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Yep. I'm now on book nine (of ten - the freebie kindle version I'm reading is apparently taken from the first edition before it was recut into twelve parts) and absolutely loving it. The unintended comedy highlight so far came in the conversation between Adam and the angel Raphael, which I would paraphrase thus: Adam: And I thought this was paradise with all the fruits and friendly animals etc, but then Eve came along. It turns out I didn't really know what pleasure was until I got stuck in there. I could happily do her all day, every day. And I plan to. Tell God thanks from me when you see him! Raphael: Ah, but don't get so obsessed with carnal delight. It can't be that good or God wouldn't have let the animals do it too. He has given you rational thought and emotions, and it is the pleasures that come with this higher contemplation that are the true pinnacle of your human existence. Adam: Have you seen her though? Phwooaarr!!!

Plus of course it was the first war of its kind, there had never been anything similar with machine guns, tanks and gas. So nobody without first hand experience of the trenches had any idea what they’d experienced. One of the voiceovers during one of the early training scenes even said something like their instructors were soldiers who’d served in previous campaigns, but who had no idea what they were sending their recruits into.

Apart from the daily deals email that @milko mentioned, my top tip is to create a separate wish list for kindle books, and put anything you’re interested in on it, then check it from time to time and sort by price, lowest to highest. Anything on sale will show up at or near the top of your list. I’ve got about 200 books on my list including all Stephen Kings, all Clive Barkers etc. Every now and then one of them goes on sale and I snap it up for a quid or so. Edit: I should point out that the only drawback with this is that although you can view this wishlist on your kindle, it will only show the last 100 items you added, and you can’t sort by price on the kindle itself. So you have to find the deals on another device before buying them, which is a minor annoyance but worth it for all those cheap books.

No, Europe is Westeros. We're the frozen north. And next year, we build the wall.

Ah but that's because Old Nan was speaking English with her own accent. Young Nan was speaking her own language which was translated into English by the Tardis, and as we know from the Doctor's Wife the Tardis has quite a posh accent.

I thought the episode was a bit dull (although it tugged at the heartstrings very effectively) but it was JW’s best performance so far. “I like biscuits!”

This is the 2019 thread Take it to the 2018 Xmas Sandwich Thread!

They missed a trick not getting Serafinowicz & co involved.

Well, there's Han Solo: Imperial Cadet which is a 5-issue series starting this week. Then after that they don't so much wind things back as go in a slightly different direction, with three themed mini-series starting with Age of Republic (9 issues, starts December), then Age of Rebellion (8 issues, starts April) and finally Age of Resistance (8 issues, starts July). There's also supposed to be another Vader mini-series called Shadow of Vader, but that looks like it's on the back-burner as Marvel fired the writer Chuck Wendig (of Aftermath fame) while it was still being written for "negative tweets", which is one of those things that if you said it to someone at any time in the 20th century they would assume you'd gone mad.

I thought that was really good, and again a very back to basics type episode. I enjoyed the Doctor realising she was in the wrong when talking to the actual doctor bloke about his responsibility to everyone on board. And Graham continues to be the best companion in ages. This series is turning out so much better than expected.

I’ve just finished 2001: a Space Odyssey for at least the third time. I first read it when I was about 12 and couldn’t understand the last quarter at all (from the star gate onwards) even though it’s actually all really carefully described, albeit from the point of view of a protagonist who is himself quite bamboozled. Anyway it’s been one of my favourite novels since my second read and this time I loved it all over again. And now for something completely different: Paradise Lost. I’ve only read the first part (of about 12 I think) but I’m enjoying it so far, although it takes a while to decipher sometimes.

Of course now I think about it a bit more I realise that probably none of it was It probably doesn't stand up to much scrutiny after the fact, but as a TV event it was pretty amazing.

Yep that was awesome.