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TheophileEscargot finished reading The Great Courses The Vikings (Ancient & Medieval History, parts 1-2-3) yesterday.
TheophileEscargot is planning to read Apache Dawn.
TheophileEscargot reviewed The Good Terrorist (Vintage International) 4 days ago.
“ Novel set in London in the Eighties. A group of young communists move into a squat and start preparing for terrorism. Told... ”
TheophileEscargot finished reading The Good Terrorist (Vintage International) 5 days ago.
TheophileEscargot reviewed Best Served Cold 11 days ago.
“ Epic fantasy novel, set in the same world as the "First Law" trilogy but with mostly different characters and locations.... ”
TheophileEscargot reviewed STAGE-LAND 11 days ago.
“ 1890 theatre spoof. Very witty series of descriptions of the stock characters of Victorian drama. In a few cases it's a bit... ”
TheophileEscargot finished reading STAGE-LAND 12 days ago.
TheophileEscargot finished reading Best Served Cold 12 days ago.
TheophileEscargot reviewed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 3: Century, No. 1: 1910 2 weeks ago.
“ Takes the retro comic book series into the twentieth century. Cast has largely changed: Raffles the Amateur Cracksman,... ”
TheophileEscargot finished reading Buy, Sell and Move House ("Which?" Essential Guides) 2 weeks ago.
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Glad to hear you liked it! Similar oddity to be found in Michael Marshall Smith's novels "Only Forward", "Spares" and "One of Us" - check them out. Somewhere between Harkaway, Neil Gaiman and China Meiville, perhaps.Recently finished "Twelve" by Jasper Kent which was... an experience... in Napoleonic horror, no less. Also a good read.Cheers.
Do you like escargot??? I thought you Brit's liked "Bangers and Mash" "Marmite" or "Bubble-n-Squeak"..... and of course warm dark beer. Does that go well with snails??
Hi, just read your review of Neal Asher's "The line of Polity" - I agree with your statement about the Dawkinsesque flavour of the book, and probably would've given it a miss if I'd known how much it would aggravate me. Such a pity. Anyway, you've got some familiar names on your shelf and some I've been meaning to check out, so I'll be taking a proper look later and probably flagging a couple.Cheers.
By the way, what were those books you were refering to by ?Tolstoy? Something about the rings of gyges or something like that?
You really have something for Roman and Greek based books don't ya?
Thanks much. I'm really looking forward to the series. I'm having a serious jones for Edinburgh (and London, too) right now. I've not been back for 3 years. Thanks again. Slotkins (in Worcester, MA - 50 miles west of Boston)PS - I'm just finishing "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club). It's intense and hilarious. I'm loving it.
Hello, Ian Rankin fan, I've got a question. I'm about to jump into the Rebus books (I've read some of the short stories in Begger's Banquet and really like his writing). Question: I've received "Strip Jack" from a friend who told me to start with Book 4. So should I ignore my friend and start with "Knots and Crosses"? I've heard the character, Rebus, goes through quite a few changes over the years, but do I have to start at book #1? Without giving SPOILERS, I guess I'm asking if anything major happens to Rebus in the first three books.
You're probably right. Additionally, any deal would have had to involve the normalisation of the Nazi regime; as in The Separation, someone like Hess would have had to replace Hitler.
I believe the former Tory minister, Alan Clark , argued somewhere that it would have been better for Britain if she had come to some arrangement with the Third Reich...
Hi. I've noticed there's a fair bit of alternative history on your shelf. Have you come across The Separation by Christopher Priest? The main action takes place in the early forties, but in two different timelines - in one, Britain accepts Rudolf Hess' peace initiative, and the war ends (for us at least) in 1941.
Hi Theo, just started a sci fi film group, thought you might be interested in joining.http://www.shelfari.com/groups/25297/about
why should i not read this book?
my apologies. you are correct. i can only imagine how many "should i read this book" someone get who has a very large e-library. there definitely should be a way to skip ahead. i did read your review and now have a better idea about the book. thanks.
the jeanette winterson is rather new. the time it took you to write me an explanation as to why you sometimes do not provide an explanation for why someone should not read a book, you could have written something about the book. just a thought.
why should i not read the stone gods?
Thanks for that. I might read "The Lost Boy" one day so I'll hang on to it for now but it's certainly not one of the ones I'm desperate to get around to reading.
Hello. Not many people voted that I shouldn't read "The Lost Boy" but you were one and I was wondering why?
Hi. How r u? Im new to shelfari. I love to read books, but been out of touch lately. can u recommend some good books? Im not into SciFi, any good biographies or fiction. Thanks.
