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11.15.2021 | 4:06 PM ET
To start off with a banger i'll recommend Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, specifically the quadrilogy. It blends some great sci-fi creativity with a nihilistic sarcastic British humour that i personally love. The premise is frankly ******** but thats what makes it all the better and by the time you get to the end it hurts your head to think about how it started with a man protesting the building of a bypass going through his house. Thoroughly recommend
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
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11.15.2021 | 4:19 PM ET
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
"“I took no damage,” Hill said. “Most of the fall was me falling down"
11.15.2021 | 4:26 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
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- Baldric Eggling
11.15.2021 | 4:40 PM ET
On Hitchhikers guide, I do like it. But I don't like it as much as the long dark tea time of the soul.
It's very rare for me to like any works of Fantasy/sci-fi, because such novels are, like detective/mystery novels, typically template garbage, and you have to look for and wide to find a good one. So props to you Mr Adams. I am not easily impressed.
1984 could be adapted well to film, but nobody has managed to do it yet. Not my favourite Orwell. I will order those as follows:
1. The Road to Wigan Pier
2. Animal Farm
3. 1984
4. Inside the Whale: Essays
5.Coming up for air
6:Homage to Catalonia
7: Burmese Days
8: A Clergyman's daughter
9: Keep the Aspidistra flying ( Huge pile of **** that should not have been published).
* Edited at 11.15.2021, 4:52 PM ET *
11.15.2021 | 4:57 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
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- Baldric Eggling
11.15.2021 | 5:04 PM ET
11.15.2021 | 5:10 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
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- Baldric Eggling
11.15.2021 | 5:51 PM ET
It's important to note that he wasn't at all well known, or cared about in his life and time. You have to think the literary world was roaring back then. People just simply read a whole lot more books. He was up against the hangover of absolute modernist geniuses like Joyce, Virginia Wool etc. That's why it is very hard to find a signed Orwell book.If you do find one, expect to pay upwards of 40K USD. Nobody really cared, and he really only became a celebrity after he was dead.
I do agree with you about 1984 being touted as a kind of Dystopian how-to book by everybody. I think it's a stretch and would probably venture to say that Huxley's work proved more accurate in that sense.
I have own a first edition of The Road to Wigan Pier (Left book club edition).
It is not signed.
I'm a fan, but I can definitely see who he emulated: Henry Mayhew, and Jack London. Down and out in Paris and London is basically a Carbon copy of People of the abyss. If you haven't read people of the abyss, definitely do, it's an absolutely incredible book and truthfully probably better than anything Orwell ever wrote.
11.16.2021 | 5:12 PM ET
Btw don't expect this to be a regular thing, most of what i read now days is business or economics related (**** college) and i'll probably take long hiatuses if i have exams. Probably gonna end up relying on Baldric as he's clearly a lot better read then me and has time since his wife's boyfriend banned him from using his nintendo switch.
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
11.19.2021 | 12:48 PM ET
Fire and Blood is a pretty good history book set in the Game of thrones world detailing the Targaryen monarchs, especially the infamous dance of dragons. It brings loads of interesting characters mainly for me corlys velaryon to the table. Plus with house of the dragon coming out soon you may as well ready what it's based on. Some gripes are it's absolute dedication to being realistic in the scenario, ie it only gives information that it makes sense for the person writing to know (sometimes annoying) and it sticks to the history book format juxtaposing with the character driven perspectives of the main series.
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
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- Baldric Eggling
11.19.2021 | 3:10 PM ET
11.19.2021 | 3:16 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
11.19.2021 | 4:07 PM ET
"Dont take life too serious, you will never make it out alive."
11.19.2021 | 4:11 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
11.19.2021 | 4:16 PM ET
"Quack quack quack"
11.19.2021 | 4:19 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
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- Baldric Eggling
11.19.2021 | 4:28 PM ET
I like this heel troll duck.
11.19.2021 | 6:43 PM ET
I'm not really into reading but I'm just letting you that I'm here watching, silently judging. I'm very much just looking in through the windows here but I'm here nonetheless!
"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"
11.20.2021 | 5:35 PM ET
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.
11.21.2021 | 6:22 AM ET
Atlantis ; Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation
"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "
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- Baldric Eggling
11.21.2021 | 3:54 PM ET
Worth the hour to listen.
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