Cannot do a "from the cover" as I have already sold it on - I like it, but not that much.
Mostly because I kept wondering where the bloody zombies were coming from! It has been 50 years since the Zombie plague began, and it appears that people are still burying their dead. I found this a little puzzling - why did they not just burn the buggers?
And I have not (blush) read P&P either. So I don't know how accurate the storyline is.
But I would recommend it.
Or how to change how the world thinks of you...
Today I discovered that Nobel founded the Prizes because he read his own obituary, published by mistake. He was appalled by it, and decided he did not want to be The Dynamite King, making all his money from explosives, that he wanted to be remembered for good.
I think it worked.
I wonder how many of us would change our lives if we read our own obituary?
One Humidifier
4 Fans
1 mini something-or-other on the stairs
Plastic piping into my sink
Rainbow say this can get the damp out of the House in Two Weeks
Fingers crossed for me.
Watch this stunningly beautiful, breath-taking vision of Picasso's anti-war masterpiece Guernica animated by Lena Gieseke.
Or something like that.
We have had it a week now. It washes well. Not too keen on the rack layout though. Bugger.
And we actually have - wait for it - some Good News.
Our cooker is about 12 years old. It has lost two knobs, one of the igniters does not ignite, and the door is a bit loose. So I phoned the insurance company and booked a service visit.
The day after Disaster Day, Belling (who make the cooker) rang the house. They spoke to Husband:
B: Sorry, we are going to cancel the Engineer.
H: Oh, why?
B: Because we cannot get the spare parts anymore. A lot of the companies that make them have gone out of business,. It's a recession, you know.
H: Oh. I see.
B: So we called the Insurer. They are going to write it off, as we cannot repair it. They are going to give you vouchers to get a new cooker.
H: Oh. Thanks for letting me know.
So, come February when we get a new Kitchen (planned for last year, on hold, now going to be installed at the same time as the redecorating caused by Disaster Day) we will have a bright, shiny new cooker to go with it,
Sometimes life gives you honey to sweeten the lemons.
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It's Star Trek, it's a story about Klingon history, I enjoyed it.
From the Cover:
As punishment for a crime he didn't really commit, Matt was given a choice: go to jail or go live with an old woman named Mrs. Deverill in a remote town called Lesser Malling.
He should have chosen jail.
A strange and sinister plan is coming together made in Lesser Malling, with Matt at the center of it all. People who try to help him disappear . . . or die. It all ties to an evil place named Raven's Gate - a place whose destiny is horrifyingly intertwined with Matt's own.
Not bad, if a little simplistic. But then, I think as I get older, I have read so many books, I guess most plots before I get very far into the book. Takes something to surprise me these days!
Recommended - oh, and they made it into a film. Not sure that would be good, actually.
From the Cover:
The planet had fallen off the map. When Karl Altman's spaceship
crashed, he had only one question: "HOW THE HELL DO I GET OUT OF HERE?"
When his
spaceship crashes on an unknown and forgotten planet, scientist Karl
Altman discovers himself hunted by an ancient race. The descendants of
a Viking race have reverted to a savage culture of sacrifice, pillage
and violence. Karl has only
one goal: escape. But escape is a distant dream on this nightmare
planet.
FILE UNDER: Science Fiction [Starship Crash / Abandoned
Colonists / Alien Slaughter / Hell Planet]
Now this I really enjoyed. Lots of twists and turns, well plotted and a good science base. Intriguing characters (not many books get written from an Icelandic viewpoint!) and lots of action.
Highly recommended for those who like the genre (see above)
