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The last book you bought was...............

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Freshly Squeezed Cynic

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24^th Mar 2009 at 9:28 pm

apparently the big pink bastard is me

Quote: mancombseepgood

The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith which should be on its way to me now.

Utterly magnificent book.

Filled with existential dread and toast.

wombat

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25^th Mar 2009 at 9:04 pm

Technically sexy.

I haven't had a new book in AGES so I bought:

Day of the triffids

and

A guide to recognising your saints

to read on the plane

Southern hemispherical rat boy

Little Blue Fox.

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4^th Apr 2009 at 5:25 pm

Hope is important.

"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman.

It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

Delirium Tremens

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13^th Apr 2009 at 10:33 am

Yeah, fantastic one.

I bought the other day

Selected Poems - William Blake
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes - Griel Marcus.

Mancomb Seepgood

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13^th Apr 2009 at 1:30 pm

Grog me.

Lost Christianities by Bart D. Ehrman. Good chance to get back into studying religious literature. Haven't done it in 3 years or so, yet it was by far the most interesting and revelatory thing I've ever done in education.

If I could get an orange that was as low-maintenance as an apple, I'd be a happy man

Delirium Tremens

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14^th Apr 2009 at 1:55 pm

Quote: james

I am Legend - Richard Matheson

I made the mistake of starting that before I went to bed. Didn't go to sleep until I finished it.

Definitely need to get more of Matheson's.

Mancomb Seepgood

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5^th May 2009 at 4:35 pm

Grog me.

Just ordered a Thomas Paine collection. And about time.

If I could get an orange that was as low-maintenance as an apple, I'd be a happy man

Dinglebutt

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6^th May 2009 at 11:30 am

I aim to misbehave

going to order "My Boring-A*s Life" by Kevin Smith. I've read bits of it and while a lot of it is indeed boring, the stories about Jason Mewes on drugs and his fathers death are magnificent

Mal: Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
Zoë: Big damn heroes, sir.
Mal: Ain't we just.

Silvan

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30^th May 2009 at 10:01 am

Aurals Velupide!

Watchmen.

What can I say? I did it all for the Wookies.

Chris Kamara

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1^st Jun 2009 at 8:02 pm

CSS Mastery: A Guide To Advanced CSS

A present from my wife. Tree-mendous.

Rayanne Graff

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1^st Jun 2009 at 8:16 pm

River Phoenix

Quote: the_doc

Quote: TheUnitedTruth
oranges are not the only fruit - Jeanette Winterson

Not a bad book, Aimz, I think you'll really like it.

Incidentally, is the publishers you work for called Athena? It's just connected to summat that happened at work the other day.............

i agree with the husband. It's a great book.

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TinyShine

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9^th Jun 2009 at 4:23 pm

Quote: farmer_jack

CSS Mastery: A Guide To Advanced CSS

A present from my wife. Tree-mendous.

I'm always trying to get him into books...! This is as close as it gets hehe.

Sarah xx

Mancomb Seepgood

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15^th Jun 2009 at 10:38 pm

Grog me.

Just ordered Cosmos by Carl Sagan and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman. Gonna get all scienced up.

If I could get an orange that was as low-maintenance as an apple, I'd be a happy man

Delirium Tremens

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3^rd Jul 2009 at 2:05 pm

Yesterday I done got from the charity bookshop in Streatham

The Doors of Perception/Heaven & Hell - Aldous Huxley (read it last night, very funny stuff)
A Shaun Ryder biography (also read last night, nicely chewable facts)
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
At Swim Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
Animal Farm - George Orwell (I've read nearly everything else of his so thought that now having seen the cartoon wasn't good enough)
A new collection of Poe's short stories cos the old fell apart.

Little Blue Fox.

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17^th Aug 2009 at 12:13 pm

Hope is important.

"Pandaemonium" by Christopher Brookmyre.

It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

Little Blue Fox.

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19^th Aug 2009 at 12:20 pm

Hope is important.

"Naive. Super" by Erlend Loe.
"The Moth Diaries" by Rachel Klein.
"Be My Enemy" by Christopher Brookmyre.
"The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde.

They are presents for my friends.

It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

heartbrokenness

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15^th Oct 2009 at 5:17 pm

The secret by Rhonda Byrne

Delirium Tremens

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17^th Oct 2009 at 2:04 pm

Quote: lauf of bread, Oct 2009

I think I'll get through Engels and Wilde, or at least Dorian Gray, but Micheal Moore has a tendency to p*ss me off and I already know Satre's a bit advanced for me.
I keep telling myself I bought it for the challenge.

Nausea's really easy to read and is great.

Delirium Tremens

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19^th Oct 2009 at 8:10 pm

Quote: Valerie Holliday, Oct 2009

Quote: Kid A, Oct 2009
I *detest* Michael Moore.

Even though, in theory, I agree with most of his views.

Yes!

I mostly put it down to his being American, which makes me wonder whether I'm a little bit patriotic, or a little bit racist.

The Americans are less a race than a particularly arrogant gelatinous mass. They're like a lovehandle on a detestable aging crooner.

Little Blue Fox.

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21^st Oct 2009 at 11:16 am

Hope is important.

"Pippi Longstockings" by Astrid Lindgren.
"...And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer.
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.

It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

Silvan

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21^st Oct 2009 at 3:56 pm

Aurals Velupide!

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, which I'm absolutely loving, and Frankenstein, which I picked up for 49p.

What can I say? I did it all for the Wookies.

Jewbacca

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26^th Oct 2009 at 6:35 am

Zombie Survival Guide for £7 from HMV. If anyone wants it for a fiver I've only read the first 20 pages. It's okay, it just seems to be all common sense to anyone who's seen more than two zombie films. It didn't make me lol out loud either. Should have got WWZ.

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