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Rodders

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Dave Vick's question on Doctor Who books reminded me that i've still got to get SHADA by Gareth Edwards (but based on a story by Douglas Adams.)

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I've been meaning to get it for ages.
 

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The other day - thanks to @Matteo (and his parents) - these arrived on my doorstep and made me a very happy camper:
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One of them contained a reprint of a Tuniques Bleues book.

Coincidentally, the next day, an eBay purchase of Spirou Album 277 turned up (missing several pages but that's an occasional annoyance I have had to learned to live with). The albums are hardbacks which contain 10 or so of the weekly comic bound together. This one contained part of the serialised version of the same Tuniques Bleues story.

Kind of. What they actually published for the weekly serial were the lettered pencils - with notes from the author and artist underneath the pages. This is the sort of thing American comic book readers can only hope that Fantagraphics Press will get round to doing one day (and then in limited runs of insanely expensive hardbacks).

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Some great titles for 0.99p on Amazon today.

Guards Guards! by Sir Terry Pratchett. (This was £1.99)

Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams. How odd that i only mentioned this book the other day.

Oryx and Crake by Margret Attwood. Mostly because my cult leader, Moid, recommended it.

Then Kraken Awakes by John Wyndham. I read The Midwych Cuckoos last year and was thoroughly impressed.

Revenger by Alistair Reynolds.
 

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The "masterpiece" will "leave [me] profoundly changed" -- eh, maybe a book to avoid, then! Perhaps it would leave me hating cats, rancorous, in love with the fulfillment of material ambitions at whatever cost to anyone who gets in my way, nihilistic, a shunner of long Victorian novels and instead a passionate fan of the art of Jeff Koons.

I'd better keep out of the way of this book.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky is pretty much a go to author for me now, so i bought a signed copy of Lords of Uncreation from Forbidden Planet.

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I thoroughly enjoyed Shards of Earth and i'll look forward to reading this and Eyes of the Void.

They also had a hardback copy of Ogres (which is my favourite of his short stories), so i bought a copy of that, too.

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I have just purchased Titanium Noir, a new novel by Nick Harkaway. Holiday reading.

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After many days touring England, I am heading home with a bunch of books, including four more Discworld novels, The Compleat Discworld Atlas, The Flavour Thesaurus (my 2nd favourite book on food), a massive 1978 exhibition catalogue on Dadaist & Surrealist magazines, and two scifi books that I forget the details of.
The Flavour Thesaurus has a new sequel, which I just snapped up, and they look great side by side.

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If the cover is just paper - not coated/impregnated with plastic - doubtful; it will pull off more paper.

Maybe try softening the glue? Hairdryer? Steam from a kettle?
 

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