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Title: Recovery
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Title: Comlink
Fandom: Classic Knight Rider
Rating: Universal
Word count: 3, 323
Description: First season, set after Knight of the Phoenix. Bonnie's new invention helps Kitt to communicate with his partner, but who will be the first to break the silence between driver and technician? Angst a-plenty!
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Rare, but true! Here are a couple of eclectic but pleasantly surprising examples:

1. Christine (Stephen King)

Although John Carpenter’s 1983 film treatment is hardly a classic, the actual gimmick of an ‘evil car’ is used to better advantage in the film, whereas King just stomps all over the point of naming his novel after the car by deciding that ( Read more... )

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1. Feisty. I hate this lazy non-word, usually employed in the blurbs of romance novels to cover a multitude of sins, and have been known to cross it out of newspaper articles and dictionaries. Also, do you know what this pointless term originally meant? A little farting dog. Old ladies with wind used to blame their lapdogs for making rude noises in ( Read more... )

Books read in 2010: 98 (aiming for 100, but failed, despite last minute speed reading of two books!)

First book of the year: Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth

Last book of the year: The Intrigue at Highbury by Carrie Bebris

Favourite book: (not couting re-reads) Emma by Jane Austen

Most Spectacular Waste of Money: Miss Bennet and Mr Bingley by ( Read more... )

ITV try, bless their hearts, but nobody does period drama like the BBC.


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