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Jumping in (late) to my Horror or Heaven group buddy read for Feb 2026… no buddy, but that’s ok - this has been on my list for a long time 📖

[an interaction between Bob Ezrin and Roger Waters when recording The Wall]
So very early on, there was a moment when Roger was pushing me and I turned around and said, “Read my lips, motherfucker, you cannot talk to me like that!” And the rest of the band were instantly on side, going, “Yessss!” And I think that held me in good stead from that point onwards.’

Peter Watts - roadie / later road manager for the band … and laughter on Dark Side of the Moon - & Naomi Watts dad
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Hats off to Roy Harper… he sang Have a Cigar - how did I not know that?
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Fans know the story of the pig from the Animals cover, but I hadn’t heard of the pyramid incident- maybe that was a jab by Alan Parsons (via Pyramania) for Gilmour saying DSotM would have been as good with any good engineer

‘One of These Days’, seemed tied to the Floyd of old. With its ominous bass riff, BBC Radiophonic Workshop-style sound effects, and Nick Mason hissing the words, ‘One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces’, it sounded like a vamped-up, prog rock version of the Doctor Who theme tune spliced with The Tornados’ ‘Telstar’.

haha - as a fan of Dr Who I’m surprised I never made that connection 🪛

The Megadeaths - early band name… different spelling, but I did not know this 😀
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Playing at The UFO Club with The Soft Machine… an early Andy Summers band before The Police
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June Child - secretary for the band’s meaning company and often drove the band to gigs… later to be married to Marc Bolan
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The Rose-Tinted Monocle
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The origins of ‘Hipgnosis’
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“I’m off home for some Ummagumma.”

Fiddleheads

“Warriors of the Storm” is kind of a generic title for this - Cornwell could have just as easily opted for “Kicking Ass and Taking Runes”… so far so good though 🛡️

Mind the Gap
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Bomo and the Sledge
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Backpack, Backpack
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“Can you please stop shouting,” Donut said. “It upsets Mongo.” Mongo squawked in agreement.
Carl: Now you know how I feel when you type in all caps.
Donut: THAT’S NOT THE SAME THING, CARL.
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Surprise Three
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Welcome to my Nightmare
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Brandy (You’re a Fire Girl)
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Cheap Sunglasses

I need something fun to read 😀

I like Basil

The Knights of the Bean
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Bear

It’s been 2 years since I finished Battle Ground and like everyone else I’ve been impatiently waiting for this one 😀

To get in the spirit I wore my McAnally’s shirt today - Forzare! 💨

This book is one long blast of despair 😩 I have to take breaks from it as I go along

Shaka
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“What the Voortrekkers failed to realize in their moment of victory was that they had offered the covenant to God, not He to them.”
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Blood River
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Natal - looked this up and has beautiful scenery
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Gandhi & Churchill

I’m starting my “Michener December” a bit early- this is quite a long tale 📖
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Shoot that poison arrow (ABC reference 😀)
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Rhinoceros Horns (early viagra)
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The Lords XVII
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Post Office Stones ( I had never heard of this )
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Fire Bird (not a phoenix though 🐦‍🔥)
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Burning Down the House
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Trekboers

“Why on Roshar would you look at one of those things and think, ‘You know what, I need to get on its back’?” (Kaladin)
Syl looked at him as if he were crazy. “Because they can fly.”
“So can you. Actually, so can I.”
“You don’t fly, you fall the wrong way.”…

(kind of like Toy Story… “Falling with style” 😀)

I’ve read enough in this now that what remains is a ‘normal’ sized book

Singers / Regals / Fused
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“Life before death, Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.”
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Ideals of Radiance, Justice, Dedication, Crusade, Law
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The Cognitive Realm (I like this definition)
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The Illuminator
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Mandras

“Stormfather!”
Yes?
“Oh. Uh, that was a curse.… Never mind.

Come on Sanderson - that was basically right out of Mel Brooks’ “History of the World - Part I”. (Still storming funny though 😜)

“They will try,” Jasnah said, “to define you by something you are not. Don’t let them. I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don’t do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity. I have always rejected that, and will continue to do so.”

It’s good to be the king 🤴
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Moonlight Nuptuals
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Undercover Boss
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“No mating” (so funny)
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“Horneater white” & Veil

As with my other starts to Stormlight archive stories- this early on I’m trying to catch up with the many concepts of the epic story (and remember what was going on) - confusion spren abound 😀🧚
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Homeward Bound
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Looking for the “real” killer 😜

Wanker
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Sangromancy
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Unlikely Queen
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Four tablespoons of butter … 🗡️
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The Grail
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The Stag
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“A life without books is a life not lived"
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The Forest of Sorrows

P A T I E N C E
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‘We call it the sangirè, Little Lion. The red thirst.’
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The Ironhearts / The Shepherds / The Whispers / The Untamed
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Frailblood
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3 Stages: Fledgling, Mediae, Elders
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Ashdrinker
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“‘De León. Ye live.’
‘Sadly.’
‘How?’ he hissed.
‘God didn’t want me. And the devil was afraid to open the door.’
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“‘I am come among thee as a lion among lambs!’

Interview with the Vampire (Hunter)
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“And in sight of God and his Seven Martyrs,” the monster quoted, “I do here vow; Let the dark know my name and despair. So long as it burns, I am the flame. So long as it bleeds, I am the blade. So long as it sins, I am the saint. And I am silver.”
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The Wretched
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Archer
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Palebloods
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Lionclaw

The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You

Loaded - very dark - wow

Readings from the Book of Leviathan
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The Grand Venetian Carnivale

“… the ice pack squeezing ever more tightly against Terror is always rumbling, moaning, cracking, snapping, roaring, or screaming.”
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“Everyone liked Captain Sir John Franklin. But no one respected him.”
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Silence
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Two halves don’t make a whole
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Ursus maritimus

Snapshot - I really liked this one there was a part with birds that reminded me of one of his dad’s books 🐦‍⬛

Iron Fist
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Echo