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  1. Ponders Revisited

    Ponders Revisited Well-Known Member

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    What's everyone reading these days? I'm open to suggestions.

    I'm about halfway through Sinclair McKay's Berlin. Top stuff from a truly talented historian. I also have FourFourTwo and Viz on the go.

    For anyone who likes a bit of fiction, you should check out Rory Clements' Tom Wilde series. Can't beat a bit of WW2-based espionage.

    And my friend Ken Follett, the absolute master, has a new novel (The Armour of Light) out later this year.

    Over to you.
     
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  2. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Recently finished "Falling Angel" by William Hjortsberg

    It was made into the movie "Angel Heart" starring Mickey Rourke and Robert DeNiro before I was even born.
     
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    Easter Road 1980 Well-Known Member

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    ****ing poofrahs!!
     
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    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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  5. pompeymeowth

    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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    <laugh>
     
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    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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    I'm re-reading Timescape, by Gregory Benford.

    Then I'm going to try Ubik again.
     
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  7. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    You're under 35? My apologies if so.
     
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    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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  10. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I found a copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky on the platform at work. Decided to read it rather than use it as a doorstop. It’s rather good. Trying to read Nicolaus Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, for a Philosophy of Science course I’m probably not going to complete.
     
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    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Under 53 maybe. Wouldn’t bet on it though.
     
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    Easter Road 1980 Well-Known Member

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    He's 58.
     
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  13. Mick O'Toon

    Mick O'Toon Well-Known Member

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    Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane,racist Irish-Americans set in Boston(is there any other kind) lol
     
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  14. Mick O'Toon

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    Is that his age or jeans size?
     
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  15. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    IQ :grin:
     
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    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Shoe size
     
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    Girth in mm.
     
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    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Easter Road 1980 Well-Known Member

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    I'm currently perusing "Razzle" and "Big Cocks Monthly".

    Excellent reading material <ok>
     
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    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I'm "Mr June" in the June issue of "Big Cocks Monthly". <ok>
     
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