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PostPosted: 00:35 - 08 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yeah, that bit was pretty daft. But hey, it's Hollywood, not NASA.


the book was brilliant

I've avoided watching the film for fear of something like this, it seems i made a good choice.
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PostPosted: 00:41 - 08 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Books are always better if you have a half decent imagination. But it wasn't a bad movie overall. I enjoyed it, and I'm pretty picky when it comes to movies. It's only entertainment Smile
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PostPosted: 00:51 - 08 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
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The MArtian - the book of the film with Matt Damon in it.


I thought the movie was pretty good. Some people panned it for various reasons, but what were they expecting, someone to actually go to Mars and film a documentary? There's a reason it's called science fiction Laughing


I think most of the science used in it is pretty sound.

The MAHOOSIVE problem with it is that the Martian atmosphere is so thin that winds there can't be strong enough to blow a person over let alone tilt a spacecraft.

You just have to let that slide as a mechanism for allowing the premise of the story. The author knew that.
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PostPosted: 00:52 - 08 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigTim wrote:
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Yeah, that bit was pretty daft. But hey, it's Hollywood, not NASA.


the book was brilliant

I've avoided watching the film for fear of something like this, it seems i made a good choice.


So far the book is good.
The film won't disappoint you - it is very well done.
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 13 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Monkey Planet by Pierre Boulle.


The book that inspired 'Planet of the Apes' films..

It's a bit of a bore to read through considering how well I know the film, but it is different...
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PostPosted: 10:25 - 15 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

How to build a car by Adrian Newey, the F1 designer. Interesting insight into F1 and the man.

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PostPosted: 12:21 - 18 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Salems Lot.
Not actually reading it. I bought it on kindle after watching other Stephen King stuff on TV. Trouble is the old TV series scared the s#it out of me back in the day and I'm spooking myself out of actually starting it Shocked
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PostPosted: 12:50 - 18 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming.

Wow it's of it's time.... He's called one woman a "Silly B*tch" three times in one short story... Still it's fun in a retro sort of way.
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PostPosted: 13:17 - 18 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was intrigued by the posts about the book version of 'The Martian' so I got myself a copy. I'm not disappointed - it's pretty good Smile
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PostPosted: 23:05 - 18 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming.

Wow it's of it's time.... He's called one woman a "Silly B*tch" three times in one short story... Still it's fun in a retro sort of way.


I remember reading The Spy Who Loved Me when I was a kid and being quite shocked as it was nothing like the laughs of a Roger Moore movie.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/26/when-ian-fleming-tried-to-escape-james-bond
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PostPosted: 23:16 - 18 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
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For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming.

Wow it's of it's time.... He's called one woman a "Silly B*tch" three times in one short story... Still it's fun in a retro sort of way.


I remember reading The Spy Who Loved Me when I was a kid and being quite shocked as it was nothing like the laughs of a Roger Moore movie.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/26/when-ian-fleming-tried-to-escape-james-bond


I wasn't expecting it to be like any movie. The short story for which the anthology is named does share character names and general plot points from the movie 'For Your Eyes Only' but despite that it is immensely different. Entertaining though.
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PostPosted: 04:44 - 25 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Making of The Atomic Bomb.
Why We Sleep.
Religion and the Decline of Magic.

And a smattering of others as I go along...

The Blind Watchmaker.
The Selfish Gene.
The Missionary Position. (All about Evil.)
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PostPosted: 19:18 - 25 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
Salems Lot.
Not actually reading it. I bought it on kindle after watching other Stephen King stuff on TV. Trouble is the old TV series scared the s#it out of me back in the day and I'm spooking myself out of actually starting it Shocked


Reading Salem's Lot as a teen I knew I was getting close to a certain point, involving a certain boy and a window, and I couldn't bring myself to read any further for years!!

I've read it a couple of times since, now though.
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PostPosted: 11:18 - 26 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

hedgehugger wrote:


Reading Salem's Lot as a teen I knew I was getting close to a certain point, involving a certain boy and a window, and I couldn't bring myself to read any further for years!!

I've read it a couple of times since, now though.


I'm only reading it during the hours of daylight Shocked
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PostPosted: 18:16 - 26 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
hedgehugger wrote:


Reading Salem's Lot as a teen I knew I was getting close to a certain point, involving a certain boy and a window, and I couldn't bring myself to read any further for years!!

I've read it a couple of times since, now though.


I'm only reading it during the hours of daylight Shocked


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PostPosted: 13:51 - 27 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have just got the entire Discworld series to start wading through.
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PostPosted: 07:36 - 28 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

panrider_uk wrote:
Have just got the entire Discworld series to start wading through.


Some of them were brilliant, they went downhill a bit towards the end unfortunately.

