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Stars' Tennis Balls
Stars' Tennis Balls | Stephen Fry
The story of a very nice young man called Ned Maddstone who, 20 years after being seized outside a Knightsbridge language college and thrown into solitary confinement as a political prisoner, returns to London implacably focused upon revenge.
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yoavshai
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#BookCoverChallenge
Day 81.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

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Museummeg
Revenge: A Novel | Stephen Fry
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My first physical book reads for the year! Revenge is a recasting of The Count of Monte Cristo set in England beginning in 1980. I‘m only on page 93 but am thoroughly enjoying Stephen Fry‘s wit so far! The Walt Disney World That Never Was is giving me some wonderful insights into the plans that never made it to fruition in my favorite theme parks.

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jpmcwisemorgan
Revenge: A Novel | Stephen Fry
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TK-421 👏👏👏Good choice! 7y
jpmcwisemorgan @Tk-421 I think it‘s a better way of saying what goes around, comes around. 7y
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jpmcwisemorgan
Revenge: A Novel | Stephen Fry
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Two of the best #revenge stories, ever. I may have to re-read these soon, hmmmm... And I may need to acquire these versions. #NoteworthyNovember

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Ashley_Nicoletto
Stars' Tennis Balls | Stephen Fry
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There's a tennis ball under there... 😂😂😂😂😂

I realize this is not a book post. However, this is happening while I'm reading.

BookishFeminist 😂😂😂 8y
Eyelit 😂🐶🎾😂 8y
PenguinInFlight 😂😂😂❤️🐶 8y
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bookishkai My dog will get flat on her belly and crawl all the way under our arm chair to get her tennis ball. Then, instead of backing out, she turns around and crawls back out. Silly dog. Someday we're going to get a new couch and find a hundred pug-sized (small) squeaky tennis balls under there. And then Livy will be a very happy dog indeed! 8y
LeahBergen 😂😂 8y
Lucylovesreading The struggle is real our dog does the same thing, there may be other ones out but she NEEDS that one lol 8y
GlitteryOtters I know this view all too well! 😂😂 We have all of our hand weight barbells lining the front edge of our TV stand to keep the tennis balls from sneaking underneath (it looks really weird & visitors always laugh, but it mostly works), however at least once or twice a week a ball gets pushed behind one of the weights and the poor giant Golden lies in front of the TV stand and cries and paws and cries after his lost ball. 😂😂😂 Dogs crack me up! 8y
GlitteryOtters @Lucylovesreading OMG, yes, same here! We always have half a dozen tennis balls in 2 different sizes available for the dogs, but no other ball or toy will do. Our boy MUST have that one PARTICULAR lost ball. 😂😂 8y
Soubhiville Yep, true story. Both my dog and one of my cats do it. It's a hard knock life. 8y
LauraBeth Bitsy usually just whines about it until we crawl under the furniture and retrieve it for her 🐶 8y
Ashley_Nicoletto @Lucylovesreading @GlitteryOtters I also keep a huge stack of tennis balls. I tried to throw one of those to distract her but no luck. I ended up having to get up and get this one out for her. 😂😂😂 8y
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GoneFishing
Revenge: A Novel | Stephen Fry

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip.

LilMamaMastro ‼️‼️ 8y
sarielizbeth Wow! Truth! Comedians often have such insight! 8y
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zembla
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"Money is to Everything as an Airplane is to Australia. The airplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the airplane is Australia after all."

zembla I think about this an awful lot, especially considering it's been over a decade since I read this book. 8y
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