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    #21
    The Last Turkey in the Shop, a Viz annual.
    My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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      #22
      Originally posted by DaveB View Post
      Reading "Matter" atm. He's definately becoming harder work as time goes on.

      Excession is good , takes about half the book to get a handle on just wtf is going on though.

      That sounds a wee bit like the last Banks novel I read - Whit - a good read though.

      In Whit ...Banks uses as an outsider a member of a cult who grew up in a commune in Scotland where modern technology - phone, TV, computer - is banned, making her seem completely out of touch with modern British society and giving her an outlook sceptical of the assumptions we tend to live by unquestioningly

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        #23
        Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
        The Last Turkey in the Shop, a Viz annual.
        I feel they started go downhill after The Thick Repeater. Does this one signal a return to form?
        +50 Xeno Geek Points
        Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
        As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

        Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

        CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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          #24
          Originally posted by Zippy View Post
          I feel they started go downhill after The Thick Repeater. Does this one signal a return to form?
          No.

          But it came free with the annual subscription the Missus got me for my birthday.
          My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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            #25
            Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
            Currently on my third attempt at "Excession" by Iain. M Banks
            Excession is one of his best; needs reading twice though.

            I've just finished Neal Stephenson's Anathem. A huge book but will need to read it again as I lost the plot 2/3 of the way through.

            Currently reading Kitty Kelly's biography of Sinatra.
            ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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              #26
              Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
              Excession is one of his best; needs reading twice though.
              Yeah, it seemed to be going places - although I thought that about The Algebraist but was ultimately left disappointed.
              Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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                #27
                Just finished...

                Sniper One: Dan Mills - Not my usual type of book but an excellent account of his part in the war in Iraq.

                Currently reading...

                Risk, The science of Politics and Fear: Dan Gardner - Excellent insight into our perceptions of risk etc.
                B00med!

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                  #28
                  Jane Austen : A Life
                  Claire Tomalin
                  I love Jane Austin and this is my first biography - rather enjoying it
                  I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

                  Pogle is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
                  CUK University Challenge Champions 2010
                  CUK University Challenge Champions 2012

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                    #29
                    Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer.
                    Superb !!
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                    Don't get mad...get even...

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                      #30
                      Übermensch by Friedrich Nietzsche, aka A SockPuppets Handbook

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