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A great big book about Japan's pacific war. Good stuff.
Q: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God tell you when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Pullman: Well, I'm retiring, would you like to take it on ?
Pullman: Well, I'm retiring, would you like to take it on ?
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Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Earth
Read all the others, 'cept the prelude one, which looks crap. They're Sci-Fi but not TOO unbelievable. Well, they were slightly believable until it introduced a wall, rocks and probably excrement that were conscious. They stored information in rocks......in the rocks conscience. Still, I had to read it now that I've started the trilogy and they are damn good books.
(Same guy who wrote "I, Robot", recently turned into a film....)
Read all the others, 'cept the prelude one, which looks crap. They're Sci-Fi but not TOO unbelievable. Well, they were slightly believable until it introduced a wall, rocks and probably excrement that were conscious. They stored information in rocks......in the rocks conscience. Still, I had to read it now that I've started the trilogy and they are damn good books.
(Same guy who wrote "I, Robot", recently turned into a film....)
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Dan Brown - Angels and Demons.
And I'm also reading a nice chunky book about black holes and associated theory for my physics (extra reading) which is actually rather fascinating.
And I'm also reading a nice chunky book about black holes and associated theory for my physics (extra reading) which is actually rather fascinating.
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Demonstorm is coming to a close, and I expect more death and revenge.
Currently Listening: The Last Of Us (Goodnight) - Gustavo Santaolalla
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Currently Playing: Teslagrad/Hearthstone
and the time is 12.38 BST.
Currently Watching: Spotify
Currently Playing: Teslagrad/Hearthstone
and the time is 12.38 BST.
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The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick.
I found it sort of sad.
I found it sort of sad.
From the Freedom of Light into the Freedom of Darkness she fades - but her shadow here remains - for so ardent was the radiance of her being. - By the grace of dear Maximillian.
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Read that a couple of weeks ago. Flicks a bit too much between comedy and seriousness for my liking. See his "solution" for Northern Ireland, for example..Michael Moore - Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation
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Most of what he says is very clever stuff... It's just not really anything that doesn't come out in one of those 'why GWB is a gooch face' type conversations that seem to happen so often.
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<recently discovered jon stewart>
i don't remember what publication it was (either time, rolling stone, or the globe & mail) describing him as all sorts of things better than moore... including funnier and cuter than moore.
and whoever said it was right.
did anyone see him on cnn crossfire?
i don't remember what publication it was (either time, rolling stone, or the globe & mail) describing him as all sorts of things better than moore... including funnier and cuter than moore.
and whoever said it was right.
did anyone see him on cnn crossfire?
"o stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face
of his beloved arises? doesn't his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?"
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Um, no.
In Hollow Lands by Sophie Masson. A weird book.
In Hollow Lands by Sophie Masson. A weird book.
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I really need to start watching some CNN again sometimes. Is braces dude still about?did anyone see him on cnn crossfire?
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don't know.
but it was basically stewart battling it out with the bowtie conservative while the "leftie" just sat there. and they weren't even going on about politics. it was media, and how stupid their show was and comparing it to wrestling and saying it was hurting america.
bowtie conservative: come on, be funny.
stewart: no, no, no, i will not be your monkey.
linkage, watch it:
http://mediamatters.org/static/video/cr ... 041015.wmv
or http://mediamatters.org/static/video/cr ... 015001.mp4
disclaimer: jess likes the bowties.
but it was basically stewart battling it out with the bowtie conservative while the "leftie" just sat there. and they weren't even going on about politics. it was media, and how stupid their show was and comparing it to wrestling and saying it was hurting america.
bowtie conservative: come on, be funny.
stewart: no, no, no, i will not be your monkey.
linkage, watch it:
http://mediamatters.org/static/video/cr ... 041015.wmv
or http://mediamatters.org/static/video/cr ... 015001.mp4
disclaimer: jess likes the bowties.
"o stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face
of his beloved arises? doesn't his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?"
- from rainer maria rilke's third elegy
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of his beloved arises? doesn't his secret insight
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- from rainer maria rilke's third elegy
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