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YndlingsforfattereJasper Fforde, Terry Pratchett (Fælles favoritter)

Om mig I've lived all my life to the South of London and been reading since 1938. I blame Enid Blyton & her Sunny stories. Now in my seventies I have rarely disposed of a book in my life and my current shed/computer room/CD store now contains over 4000 books.It drives my wife mad! When not reading, surfing or listening to all kinds of music - Mozart to Morton (Jelly Roll) I edit a newsletter for our local branch of University of the Third Age.

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Om mit bibliotek A succession of enthusiasms through my life has left me with a collection of books on each topic. Somehow I have a metre of shelf on the I Ching and related, 12ft of poetry, and a foot of Richard Feynman

Rigtigt navnPhilip Cakebread

StedBanstead, Surrey

E-mailPhilip.Cakebreadhemscott.net

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Medlem sidenSep 4, 2006

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Re. your comment to canyon on 16 November 2007:
Not just the Corvo connection, but an interesting match of titles between our libraries. More than you might think, as hardly any of my "library" is listed.
It was the F. G. Rayer book that did it - A book that really impressed me when I first read it, probably when I was still at primary school. My father was a subscriber to the SFBC, and so I was reading their books as soon as I could reach them on the shelf - Asimov, Bradbury, Stapleton first: Then as I got older I moved on to "Janet and John".
I was also very interested in radio and electronics as a teenager: There was an F. G. Rayer who was a prolific author of construction articles in the British enthusiast magazines of the time, and I always wondered if it was the same person.
Yes, the Jackie Robinson book is a sports biography of sorts. I got it as a kid, so it has been many many years since I've read it.
Yes, I have had that happen to the odd book, show up as something bizarre. Is it ocmbined with something else odd, or something with the same isbn, but different title?
Intrigued by your nom-de-plume; has it echoes of Marie Antoinette ? I think my Library is very English in character, betraying my origin - I spent the years before and during the War in Birmingham and then Isle of Wight. Continue with your cataloguing, it brings to the fore many half-forgotten treasures.
"... the question now is whether 1984 was a warning or a blueprint"

I assume you meant an unintentional blueprint. Orwell was trying to warn us, but yes, when you explain any trick, tool or weapon that you fear the enemy might use against you, you always run the risk of actually giving him the idea in the first place, which he then utilizes thereby substantiating your original fears.
LOL. I may have been a bit harsh on Dungeon, Fire and Sword because it wasn't what I was hoping for. If you're just looking for a swashbuckling battle narrative of the Templars then you could probably add two stars to what I gave it. But it doesn't place them in the wider social and political context of the times, and is not in the least scholarly (not necessarily a minus for most people). Between DF&S and Desmond Seward's The Monks of War, I think it put me off books about crusading monastic orders for good!
Re Jasper fforde

Can't work out how to submit a review, but has anyone else noticed that Thursday Next is hiding in Mary Mary's flying boat?

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