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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
100 books to read before you die.
What’s to be on the list? |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
The right place |
The Kite Runner |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!) |
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - don’t know if it’s a top 100 but recently read this and it was so good, I couldn’t put it down.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lolita |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Steppenwolf |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
Jim Dodge, "Fup" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Bible and hope for some redemption  |
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"The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)"
I completely agree with this too!!
I’m jealous of my daughter getting to read them for the first time... I wish I could start again not knowing how good they are. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks |
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"The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood"
My favourite of the Atwoods. Alias Grace is up there as well. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"No one for the bible then  "
It’s been said |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)
I completely agree with this too!!
I’m jealous of my daughter getting to read them for the first time... I wish I could start again not knowing how good they are. "
I’m the same. I can’t remember the first time I read them. I wish I knew what my thoughts were  |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez. |
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The Sound and the Fury and
Absalom, Absalom- William Faulkner.
Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
For more modern:
Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel
Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenedis
American Pastoral- Philip Roth
Bastard out of Carolina- Dorothy Allison.
I'm being greedy, I know. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian."
Use of Weapons 
Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The book thief by Markus Zusak and great expectations by Dickens |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
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Such a yes for this.  |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"The book thief by Markus Zusak and great expectations by Dickens "
There’s a great female lead in the latter. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
Such a yes for this. "
Thirded. |
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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago
Manchester |
A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess.
And the long walk by Stephen king. My favourite of his and his most fucked up in my opinion. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess.
And the long walk by Stephen king. My favourite of his and his most fucked up in my opinion. "
The Long Walk fucked me uo |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you haven't read any Roald Dahl books you haven't yet lived! And you're never too old for 'em! |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
....in French |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Schindler's list xx |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
My Orwell pick would actually be:
Down and Out in Paris and London |
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Bleak House- Dickens
One of the Donna Tartt novels has to be in there too. Either The Goldfinch or The Secret History.
The Regeneration Trilogy- Pat Barker. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
For absolute hoots and the best named cows ever. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Bleak House- Dickens
One of the Donna Tartt novels has to be in there too. Either The Goldfinch or The Secret History.
The Regeneration Trilogy- Pat Barker. "
Secret History hits a particular nostalgia for me. |
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Beloved- Toni Morrison.
In cold Blood- Truman Capote. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Reading books is overrated. If a book was any good they'd turn it into a film. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.
Use of Weapons
Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)"
Oooh The Player of Games |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Reading books is overrated. If a book was any good they'd turn it into a film."
- - you’re dumped - - |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Works of Shakespeare, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Beaumont & fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Francis bacon and Chaucer.
Arabian nights, Gibbon’s decline and fall of the Roman Empire, travels of Captain James Cook, Greek mythologies/philosophy. Pulci’s Morgante maggiore.
Alastair Gray - Lanark (very trippy book)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William beckford - vathek, American psycho (mixture of comedy and absolute hell)
Clockwork orange, Virginia woolf’s to the light house, Charles maturin’s melmoth the wanderer, Walter Scott’s Waverley novels, John Milton’s paradise lost, Huysman’s Là-bas and à rebours.
There are more, I just haven’t the time to type them out, nor remember them all. I have a secret enjoyment of Dan brown books also. They’re my junk food esque literature  |
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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago
Manchester |
"A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess.
And the long walk by Stephen king. My favourite of his and his most fucked up in my opinion.
The Long Walk fucked me uo "
Crazy book. There is a film in the works. But they've been saying that for years.
I'm a huge HP book fan too though. It would be my mastermind specialist subject Haha. |
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By * nicstimMan
over a year ago
Hemel Hempstead |
Cry, the Beloved Country
By Alan Paton.
Short but hard hitting.
Not a happy ending
Nic xx |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
Ovid, Heroides. The women of (mostly) Greek mythology get to answer back, and they're not happy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Works of Shakespeare, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Beaumont & fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Francis bacon and Chaucer.
Arabian nights, Gibbon’s decline and fall of the Roman Empire, travels of Captain James Cook, Greek mythologies/philosophy. Pulci’s Morgante maggiore.
Alastair Gray - Lanark (very trippy book)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William beckford - vathek, American psycho (mixture of comedy and absolute hell)
Clockwork orange, Virginia woolf’s to the light house, Charles maturin’s melmoth the wanderer, Walter Scott’s Waverley novels, John Milton’s paradise lost, Huysman’s Là-bas and à rebours.
