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  1. saliotthomas

    Post-Apocalyptic! End of the World books

    I just finished the Drowned World by JG Ballard(recently deceased).It's excellent,the atmosphere of London(not Paris !)in sub tropical jungle with lagoons and iguanas,the submerge buildings,some mad scarvengers,all is there to make a very untertaining story.Short but good.
  2. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In the Ritz in Paris looking at the iguanas of the rooftop of the building emerging from the lagoons. Drowned world -JG Ballard -R I P
  3. saliotthomas

    Bernard Cornwell: Sword Song

    I just finished Agincourt.Good Cornwell,better than Sword song. It is very like is other archer trilogie-Arlequin-Lots of technical details and as alway lively,easy to read.Also not too predictible wich is a blessing. A nice display of insult and naming directed to my countrymen,turds sucking...
  4. saliotthomas

    Slayground-Richard Stark(Westlake)

    Great Parker,one of the best.(The 13th i read) Parker is stuck in a playground with a suitcase of money and 5 bullets in his gun after a amorcar robbery that's gone sour.A buch of tugs think him an easy target,they soon know better.Half the local mafia is called to the rescue and come out with...
  5. saliotthomas

    Suggestions: July 2009 Book of the Month

    I'll be the segond of Joderu.
  6. saliotthomas

    Last seen...

    The tale of despereaux,beautifull,very well made.The best animation i have seen in a while. Meerkats Nice.
  7. saliotthomas

    Gay marriage

    I agree with gay marriage but only for people of same sex.
  8. saliotthomas

    Paul Auster: Man In The Dark

    I can't imagine a sequel when he kills is main characteres half way and the others is a very old writer.(Actualy it's the first time i read it in a novel,the abrupte killing of the hero.It is fisrt frustrating but then the story goes on and we get use to it.) I agree with BG on the work showing...
  9. saliotthomas

    Disagree with ending?

    The few i read of stephen King were frustrating,not that the end is bad but more like they did not really finish.I don't like open ending very much.I want to know what happened,not guess. The reverse is often true,Book that were bad until they end.I'm always glad to be finished with a book i...
  10. saliotthomas

    Gay marriage

    I think she lost because of the earrings.
  11. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I'm an outlawed British archer on a boat reaching the coast of Normandie and i'll be damn if don't stuff those turds frog-eater full of arrows. Agincourt-Bernard Cornwell
  12. saliotthomas

    Book of the Month Titles List

    Nice job indeed.A pity there is no post of the week or the month on BAR.A suggestion maybe...and miss could be the first. A tiara on the avat be nice.An a crown for the misters. Chiefs?
  13. saliotthomas

    Anybody read the book "After Dark"??(need help)

    The day the make teleporter,i would need a laser gun,to keep the my mother-in-law from brusting in every damn day,nagging at me. Or something to paralyse like in star trek.
  14. saliotthomas

    Anybody read the book "After Dark"??(need help)

    ....and mobile phone,CD,DVD,Ipod,Micro waves(scarry the first time),fax,you name it.
  15. saliotthomas

    Anybody read the book "After Dark"??(need help)

    That's kind to suggest it Libra but in my days the net was Science fiction.Smoke signals and drums where the way to communicate back then.
  16. saliotthomas

    Anybody read the book "After Dark"??(need help)

    I would not be to quick on the teacher here. The due tomorrow and evasive short questions,show that it might be Big boy who thought there was plenty on the net....I was that kind of "due tomorrow" student myself and i can smell fellow here. But big boy is a more optimistic kind, thinking some...
  17. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In South Africa,pulling my handicapted mother in a cart across the country.We are a sorry lot. J.M. Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael K (i wonder if there is a connextion with Joseph K?)
  18. saliotthomas

    vacation - to read or not to read?

    Oh i have a good one for you. Crook factory by Dan Simmons. My brother said it is very good.Light but not inconsistant,and you should be able to immerse in the Local atmosphere.
  19. saliotthomas

    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Jean Teulé-O Verlaine and Montespan
  20. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Sweden(hy BG!),and the land owner has a very lusty way to extrac the farm tax from my mother.His segond name is Father unknown. Torgny Lindgren-The way of the snake
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