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Any Len Deighton lovers out there? I must admit I have a penchant for these cold-war spy stories. Just started watching the new TV series The Ipcress File (2022, ITV). It is starting out really good. Any opinions?
SS-GB was not bad, but not very strong either, IMHO.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Besides Deighton, I'd recommend Nelson DeMille's The Charm School[^]. He has a sense of humour, much like Mick Herron's Slough House series. Also Desmond Bagley's Running Blind[^], which I read after watching the TV adaptation. If you type "cold war spy thrillers" into Amazon's search bar, you'll have hours of sifting ahead of you.
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Desmond Bagley - one of my favourite authors - Running blind is a great book - all his original books are great - haven't yet read the recently discovered lost book - Domino Island yet though...
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Yes, I was very much into these books years ago. But I got a bit bored with "Game, Set & Match", "Hook, Line & Sinker" (was there a third one?), as they didn't have the real twists and turns of the first four or five he wrote.
The new TV series is interesting but has only very passing reference to the book.
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I enjoyed both those trilogies, I don't think I read the third: Faith, Hope, Charity
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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After a lucky start last week I solved it by the skin of my teeth today
Wordle 268 6/6
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🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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4 for me today:
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I was lucky with the third one, I think.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Me too, only one letter wrong on my third guess.
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For me.
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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You did very well considering you only had one correctly placed on the second go
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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First green in second attempt filtered a lot for me. Plus the two yellows were meant to be together. I just needed 2 more letters and I was lucky I guess.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Luck does play a large part in this ... strange when you consider that it's very much a deterministic game! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Game is deterministic, human brain is not.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First time I got one, 5th try. My knowledge of english dictionary is not so goof.
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: My knowledge of english dictionary is not so goof.
The joke just wrote itself. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Wordle 268 X/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
I am not so smart.
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It was a bit fishy today:
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Has anyone been trying the "hard mode"?
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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Yes. Not that I needed to enforce it since I was always playing that way.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I was done on the 3rd try.
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I turf in my cakes. (5,5)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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No idea ... GRASS SKIRT?
I got nothing ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nope.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Just say what you see ...
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Trying to channel GSEG or GEGS or whatever it was...
MIXED FRUIT
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Where was the clue for mixed - and I think you are thinking of scrambled gegs 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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