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14th September 2004, 02:28 PM #46
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Hi silentC,
Originally Posted by silentC
Not only do we share an interest in probability and coffee but also in authors. Except I prefer Iain Banks when he doesn't have the M (Wasp Factory, Crow Road, The Bridge, etc) though I've read most of the M ones too.
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14th September 2004, 03:31 PM #47
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I like the non-genre stuff as well. Favourite is probably "The Bridge" followed by "Walking on Glass". I've read 'em all, some twice. Just waiting for the lazy Scottish git to write another one. Since I've caught up with the back catalogue, I need more than one every couple of years.
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14th September 2004, 03:45 PM #48
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Yes, and it needs to be a good one - I thought Song of Stone was a bit boring and The Business was a bit too straight. Dead Air was OK as a book, but it was just a good story, nothing very Banksy. Favourites would be The Bridge and The Wasp Factory in the "weird" range and Crow Road and Complicity in the "more like a normal thriller" range. Originally Posted by silentC
Have you read any Stephen Fry - Making History, the Liar and the Stars' Tennis Balls all have that Iain Banks weird intelligence but probably a bit more humour.
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14th September 2004, 03:52 PM #49
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An update
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks has just been or is just about to be released.
Supposedly, it is something to do with algebra and probability
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14th September 2004, 04:02 PM #50
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Squizzy, Originally Posted by vsquizz
#56. (A real Toolman Classic) Turbocharging the lawnmower with a hairdryer
Works only if you remove the heating element.
#57. Getting cheezed off with the price and longevity of lawnmower blades and making your own ones out of 4 mm thick Stainless Steel (Can then Grind stumps
, rocks, concrete, cats )
bisalloy works better! Been using a 6mm bisalloy cutter bar on my ride on for quite a few years now, it will probably outlast the rest of the mower.
Silent,
"The Bridge", is that the one which seems like a long drawn out hallucination/bad dream, but turns out to be some guy teetering on the edge of death in hospital?
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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14th September 2004, 04:06 PM #51
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Haven't read any Stephen Fry. Didn't know he wrote to be honest. I'll give it a spin next time I'm near a bookshop.Have you read any Stephen Fry
Excellent. Wonder how long it's going to take to get on the shelves here?The Algebraist by Iain M Banks has just been or is just about to be released.
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14th September 2004, 06:18 PM #52
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#58. Turbocharging your ride on Mower with Bisalloy blades fitted
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"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}
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14th September 2004, 06:53 PM #53
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:eek: :eek: :eek:
I thought anything to do with mowers was Secret Women's Business!
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14th September 2004, 07:22 PM #54
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Please dont mow 'em down (yet) :mad:
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14th September 2004, 07:27 PM #55
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All are safe! Originally Posted by Rodgera
NO risk of me going within a hundred yards of a mower!
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14th September 2004, 07:54 PM #56
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Only one hundred yards!!!
If its turbo'ed it aint warm yet? :eek: :eek:Androgens Order
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29th September 2004, 01:56 PM #57
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#59. Saying poo and sex rather than scatalogical
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29th September 2004, 02:37 PM #58
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It only looks bad!!
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