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Glad I read it

2010-01-01T17:44:58Z

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I'm guessing what it's really about

2009-12-22T16:36:47Z

Clearly it's about betrayal and isolation in alien surroundings. But Conrad is too literary for my taste, so there has to be a sub-text. I suspect it's something to do with Conrad not being English. I wonder if he also betrayed a benefactor at som...

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Bleak - but an important read.

2009-12-18T15:09:29Z

I must see the Depadieu film of it.

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Eddie Izzard last night at the O2

2009-12-15T11:01:41Z

We took the daughters (& eldest daughter's boyfriend, who didn't know about EI). Great fun had by all. However my wife & I had previously seen him in the 90's at the Stadium, when he wasn't well known at all outside the UK, and I thought the earl...

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Another funny German book

2009-12-14T11:57:55Z

That's two in a year! It's probably all a dream!

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Good fun and some important concepts

2009-12-14T11:51:53Z

The problem with virtually all space operas is that you have to suspend disbelief, because it seems highly unlikely that human interstellar travel will ever happen. So it was good to read an SF book that recognises this and suggests a way around it.

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An important read, even if you don't find the PAC concept particularly useful

2009-12-14T11:29:27Z

because, of course, lots of psychologists do find it useful, & you need to know what they are talking about. I found the chapter on reiligion particularly interesting - I had come to similar conclusions from a completely different starting point -...

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Recommended by a colleague from Munich

2009-12-10T14:27:43Z

Grisly black comedy.

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Must admit - I'd never heard of it until I found it on the bookshelf

2009-12-10T14:22:18Z

My wife had put it there. As regular visitors here will be aware, I've got a campaign going to tick off a lot more 19th century English classics, but before I go shopping on Amazon, I'm going through some of my wife's old books (she's been this wa...

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Silly title, stupid cover, pretty good book (mostly).

2009-12-10T13:16:46Z

I reviewed this on amazon.co.uk

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