Talking of LOTF, I am trying to read another Golding book at the moment 'To the Ends of the Earth'...it was a very good BBC series from last year. It's a superbly written book, but so damned thick it can barely be propped up when reading in bed. I'm enjoying it, but it can be a bit of a trudge - I'm viewing it more as an endurance test!!!

I think Lord of the Sock was linked here once, wasn't it?

I don't know, I think I may have persuaded you to read it a long time ago. It featured rather a lot of ritalin.

Something I am reading now and will have to read again when I'm done - Michael Palin's diaries 69-79 - something like 700 pages but such good stuff!

Ooh, I might have to have the Palin Diaries for Christmas. I just adore him. Ripping Yarns is one of my favourite TV shows of all time.

Check out the author Joan Aiken, I am reading The Solen Lake at the moment. I read a book or two of hers when I was too young to appreciate them and am REALly enjoying this one!

I found her to be a bit sinister when I was 7, but now... Wonderful stuff!

Dave Freer. I am waiting anxiously for Much Fall of Blood.

I wonder if Benito is going to be half-drowned like Dave was planning. Gods know Benito deserves it....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Never heard of him, what is his writing about/like? I assume at this stage it involves some blood...

Anyone read any Thorne Smith"?

I enjoy rereading 'The Stray Lamb' and 'Topper Takes a Holiday' and 'My Favourite Witch' has some wonderful bits in it.

When you read Thorne Smith some of then ideas seem very familiar, but when you realise that he wrote these stories in the 1920s you realise that you are getting the original of the idea.

Re: joan aiken - yes, great author, 'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase'.

BibwitHart: Much Fall of Blood is the third book in the main sequence of the Heirs of Alexandria series. This is alternate history/fantasy where the great library at Alexandria was not burned down and all the books detailing how magic works and so on are still extant.

The first book is called Shadow of the Lion and is set in Venice. If you want to test-read it, try here: Webscription books. Is the whole book, free and legal in a number of formats.

There are more books on the whole site. ;)

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Just came across my copy of 'The Cyberiad' by Stanislaw Lem. Highly re-readable. My favourite story is about the 'Dragons of Probability', about the third story . Some more stories appear in another book but I haven't found that one yet.

'Memoirs found by a Bathtub' has not proved memorable.

Admittedly, it is one of his more complex books, and when I read it for the first time, it took me most part of a year to get up the nerve to finish it. But stangly, on a re-read years later, I found it had grown on me. It is a great hommage to Kafka.

For re-reading Lem, I would recommend "Eden" and "The Invincible". Great adventure books.

IS there a way to erase a post? As if it had never been? I'm only asking because I went to edit this one and decided it was completely imbecilic. Could not find the {del} key.

Solutions welcome.



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I think the moving finger types and having typed moves on!

Even God can't change the past, so accept it. Consider it to be your one error in a lifetime of perfection.

Also if you don't tell us which one we will never be sure of what it is that you now feel unhappy with.

Other than that, select 'edit this post' and delete all the text. The posting will remain but what you wrote will disappear. Unless, that is, the almighty 'Admin' retrieves it from a back up copy of the fforum, and reinserts it with a note drawing all and sundry to it.

The best bet would be to leave it and pretend it didn't happen.

But moving closer to the name of the thread.

Another author recommended to me at Philosophy club last year has been found.

His name is Andrew Harman.

I am reading 'Talonspotting' and I would rate it with medium Tom Holt.

Other titles listed on the cover are:

The Sorcerer's Appendix
The Frogs of War
The Tome Tunnel
101 Damnations
Fahrenheit 666
The Scrying Game
The Deity Dozen
A Midsummer Night's Gene
It Came From On High
The Suburban Salamander Incident

Someone out there may have read some of these. Any comments?

Buy as many Andrew Harmon books as you can.

If you ever have a bad case of ensure you have plenty of soft paper available.

For legal reasons the above two statements are not meant to be linked in any way. Oh no!

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Clever titles though. //wonders what "The Sorcerer's Appendix" is about.... Apart from the obvious.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Read his titles they are funny.

I tried to look at that website you mentioned (David Freer) , got excited! but the site kept saying it had timed out, maybe I'll go back later...

The sorcerer's appendix sounds really familiar...