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Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
|     | 4 | 30.77% | |
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
|    | 5 | 38.46% | |
John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar
|    | 4 | 30.77% |
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5th July 2005, 4:02pm
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#16 | | A Jubilant Mass Editor
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In a jar, mate.
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| Re: Reading Group
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Originally Posted by Ness deciding on friday. | Any Friday in particular?
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5th July 2005, 4:16pm
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#17 | | Is Your Da
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 8,234
| Re: Reading Group
woops i forgot about it sorry.
Stand on Zanzibar it is, try having it done for end of the month guys. ill make the thread then. | 
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5th July 2005, 4:19pm
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#18 | | Rhymenocerous
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a puddle
Posts: 14,722
| Re: Reading Group
was there ever a discussion thread made for the other book? if so i never saw it and I looked in 'literature' and everything. | |
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5th July 2005, 4:21pm
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#19 | | Cuppa n a biccie please!
Join Date: May 2004 Location: In the land of Steel where Dragons Soar and mystical forces hold sway!
Posts: 439
| Re: Reading Group
Never read any of these. Philip K. Dick usuallu writes a good yarn tho. A Scanner Darkly is due out in the cinemas next year too. Starring Keanu Reeves..... | |
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5th July 2005, 4:26pm
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#20 | | Frankly my dear.....  Editor
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Paradise City
Posts: 11,320
| Re: Reading Group
Hmmm - will read it but wasn't overly impressed with the choice. I am awaiting to be pleasantly surprised though!
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27th July 2005, 12:27pm
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#21 | | bloop
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: InTheMoon+****s
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| Re: Reading Group
I dont like Ian Banks and have never heard of the other two so i'll go read what theyre about first. | |
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27th July 2005, 12:30pm
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#22 | | bloop
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As in the end of the month do you mean this month?
If so i'll read the next one and sit out of this one. | |
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27th July 2005, 12:34pm
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#23 | | Frankly my dear..... Editor
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Paradise City
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| Re: Reading Group
Umm - me too. Didn't get a chance to read this one.
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27th July 2005, 12:37pm
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#24 | | Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 11,692
| Re: Reading Group
A Scanner Darkly has a shite review, I know who wrote that as well heh
I'll go look for the blurbs in a shop and vote later | |
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27th July 2005, 12:40pm
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#25 | | A Jubilant Mass Editor
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| Re: Reading Group
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Originally Posted by Coruscate A Scanner Darkly has a shite review, I know who wrote that as well heh
I'll go look for the blurbs in a shop and vote later | Someone forgot to have the poll close when it was finished. Everyone seemed to lose interest in this round about the same time as Stand on Zanzibar was chosen.
*miff*
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27th July 2005, 12:41pm
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#26 | | bloop
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: InTheMoon+****s
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| Re: Reading Group
It just doesnt sound an interesting book  well to me anyway
But i'll join in for the next one  | |
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27th July 2005, 1:46pm
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#27 | | Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 11,692
| Re: Reading Group
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Originally Posted by Potatojunkie Someone forgot to have the poll close when it was finished. Everyone seemed to lose interest in this round about the same time as Stand on Zanzibar was chosen.
*miff* | don't huff at me, this isn't my poll
i'll just do it next month then (how many times will I say that?) | |
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4th May 2006, 4:27pm
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#28 | | Chasing the vicar
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Back in sunny Troon :o)
Posts: 1,090
| Re: Reading Group
Did this ever come to anything? Been thinking about reading groups and stuff lately and even asked at my local library....but I don't think I'd "fit in" with the group in general there, you know? | |
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4th May 2006, 4:45pm
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#29 | | Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Uddingston
Posts: 4,051
| Re: Reading Group
Seconded, Ive just bought a whole whack of books and I want to get some good personal reading done this summer while I still have the chance....currently on Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre cos it was on sale in Canada | |
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