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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 10:02am on 29/11/2006 under
Books read since 1 Nov:

Now Wait For Last Year, Philip K. Dick (1975)
Snake Agent, Liz Williams (2005)
Varjak Paw, SF Said (2003)
The Outlaw Varjak Paw, SF Said (2005)
Now We Are Sick, ed. Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones (1991, 1994, 2005)
A Year In The Linear City, Paul Di Filippo (2002)
How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Daniel H. Wilson (2005)

still not finished most of my part-read books of October -
Secrets & Lies, Bruce Schneier
Rats and Gargoyles, Mary Gentle
Excession, Iain M. Banks

I hope to finish the Schneier and the Gentle in December, but will give up on Excession again until next year maybe. I've tried it at least twice now, and keep getting bogged down halfway through.

2006 total books read: 44, a stack of 88.2 cm.
I will try to make it to 52 books by the end of the year (down from my usual 75), but do not think I will reach the additional target of reading my own height in books!

EDIT: We don't need to keep these books - any takers? Postage appreciated or I could bring them to Ilford or Cambridge.
Varjak Paw, SF Said - taken by [livejournal.com profile] rhubarbfool
The Outlaw Varjak Paw, SF Said - taken by [livejournal.com profile] rhubarbfool
Now We Are Sick, ed. Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones - taken by [livejournal.com profile] maviscruet
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posted by [identity profile] maviscruet.livejournal.com at 10:13am on 29/11/2006
The Now We Are Sick would be good. Postage of course paid......

The Varjak Paw stuff - I know a friend who would like it. So unless anybody else wants them I would take them (postage paid of course).
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:15am on 29/11/2006
Or I could bring it/them on Dec 9th and save postage?
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:17am on 29/11/2006
I'll wait a while and see if anyone I'll be seeing on Dec 2 is dead keen on the Varjak Paw.
 
posted by [identity profile] maviscruet.livejournal.com at 10:18am on 29/11/2006
More then fair on both suggestions. Bring any of the three you've still got on the 9th....

Oh gods. 9th. Things. Sortage. Hotels. argh.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:20am on 29/11/2006
I can't wait to get my hands on the frickin' lasers...
 
posted by (anonymous) at 10:58am on 29/11/2006
I'll take the SF Said books if they're still available, one for me and one a present for someone else.
 
posted by [identity profile] rhubarbfool.livejournal.com at 11:02am on 29/11/2006
Sorry its me, forgot to log in on my new work computer
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:06am on 29/11/2006
Yep - by the way, the Outlaw book is signed "To Bridget and Simon" - not a problem, I hope?
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:18am on 29/11/2006
Also, we're coming in to town this lunchtime to see The Prestige at the Arts Picturehouse - I could try to drop them by then.
 
posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 11:12am on 29/11/2006
I nearly started reading the second Varjak last night, but then picked up the latest by [livejournal.com profile] jemck instead.

(Both, naturally, signed. Both bought at the same time. Probably the same time your Varjak Paw books were bought too.)
 
posted by [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com at 04:22pm on 29/11/2006
I finished Excession, but was really disappointed in it. It's the weak spot in the Culture novels, I think. The three SF novels since then have gotten successively better.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 29/11/2006
Maybe I'll skip it and go on to something else. Anansi Boys is next in the heap :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 05:37pm on 29/11/2006
I'd agree on the first two sf novels since Excession, but the Algebraist really didn't work for me at all. The villain seemed like a cardboard cutout of a Banks' villain, and the answer to the, "where are the wormholes," question would have worked much better if the obvious problem with it had at least been acknowledged.
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posted by [identity profile] perlmonger.livejournal.com at 05:43pm on 29/11/2006
Curious. Excession is one of my favourite Culture novels; there's no accounting, &c... :)

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