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    #61
    Originally posted by tay View Post
    The Generals by Simon Scarrow

    I like Napoleonic war novels.


    Have you read the "Sharpe" series written by Bernard Cornwell.

    Brilliant!
    Last edited by Diver; 2 October 2008, 11:43.
    Confusion is a natural state of being

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      #62
      Ermm - Terry Pratchett - Sourcery. igmc.
      Bored.

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        #63
        Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
        Wasn't that a line from the popular tv series Porridge?
        Stolen, though, from a story told by Alec Guinness about a time when he was playing Hamlet. A woman approached him after a performance and said she'd read a book that described a particularly brilliant and insightful approach to playing the part of the Dane. What's the book? asked Guinness. Dunno. Who wrote it? Dunno. The publisher? Sorry, dunno. Can you remember anything about the book so that I may source a copy? It had a blue cover. Upon hearing this tale from Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor said, that's about as much use as a fart in wet blancmange.

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          #64
          US author Charles Bukoski - Fact0tum

          The scene in the office stayed with me- those cigars, those fine clothes.

          Good steaks - ease -trips to Europe.

          Fine women .

          Were they much more cleverer than I ?

          The only difference was money and the desire to acculmulate it.

          I'd do it too !
          Id get an idea.

          Id spring a loan.

          I would hire and fire.
          I would keep whiskey in my desk drawer.

          I would cheat on my wife and she would know it - she would keep silent in order to live in my house and wealth.

          I would fire men just to see the look of dismay on their faces.

          I would fire women who didnt deserve to be fired.

          Thats all a man needs - hope.
          Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 2 October 2008, 11:47.

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            #65
            Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend which is about the foundation of the RAF and the Battle of Britian, cause I'm a bit of a history geek.

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              #66
              Originally posted by ace00 View Post
              Ermm - Terry Pratchett - Sourcery. igmc.
              Terry Pratchet - Brilliant. I have the complete collection
              Confusion is a natural state of being

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                #67
                Originally posted by Diver View Post
                Terry Pratchet - Brilliant. I have the complete collection
                WHS
                Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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                  #68
                  Originally posted by Diver View Post
                  Terry Pratchet - Brilliant. I have the complete collection

                  Likewise, I am a huge Pratchett fan! Currently re-reading Wyrd Sisters.
                  I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying...

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                    #69
                    Originally posted by Bob Dalek View Post
                    Don Quixote is good, until the last 4 billion pages, where it tails-off noticeably into rehashed rubbish.
                    I got bogged down in The Brothers Karamzov. A friend (?) remarked that the first 300 pages or so were a bit boring, but it got interesting after that.

                    Currently reading Iain M Banks, Matter. The best current SF around IMO.

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                      #70
                      Originally posted by Another Dodgy Agent View Post
                      Likewise, I am a huge Pratchett fan! Currently re-reading Wyrd Sisters.
                      I've just read his latest offering too, excellent although not set on the Discworld.
                      B00med!

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