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Yes. You're right. More updates. Check 'em out...oooh, nice!
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The White Lioness by Henning Mankell In peaceful southern Sweden Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey towards the end of apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. Faced with a world in which terrorism knows no frontiers Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history. I seriously lost my mojo, didn't I? It's been nearly a month and a half reading this book! Even so, I enjoyed it. Mankell's writing has a bleak quality to it, slightly detached, as though observing with a clinical eye. This is now the third Wallander novel I've read and the character developments are enough to make me continue reading the series. Has anyone seen the TV series with Kenneth Brannagh? Is it worth me getting them on DVD? These do feel like superior crime thriller's, so - if you're into crime - I would recommend this fella. 7/10 I reckon.
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Any song connected with flippin' X-Factor. I HATE it. Soulless pap that it is. Gah!
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Five further facts from me (ooh, four - no, five six F's (seven!)) 1: Since I first hatched in the hutch whence I came, I have had a fear of skillets and Hollandaise Sauce. 2: My left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing (and why would it? It is I who is sentient - not my hands!) 3. Shelby, my dressing gown, likes the occasional night out but prefers to snuggle up and watch Buffy - the impact this has on its social life is quite negative. 4. My middle name is John, although I'm considering changing it legally to "Action". 5. I like sprouts, but they don't like me. I keep getting hate mail in the post and, for my own safety, I've had to have the courts issue a restraining order. Something went wrong when we all went to Brussels for the weekend...
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Hey guys. I was given the first two seasons of Torchwood on DVD by my brother (always sending me great stuff!). It - is - awesome!!! It just gets better and better with each episode. And then, at the beginning of seires 2, Spike from Buffy's in it! How great is this programme?!? Sorry. Excitment over.
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A truly excellent novel to have a go at is The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (spelling is correct). It is a wonderfully absorbing book from a very gifted author. I think some of the guys on here have enjoyed it, too.
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Yo, Rach. Just dropping in to say "Yo!", so - by anyone's standards - I can safely say that I have accomplished that which I set out to achieve. Would you not agree, my friend?
How are you? What, as they say, is new with you?
Hoping this finds you super-well. X
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A three day week! Sounds magic! Happy Thanksgiving, Lady.
Actually (and this is really poor form for me), I don' quite understand what Thanksgiving is. I see Americans celebrating it in films and such like, but have never asked anyone what one celebrates and where it comes from.
How incredibly uneducated is that!?! Maybe you could tell me? Sorry for being such an ignoramus.
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Here're 5 more Facts! 1: Every 3rd Sunday of the month, my legs take part in a Samba class completely against the wishes of the rest of my body. 2: The fourth finger on my left hand is called Xerxes Haffenfaff III. 3: My time spent in the Gobi Desert was punctuated by brief stays with the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. 4: My chest enjoys the film Alien. 5: If I blink very rapidly whilst standing in a queue for the bus, I can make people move further away from me. Hmmm? What's that? Oh. Okay.
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More updates. More updates!!!
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Aloha. Wicky wicky and all that jazz. It has been too long since last we spoke. What's new with you, Lou? (I know your name isn't Lou, but it rhymed. So there.)
Ho hum. Crazy days, eh? Crazy days.
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Ah, the Troutman thing. I have chuckled at yours and dear ii's banter on the subject - so much so, in fact, that I have it on my list of things to buy at the weekend. I also found Houllebecq quite bleak and nihilistic. I've read both Atomised and Platform. I think, if I'm being honest, they made me feel as though I was being intellectual and deep whilst I was reading them, which I consequently equated with being a c**k of a teenager, thus making me despise my pretentious self. I went on to read Asterix for a while after that, to balance the equation. Note to self: avoid Palahnuik for a while, eh? Hope you're well, Andy.
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Sarah. Hello. It's been about...hmmm...yes, about ONE THOUSAND YEARS since we last communicated. I have been remiss. For this, I apologise and wish to seek forgiveness. In order to achieve this end, I wish to tell you a joke that might hopefully make you chuckle. It is as follows:-
Q: How does one know that elephants have been hiding in one's fridge?
A: There are footprints in the butter.
Q: But why is it that one can never find elephants hiding in one's fridge?
A: Because they're really good at it.
How are you, Sarah? How is life treating you at this time? Me? I've been hiding from almost everything. Even books. Yep. Crazy days.
Take good care, my friend.
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Yeah, a bit grim it has been. Two of my friends died within two days of each other of cancer - one we knew about, one only told his wife. I had to grass on some of my colleagues the same week as they were telling each other the most appalling racist jokes to each other and extolling the virtues of being a member of the BNP. In a school. Where kids are. You wouldn't believe it.
My brother sent me the entire collection of Buffy on DVD for my birthday last year. Brother's can be really nice sometimes, can't they!
(I hate the way it says 36 in brackets in that info box - it just rubs it in!)
Have a good day. X
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I've read The God Delusion, Ben. Richard Dawkins is one of my heroes. Funnily enough, my best friend is meeting him for a cup of tea this week (although I'm not entirely clear as to why - I was a little...lubricated with El Vino when he mentioned it). Hoping all is well with you, chum.
