Vladd
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Just checked on the Sky A-Z the original is on ITV3 and around 10:15 weekday mornings
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Hot Zone by Richard Preston mainly because it is about a true event.
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May get it out of the library in the future but won't rush out and buy it.
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Fraid not though I suppose Alibi might start from the beginning again sometime in the future, after they finish the current series.
Until then there is always this
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I remember reading a book where the hero drinks whisky with peppermint cordial in it, I gave it a try out of curiosity, wasn't bad. However someone asked me in a bar what I wanted so I said this drink, I was given a very weird looking drink it appeared the only mint drink they had behind the bar was crème de menthe.
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The first book was great, the second good but not as good as the first, after that they seem to get worse and worse.
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Ok is this milking it or what?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Brewing-Storm-ebook/dp/B007A577SQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333452876&sr=8-1
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To be honest I prefer Richard Castle's books to James Patterson
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Given how many books Patterson churns out a year,http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookfilmlistsbyauthor/a/patterson_books.htm , I do wonder if the rumours I've heard of him just coming up with the outline of the story and then passing the actual writing over to a team of helpers may have a grain of truth.
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It did drag a little I saw it called The Talking Dead else where online.I think the second series was kind of boring in the middle - its a zombie show - I want to see people getting eaten!!
Not that I'm blood thirsty at all or anything
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I seem to remember the John Gardener Bond books starting with License Renewed were't too bad and also were set in the present rather than the 60's
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I'd probably say fantasy but only because I've read much more of it than sci-fi
Also I get slightly confused as to what makes something sci-fi after my tutor at uni told us star wars couldn't technically be classed as sci-fi, since sci-fi is characterised by being set in the future, and star wars is a 'long time ago in a galaxy far far away'.
What an odd idea by that argument War of the Worlds isn't Sci Fi because it is set in the era it was written. Whisper it quietly not to upset the fanboys but Star Wars is really a fantasy story. Orphan boy with mystical powers led on a quest by an elderly wizard /mentor character, rescues the princess from the evil wizard and with the help of the reformed knight helps save the day by destroying the evil fortress, the evil wizard escapes to return another day. Now does that sound sci fi to you or fantasy?
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I love this series but only first trilogy. The rest of it doesn't fly.
The later books feel like he was just going through the motions, as though he only wrote them to honour a contract.
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In a local Smiths there was a whole section marked abused childhood, not the most cheerful selection of books.Anything with a picture of a distressed child on the front entitled something like 'Daddy Please No' or "Betrayal". I do understand why people want to tell their story but after a 'child called it' (I think) there was just a deluge of them hitting the best seller list in ASDA. My Mum has read a loads of them, maybe one or two but I don't understand why you would continually choose to read something so upsetting!
Thats not meant to offend btw, thats just a personal view, I think its the way they are marketed with the obligatory little child on the front holding a teddy bear, there is something I just find unsettling about it.
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What if H P Lovecraft and Herge had collaborated?
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For me the Kindle has reignited my desire to read, since getting a kindle the number of books I have read has rocketed. It is so handy having a library to hand in a small device you can carry around with you. An added bonus is I don't have to think 'Now where did I put that book?' No more searching through shelves and cupboards just push a button and there it is.
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Just a quick hello and to say I'm back. It is a long story of moving houses, losing internet to soon in the old house, delays in connection in the new house and being seduced by a history forum, but I am back with my reading mojo intact and a kindle full of books TBR.
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I think I have all the Holmes books on my Kindle, I know I have them in print so will be embarking on a trip to Baker Street. It's been a while since I read them all but it will be fun to do it again.
If you are interested I have an on going Holmes page I have thrown together
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There are quotes appearing on the net this evening, from Bernie, that the BBC will be showing a full repeat of the races it doesn't show live.
Not sure how credible these reports are at this point.
I wouldn't trust Bernie to walk out in front of me if I followed him into a revolving door.
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Maybe someone will resurrect the A1 Grand Prix, the A10 I think it was going to be called, and the BBC could cover that instead.
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Isn't that what Fox are there for?
So it would seem.
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Fox cancelling a show that I was starting to like, again.
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first book is great but I did find that the books after did start to gradually get worse
I thought that too, it seemed to me that as the books went on Adams got bored with them.
Summer Olympics
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Not having much interest in people throwing things or running round in circles the Olympics doesn't interest me, and the attitude of some of the TV commentators irritates me, last time when the athletics started I recall a commentator saying "And now the proper Olympics begins" as if the only ones that count are track and field. The whole commercial and corporate side to it annoys me as does the egotistical self important attitude of the officials involved, like the guy who was livid that he was kept waiting 3 hours at passport control. Well so was everyone else just because you are an Olympic official ie organiser of a big sports day, does not give you special privileges. Don't get me started on the Olympic lanes.
So the mighty can glide past us plebs unhindered by the common people like a Soviet Commisar. Yet another money making scheme
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/dispatches-reveals-olympic-lanes-for-sale
The whole event is just a money machine and it's the tax payers that have to pick up the bill.