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Detlef Sping:
Stop me if you already know this.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 9:57:20 am)

Detlef Sping:
I'm looking for a new book to read, do you have any suggestions bela? you handle books.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 9:59:12 am)

Chewing Wax:
I just bought the post mortem Douglas Addams, but I'm afraid to read it.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:00:08 am)

Detlef Sping:
Anything by Hunter S Thomson, I guess. but there must be more to read.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:00:23 am)

Detlef Sping:
The one his son put together?
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:00:47 am)

Detlef Sping:
Maybe T Lobsang Rampa, have you heard of him?
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:02:07 am)

Chewing Wax:
Yeh. So I'm rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Actually.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:02:41 am)

Chewing Wax:
No. I haven't heard of him.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:02:56 am)

Chewing Wax:
I don't think it was son was it? Somebody stuck it together. I didn't think Addams had any kids. Maybe I'm wrong.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:03:28 am)

Detlef Sping:

He's a bit nutty.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:04:47 am)

Chewing Wax:
Is he insane?
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:05:57 am)

Detlef Sping:
I heard Dougs son found it on his computer hard drive or something.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:06:03 am)

Detlef Sping:
I'm pretty sure he's insane.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:06:25 am)

Detlef Sping:

(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:07:54 am)

Detlef Sping:
He drilled a hole in his forehead with a Black and Decker.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:09:23 am)

Chewing Wax:
Edited by Peter Guzzardi and with an introduction by Christopher Cerf, this bittersweet collection comprises letters, fragments of ideas for books, films and TV, ruminations on a diverse array of subjects and a good bit of a final unfinished novel by the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, who died in May of last year. Included are a letter to the editor of a U.K. boy's magazine (written in 1965, when Adams was 12); a reminiscence about his lifelong love for the Beatles, written when he was in his 40s; a 1991 piece from Esquire entitled "My Nose"; and an undated article for the Independent espousing his preference for whiskey. Also on hand are a q&a in which he identifies the most interesting natural structure as being a "2,000-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News"; a spiritual encounter with a giant manta ray while testing a mechanical diving device at Australia's Great Barrier Reef; an affecting introduction to P.G. Wodehouse's unfinished novel, Sunset at Blandings; an account of a Save the Rhino pilgrimage across Africa; ruminations on computerization; and a philosophical address about the authorship of the universe entitled "Is There an Artificial God?" Two sketches "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" from the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986, are also here, as are 10 chapters from various versions of the title novel-in-progress. National advertising.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:10:04 am)

Chewing Wax:
Drilled a hole in his head? Should he have died?
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:10:31 am)

Detlef Sping:
Genghis Khan, eh? bag of ears.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:11:36 am)

Detlef Sping:
He went to Venus. The green light.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:12:12 am)

Detlef Sping:
I smell soup, back later. Auf!
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:12:40 am)

Chewing Wax:
I was going to ask about the green light. Later.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:13:23 am)

bela:
I'm reading the new Ian McEwan novel. Its really good so far.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:17:49 am)

(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:18:52 am)

Chewing Wax:
What's it about?
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:19:44 am)

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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life.In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he worked with so large a canvas: In Atonement he takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London’s World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.Atonement is Ian McEwan’s finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is at its center a profound–and profoundly moving–exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:20:58 am)

Chewing Wax:
It's not all foofee is it?
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:21:58 am)

Chewing Wax:
Sounds like a chick book.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:22:16 am)

Heruka:
hmm, very interesting.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:27:46 am)

Heruka:
it's raining.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:27:57 am)

bela:
Chick book? You're one to talk, all wanting to get some Rosemary Clooney albums and thats beyond chick thats downright PTown go go gay.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:28:37 am)

Chewing Wax:
I was joking about the Rosemary Clooney you idiot.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:34:45 am)

bela:
Sure you were.
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:34:59 am)

Chewing Wax:
I was
(Thu Oct 3, 2002 - 10:35:20 am)