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Cronin, The Passage

>>1089446

No - clever: death would come as a sweet release

My first ten novels, when I write them

Hogwarts has a board of governors ... does that mean it's private? I wonder what the relationship to the ministry of magic is?

fairy tale
fable
parable
myth

puke

>>1078814

Aren't they going to close a bunch of local libraries in the UK?

Also, here in Australia my library lets you take out 25 books.

>>1078774
>Ethical Guidelines

hehe

>>1078526

yeah 40 x 52 = 2080, so if you read one book a week you can easily beat 2000.

Robert Rankin cracks me up

>>1078660

What format are the files?

>>1078642

This one

>>1078051

Yeah they even have their own special train

>>1078177

Whoa I can totally see Mieville going from slipstream stud to Alexei Sayle redux if he doesn't keep hitting the gym.

The economy had been growing robustly for most of the so-called Roaring Twenties. It was a technological golden age as innovations such as radio, automobiles, aviation, telephone and the power grid were deployed and adopted. Companies who had pioneered these advances, like Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and General Motors, saw their stocks soar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash#Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

One word:

San Dimas High School football rules!

>>1076669

1. They were going downhill from volume one.
2. Do you really think And Another Thing will be the last instalment?

Bakker - The Prince of Nothing
Mary Gentle - Ash
Hugh Cook - Chronicles of an Age of Darkness

And then there came to me the crowning horror of all--the unbelievable, unthinkable, almost unmentionable thing. I have said that eons seemed to elapse after Jose shrieked forth his last despairing warning, and that only my own cries now broke the hideous silence. But after a while there was a further clicking in the receiver, and I strained my ears to listen. Again I called down, "Jose, are you there?" and in answer heard the thing which has brought this cloud over my mind. I do not try, gentlemen, to account for that thing--that voice--nor can I venture to describe it in detail, since the first words took away my consciousness and created a mental blank which reaches to the time of my awakening in the hospital. Shall I say that the voice was deep; hollow; gelatinous; remote; unearthly; inhuman; disembodied? What shall I say? It was the end of my experience, and is the end of my story. I heard it, and knew no more--heard it as I sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors-- heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as I watched amorphous, necrophagous shadows dance beneath an accursed waning moon.

And this is what it said:

"You fool, Jose is DEAD!"

This is Virginia Woolf wondering if books get "greenlit".

Don't know, but has anyone noticed how much Christian Slater looks like Trotsky?!?!

>>1075583

I used to hate when I gave someone a perfect book and they just didn't get it ... espcially someone I had a crush on :P

>>1075604

This

Is this guy like a Walter Mitty type?