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14 Aug 2008, 6:30 pm

[The] Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
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14 Aug 2008, 10:38 pm

the Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck


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14 Aug 2008, 10:42 pm

The Harry Potter Series



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14 Aug 2008, 11:40 pm

(The Ballad of the)Ice Worm Cocktail by Robert Service


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15 Aug 2008, 12:04 am

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15 Aug 2008, 3:10 am

Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars [S1]


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15 Aug 2008, 9:47 am

Litotes... not without which we can avoid deconstructing negated disaffirmations of great non-invalidity contrarily unrelated to anti-formlessnesses reversedly unlike this.



I felt it needed saying, again....



....please don't leave me on "L" again....



...please?


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15 Aug 2008, 12:29 pm

Michael Crichton.
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15 Aug 2008, 1:07 pm

Nathan The Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


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15 Aug 2008, 1:30 pm

Marathon Man by William Goldman


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15 Aug 2008, 1:37 pm

Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma by Jeremy Bernstein


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15 Aug 2008, 3:54 pm

[The] Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
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15 Aug 2008, 4:03 pm

Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".


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15 Aug 2008, 7:34 pm

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott


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15 Aug 2008, 10:00 pm

sine qua non
An essential element or condition: something absolutely indispensable or essential . . .reliability is a sine qua non for success
[Late Latin sine quā (causā) nōn, without which (cause) not : Latin sine, without + Latin quā, ablative of quī, which, what, who + Latin nōn, not.]


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16 Aug 2008, 9:06 am

These Demented Lands by Alan Warner


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