The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Book Group discussion thread
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Jun 2019
10:32pm, 23 Jun 2019
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McGoohan
When Petra Peppy, space-accountant signed up for Space Pirate Academy she never dreamed one day she'd be piloting her own star ship. But this was the future. You could tell because everything had 'space' in front of it. Space-badgers, space-doctors, space-trousers... Little did she know that there was a dark secret at the heart of the good ship Black-Pig on its five year mission to the planet Space-Hispaniola. Ar. Now read on. But no spoilers. Ar. Not even no space-spoilers ye scurvy dog. Space-dog. |
Jun 2019
6:07pm, 24 Jun 2019
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GregP
Ctuchik was dead -and more than dead-and the earth itself heaved and groaned in the aftershock of his destruction.
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Jun 2019
11:43pm, 26 Jun 2019
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McGoohan
50 pages in... and I have stopped. This is spectacularly, toe-curlingly bad writing. This may actually be the worst ever Book Group book, including that Bye Mam I Love You misery-porn fest.
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Jun 2019
11:48pm, 26 Jun 2019
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McGoohan
Right I'm re-reading Excession instead.
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Jun 2019
12:03am, 27 Jun 2019
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Diogenes
I did a look inside on Google and thought what I saw must be unrepresentative. Maybe it wasn’t.
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Jun 2019
6:25am, 27 Jun 2019
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GregP
Oh dear.
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Jun 2019
6:26am, 27 Jun 2019
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Diogenes
(Amazon)
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Jun 2019
7:29am, 27 Jun 2019
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GregP
King Henry II was a small angry Plantagenet, if memory serves.
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Jun 2019
7:38am, 27 Jun 2019
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McGoohan
Richard III was probably the shortest and angriest Plantagenet and possibly also the hairiest.
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Jun 2019
7:48am, 27 Jun 2019
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McGoohan
Bananas are small angry plantains
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