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"So far very disappointing…. Nothing like Kings of the Wyld which was funny and upbeat. This is simply turgid and Rose has zero personality………. 😟" — Feb 23, 2026 08:30AM
"So far very disappointing…. Nothing like Kings of the Wyld which was funny and upbeat. This is simply turgid and Rose has zero personality………. 😟" — Feb 23, 2026 08:30AM
had seen the soldiers’ god, the Word, the Light, the Good Shepherd, the mediator between the one God and man. I had seen Mithras, who had come out of Asia a thousand years ago. He had been born, Ambrosius told me, in a cave at midwinter,
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Goodness me - Christian imagery ‘borrows’ a LOT from Mithras
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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All Things Medieval
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where people can talk about anything and everything Medieval from known historical figures to life and times of the period to favorite authors of the ...more
Asterix
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For those who enjoy Asterix and Obelix in any language.
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This is a group dedicated to reading and discussing the works of the inimitable Charles Dickens. Anyone who loves discussing Dickens in a friendly, co ...more
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We love reading Urban Fantasy (kick-ass chicks and fearless heroes) and Paranormal Romance (all the things that go bump and grind in the night). We al ...more
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