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Books I've read in 2004

Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age

Robert Ludlum: The Road to Gandolfo

Alexander McCall Smith: The Sunday Philosophy Club

Terry Pratchett: Going Postal

Charlotte Bronte: The Professor

Duncan J Watts: Six Degrees: the science of a connected age

MJ Simpson: Hitch Hiker: a biography of Douglas Adams

Linda Fairstein: The Deadhouse

Linda Fairstein: The Bone Vault

Christopher Wren: The Cat Who Covered the World

Janet Evanovich: Ten Big Ones

Carol Hayman and Lou Wakefield: Ladies of Letters and More Ladies of Letters

William Gibson: Pattern Recognition

Clive James: Reliable Essays

Greg Bear: Darwin's Children

Carrie Fisher: The Best Awful

Terry Pratchett: A Hat Full of Sky

Rob Grant: Incompetence

Clea Koff: The Bone Woman: among the dead in Rwanda, Croatia and Kosovo

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran: The Emerging Mind

Paul Sheehan: The Electronic Whorehouse

Terry Jones, et al: Who Murdered Chaucer?

Sean McMullen: Eyes of the Calculor

Dave Gorman: Googlewhack Adventure

Julianne Balmain, Thorina Rose: Office Kama Sutra: being a guide to delectation and delight in the workplace

Philip K Dick: Minority Report (and other stories)

Simon Brett: A Nice Class of Corpse

Christopher Brookmyre: Be My Enemy

Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

Terry Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment

Simon Brett: Mrs Pargeter's Point of Honour

Peter Macinnis: The Killer Bean of Calabar

Alexander McCall Smith: Portugese Irregular Verbs; The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs; At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

Marc Abrahams: The IgNobel Prizes

Sarah Strohmeyer: Bubbles Unbound, Bubbles in Trouble, Bubbles Ablaze

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2004 flipsocks:

17 Dec: the sock has flipped
10 Dec: anything anywhere any time
3 Dec: instant flattery
26 Nov: the steamroller of branding
19 Nov: fried v rice
5 Nov: the page with no name
29 Oct: and then there were none
22 Oct: filled with naughty laughter
15 Oct: get souls and disconcert the public
8 Oct: ooh, aah, ooh
1 Oct: pinch and a punch
24 Sep: design is the new art
17 Sep: footsteps of Aeneas
10 Sep: slow art, viral aesthetic
3 Sep: I can see your house from here
27 Aug: forever blowing bubbles
20 Aug: jargon for the digital age
13 Aug: beautiful plumage, the Norwegian blue
6 Aug: brokenated terribility
23 Jul: Alice underground
16 Jul: color-coded
2 Jul: for so long treated as nouns
25 Jun: looking for love, echidna-style
18 Jun: joy-to-stuff ratio
11 Jun: fun's fun but a girl can't dance all night
4 Jun: pink dinosaur
28 May: two people every minute
21 May: incompitnce [sic]
14 May: zygomatic smile
5 May: mailbox
30 Apr: bananaguard
23 Apr: mmmmmWAH!
15 Apr: playtime
8 Apr: googlewhack
2 Apr: we wish to inform you...
18 Mar: daffy dills
12 Mar: echo chamber
9 Jan: refund profologies

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Iain
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