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I didn't say I liked it - just that it would be an excellent intro to
Magic Realism.

 

Ticket don't really bother me. Mine are usually e.

I do a lot of that anyway - a legacy of driving 1000 miles to Milan
once a week, and always trying to calculate *exactly* my arrival time.

 

True - when it was an IT book, I also used to flip through each
chapter a bit, and read any that were likely to show up the author's
weaker areas. It did help to know which they were. E.g., if a book on
networking, (this was the 1980s-90s), that might be security.

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heh, yeah, me too - any also checking the tickets to make sure I'm
driving to the right airport...[/QUOTE]

God, I do all that. And I always have to go back into the flat to
check I've turned the cooker off before I leave in the mornings.

Still, checking and rechecking serves its purpose, unlike someone I
know who recently missed an interview because whilst they even went as
far as checking the route to see how long it would take, they didn't
bother to double check the date....

 

I need to learn to *start* checking that. When I've just been
cooking.

I reckon the wife has saved me from several infernos so far, and
I still don't seem to have learned. If anything, I'm getting worse.

 

I'd venture that the "right ****"s are those who don't.

 

Heh.

I've stopped my car on the hardshoulder of the M4 so I can get to the
boot where my passport is to check it.

Anyway, I've found a solution. I keep my passport with my laptop so I've
not got a problem now.

 

I stopped having to go back into the house to check ages ago, and I've
almost stopped checking before leaving. It can be cured...

heh.

 

Only eat take aways.

 

Blimey. Is she still "the wife"?

 

Nah, not for about a year now, I think, but calling her "the ex"
would be even more confusing.

 

lol

 

I suppose just using her "name" would be too conventional.

 

What? Treat her like a human being?

God man, get a grip.

 

fair point; being a porridge-wog, she's automatically a 2nd-class
citizen.

 

I stopped having to go back into the house to check ages ago, and I've
almost stopped checking before leaving. It can be cured...[/QUOTE]

Hope so! It's weird, I only started doing it a few years ago. Before
then it would sometimes flit through my mind "did I turn X off" but I
rarely felt the need to be sure.

It does help if I live on cereal, as I know then the cooker won't be
on.

 

darsy says...

If he could understand her accent when he asks what her name is.

 

I thought that was the "missus" the "wife" is someone different.

WTF am I caring?

 

That'd be Deathworld 2.

I quite liked the Deathworld series. Not great literature, but reasonably
entertaining, I thought.

 

For me, it's one of those books where the protagonist exists solely as
something to pin the story on, without any character detail, progression or
charm whatsoever. Since I didn't care- or even know- about Jason DinAlt (is
that right?) the whole situation was uninteresting and irrelevant. Some
gratuitous and perverted sex would have livened it up a bit.