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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?"
precisely Meli ... I stated mine but pfffffft ask me tomorrow it will be different. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?"
No Meli. Just no. |
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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?
No Meli. Just no. "
Yes Meli you can. In fact pick four |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?
No Meli. Just no.
Yes Meli you can. In fact pick four"
Thank you Granny.
So I'm going for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Erin Morgenstern's Night Circus, Madeline Miller's Circe and Márquez' Love in the Time of Cholera. |
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I can't choose one, so I'll go with most of the magnificent Terry Pratchett works particularly Disc world ones.
And The Stoner Eagles by William Horwood. |
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By *acktopervMan
over a year ago
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"Reach for the sky" by Paul Brickhill.
A true story written very close with Douglas Bader himself. One of those very odd things about a film adaptation though is that the film absolutely follows the book nearly word for word. A great read and a really good film. |
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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?
No Meli. Just no.
Yes Meli you can. In fact pick four
Thank you Granny.
So I'm going for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Erin Morgenstern's Night Circus, Madeline Miller's Circe and Márquez' Love in the Time of Cholera."
Loved Circe. I did consider it but Gatsby always wins. |
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"Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
Not the most life changing book in the world but a thoroughly good Cold War crime thriller. "
Oh it is a top notch thriller! Haven't thought of it in years. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I can’t answer that. That’s like trying to pick my favourite dog. Or chocolate 
Husky Lindt Dark
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No! It’s my dogs, and milk chocolate. Or crème eggs. Or crunchies. Or orange yorkies. Or galaxy caramel  |
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"I can’t answer that. That’s like trying to pick my favourite dog. Or chocolate
Husky Lindt Dark
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No! It’s my dogs, and milk chocolate. Or crème eggs. Or crunchies. Or orange yorkies. Or galaxy caramel "
I can go with the your dogs and the galaxy caramel, but I'm afraid the rest you'll have to keep to yourself. |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
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Not a story book but there was a copy of the usborne outdoor book on the landing shelf when I was a youngin and would spend hours reading it (lot less to do back then haha) and looking at the drawings especially the camping wishing I had a tent and was older and could go camping |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?
No Meli. Just no.
Yes Meli you can. In fact pick four
Thank you Granny.
So I'm going for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Erin Morgenstern's Night Circus, Madeline Miller's Circe and Márquez' Love in the Time of Cholera."
I liked you when I thought you respected me a little bit. |
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The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailier. I read it as a child and it really kick started my love of modern world history.
I definitely need to read more though as I haven't done so in ages! |
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Classic- To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, as a school child it totally changed my way of thinking about race, life and trying to be a decent person.
Modern- Eureka Street, Robert McLiam Wilson. I first saw it as a TV series (unfortunately never repeated) and loved it, so bought the book. It’s about two men one Catholic the other Protestant in Northern Ireland both friends. Each one ends up on a different path, one trying to recover from a romantic relationship the other trying to be an entrepreneur. It’s funny and tragic and as I’m a student of ‘The Troubles’ due to family reasons I have an interest, this is one of the best books that give you an idea of living at that time and surviving it.
Modern Classic
Jaws - Peter Benchley and Carrie - Stephen King, both books bought and read in one sitting both scared me and had me stuck to my chair for an afternoon. |
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"I can't choose one, so I'll go with most of the magnificent Terry Pratchett works particularly Disc world ones.
And The Stoner Eagles by William Horwood. "
Yep, Terry Pratchett definitely, but dont think i could pick a particular one. I have a soft spot for the Tiffany Aching ones though. But then the librarian is my favorite character, or Death, oh no, far too hard to choose.
So maybe I'll have to go with something else. In that case its 'We need to talk about Kevin' x  |
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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago
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I would choose many on here but the one (two actually) I have read most often is (are) the first two books of the Gormenghast trilogy: Titus Groan and Gormanghast by Mervin Peake.
The third book bore little relation to the others. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"What happens if we don't have one. And don't want to choose just one. One. No.
Can I choose three and then you update the spreadsheet tomorrow when it changes again?
No Meli. Just no.
Yes Meli you can. In fact pick four
Thank you Granny.
So I'm going for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Erin Morgenstern's Night Circus, Madeline Miller's Circe and Márquez' Love in the Time of Cholera.
I liked you when I thought you respected me a little bit. "
I respect you. I adore you.
Fuck am I choosing one book though.  |
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Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
Ed Chang - Devil Take the Hindmost, The Otherworldly Music of Allan Holdsworth
James Gleick - Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
The ABC Murders - Agatha’s Christie
Tom Sharpe - Indecent Exsposure
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Either The Catcher in the Rye
Or Bicycles up Kilamanjaro by Nicholas and Richard Crane
They are the only two I’d never give away.
I would’ve said journey to the centre of the earth until I read 20,000 leagues under the sea. Ruined it for me.
The icepick surgeon is my best book of 2023, not that you asked. |
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I can’t choose just one, here’s a few:
The Left hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin; A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine; Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James; Wolves - Simon Ings; Gnomon - Nick Harkaway; Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
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Not really easy but I do have a spreadsheet of them and picked these at random. I stopped buying en masse about 10 years ago except the odd one
To kill a moking bird Harper Lee
Animal farm George Orwell
The stranger Albert Camus
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Invinsible man Ralph Ellison
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
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This is a bit like that scene in Friends with Rachel's favourite film(s).
The Buddha of Suburbia is my favourite book. I loved everything about it.
Fever Pitch is also my favourite book. I loved everything about it. |
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I do t think I have a favourite as such. I have one that got me to fall back in love with reading. Back when I was serving in Bosnia in the 90s
I read first blood by david morrel
So much more better than the movie. |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
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Terry Pratchett's Discworld series,but for more serious stuff,Chickenhawk,Devils Guard,Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.Bit of obscure stuff,the works of Anaïs Nin,Jorge Luis Borges,J G Ballard. |
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I remember really enjoying Carrie by Stephen King when I was much younger.
More recently Confessions of a 40 something fuck up. It had me laughing and was so relatable. |
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How does one choose a single best out of sooo many? Impossible.
Ones I really loved include Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Imajiica by Clive Barker (most of his work tbh), the classic Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and The Stand by Stephen King.
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"So I can't choose between The Princess Bride by William Goldberg or Pride and Prejudice. Probably need to read them both again now to decide! "
It's William Goldman who wrote the Princess Bride but it's one of my favourites too. Pretty much everything he wrote is worth reading especially Adventures In The Screen Trade volumes one and two |
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"So I can't choose between The Princess Bride by William Goldberg or Pride and Prejudice. Probably need to read them both again now to decide!
It's William Goldman who wrote the Princess Bride but it's one of my favourites too. Pretty much everything he wrote is worth reading especially Adventures In The Screen Trade volumes one and two "
D'oh and it's on my shelf! I have read volume one but never got around to volume two.  |
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"Trainspotting, took me three or four attempts to get started but once I started to understand it, what a book! "
Filth is another excellent Irvine Welsh novel, very tense, well worth checking out.
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"So many amazing books mentioned, and many that have now been added to my to-read list.
But i havent seen anyone say 'The book thief' yet
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I haven't read that yet, I've heard it is good. I love the film. |
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Haha in all honesty I'm a huge geek 
lord of the rings and game of thrones 
I love kids books 
