posted February 03, 2001 02:02 PM
You only find out in the last sentence quite what a Feersum Endjinn it is. 8)
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posted February 04, 2001 02:43 AM
Finished The Naked God on Tuesday at 4am. What did you think of the trilogy, Vogon? I thought it was brilliant - better than Trek, IMN-S-HO.
(no spoilers please, I just gave Gurgeh the second part of the Neutronium Alchemist last night)
posted February 04, 2001 03:57 AM
It is good. Scarily long, though. . . I think I got a lot more that I missed first time round, reading one book every two years.
------------------ "Businesses used to be like Christianity; if you were faithful and obedient, you could obtain bliss in the afterlife of retirement. Now it's more of a reincarnation model. If the worker learns enough in his current job, he can progress to a higher level of employment elsewhere."
posted February 05, 2001 12:51 AM
Everyone here really needs to read Michael Marshall Smith too.
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posted February 05, 2001 07:13 AM
*Is currently reading "Jane's Fighting Ships of WW2".*
It's for research.
------------------ "Okashii na... namida ga nagareteru. Hitotsu mo kanashikunai no ni." (That's funny... my tears are falling. And I'm not sad at all.) - Quatre Raberba Winner
posted February 11, 2001 01:53 AM
That's a bit more than 30 characters. . .
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posted February 11, 2001 04:00 AM
Dat's about 67 characters...
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