Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

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Hope you're enjoying the new BBC radio adaptation. I am.

Dubliners is good stuff...depressing as hell though.

 

I started a new series by Bernard Cornwell about the Holy Grail. The first book was called Archer. It's a good change from his Napoleonic War era series. He's a very solid historical fiction author.

The Diablo 2 players guide.

50 facts that should change the world by Jessica Williams

e.g.:

• A third of the world is at war
  
• 30 million people in Africa are HIV-positive
  
• The US owes the UN $1 billion in unpaid dues
  
• One in five people live on less than $1 a day
  
• Cars kill two people every minute
  
• More than 150 countries use torture
  
• America spends the same on pornography as it does on foreign aid
  ...
  

I've begun reading The Historian, by Elisabeth Kostova.

50 facts that should change the world by Jessica Williams

e.g.

...America spends the same on pornography as it does on foreign aid

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Interesting.

50 facts that should change the world by Jessica Williams

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...America spends the same on pornography as it does on foreign aid

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I can't believe we spend that much on foreign aid. Obviously we are a much more generous country then I ever knew.

 

 

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry The Legends of Charlemagne

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America spends $10 billion on pornography every year

there are more than 300,000 internet sites dedicated to naked flesh.

 

 

Isn't 300,000 like a really small number?

If someone were to ask me, I'd say there were millions of porn sites on the net.

Perverted men.

there are more than 300,000 internet sites dedicated to naked flesh.

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Isn't 300,000 like a really small number?

If someone were to ask me, I'd say there were millions of porn sites on the net.

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Depends on your definition of website (the domain or all the pages underneath); also I think this was more about just the US sites.

Finished Hamlet. Good play. Probably the best of his I've read so far. Once I have time, I fully intend to start Macbeth. :D I'm also reading The Wastelands: the Dark Tower part III by Stephen King on and off.

Good to see people reading the classics instead of smut.

I have started Dan Brown's Angels and Demons to see what is the whole craze about his books nowadays

I have started Dan Brown's Angels and Demons to see what is the whole craze about his books nowadays

 

 

Oh, god no!

I just found a box of books that I have to read, including stuff like a Quotations tome of Churchill. I really need to set up a reading roster, now!

I have started Dan Brown's Angels and Demons to see what is the whole craze about his books nowadays

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I found this book entertaining, have you read the da vinci code? There making it into a movie with Tom Hanks as the main character, I'm not a tom hanks fan, but atleast he can't ruin the book.

 

Good fun!

I found this book entertaining, have you read the da vinci code? There making it into a movie with Tom Hanks as the main character, I'm not a tom hanks fan, but atleast he can't ruin the book.

 

Good fun! 

 

 

Because it's impossible to ruin what's already ruined?

Are you talking about the similarites between Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code?

I just found it!

 

The book that has been haunting me for months; the book that I mentioned last year and the name of which I couldn't remember ...

 

It's Frank McLynn's 1759 (subtitled The year Britain became Master of the World).

 

From the back:

Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588 or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759

Are you talking about the similarites between Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code?

 

 

No, I'm talking about the awful writing, the shallow characterization, the craptastic, predictable story and the complete waste of a perfectly good theme for a book.

What a nice book you have there Mr Meta.