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    I went to the opticians for an eye test today, I've been getting pretty bad headaches, I thought it was just my eyes disintegrating at the same rate as the rest of my body.

    Apparently my eye sight ain't all that bad (surprising as I'm blind as a cunt with out my glasses) and even after 6 years I don't need to get a new pair or anything, my eye sight is just a good/bad as it was 6 years ago.

    I told her about the headaches and she asked me what I do at work, I told her that I sit in front of a computer all day, she asked what I do when I get home and hobbies and shit, I told her that I read a lot and usually do a book or two a week and when I ain't reading I'm playing the piano, she asked me how much telly I watch, I told her I watch probably half an hour a night when I get in from work, she told me that maybe I should watch more TV because it isn't as stressful on the eyes...not happy with the outcome of that opticians appointment...
    Hahaha, did she suggest any specific programs? HAHAHAHA
    She didn't but I think that people are quite taken by TOWIE, Big Brother, The Jungle get me out of here, The geordie thing, The bake off, and Hollyoaks, I might start watching all of them...or I might just slit my throat, I haven't decided yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman View Post
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    I went to the opticians for an eye test today, I've been getting pretty bad headaches, I thought it was just my eyes disintegrating at the same rate as the rest of my body.

    Apparently my eye sight ain't all that bad (surprising as I'm blind as a cunt with out my glasses) and even after 6 years I don't need to get a new pair or anything, my eye sight is just a good/bad as it was 6 years ago.

    I told her about the headaches and she asked me what I do at work, I told her that I sit in front of a computer all day, she asked what I do when I get home and hobbies and shit, I told her that I read a lot and usually do a book or two a week and when I ain't reading I'm playing the piano, she asked me how much telly I watch, I told her I watch probably half an hour a night when I get in from work, she told me that maybe I should watch more TV because it isn't as stressful on the eyes...not happy with the outcome of that opticians appointment...
    Hahaha, did she suggest any specific programs? HAHAHAHA
    She didn't but I think that people are quite taken by TOWIE, Big Brother, The Jungle get me out of here, The geordie thing, The bake off, and Hollyoaks, I might start watching all of them...or I might just slit my throat, I haven't decided yet.
    Throat sliting it better, but carry on reading and lose your eyesight. Listen to good music then.

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    I am reading this book about Steve Jobs at the moment. Great person, interesting but not easy life...

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    I've not even looked at a book in the last week or 2, I think that work has been absolutely frazzling my brain, I'm well ahead on my reading goal for the year anyway so I might take the rest of this week off and then get started again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman View Post
    I've not even looked at a book in the last week or 2, I think that work has been absolutely frazzling my brain, I'm well ahead on my reading goal for the year anyway so I might take the rest of this week off and then get started again
    @Batman you ever read mans search for meaning by victor frankel. He survived auschwitz. He was a doctor and when he came out he developed logo therapy which is a school of psychiatry. It's a fascinating book that I used to read once a year

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    JK Rowling has just been on the radio talking about the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.

    I seriously doubt if anybody has made such a career of milking one small wizard since Debbie McGee.
    If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?

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    last couple of books that I have read



    In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.

    Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She’s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she’s never seen anything like this.

    Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he’s found new dreams – of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real.

    Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity.

    A killer who wants to make you whole again…
    Decent book this was, it started off as a really good crime thriller sort of thing and then descended into absolute chaotic twilight zone sci-fi gibberish which threatened to ruin the whole thing.
    All of the characters were telegraphed and massively cliched, you had the tough single mom, the little shit of a teen daughter who gets into trouble all the time, the hard ass black fella who has a heart of gold, the down on his look journalist who will do anything to make it to the big time.

    It should have been a snooze fest but the dialogue between the characters was fantastic and it saved it, the final third of the book really tries to ram home the dangers of social media and show how reliant we all are on it, I didn't get that at all and thought it wasn't needed but that's probably because I don't use any social media at all.



    A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? Will he hang for his crime?

    Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs, where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s multilayered narrative will keep the reader guessing to the very end.
    This was fucking brilliant, I love books from the era that this is set in and the writing style is perfect although the fact it was only wrote 2 years ago makes it a helluva lot less dense and wordy as books from the late 18's or early 19's but it doesn't lose any of the feeling or athmosphere of these sorts of books.

    The blurb says that it will leave you guessing to the very end and it certainly did, fucking fantastic book, it certainly reminded me a little of 'confessions of a justified sinner' (I think I mentioned reading that a few months back) so that sat well with me.

    I'd definitely recommend it.

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    I have just got Carl Froch book from the library will let you know how I get on with it.

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