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Books read (29-33)

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr (1959)
Custer's Last Jump, Howard Waldrop et al (1973-2003, 2003)
Missile Gap, Charles Stross (2005)
Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart (1984)
A Writer's Life, Eric Brown (2001)

Films watched (14-21)

Iron Man 2 (twice)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Four Lions
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Sound of Music
Iron Man

I do like a bit of giant flying robot.

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I liked the Leibowitz.

Any of the other (besides Iron Man 2) films worth seeing?

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I liked Four Lions - very funny for a film about tragically inept suicide bombers, with nice pacing, and the characters seemed like real, flawed people.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was touching, but made for a strange double bill with The Sound of Music!

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Four Lions - we loved it, and it was our park! and our street with the humpy bumpies! and our bench that we sit on at the top of the park !!! It was beautifully paced, and yes, truly tragic.

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Sounds like an intriguing Nazi children's movie day you had.

You should clearly watch The Iron Giant too.

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It might be the case that I have a DVD of The Iron Giant. Also, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow :-)

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The Sound of Music would have been better with giant robots ;)

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The hills are alive - with the sound of ROCKETS

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Oildrops on windshields and pinions and pistons...

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Dry ice that melts on my brushed metal cisterns

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If you haven't already watched 'Men Who Stare at Goats', Don't. It's an egregious piece of crap!

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I quite enjoyed it, but George Clooney's character looked freakishly like my Dad did when he was young, which rather hijacked my attention.

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I loved it!!

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Bridge Of Birds is one of my favourite books of all time. Beautiful and charming. Every time I find a second-hand copy I pick it up, and find another friend to pass it on to.

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I loved both Bridge of Birds and A Canticle for Leibowitz when I first read them, though in the case of Bridge of Birds that's over twenty years ago now which suddenly makes me feel old and ... well, so much for Tuesday.

Was Iron Man 2 worth watching? It's still on at the Cineworld and while I'm finding it hard to drag myself out of the house of an evening at the moment, I am tempted.

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IM2 was jolly good fun if you like people flying around in robots suits and biffing each other. Not much of a plot, though that's not really the point :-) I would be quite happy to go and see it a third time if you'd like company.

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