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McGoohan
McGoohan
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McGoohan
Sclerosis skin - not one of Lloyd Cole's best tunes, I feel.
Little town of Greplehem
Little town of Greplehem
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Little town of Greplehem
Reaching out with clever fingers, she pulled the shadows to her. Weaving and twisting the black gossamer threads until they flowed across her shoulders like a cloak. She faded from the world’s view, became almost translucent, like a smudge on a portrait of the city’s skyline. Leaping across the void to his windowsill, she hauled herself up onto the ledge. And swiftly unlocking the glass, she slipped through to the room beyond, soundless as the cat made of shadows following behind. Sliding a stiletto from her belt, she breathed heavier, tingling somewhere deep and old. Crouched unseen in a corner, lashes fluttering like butterfly wings against her cheeks, she watched him filling a cup with quavering hands.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Dec 2020
9:13am, 3 Dec 2020
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He's got a cup of hand-flavoured quavers? I wonder how that tastes?
McGoohan
McGoohan
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McGoohan
The editor should have done a Ctrl-F on the MS to look for all occurrences of 'like' and 'as' and maybe trimmed a couple of thousand.
LindsD
LindsD
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That makes me feel physically sick. Not helped by Dio's dream.
Diogeneezer Scrooge
Diogeneezer Scrooge
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10:06am, 3 Dec 2020
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Diogeneezer Scrooge
Editor? Are you seriously suggesting this had an editor? If it did, it’d not be one who’d be happy to admit it.
Diogeneezer Scrooge
Diogeneezer Scrooge
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Diogeneezer Scrooge
How much more of this can you take, Gerp?
Badger
Badger
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10:15am, 3 Dec 2020
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Badger
Good lord. What book was this again? I feel a nomination for Thog's Corner coming on.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Dec 2020
10:16am, 3 Dec 2020
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McGoohan
That is just the first book of a trilogy too.

2nd Book: Sometimesnoon
3rd Book: Alwaysbreakfast
McGoohan
McGoohan
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McGoohan
Hi Badger, I have a cup-full of quavering hands here. Please take one, they're very moreish.

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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