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Simply not to my style or taste and only read as part of a reading challenge. I did skim it, whilst either listening to Radio 2 or watching Allo Allo, and I don't think I missed anything. The thing that annoys me so much is that the title-Behind the ...more |
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[Read as part of the Infinite Variety 2016 Reading Challenge based on the BBC's Big Read poll of 2003.] For, if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupified by poverty would become literate ...more |
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"For, if she lived at Cold Comfort as a guest, it would be unpardonable impertinence were she to interfere with the family's mode of living; but if she were paying her way, she could interfere as much as she pleased." A wonderful novel, possibly the ...more |
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Sincerely disliked. Disjointed, rambling. Most definitely the unedited thoughts of a man having some form of internal struggle (who would in an age of casual, propagated racism and legal ivory trade) yet not interesting in the slightest. Thankfully m ...more |
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"IT IS THE THINGS YOU BELIEVE IN WHICH MAKE YOU HUMAN. GOOD THINGS AND BAD THINGS, IT'S ALL THE SAME." Hogfather itself concerns the Discworld, where there are things that control the Universe called The Auditors and they do not like Humans, because ...more |
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Read as part of the Infinite Variety 2016 Reading Challenge based on the BBC's Big Read poll. Charles Dickens can do no wrong, except perhaps keep around 100 pages of rather irrelevant tangents in this book. It was such a powerhouse of characterisation ...more |
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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