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14 April 2010
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Of course! It’s telepathically on the way…
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thisbirdhasflownTo the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
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1 May 2011
Offline I’d rather have it on podcast.
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thisbirdhasflown"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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14 April 2010
Offline Of course you would.
Any James Patterson fans here? Years ago, I would read everything he wrote. But he keeps churning out novels faster than I care to read them. Blank sheets of paper in his house are more rare than Carnival Of Light .
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I read some of his Maximum Ride books.
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14 April 2010
Offline I was just looking up his bibliography and I think the last one of his I read was just before he started the MR books. I was into his Alex Cross series and think the last one I read was before Alex joined the FBI. That was a while back.
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Am just over [33] 1/3 of the way thru ‘George Harrison : Behind The Locked Door’ and its excellent. Written with deep respect for George and insight yet very honest and with humour, never getting either too high and mighty or low and disparaging.
Also slowly reading ‘Beatlemania: The Real Story of The Beatles UK Tours’ (by Martin Creasy), its a really good mixture of fan accounts and press reports from the time which give you a taste of what the shows were like. The one problem is that the chapters vary between long and super long and are not broken down beyond new paragraphs so it seems like a hard trek at times.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
6.36pm
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14 April 2010
Offline Still reading Ray Coleman’s biog about Brian. Fascinating.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
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18 March 2013
Offline I bought more books when I was in France 
– I also went to the library today, I have about 30 on my to-read list now.
Library
Your House Is On Fire, Your Children All Gone- Stefan Kiesbye (I have never heard of this before, I liked the title and read the back- it seemed interesting)
The Cuckoo’s Calling- Robert Galbraith (AKA J.K Rowling)
Lord of the Flies- William Golding (I read the first couple of pages years ago and didn’t like it- I decided to give it a try.)
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
One Day- David Nicholls (I saw the film, I like Jim Sturgess blah)
Ecstasy agus scéalta eile- Ré Ó Laighléis (Irish short stories)
France (and one from Austria)- All with an * are in French, with ** is German
Tarantula- Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix- Olivier Nuc* (Got it for a €1 
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On The Road- Jack Kerouac (finally the proper novel also slightly battered from being ‘on the road’)
Nineteen Eighty-Four- George Orwell (just wanted my own copy of this- I’ve read it before)
Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen**- Joanne K. Rowling
Beatles (all in French)
Lennon Remembers- Jann S. Weiner (Same in English, for some strange reason they didn’t change the title)
Les Beatles, Les secrets de toutes leurs chansons 1962-1966 & 1967-1970- Steve Turner (In English: ‘Hard Day’s Write: The Stories behind Every Beatles Song’)
Recontres avec John et Yoko- Jonathon Cott (In English ‘Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon & Yoko Ono’)
To answer the actual question: Lady Chatterley’s Lover- D.H Lawrence. Very well written but draws out a bit too much. To all who don’t know what it is about: It’s a well written 1920’s version of Fifty Shades of Grey with less bondage.
INTROVERTS UNITE! Separately....in your own homes!
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Make Love, Not Wardrobes!
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"Stop throwing jelly beans at me"- George Harrison
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18 February 2013
Offline Reading, I Want To Tell You – The Definitive Guide to the Music of the Beatles, Volume 1: 1962/1963, by Anthony Robustelli.
Hope to post a review in a week or two (@Joe).
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I read it and enjoyed it.
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10.45pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Finished the supremely excellent ‘George Harrison : Behind The Locked Door’. Plan is to finally move on to ”All These Years: Volume One: Tune In (Deluxe Edition)’.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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15 May 2014
Offline As I’ve said in the “What’s going on with you life” thread, I was reading Lawrence Sutin’s biography of Philip K. Dick, an author I first read when I was thirteen (Ubik). Last year I finally read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, after watching Blade Runner for the fifth or sixth time. Unfortunately I had to stop reading his biography because I need a new prescription; my reading glasses don’t do the trick anymore.
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
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2 June 2014
Offline chemistry and Physics
Today i’ll be reading biology. Exams are getting close
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18 April 2013
Offline Elvis & Ginger, by Ginger Alden.
"If you're ever in the shit, grab my tit.” —Paul McCartney
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1 November 2012
Offline I discovered an amazing resource of free on-line books (most of them dusty classics and dusty unknowns):
https://archive.org/details/texts
Back in the Prehistoric Era of Phone Booths, Push-Button Phones, Television, and CD Players — back in the mists of time in the years B.I. (Before Internet) — I would have died for this kind of resource!
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15 May 2014
Offline Funny Paper said
I discovered an amazing resource of free on-line books (most of them dusty classics and dusty unknowns):https://archive.org/details/texts
Back in the Prehistoric Era of Phone Booths, Push-Button Phones, Television, and CD Players — back in the mists of time in the years B.I. (Before Internet) — I would have died for this kind of resource!
@Funny Paper
Alas, how old you make me feel…! “Prehistoric” -indeed I’m like a dinosaur or at least a Neanderthal man…
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
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1 May 2011
Offline Funny Paper said
I discovered an amazing resource of free on-line books (most of them dusty classics and dusty unknowns):https://archive.org/details/texts
Back in the Prehistoric Era of Phone Booths, Push-Button Phones, Television, and CD Players — back in the mists of time in the years B.I. (Before Internet) — I would have died for this kind of resource!
I did a “Beatles” search. Some strange results. You can download the ‘AHDN ‘ film and ‘I’ll Be Back ‘!! There’s also ‘And I Love Her ‘ from the film but its very slow.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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1 November 2012
Offline Ah, mmm, thanks; it didn’t even occur to me to search for “Beatles” there!
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6.00am
1 November 2012
Offline Oudis, what’s funny about it is, that “prehistoric era” was so recent in time!
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6.55am
15 May 2014
Offline Funny Paper said
Oudis, what’s funny about it is, that “prehistoric era” was so recent in time!
@Funny Paper
Last century!
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
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