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Pretty much how my stack of books beside my bed is starting to look. For anyone who's remotely interested, my 'bedtime book' stack currently consists of:'The Island of Sodor: It's People, History and Railways" - Rev. W. Awdry
"Timetable of Death" - Edward Marston
"Gerry Anderson - The Authorised Biography" - Simon Archer & Stan Nicholls
"Dreams of Empire" - Justin Richards
"Great Western Railway" - Andrew Roden
"Last of the Gaderene" - Mark Gatiss
"Firing the Flying Scotsman" - Ken Issitt
"The Essential Calvin and Hobbes" - Bill Watterson
"Sir Arthur Heywood and the Fifteen Inch Gauge Railway" - Mark Smithers
"Verdigris" - Mark Gatiss
Nothing sends you off to sleep quite like railway engineering drawings and technical data!
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Yes, it is hard. My stack isn't as big as it used to be, but it's growing
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He's like "Its not my fault I love literature!"
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oh man even i have trouble deciding on which to read firstΒ
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You think he's bad?Β One name.Β Twilight Sparkle!
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I hardly keep it a secret.
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It surprises me you didin't draw Twilight whit all those books.
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: Read it, read it, hated it, reviewed it, made it....
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I just never know what I'd be in tha mood ta read until I get inta bed, ya know that...
Yer IMPOSSIBLE...
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Well, that's practically how my room looks. Full of books.
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All those railway books...who'da thunk?
Speaking of trains and railways, have you ever read The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller?
Seems like it would be right up your alley.
c.f.
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Can't say I have, looks an interesting read
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same... ill call you BobTheSmilek from now on
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because you nearly always answer comments with smileys
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It's mainly cause I'm not to good with putting my thoughts into words, but it lets people know I've seen their comments
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still... earned you a nickname with me
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Yeap, just can't decide. Here's one that is so easy, read a comic.
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Nah, that's harder for me. Being an illustrator I keep stopping and starting at almost every frame to look at the detail in the artist's drawings
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No, I'm referring to the husband, with so many books to read, which is text-only based, the obvious answer among the books is to read a comic instead.
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"Nothing sends you off to sleep quite like railway engineering drawings and technical data!"
Very true! I've spent hours at a time on lner.info.
Random question - do you have a favourite of the big four railway companies, and a favourite class of steam loco?
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I can't say I have a favourite of the big four, as there are a few factors of each that I like (You could say I'm a British Railways kind of person! 
As for engine classes, again, there isn't really a favourite one, but a few of my favourites are the Ivatt Atlantics, the Y6s/J70s, and the Stroudley terriers to name a few.
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LNER used to be my favourite, and to some extent still is, but my appreciation for the other three is a lot higher than it used to be.
I do have a favourite class though and that is the P2 with the original front end. So excited that the group who built Tornado are building one!
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He is just like I am, I have piles of books I am reading on.
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He has so many that he has created a bed side table with them!
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It is, Octamum, it really is ... my bedside stack currently consists of:
"Snow Crash" - Neal Stephenson
"Anathem" - Neal Stephenson
"The Hydrogen Sonata" - Iain M. Banks (RIP)
"The CMOS Cookbook" - Don Lancaster
"The Engineer's Handbook" - Forrest Mims
"Handmade Electronic Music: The Art Of Hardware Hacking" - Nic Collins
Electronic schematics are probably as good an insomnia cure as railway engineering drawings
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Oh I know the feeling. I have the following by the bed.
"The complete works of H.P.Lovecraft. Great Tales of Horror"
"The Connoisseuer's book of Japanese Swords" Kokan Nagayama
"Small Arms of the World" 12th edition Edward C Ezell
The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships" Tony Gibbons
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Hmm, I might have a search to see if my library has a copy of "Encyclopaedia of Battleships", sounds like my kind of book. Guess that's another one I'll have to add to the list...
Cure you Baron, why do you do this to me!
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"Cure you Baron, why do you do this to me! "
Well if you in the curing mood...I've got this mole on my right leg that just won't go away. Could you do something about it? Β
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