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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Agreed, though I like Good Omens better.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Agreed, though I like Good Omens better.

    Haven t gotten to read that yet. One of my favourites is ANANSI BOYS. Did you read that one?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    No, I didn't to be honest. Can you tell me what genre it is and if you recommend it to me?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    No, I didn't to be honest. Can you tell me what genre it is and if you recommend it to me?

    It is one of his comedy books.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    No, I didn't to be honest. Can you tell me what genre it is and if you recommend it to me?

    It is one of his comedy books.

    Very well. I'll add it to the list then. :)
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
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    Please let us know what you think. Maybe they can add it to the Bond Book Marathon after Colonel Sun.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
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    Please let us know what you think. Maybe they can add it to the Bond Book Marathon after Colonel Sun.

    I will! It's been a while since I bought it, but I finally found time to read it. Not that many chapters left now, and so far it's been a great read.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Heroes by Stephen Fry. Fry makes Greek legends easily accessible.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    TALKS WITH A CLASS (1921) by Annie Besant.

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  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
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    Half way through The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells anticipating the forthcoming BBC adaptation.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    AMERICAN GODS By Neil Gaiman

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    Excellent book.

    I find Gaiman a bit hit or miss (I didn't like Stardust or Neverwhere) but I LOVE this one.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    AMERICAN GODS By Neil Gaiman

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    Excellent book.

    I find Gaiman a bit hit or miss (I didn't like Stardust or Neverwhere) but I LOVE this one.

    Agreed. I haven t read that many of his books, but The Ocean At the End Of the Lane was disappointing to me.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    GOOD OMENS is definitely a book I can recommend. Unless joking about the Old Testament makes you angry. ;-)
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    edited July 2019 Posts: 8,266
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GOOD OMENS is definitely a book I can recommend. Unless joking about the Old Testament makes you angry. ;-)

    Absolutely! And if you like that one, you might want to try41SAUQBeVUL._AC_SY400_.jpg

  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GOOD OMENS is definitely a book I can recommend. Unless joking about the Old Testament makes you angry. ;-)

    Absolutely! And if you like that one, you might want to try41SAUQBeVUL._AC_SY400_.jpg

    Was this book about Dr Christmas Jones? :)) ;)
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    edited July 2019 Posts: 4,636
    The Making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Charles Helfenstein.

    Also, the play version of Matilda. I'm doing a play of it in September. I'm really excited!
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GOOD OMENS is definitely a book I can recommend. Unless joking about the Old Testament makes you angry. ;-)

    Absolutely! And if you like that one, you might want to try
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    GOOD OMENS is definitely a book I can recommend. Unless joking about the Old Testament makes you angry. ;-)

    Absolutely! And if you like that one, you might want to try41SAUQBeVUL._AC_SY400_.jpg

    Was this book about Dr Christmas Jones? :)) ;)

    I wish! 😉
  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited August 2019 Posts: 2,918
    Just finished this comic in one sitting:

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    Having read seven of the original Fantomas novels and seen the 1913-14 film series, I can report that The Wrath of Fantomas (translated from the French) does a fine job of capturing the spirit of the original stories in graphic novel form. It weaves together characters and story elements from the first few novels to produce a new plot, and thows in some postmodern winks at Fantomas's cinematic legacy. It never loses sight of the essence of Fantomas: that he is an unspeakably sadistic, unknowable force of evil whose face is never seen. I'm not sure he is "the first supervillain," as the back cover claims (Professor Moriarty has prior claim to the title), but he is unquestionably one of the earliest and greatest supervillains in popular fiction. I'm not crazy about the art style of The Wrath of Fantomas, which is wispy and lacking gravity, but it does propel you through the already fast-paced storyline. I hope the French are at work on Volume 2!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THEOSOPHY AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY (A. Besant, 1904)
  • conradhankersconradhankers Underground
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    Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way on that river as you would in a desert, and butted all day long against shoals, trying to find the channel, till you thought yourself bewitched and cut off for ever from everything you had known once–somewhere–far away–in another existence perhaps.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    That's a very long title.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THEOSOPHY AND THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (A. Besant, 1912)
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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    THE BOOKS OF BLOOD VOL. I--III
    by Clive Barker

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    TALKS ON THE PATH OF OCCULTISM - VOL. II
    A Commentary on “The Voice of the Silence”
    ANNIE BESANT, D.L.
    AND
    The Rt. Rev. C. W. LEADBEATER
    1947

    THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE

    Adyar, Madras, India
    First Edition, 1926 Second Edition, 1930 Third Edition, 1947
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Revelator wrote: »
    That's a very long title.

    It must be a monograph.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The Seven O'Clock Man by Thomas M. Burby. Psychological horror story. I have already started my Halloween read. So far so good. The titled antagonist is named after the French Canadian boogeyman, who scared the bejesus out of me when I was a child.
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