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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams – Nick Webb

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In which Robin is annoyed yet again.

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After an unintentionally expensive trip to one of the kiosks selling paperbacks at the central station, Nick Webb’s Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams came home with me. It pleased me somewhat more than the last biography of Adams that I read – however, Webb annoyed me by spending a lot of time referring to either Simpson or Gaiman, leaving the reader with a feeling that Webb’s own book was something of a waste of time and that he/she would have been better off with just the other two.

I’d still rather read Gaiman if I were you.

Books read 2003

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Books read 2002

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  • Luck of the Wheels – Megan Lindholm
  • The Limbreth Gate – Megan Lindholm
  • The Windsingers – Megan Lindholm
  • Harpy’s Flight – Megan Lindholm
  • Ole Aleksander på flyttefot – Anne-Cath. Vestly
  • Ole Aleksander og bestemor til værs – Anne-Cath. Vestly
  • Ole Aleksander får skjorte – Anne-Cath. Vestly
  • Ole Aleksander på farten – Anne-Cath. Vestly
  • Ole Alexander Filibombombom – Anne-Cath. Vestly
  • Autobiography – Sylvia Beach
  • A Primate’s Memoirs – Robert Sapolsky
  • Rescuing the Spectacled Bear – Stephen Fry
  • Babyville – Jane Green
  • Skipper Worse – Alexander Kielland (reread)
  • Garman & Worse – Alexander Kielland (reread)
  • Sult – Knut Hamsun
  • Evelina – Fanny Burney (reread)
  • Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stephenson
  • Thrones, Denominations – Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill (reread)
  • Busman’s Honeymoon – Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)
  • Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)
  • Have his Carcase – Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)
  • Strong Poison – Dorothy L. Sayers (reread)
  • I et speil – Gunnar Staalesen
  • Breakfast in Brighton – Nigel Richardson
  • The Road to McCarthy – Pete McCarthy
  • Watermelon – Marian Keyes
  • My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell (reread)
  • The New Noah – Gerald Durrell (reread)
  • The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope
  • The Dutchess of Bloomsbury – Helene Hanff (reread)
  • 84 Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff (reread)
  • The King is Dead – Sarah Shankman
  • Native Stranger – Alastair Scott
  • Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson (reread)
  • Faintheart – Charles Jennings
  • I Still Miss my Man, but my Aim is getting Better – Sarah Shankman
  • The Kingdom by the Sea – Paul Theroux
  • Two Feet, Four Paws – Spud Talbot-Ponsonby
  • Ina og Ingolf – Annik Saxegaard (reread)
  • The Story of O
  • Uten en tråd – Jens Bjørneboe
  • Arthemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
  • Populärmusik från Vittula – Mikael Niemi
  • Don’t You Want Me? – India Knight
  • No Logo – Naomi Klein
  • Thrones, Denominations – Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
  • Hornblower
  • The Book of Lights – Chaim Potok
  • Lord Peter – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Bookman’s Wake – John Dunning
  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Have His Carcase – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Busman’s Honeymoon – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Strong Poison – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The Gift of Asher Lev – Chaim Potok (reread)
  • The Promise – Chaim Potok (reread)
  • The Chosen – Chaim Potok (reread)
  • My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok (reread)
  • Kakerlakkene – Jo Nesbø
  • Death in Holy Orders – P. D. James
  • The Nine Taylors – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Lord Peter Views the Body – Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Shamela
  • Pamela – Richardson
  • Blue at the Mizzen – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Hundred Days – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Yellow Admiral – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Commodore – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Wine-Dark Sea – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • Clarissa Oakes – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Nutmeg of Consolation – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Thirteen-Gun Salute – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Letter of Marque – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Reverse of the Medal – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Far Side of the World – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • Treason’s Harbour – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Ionian Mission – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Surgeon’s Mate – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Fortune of War – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • Desolation Island – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • The Mauritius Command – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • HMS Surprise – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • Post Captain – Patrick O’Brian (reread)
  • Master & Commander – Patrick O’Brian (reread)