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Last night I read 'So long and thanks for all the fish' by Douglas Adams
It was not very interesting and I laughed once in a whole book and I can't even remember at what
also the biscuit bit is from so many other places it just sort of trips up the story while you wonder who got it where.

bored and boring
I think I'll send this one on
except it has my dad's name written in the front so I may need to think on it longer.

John Brunner: Total Eclipse

Today's book from the inherited pile turned out to be a good one. Gender balanced, or near enough to it I didn't notice, varying ethnicities, and a neat science/social puzzle to solve.

It's about a bunch of scientists sent from Earth to figure out why the first alien civilisation ever discovered is all dead. And it's particularly fraught because they're brought out there on humanity's first and thus far only FTL spaceship, and the world back home is not so sure that exploration is what they want to do with their money when these are the kinds of things they're finding.

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This one buys its shelf space handily. Will read it again later and have a think about bits of it.

Just maybe also rewrite the ending in my head.