There are more, I just haven’t the time to type them out, nor remember them all. I have a secret enjoyment of Dan brown books also. They’re my junk food esque literature "
Lord of the rings and the hobbit also, my forgetfulness |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
a wizard of earthsea- Ursula K. le Guin ( my fave book as a child)
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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago
Manchester |
"If you haven't read any Roald Dahl books you haven't yet lived! And you're never too old for 'em! "
Sometimes when I cant sleep i will YouTube the George's marvelous medicine audiobook... but Danny the champion of the world I could read over and over. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
a wizard of earthsea- Ursula K. le Guin ( my fave book as a child)
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Wizard of E is a great book!!!
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"Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut "
Excellent choice! |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
With Remains of the Day a close second. |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
Dune by Frank Herbert
Masterpiece |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Schindler's list xx"
Apologies for some appalling pedantry, the book is Schindler's Ark. |
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"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian."
Any book by Iain Banks (not Iain M Banks - same guy, different genre).
Heck, read all the books by both of him! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
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Quality over quantity...i'm not just another book you can pick and throw away |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
I was going to say Birdsong but as it's already been mentioned will add one which was recommended on here off the back of me praising Birdsong and is the perfect accompaniment to it.....
My Dear I Wanted To Tell You... - Louisa Young
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Quality over quantity...i'm not just another book you can pick and throw away "
You’re more graphic novel, no? |
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Any of the Mr Men and Little Miss books.
But in all seriousness I'm not a big reader of classic fiction. If I read, I prefer to read either nonfiction or historical fiction. |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
The right place |
The Lord of the Rings should be on the list. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.
Use of Weapons
Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)
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And The Wasp Factory, loved that, though it's possibly a bit odd! |
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"The Lord of the Rings should be on the list. "
I've read that, and 1984. I've been trying to get Jurassic park on the kindle but Amazon doesn't appear to sell it. |
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A little off centre here . . .
Doctor Dogbody’s Leg by James Norman Hall
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By *andm_69Couple
over a year ago
Stevenage |
Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)
The only series Mr M has reread. Also can not wait for the the series to come out after the film flopped hard |
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One to read aloud to your children, and love it yourself - "The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers. I've worn out two copies of this with my grandchildren! |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Bram Stoker - Dracula
Thomas More - Utopia |
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"Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
With Remains of the Day a close second. "
YES!!!! I remember being half-way through NLMG and the shocking realisation of what was going on dawning on me. It haunted me for months after reading but so beautiful. I remember when the film was released and they revealed the full plot on the back of the cover and I thought, 'what the fuck was the point in that?' |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
The right place |
"Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)
The only series Mr M has reread. Also can not wait for the the series to come out after the film flopped hard"
Very good trilogy, although I found the end a bit disappointing. But not nearly as disappointing as the film, what a shame they ruined it. |
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Robin Hobb's Live Ships series
Julian May's Intervention
Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea
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"Bram Stoker - Dracula
Thomas More - Utopia
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I remember clearly reading Utopia at about 11/12 (my dad went to college at 40). It blew my mind a bit, but then so did The Making of the British Working Class... |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
With Remains of the Day a close second.
YES!!!! I remember being half-way through NLMG and the shocking realisation of what was going on dawning on me. It haunted me for months after reading but so beautiful. I remember when the film was released and they revealed the full plot on the back of the cover and I thought, 'what the fuck was the point in that?' "
I know! That sudden moment when your brain goes, hang on, are they, no, what, no, oh god.
Amazing. |
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By *odjamMan
over a year ago
woodford |
Bleak House Charles Dickens |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Shakespeare’s full works. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
The Prince - Machiavelli |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Innocent Man by John Grisham.
I love non fiction, and military history type books. Band of brothers was an excellent read. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters - Julian Barnes |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
David Copperfield
Alice In Wonderland
The Lovely Bones
The Mayor of Casterbridge
and finally,Renegade,the biography of Mark E Smith,the funniest book about the music biz ever |
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Viriconium by M. John Harrison.
Anything by Umberto Eco.
Everything by Terry Pratchett.
"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The divine comedy - Dante
Emma - Jane Austin |
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By *iss.RedWoman
over a year ago
somewhere |
Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)
The only series Mr M has reread. Also can not wait for the the series to come out after the film flopped hard
Very good trilogy, although I found the end a bit disappointing. But not nearly as disappointing as the film, what a shame they ruined it. "
They were frustrating reading to me. I liked the premise and setting but something didn't quite click for me.
The same for The Thomas Covenant Chronicles trilogies by Stephen R Donaldson. I stick with these reads in the hope they come good though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Catch 22 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"100 books to read before you die.
