I went shopping today and I bought myself a book. 'The Eyre Affair' by some bloke called Jasper Fforde. Thought it looked quiet amusing, and it had a nice picture of a dodo on the front.

Anyone else read it?


tee hee. Thought it was about time I had my own copy!

You should have got yourself 'The Wee Free Men' while you were at it .... I have to wait til Saturday.



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Cool, I thought I was the last to get it - I got mine at Christmas, that was ages ago :)

I saw The Wee Free Men, £4 off in WH Smiths. Thought I'd have a shufty in Asda, see if it was @#$%&. Hoping it's going to be a good 'un. Maurice was good, but been a bit disappointed by the kids' discworld books. Also a bit skint this month as bought myself a rather nifty cd-mp3 player...

I figured it was about time I re-read TEA too. Got LIAGB, which I've read several times, but wanted to go back to the start. (or is it the middle? - you can never tell where the Chronoguard are involved)

I don't know whether to get the Wee Free Men just now - I've got all the other DW books in paperback. Dilemma.

I did buy The High Life DVD today, though. So that's what i'm doing tomorrow. Repeatedly.



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High Life, wasn't that the one in an airline with Alan Cummings?

iirc it was very funny...

dante: just can't decide about TWFM. Pros: it's pratchett. Cons: it's kiddie pratchett.

it was great...

will i get killed if i say the only pratchett i read was the amazig maurice?

i don't have money to buy backlist so i don't think i will be buying any of the others

amazing maurice was pretty good, admittedly.

If you have some spare money, I'd recommend (in this order)

Pyramids
Mort
Guards, Guards
Lords and Ladies

there is so much more to buy if i have spare money (the man who walks, once more with feeling, the story of lucy gault) iĞm not sure i'll commit to someone who has tons of books out!

:)

Yep, it's the Alan Cumming airline thing....yay!
Going to go and see X2 at the weekend too, have an Alan Cumming fest.

I'm assuming I'll either find WFM very funny or very annoying, as its heroes are sort-of-not Scottish.

I haven't got The Man Who Walks........I'm not sure about Alan Warner yet. I liked the Sopranos, but These Demented lands was just weird. And not necessarily in a good way.

Carla, you should get Pratchett books from the library, they always have loads.



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I was listening to an audio book version of 'About a Boy' by Nick Hornby. Wasn't until I finished listening to it that I noticed it was read by Alan Cumming. With a southern/london accent.

I listen to them in the car, as I spend about 40 minutes each way commuting into work. CUrrently listening to Lord of the Rings, the BBC radio play on my shiny new cd-mp3 player. 13 episodes on one cd. Superb. Though Elijah Wood sounds so like the guy who played pippin, it's uncanny (and confusing!). Michael Hordern is superb as Gandalf too.

I've been listening to the Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events audios to and from work - most of them are read by Tim Curry and he is just brilliant! They are so funny and so painful to listen to - highly recommended!

I met Tim Curry in 1988 when he was in Washington doing "For Me and My Gal" at the National Theater. Well, I can't say so much as I *met* him, rather during one part of the production he comes out into the audience and kind of wanders thru the seats singing and he fell right in my lap, popped up, gave me a kiss on the cheek, said "Well, sorry 'bout that", winked and continued on. I about passed out! Dr. Frank N Furter sat on my lap! (I'm a huge fan of "Rocky Horror Picture Show") All my Transexual Transylvanian friends were ever so jealous!

Wow, being sat on by Tim Curry. I'm so envious

I got confused with Mark Curry, of manic Blue Peter cookery fame...



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I went shopping yesterday and purchased Artemis Fowl - The Eternity Code. Finished it this morning - good but not as good as the first one.

I'm a fan of Alan Cumming, too. First saw him in 'Bernard and the Genie', which is excellent. He was great in that-film-about-the-highwaymen-whose-title-I-can't-quite-remember. (Someone and someone)
He is wonderfully over the top, and refuses to flee with the heroes, saying:
"My job is to remain here and corrupt the young".

It's been one of my mottoes ever since

I went shopping today and bought a birthday card and 'The Shelters of Stone' by Jean M Auel. I'm onto book four of five now and very determined to get to the end...

I also amused myself by surreptitiously swapping all the books on the 'we recommend...fantasy' shelf for LiaGB copies. Well, the one that was there looked terribley boring....



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Swapping ALL the books? How's that surreptitious?

I went into a bookshop that had no copies of TEA or LIAGB (they must have flogged them all as they had copies last time I went in) so I amused myself by hiding all the T$£ H$%" books instead



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