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14th April 2006, 05:11 PM #1
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What books and mags do you read
I've always been a voracious reader.
Anything from techo to classics.
I inherited the old mans collection of Parade magazines and I'm re-reading them. (Good job in front of a nice warm fire)
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14th April 2006, 05:15 PM #2
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harry potter books are good.
zoo magazine is cool
other short books with interesting titleS T I R L O
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14th April 2006, 05:31 PM #3
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My dear wife reckons I would read anything that has print on it. She may be right. As a consequence of being forced - as a child - not to read at the table during mealtimes, I used to be able to recite by heart the French wording on the back of the old HP sauce bottle. Still can actually:
"Cette sauce de haute qualité est une mélange d’épices, des fruites orientaux et du vinaigre de malte...."
I'm rapidly running out of storage space for the better books in the collection. That gives me the perfect excuse, of course, to build some more bookcases.
Currently reading: John Mortimer's Quite Honestly. Just finished Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street and The Sunday Philosophy Club (and I've got his latest Botswanan novel: Blue Shoes and Happiness in the wings). His work really appeals to me.
Sitting on the shelf, waiting to be read are a couple of Arturo Perez-Reverte novels and a Patricia Cornwell. I've still not got past the second chapter of Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay (don't know what it is with that book - maybe it's the thought that if you dropped it on your foot you'd never walk again).
Magazines these days tend to be woodworking by nature: FWW and Popular Woodworking from the US and AWR from Oz (still an excellent publication). I read The Bulletin intermittently as with The Spectator, The Economist and The London Review of Books (bit too narrow, that last one).
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14th April 2006, 05:36 PM #4
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Originally Posted by ss_11000
Good stuff, Stirlo! Read as much as you can. It expands your mind and keeps you entertained for life. Harry Potter books are good.Driver of the Forums
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14th April 2006, 05:45 PM #5
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My fave read is.
Woodwork Monthly
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Pawn Monthly.
More .
Old magazines from work.
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Goat Monthly.
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Wine Monthly.
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I tell my wife Im married not dead.
And I am a Pawn Broker too.....
Al
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14th April 2006, 05:51 PM #6
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i'm starting to think i'm reading too much about ww Originally Posted by Driver
ps post numba 600 for meS T I R L O
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14th April 2006, 05:51 PM #7
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So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography, you may be able to answer a question that has been bothering me for some time, to whit (try to stifle the urge to respond with: to whoo Originally Posted by ozwinner
My fave read is.
Woodwork Monthly
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Pawn Monthly.
More .
Old magazines from work.
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Goat Monthly.
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Wine Monthly.
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I tell my wife Im married not dead.
And I am a Pawn Broker too.....
Al
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How do you build a pornograph and where on the web would you find a free plan for one? Eh, eh? Answer me that. Go on!Driver of the Forums
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14th April 2006, 05:59 PM #8
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Originally Posted by Driver
So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography, you may be able to answer a question that has been bothering me for some time, to whit (try to stifle the urge to respond with: to whoo )
How do you build a pornograph and where on the web would you find a free plan for one? Eh, eh? Answer me that. Go on!
You could ask this fella, his is broken but ....
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=114329
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14th April 2006, 05:59 PM #9
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Goto. Originally Posted by Driver
So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography, you may be able to answer a question that has been bothering me for some time, to whit (try to stifle the urge to respond with: to whoo )
How do you build a pornograph and where on the web would you find a free plan for one? Eh, eh? Answer me that. Go on!
www.pornograph.com
Al
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14th April 2006, 06:02 PM #10
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Its research Col, research. Originally Posted by Driver
I only read them for the articles anyway.
Al
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14th April 2006, 06:06 PM #11
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Is that the definite articles, the indefinite articles or the articles of women's clothing Originally Posted by ozwinner
Its research Col, research.
I only read them for the articles anyway.
Al, you smut peddler? :eek:
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14th April 2006, 06:08 PM #12
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Well.............
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14th April 2006, 06:12 PM #13
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mmmmmmmmmm Boooks
Boooks mmmmmmmmmm love em ....will read most things but cant come at soppy mush it does nothing for me love anything by Frank Mc Court ( he wrote angelas ashes i love bryce courtenay's books have read them all
love autobiography's and im reading about ruth crackenell atm
if i find something that grabs my attention ill just keep reading much to the kids dismay ....
looking forward to seeing wat i can find next to read .....
cheers all jules
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14th April 2006, 07:17 PM #14
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The Da Vinci Code - best book I ever read. I studied PYI in engineering but didn't know all the religious and history stuff.
Squizzy
"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}
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14th April 2006, 09:21 PM #15
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I like to read a bit of anything, lately it has been fantasy (yeah I could fantasize about her, and her and oh definitly her
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but seriously I just reread Tolkein and now I'm reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography - pretty good. For a seriously disgusting funny read Irvine Walsh's "Filth" is well worth a look. Also like books like Jarred Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel" and "1421". Quite like Jean Auels "clan of the cave bear" too.
I'm over Tom Clancy, hate Clive Cussler and also that dude who writes popular legal type stuff thats so predictable - can't remember his name...
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