Westlake.
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Anonymous Rex: A Detective Story by Eric Garcia.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding.
The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace.
Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David.
And I'm sorta skimming through The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-liners Edited by Geoff Tibballs.

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The truth ain't like puppies. A bunch of 'em running around, you pick your favorite.

There's nothing funny about a plastic vagina.

The Epic Project. It happened. Way too late.

Did you get a chance to take the girls to visit the Monkey King exhibit at Museum Center this summer?

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"Oh I'm a meat eater too. I love meat. Expecially meat with melted cheese." ... number 302079
(... don't piss us off)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by a one Victor Hugo

But of course. We even saw the presentation with the guy from the Chinese opera.

Goofball particularly liked the transformation video game. Carebear liked the table of peaches.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

White Noise by Don Delillo

Edenborn by Nick Sagan (This is one of the more inventive SF series I have read in a long while. The first one is called Idlewild, and is quite good.)

Mostly Harmless by whats-his-name (again)

In The City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer

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...And then they made me their chief.

Add Good Omens to all that other stuff I posted earlier.

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So long...etc.

oooh! GOOD place to start! you read the original, i gather? because the german translation is rather bad.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

I read original books, I watch original movies ... I'm such an original!!!

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See")

You're original, damnit!

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"Oh I'm a meat eater too. I love meat. Expecially meat with melted cheese." ... number 302079
(... don't piss us off)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Have to do a presentation about it in 2 weeks. Still haven't finished it haha. I keep falling asleep!

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

I have had that exact problem twice in my life. Frankenstein, I have found, is a fascinating story, in a dreadfully boring book.

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...And then they made me their chief.

i´m in between books, dreadful situation. i have so many to choose from now: either volume 20 of the aubrey/maturin series and finish it thus, or "water music" or "quicksilver" (neal stephenson), or some scifi novel by a bloke called richard morgan (anyone know him?). or some utter insignificant romance novel i happened to discover last night on a shelf in the living-room. i swear i didn´t buy it, must have been left behind by a friend when she visited us some months ago.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

I'm trying to gather motivation to get started on John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, which is apparently one of, if not the finest mystery story in the world.

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Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!

yep. story = good. book = as fun as watching paint dry!

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

currently charlie and the chocolate factory, in english

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Carpe aleae

The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne. I'm sure I'd enjoy more if a) it wasn't for school, and b) I didn't have half of the plot spoiled by the teacher's book discussions. We're only on the third chapter and we know all the major twists of the story! It makes me sad.

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Chelsea / Wishkres
The most astonishing adventure in the universe begins
when the world ends.

Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin. Funny, as always.

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.