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Barney is good. He's one of the team behind rocksbackpages.

I joined this last year, so will be taking advantage of their discount offer

I've just finished Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...

Peter F Hamilton : The Temporal Void .

It might have been a better idea to start with the first "Void" book first, but the library only had this one in...

The "commonwealth" universe has somehow been distorted out of all recognition. What the hell happened to the "Prime" threat? Who the hell is the "waterwalker"?
Still, I'm only 200 pages in, so a lot can happen yet..

What did you think of it?

Beckett isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I love this play. Picked up on it at uni, and I've seen two or three presentations of it since.
I think the way things are not said and the silence and ambiguous storyline leaves the imagination to run wild.

I loved it!

Very unusual, very witty and a great character-based play. I'm still not sure what to conclude though!

I have to admit I'd never heard of it before, until the other night when I saw a preview on TV of the upcoming Haymarket Theatre production of it, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

I thought it sounded interesting and within minutes, my wife had passed her copy of it to me!

That sounds about right!

I'm still reading Wolfgang Flür's excellent biography "I Was A Robot". Just read a great anecdote about Emil Schult filming the band in super-eight, having a picnic and playing frisbee in Central Park in 1973/4!!

Now there's a Tiny Colour Movie waiting to happen

Having been distracted by Godot for a few days, I'm now back on The Target Book: A History of the Target "Doctor Who" Books.

I'm sad to say I was slightly frustrated with Waiting for Godot. There's something about it that just doesn't 'work' for me. It feels a bit like Eleutheria in disguise, which is not what I was expecting.

For me, the text doesn't match the imagery, which is a first for a Samuel Beckett novel.

I bought "Waiting for Godot" some time ago. It still sits there, waiting for the right moment. And it WILL come.

Currently reading Anthony Storr "The Dynamics of Creation" and Alexander Waugh "Time" (From micro-seconds to millennia - a search for the right time). Have dipped in and out of both of these for a number of years.

In all fairness Blurred, I'm with you on this and actually thought the sequel Waiting For Despot was better. With a text that explores the murky and sometimes underhand world of middle eastern dictatorial regimes, I thought it made for fascinating reading and was well worth the long wait it took to get published.

All the best,


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