One of my favourite parts (I won't say which book though):

Quote:
. . . Clang boinng clang ding . . .
The sound echoed around Lancre.
Grown men, digging in their gardens, flung down their spades and hurried for
the safety of their cottages . . .
. . . Clang boinnng goinng ding . . .
Women appeared in doorways and yelled desperately for their children to come
in at once . . .
. . . BANG buggrit Dong boinng . . .
Shutters thundered shut. Some men, watched by their frightened families,
poured water on the fire and tried to stuff sacks up the chimney . . .
Nanny Ogg lived alone, because she said old people needed their pride and
independence. Besides, Jason lived on one side, and he or his wife
whatshername could easily be roused by means of a boot applied heavily to the
wall, and Shawn lived on the other side and Nanny had got him to fix up a long
length of string with some tin cans on it in case his presence was required.
But this was only for emergencies, such as when she wanted a cup of tea or
felt bored.
. . . Bond drat clang . . .
Nanny Ogg had no bathroom but she did have a tin bath, which normally hung on
a nail on the back of the privy. Now she was dragging it indoors. It was
almost up the garden, after being bounced off various trees, walls, and garden
gnomes on the way.
Three large black kettles steamed by her fireside. Beside them were half a
dozen towels, the loofah, the pumice stone, the soap, the soap for when the
first soap got lost, the ladle for fishing spiders out, the waterlogged rubber
duck with the prolapsed squeaker, the bunion chisel, the big scrubbing brush,
the small scrubbing brush, the scrubbing brush on a stick for difficult
crevices, the banjo, the thing with the pipes and spigots that no one ever
really knew the purpose of, and a bottle of Klatchian Nights bath essence, one
drop of which could crinkle paint.
. . . Bong clang slam . . .
Everyone in Lancre had learned to recognize Nanny's pre-ablutive activities,
out of self-defense.
"But it ain't April!" neighbours told themselves, as they drew the curtains.
In the house just up the hill from Nanny Ogg's cottage Mrs. Skindle grabbed
her husband's arm.
"The goat's still outside!"
"Are you mad? I ain't going out there! Not now!"
"You know what happened last time! It was paralysed all down one side for
three days, man, and we couldn't get it down off the roof!"
Mr. Skindle poked his head out of the door. It had all gone quiet. Too quiet.
"She's probably pouring the water in," he said.
"You've got a minute or two," said his wife. "Go on, or we'll be drinking
yoghurt for weeks."
Mr. Skindle took down a halter from behind the door, and crept out to where
his goat was tethered near the hedge. It too had learned to recognize the
bathtime ritual, and was rigid with apprehension.
There was no point in trying to drag it. Eventually he picked it up bodily.
There was a distant but insistent sloshing noise, and the bonging sound of a
floating pumice stone bouncing on the side of a tin bath.
Mr. Skindle started to run.
Then there was the distant tinkle of a banjo being tuned.
The world held its breath.
Then it came, like a tornado sweeping across a prairie.
"AAaaaaeeeeeee-"
Three flowerpots outside the door cracked, one after the other. Shrapnel
whizzed past Mr. Skindle's ear.
"-wizzaaardsah staaafff has a knobontheend, knobontheend-"
He threw the goat through the doorway and leapt after it. His wife was
waiting, and slammed the door shut behind him.
The whole family, including the goat, got under the table.
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes
which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and
became some sort of invasive presence.
There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass, but
Nanny's high C could clean it


On topic though, I'm working my way through the Harry Potter series again, (mainly because I've read everything else on my kindle and can't be bothered putting more on it).
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PostPosted: 11:14 - 28 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Discworld is excellent, all of them.

Am reading "I am a hitman"

Using it as a training manual.
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PostPosted: 11:53 - 28 Nov 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terry Pratchet, just a poor man's Douglas Adams.
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PostPosted: 19:59 - 16 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really must get round to Douglas Adams Thinking
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PostPosted: 20:47 - 16 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Treated my self to the "Old Mans war" series. (Sci Fi)

just finished first one last night.

should see me through Christmas.
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 16 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

hellkat wrote:
I really must get round to Douglas Adams Thinking


Steady on, he's dead. Laughing

I would suggest start with his Dirk Gently books.
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PostPosted: 22:16 - 16 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigTim wrote:
Treated my self to the "Old Mans war" series. (Sci Fi)

just finished first one last night.

should see me through Christmas.


I haven't read any SF for few years. I liked the Ian Banks culture books. I might try some SF after finishing Salem's Lot.
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PostPosted: 23:23 - 16 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ribenapigeon wrote:
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I really must get round to Douglas Adams Thinking


Steady on, he's dead. Laughing

I would suggest start with his Dirk Gently books.


I would suggest The Hitchhiker's Guide Smile
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PostPosted: 11:54 - 30 Dec 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finally finished Salem's Lot. The edition I have also includes some short stories giving prequel and sequel info and now I think I'm getting sucked into the whole Stephen King world.
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