Erasmus Graves

The ovens are located above a pocket of unstable gas and the bakery explodes, killing Jala, Takua, Tahu and grievously injuring Turaga Vakama. Onua takes pipe organ lessons.

This one's so relatable:

I always imagined him a few feet taller than Teridax, most of the time, for reasons stemming from both ego and intimidation.

Horrifically procrastinative.

Yes, there are quite a few, and I number among them. Anyway, just polished off Eddie Bunker's Dog Eat Dog​ - typically hard-hitting crime novel, one of his more underrated works. Giving Proust's ​The Way by Swann's​ another crack, and reading Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator (​part 2 of ​The Book of the New Sun ) ​- if you like intelligent but tricksy fantasy novels you might very well love this. I certainly am enjoying them.

Now that is a set I have not seen for a long time.

He's 90% off and the ensuing riot to buy him results in several deaths. Firearms enter the BIONICLE universe.

"What even is Unity?" Sahmad

I had a good laugh reading this.

The Colour Purple.

- Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner. One of the best works of boxing fiction ever written. Tough and moving. Two of the short stories were adapted into ​Million ​Dollar Baby​. - Rum Punch​. Very good novel by Elmore Leonard. Made famous by Tarantino's Jackie Brown​ - a terrific adaptation. ​- Black Wings Has My Angel. A brilliant classic noir, extraordinarily well written. ​​- Drive. Yes, the film was adapted from it. But they're very different. It's well-written and a quick read, but I think the film has the upper hand. - Hard to be a God. An interesting classic Russian science-fiction novel. - The March, by E.L. Doctorow. Why can't they write historical novels like this anymore - Street of No Return and Nightfall, by David Goodis. Classic noir novels. - Masters of Atlantis. Charles Portis's only straight-up satire. Very funny and underrated. Never a dull moment, but it has dark undercurrents of sadness. - And the [Not allowed to use this word so I'll say Donkey] Saw the Angel. Nick Cave's first novel. Interestingly written and gothic, if overlong. - Sombrero Fallout​. Surreal and funny and sad. Well- and sparely written.

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[thinking] "Hmm, is anyone around? Anyone? Phew, now I can practice my Angus Young impression."

Legion, by William Peter Blatty. It's a thoughtful, leisurely paced novel, and a terrific sequel to a classic. It's better written than ​The Exorcist, ​too.

According to Greg they don't.

Right, I'm not going to go over all the books I've read since my last post, but I'll fire out a few highlights: - Power Without Glory (liked the TV series better, but it's good) - A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe (terrific, really underrated), ​- In the Lake of the Woods (brilliant). - Wambaugh's Hollywood Station series (perhaps the only truly realistic series of police novels around). - Zero K (DeLillo's latest, not one of his best but rather good) - Fat City (slim but great novel, if you ever get the chance to see the film, watch it). - Ironweed ​(terrific novel) - Twelve Angry Men (gotta see the film now) - Look Who's Back (Er ist Wierder da ​in the original German).

"Top o' the mornin to ya - wait, why'm I surrounded by clockwork?"

UV, baby!