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— 5 Oct 2004 Dave Boyle Comment

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BLOCK BLOG 1: Sins Of The Father
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— 5 Oct 2004 Pete Baran Comment

BLOCK BLOG
1: Sins Of The Father
Well if Dan can do all the Dr Who books in order, a quick trawl through Lawrence Block’s ouvre should not be past me. In particular, the Matt Scudder books. This will be a short set of tails spilt into three. On[…]

THE STAR WARS TRILOGY DVD SET
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— 5 Oct 2004 Ned Raggett Comment

THE STAR WARS TRILOGY DVD SET
You might have heard of this. My thoughts on the original version of Star Wars are here and talking about the films themselves in detail I’m in two minds of, but I think not this time. So instead, some brief refl[…]

INSIDE THE GESTAPO and PIRATE QUEEN
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— 5 Oct 2004 Ned Raggett Comment

INSIDE THE GESTAPO
by Helene Moszkiewiez
PIRATE QUEEN
by Judith Cook
The books aren’t related, I picked the first one because, well, that’s a pretty good if direct title, while the second had a nice psuedo-map cover that I usually fall fo[…]

What I miss about chart countdowns
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— 5 Oct 2004 Ned Raggett 1 comment

What I miss about chart countdowns — a random mention of Air Supply over on ILM today got me to thinking about the last time I was thinking about them at all, which would have been 1983 or so. I was about two years into realizing there was a To[…]

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