Member: Novak

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Reviews90 reviews

TagsFiction (168), WBR (Classics) (106), Romance (86), Discworld (49), Crime fiction (37), History (35), Humour (30), Fiction PB (29), Historical Fiction (28), (23) — see all tags

MediaBook (1,216), Paper Book (1,085), Audiobook (2), Ebook (77)

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror

About meMr boring bookreader. Always reading or walking because I don't watch TV.
My worldview? I’m not concerned. This world's your garden, I’m only here for the birdfeeder.
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Only in my dreams am I free,
everywhere else I expect wages.
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Religion? Stop teaching children that your guesswork is the truth.

Love thy neighbour and live in peace. (Terms and conditions may apply.)

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About my libraryA tapestry, something for every mood. I'm working my way through my bookshelves (and floor) laboriously listing my books. I am about 80% into them but would be more advanced if I would stop reading them (and re-reading them).

NOTE: Only books tagged "Your library" here are owned by me. The rest belong to others sharing the house library.

Most of my ratings are upwards of 3 stars because the majority of my reads are recommended by friends. The odd thumbsdown is usually something I chose for myself, a mistake. Life is too short to waste time reading junk, go with the recommendations; that's my experience but I generously refuse to take all the blame for it.. ..

Wishlist and Been and Gone list books I don't own.

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Terry Pratchett comes up biggest in my author cloud. Why? Hmm, well, here is what his Granny says about opera:

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"There's your heavy opera where basically people sing in foreign and it goes like:
Oh, oh, oh, I am dying,
oh, oh, oh, I am dying,
Oh Oh, I am dying,
that's what I am doing
...dying.

Then there is your light opera where they sing in foreign and that goes like:
Beer, beer, beer, beer,
I like to drink lots of beer, beer beer,
Oh how I love beer,
lots of beer.
(Although sometimes they drink champagne instead.)

That's basically all of opera really."

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Isn't that powerful writing?? I think he penned this very well too:

"Britain has been shaped for the better by many
pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post-Christian forces. We are a
plural society with citizens with a range of perspectives, and we
are a largely non-religious society."

Terry Pratchett 2014

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, All Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Bookcases, Brits, BritWit, Flashman and Fraser, Frequently Asked Questions, It's a LondonThing —show all groups, Librarything Railroad (The LTR), Name that Book, One LibraryThing, One Book, The Green Dragon

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (Shared favorites)

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Real nameLord Lucan.

LocationExeter, England.

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceSep 1, 2007

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