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Re: I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore. Camilla Send a noteboard - 03/10/2011 04:08:07 PM
In Istanbul, of all places. But anyway... not to offend you or anything, but it really isn't a very good book. :P I'm almost inclined to say that the chick-lit inspired by it that I read a year or two back was about as good as the original.


Oh, I know it does not stand up to any sort of standards. In fact, I believe I wrote a long review on the subject. Heaving bosoms and all.
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It's October. Only three months left this year. What are your reading plans? Rebekah - 03/10/2011 08:31:28 AM 1303 Views
i'll be reading, almost exclusively, the jobs section of every newspaper i can get my hands on Foxhead - 03/10/2011 10:52:39 AM 918 Views
It's still all about Dickens Camilla - 03/10/2011 11:22:43 AM 977 Views
I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore. Legolas - 03/10/2011 02:17:15 PM 836 Views
Re: I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore. Camilla - 03/10/2011 04:08:07 PM 814 Views
I accidentally read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, or most of it, yesterday Camilla - 10/10/2011 03:56:00 PM 899 Views
I love the "accidentally". *NM* Legolas - 10/10/2011 10:43:36 PM 369 Views
Pratchett! Camilla - 15/10/2011 03:38:44 PM 777 Views
Yes. Stephen - 16/10/2011 03:29:00 PM 837 Views
Would one of you lovely people please write a review? Rebekah - 17/10/2011 06:33:35 PM 831 Views
Re: Would one of you lovely people please write a review? Camilla - 17/10/2011 07:27:33 PM 920 Views
Might write one tomorrow evening or maybe Saturday. *NM* Stephen - 20/10/2011 02:32:33 PM 390 Views
I promise to comment *NM* Camilla - 20/10/2011 06:21:42 PM 390 Views
Perfect. *NM* Rebekah - 20/10/2011 06:37:24 PM 384 Views
Did I miss it? *NM* Camilla - 31/10/2011 12:22:45 PM 404 Views
Didn't get around to writing it yet. Stephen - 01/11/2011 03:02:11 AM 728 Views
And I finally finished the Western book Camilla - 16/10/2011 08:34:21 PM 884 Views
I read The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson Camilla - 24/10/2011 01:02:59 PM 733 Views
I read Marvel 1602 (Neil Gaiman) Camilla - 31/10/2011 12:22:29 PM 823 Views
I got my hands on copies of it the other day Stephen - 01/11/2011 03:04:45 AM 801 Views
I don't think mine have even changed in a month. Nate - 03/10/2011 03:18:41 PM 895 Views
Taoism, mostly. Panorphaeon - 03/10/2011 05:27:15 PM 826 Views
Eh, what is this reading you speak of? Stephen - 06/10/2011 01:01:18 PM 750 Views
Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday. Stephen - 08/10/2011 05:03:09 PM 915 Views
Re: Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday. Camilla - 10/10/2011 03:56:27 PM 911 Views
It is. *NM* Stephen - 10/10/2011 05:10:35 PM 383 Views
Read Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Stephen - 10/10/2011 05:11:34 PM 848 Views
Tons of things I want to read, but no time. nossy - 08/10/2011 03:11:46 PM 862 Views
By "festive" I take it you mean Halloween-related? Tim - 09/10/2011 12:05:49 AM 894 Views
I mean any of the big days that are coming up in the next three months, actually. *NM* Rebekah - 09/10/2011 10:30:52 AM 452 Views
Ah, so you're looking further ahead than October? I should have realised you meant Bonfire Night... *NM* Tim - 09/10/2011 11:07:22 AM 375 Views
I'm reading A Farewell to Arms, very slowly kHz1000 - 10/10/2011 04:36:53 PM 818 Views
Reading. Yeah, I remember that. Tom - 10/10/2011 06:27:36 PM 1068 Views
That's a bit how I'm feeling these days. I read, but I don't remember anything. *NM* Rebekah - 10/10/2011 06:37:15 PM 400 Views
The final book is among the better ones, albeit completely unrelated to the rest of the series. *NM* Legolas - 10/10/2011 10:42:39 PM 410 Views
Either way, they're mercifully short works, compared to Der Zauberberg and Anna Karenina. Tom - 11/10/2011 01:07:59 AM 920 Views
It is perhaps the worst pile of shit I have read in a long time. Tom - 19/10/2011 03:04:12 AM 856 Views
Oh. I guess there's no accounting for tastes. Legolas - 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM 894 Views
SMOOTH READ? That book is the definition of a choppy, disjointed piece of shit. Tom - 19/10/2011 08:30:22 PM 934 Views
Just vague plans this month. Rebekah - 10/10/2011 06:38:27 PM 914 Views
Re: Just vague plans this month. Camilla - 17/10/2011 08:38:38 AM 849 Views
Re: Just vague plans this month. Rebekah - 17/10/2011 06:34:35 PM 863 Views
I did the challenge. ranagrande - 16/10/2011 02:06:37 PM 955 Views
No plan but... DomA - 18/10/2011 01:55:41 AM 1089 Views
And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators... Legolas - 18/10/2011 07:06:56 PM 842 Views
Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators... DomA - 19/10/2011 02:15:03 AM 972 Views
Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators... Legolas - 19/10/2011 08:18:06 PM 973 Views
Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators... DomA - 21/10/2011 02:45:37 AM 1126 Views
I'm over the reading block. Aeryn - 18/10/2011 10:35:10 PM 935 Views
Listening to Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Vodalus - 22/10/2011 05:23:18 PM 890 Views
Huh, did I not reply to the main thread? Guess I'll have to do it rather belatedly then. Legolas - 24/10/2011 07:45:33 PM 905 Views
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