New Martin Express

Every flipping time - MacOs - I've seen you've changed a system file to automount NFS volumes - I'm upgrading, so you know what...I'm going to nobble that for you!!

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Backed it - disappointing the shipping is so high to the UK though. I'm hoping that Professor Peabody herself is going to deliver it for that price!!

Ummm....really, perhaps he might want to consider the US's response to the Falklands and the level of assistance that was given there.

The Last Caress

I thought you rehearsed all the possible events before running a game...I'm sure I've seen you with this infinite expanding decision tree based around the experience you've had with the players so far.

'Oh god's...he's signed up...how is he going rerail my game now!!'

Wish me luck, interviewing three people today...in an already meeting heavy day.

Social battery depletion will be inevitable.

Doesn't matter how beautifully you design your game and how much nuance you put into it...if it can only come out in extended play, it will be missed by most.

And expecting people to discover that beauty by long study of the books ..you'll be lucky.

F*cker, F*ckwit, F*ckup, F*ucknoodle

Let's twist again like we did last summer,let's twist again like we did last year...oh you're dead ..that's a pity...still twisting time is here!

Twisting in guts...no twisting melons!

I was avoiding that on the grounds of good taste!!

In the same way that we all have gravitational pull - we all have influence...

One of the Matrons is Modesty Blaise - one is Emma Peel and one is Diana Prince...and final one is Mrs Slocombe. And then have fun!!

Are you telling me - that poetry can't be fiction?

Look many writers have dabbled in writing adult stories to pay their way...why do you think the Old Man was any different? C.S Lewis wrote romance and furry bodice rippers!

10? Easy - pTerry, Jim Butcher, Laurel Hamilton, MZB, Misty Lackey, Piers Anthony, Gaiman, Wodehouse, Christie, Allingham, Aaronovitch, Fleming, McCaffrey, Le Carre, Tom Holt (and other guises), Iain Banks (both forms), Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Harrison, Norton, Le Guin..I could go on!!

Really - Tolkien has more than 3 fiction books published in his life time - Hobbit, the three LoTR novels, Farmer Giles of Ham, Tree and Leaf, Story of O*, Adventures of Tom Bombadil etc...

I know he's not credited with the Story of O but it involves rings and it is so obviously him...

If you've read movie novelisations - how many Alan Dean Foster's have you read...quite a lot. Of course - and there's children's books - I've more Mick Inkpens than I can shake a stick at - even got signed ones!!

Tartan paint?

The brain is a funny thing - I've been listening to the mono remasters of The Beatles - and it is sort of trying to put them in stereo.

Can you get me a Round Tuit? I need it with to go with the long weight I've been told I need....

I think about 1200 without having to think really, really hard.

Oh - Octavia Butler would be a good start IMO.

I'd recommend Babel by R.F Kaung, Rosewater by Tade Thompson, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Harlem Cycle of books by Chester Himes...

Depends what you want to read...tell me what your preferred genre(s) are...if you are going to branch out, I find it best to start in something you are already familiar with.

I find myself often seeking out non-Anglophone authors - and I regret that I'm mono-lingual - I'm less worried about being able to speak a language than able to read one.

Ahhh, sorry...

And non-white?

5 Authors I've Read At Least 5 Books By

PG Wodehouse
Peter O'Donnell
Agatha Christie
Simon Scarrow
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