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It is perhaps the worst pile of shit I have read in a long time. Tom Send a noteboard - 19/10/2011 03:04:12 AM
Druon should have been dragged out into the street and beaten to a pulp, with his teeth kicked in, for writing it. He should have stopped at Book 6. Book 7 is a travesty of prose, a miserable retelling of history (with its errors) and almost impossible to read due to the stupid statements to make it sound like part of a conversation. I would encourage everyone who owns it in a separate volume to take the book out, burn it, piss on the ashes and then find another copy to burn.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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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 1170 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 771 Views
It's still all about Dickens Camilla - 03/10/2011 11:22:43 AM 839 Views
I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore. Legolas - 03/10/2011 02:17:15 PM 691 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 684 Views
I accidentally read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, or most of it, yesterday Camilla - 10/10/2011 03:56:00 PM 762 Views
I love the "accidentally". *NM* Legolas - 10/10/2011 10:43:36 PM 303 Views
Pratchett! Camilla - 15/10/2011 03:38:44 PM 640 Views
Yes. Stephen - 16/10/2011 03:29:00 PM 708 Views
Would one of you lovely people please write a review? Rebekah - 17/10/2011 06:33:35 PM 689 Views
Re: Would one of you lovely people please write a review? Camilla - 17/10/2011 07:27:33 PM 782 Views
Might write one tomorrow evening or maybe Saturday. *NM* Stephen - 20/10/2011 02:32:33 PM 324 Views
I promise to comment *NM* Camilla - 20/10/2011 06:21:42 PM 335 Views
Perfect. *NM* Rebekah - 20/10/2011 06:37:24 PM 329 Views
Did I miss it? *NM* Camilla - 31/10/2011 12:22:45 PM 346 Views
Didn't get around to writing it yet. Stephen - 01/11/2011 03:02:11 AM 591 Views
And I finally finished the Western book Camilla - 16/10/2011 08:34:21 PM 752 Views
I read The History of Rasselas by Samuel Johnson Camilla - 24/10/2011 01:02:59 PM 593 Views
I read Marvel 1602 (Neil Gaiman) Camilla - 31/10/2011 12:22:29 PM 683 Views
I got my hands on copies of it the other day Stephen - 01/11/2011 03:04:45 AM 656 Views
I don't think mine have even changed in a month. Nate - 03/10/2011 03:18:41 PM 758 Views
Taoism, mostly. Panorphaeon - 03/10/2011 05:27:15 PM 682 Views
Eh, what is this reading you speak of? Stephen - 06/10/2011 01:01:18 PM 623 Views
Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday. Stephen - 08/10/2011 05:03:09 PM 778 Views
Re: Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday. Camilla - 10/10/2011 03:56:27 PM 759 Views
It is. *NM* Stephen - 10/10/2011 05:10:35 PM 328 Views
Read Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Stephen - 10/10/2011 05:11:34 PM 712 Views
Tons of things I want to read, but no time. nossy - 08/10/2011 03:11:46 PM 711 Views
By "festive" I take it you mean Halloween-related? Tim - 09/10/2011 12:05:49 AM 754 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 395 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 317 Views
I'm reading A Farewell to Arms, very slowly kHz1000 - 10/10/2011 04:36:53 PM 676 Views
Reading. Yeah, I remember that. Tom - 10/10/2011 06:27:36 PM 937 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 347 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 349 Views
Either way, they're mercifully short works, compared to Der Zauberberg and Anna Karenina. Tom - 11/10/2011 01:07:59 AM 780 Views
It is perhaps the worst pile of shit I have read in a long time. Tom - 19/10/2011 03:04:12 AM 710 Views
Oh. I guess there's no accounting for tastes. Legolas - 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM 767 Views
SMOOTH READ? That book is the definition of a choppy, disjointed piece of shit. Tom - 19/10/2011 08:30:22 PM 792 Views
Just vague plans this month. Rebekah - 10/10/2011 06:38:27 PM 778 Views
Re: Just vague plans this month. Camilla - 17/10/2011 08:38:38 AM 708 Views
Re: Just vague plans this month. Rebekah - 17/10/2011 06:34:35 PM 730 Views
I did the challenge. ranagrande - 16/10/2011 02:06:37 PM 823 Views
No plan but... DomA - 18/10/2011 01:55:41 AM 933 Views
And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators... Legolas - 18/10/2011 07:06:56 PM 706 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 816 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 820 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 961 Views
I'm over the reading block. Aeryn - 18/10/2011 10:35:10 PM 781 Views
Listening to Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Vodalus - 22/10/2011 05:23:18 PM 754 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 777 Views
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