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DID WE ALL FORGET TO CARRY ON READING BOOKS?

chicago
5 Jun 2023
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    KarlMark
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    2 Dec 2025, 10:06 p.m. 2 Dec 2025, 10:06 p.m.
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    @Brid has written:

    Even more prevalent before WW1; try reading John Buchan!

    I can well believe that. Would you recommend his books?

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    Ingo
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    3 Dec 2025, 8:10 a.m. 3 Dec 2025, 8:10 a.m.
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    Depends how much you like Jews.

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    BrettWilliams
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    14 Dec 2025, 1:29 p.m. 14 Dec 2025, 1:29 p.m.
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    Enjoying this. Charts the journey from relegation from the Premier League in 1999 to promotion in 2022.

    Lots of bits I'd forgotten about (or erased from the memory banks) and a decent read if you were in and around it during those 23 years.

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    chicago
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    14 Dec 2025, 9:26 p.m. 14 Dec 2025, 9:26 p.m.
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    @BrettWilliams has written:

    Enjoying this. Charts the journey from relegation from the Premier League in 1999 to promotion in 2022.

    Lots of bits I'd forgotten about (or erased from the memory banks) and a decent read if you were in and around it during those 23 years.

    I would probably be too traumatized to read it.

    Chicago: Trying the Peter Crouch book.

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    Psychobel
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    13 Jan 2026, 9:53 a.m. 13 Jan 2026, 9:53 a.m.
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    Im aware that some of you are involved in marketing and proper copywriting shit n all that.
    Tom is a chum and basically a nerd who can communicate really well and likes space stuff. So doing a collab on a sci fi project with Alastair Reynolds is absolutely fucking elite. www.zurich.co.uk/meet-tomorrow

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    chicago
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    13 Jan 2026, 7:34 p.m. 13 Jan 2026, 7:34 p.m.
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    Yeah but where's the book?

    It looks just like a website with invented stuff thrown on it. Unless that is the premise for the book. I have 30 seconds between clients so would be easier to ask you rather than assume it's an optimistic website with future ideas?

    Chicago: Currently enjoying True Believer (Terminal List part 2)

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    Psychobel
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    13 Jan 2026, 10:57 p.m. 13 Jan 2026, 10:57 p.m.
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    @chicago has written:

    Yeah but where's the book?

    It looks just like a website with invented stuff thrown on it. Unless that is the premise for the book. I have 30 seconds between clients so would be easier to ask you rather than assume it's an optimistic website with future ideas?

    Chicago: Currently enjoying True Believer (Terminal List part 2)

    The big blue button right in front of your face that say "Meet Tomorrow Short Story" is unsurprisingly........

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    Charlie
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    20 Jan 2026, 12:50 p.m. 20 Jan 2026, 12:50 p.m.
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    Currently rereading 1984. If it was relevant when it was first published, it's doubly so today.

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    Dave_Rave
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    20 Jan 2026, 1:50 p.m. 20 Jan 2026, 1:50 p.m.
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    @Charlie has written:

    1984

    Found myself muttering 'sex crime' as I read that. I then had to explain to Mrs Rave exactly why.

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    tricky
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    20 Jan 2026, 1:53 p.m. 20 Jan 2026, 1:53 p.m.
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    Didn't just nod sagely then?

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    steve
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    20 Jan 2026, 4:51 p.m. 20 Jan 2026, 4:51 p.m.
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    @Charlie has written:

    Currently rereading 1984. If it was relevant when it was first published, it's doubly so today.

    I re-read Brave New World recently and the same is true for that. Very different visions, but both eerily relevant now.

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