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# that
put me in hysterics!
though i don't think he should ask her it
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:03, archived)
# dearest,
as regards books, i too am particularly careful with book things, and I know how far yours have had to travel. So yes, I will guard your books dignity, and you write down the borrower in the little book of borrowings Im sure you also keep. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:09, archived)
# que?
no comprende senor
(I helped save b3ta! mrbongo sweating like a formicophiliac on I'm a celebrity, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:13, archived)
# freshlegger fact.
book lending service she is not, but I shall prevail. How goes Bongo? coming to london fer weekend perchance?
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:15, archived)
# nah
off to guildford this weekend to meet up with more of you weirdos, it's close to me.

I'm a bit borassic at the moment so don't know if I can afford london now till well after christmas and I need to find a new house to rent too and come up with a deposit for February, so unlikely.
(I helped save b3ta! mrbongo sweating like a formicophiliac on I'm a celebrity, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:20, archived)
# so you've finally
decided to rid yourself of trees visiting in the middle of the night? modems that mysteriosuly catch fire? and all that? or more because your tired of the ever present spectre of the possibility of anal rape with a mango?
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:26, archived)
# you rang?
?
(que, Mon 18 Nov 2002, 21:19, archived)
# woo!
it's a deal then. we are a veritable book club! i am also lending don quixote to popt_art!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:16, archived)
# have you read any of the Ian M Banks?
or should I choose a favourite? also, are you up for bowling?
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:18, archived)
# excession
is the only one i've read so far, so please do choose a favourite! i'm probably not up for bowling: a little bit ill and still heaps of homework to do.
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:21, archived)
# excession is OK...
but the original first three Culture books are awesome - Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and the Player of Games.

Genuinely special. Read immediately!
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:29, archived)
# as below,
I like the books about ships as they are a lot more morally ambiguous than the others. I guess sociologically, they seem to be a (accurate) extrapolation of our cultures, but I love the ships. Anything with a name like "fate amenable to change" and "ethics gradient" are friends of mine.
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:31, archived)
# i think you should both read
Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix. the whole time i was reading excession i was thinking, "this is good, but nowhere near as good as schismatrix"
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:47, archived)
# I love Sterling...
top man.

Returning to where this started... I loved Cryptonomicon. Really blew me away.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 20:05, archived)
# excession
is by far my favourite, so you've got a good head start, I reckon you might enjoy look to windward then. i most love his books that centre on the ships, look to windward is really good, but a little slow, prehpas player of games... anyhoo, i shall choose some loveliness. can you drop me a flibz with your number again, I lost me phone friday party :(
(I helped save b3ta! Alfie, Thu 14 Nov 2002, 19:29, archived)