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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 2697088" data-attributes="member: 22784">Just got back from a trip to Cardiff, where I picked up a load of second hand books.I've finished The Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton; its quite good, if short, and seemed surprisingly different to the film in many places. (The 13th Warrior ) I didn't pick up on any of the Beowulf references in the film, only (slowly) when I read the book. Haven't seen the film in a while, so not sure if that makes me an idiot or not.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'm also reading Footfall by Niven and Pournelle. I liked their Legacy of Herot (more Beowulf, by a strange coincidence) but I'm finding this one pretty slow going. Anyone out there willing to give me some encouragement to finish it?Next it'll be their sequal to The Mote in God's Eye (title escapes me at the moment).Its nice to visit some different second hand book shops for a change, even if my wife insisted on getting The Sword of Shannara despite my lyrical descriptions of how much I hated it.</blockquote>