What’s to be on the list? "
Marshall Cavendish's "Doctor's Answers" would be my advice. You never know, you might spot something they've missed. |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
Have we had any Murakami? I'll go with A Wild Sheep Chase. It was my first, and left the strongest impression. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Viriconium by M. John Harrison.
Anything by Umberto Eco.
Everything by Terry Pratchett.
"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!"
Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucoult’s Pendulum |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Have we had any Murakami? I'll go with A Wild Sheep Chase. It was my first, and left the strongest impression."
Or Dance Dance Dance |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The divine comedy - Dante
Emma - Jane Austin"
Kevin is an excellent shout. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This should be re-read before I die...
Lord of the Rings
Robinson Crusoe
Black Beauty
Moby Dick
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Call of the Wild
The Belgariad
Frankenstein
The list could probably be almost endless if I put every book down I wanted to re-read plus those I want to read then I would guess it would certainly be more than just 100 |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bill Bryson. A short history of nearly everything.
Mind blowing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Ablom
In fact anything by this author |
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By *cgkcCouple
over a year ago
Hitchin |
The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
One of the earliest novels in the English language which has every post-modern trick in the book, and is funny and lovely to boot. |
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Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
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The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine! |
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"Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine! "
Awww...why guilty..they are terribly low brow! |
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"Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!
Awww...why guilty..they are terribly low brow!"
....not.... |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
A Room with a View - EM Forster |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
Newcastle upon Tyne |
"Dance Dance Dance"
That one broke my brain. On the very first page.
Have you been raiding my bookshelves, Estella, or have I been raiding yours? |
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"Viriconium by M. John Harrison.
Anything by Umberto Eco.
Everything by Terry Pratchett.
"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!
Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucoult’s Pendulum "
Have you read Baudolino, or The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana? |
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over a year ago
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the penal colony. amazing book |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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crime and punishment . dostoyevsky
njals saga .
treasure island |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine! "
I loved Labrynth and Sepulchre...not read Citadel yet though...be a holiday read I think |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Viriconium by M. John Harrison.
Anything by Umberto Eco.
Everything by Terry Pratchett.
"In the penal colony", "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges is a 10 page short story that contains every possible book!
Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucoult’s Pendulum
Have you read Baudolino, or The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?"
No, The island of the Day Before and Numero Zero are the only others I have - I’ll check them out! |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
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If you liked Foucault's Pendulum, you might like Laurent Binet "The Seventh Function of Language". Tongue-firmly-in-cheek semiological conspiracy thriller. |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!
I loved Labrynth and Sepulchre...not read Citadel yet though...be a holiday read I think"
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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"If you liked Foucault's Pendulum, you might like Laurent Binet "The Seventh Function of Language". Tongue-firmly-in-cheek semiological conspiracy thriller."
Oooh okay, noted |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Atlas Shrugged
House of leaves - would have to be book 100 as I'd likely die trying to get anywhere with it |
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"Ones I dont think I have seen:
Holes
Inkheart
Dr Seuss(various)
Gormenghast
Shadow of the wind
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The story of O
The man in the iron mask
Don Quixote
The Kate Mosse one’s are a guilty pleasure of mine!
I loved Labrynth and Sepulchre...not read Citadel yet though...be a holiday read I think
I even have her husband’s book Secrets if the Labyrinth "
I remember being told years ago that every book you read will teach you something and that opening a book is like firing a gun you never know how far it will go or where it will land or what the effect will be...So far that has proven to be true. |
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"The Harry Potter series (I know, who would have thought I would answer with that one?!)
I completely agree with this too!!
I’m jealous of my daughter getting to read them for the first time... I wish I could start again not knowing how good they are.
I’m the same. I can’t remember the first time I read them. I wish I knew what my thoughts were "
And reading them before the films came out and having your own images of ehat they all looked like. Now when I re- read they look like the actors!
I pick up on new things each time I re- read them though. |
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. |
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over a year ago
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The Island - Victoria Hislop |
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The ragged trousered philanthropists
Some greek mythology...The Odyssey
The curious incident of the dog in the night time |
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"Schindler's list xx
Apologies for some appalling pedantry, the book is Schindler's Ark."
You are correct my apologies xc |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Brighton Rock - Graham Greene |
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"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"
Yes this one is essential reading! And, although it's a graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman should be mandatory for all. There would be no Holocaust deniers or nazi apologists... |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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From Nell:
Jude the Obscure - Hardy
Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Good Omens - Pratchett and Gaiman
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erik Maria Remarque
Duncton Wood - William Horwood
The People's Act of Love - James Meek |
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By (user no longer on site)
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A lot of films have better book versions.
Ben Hur.
Jaws.
Both superb. |
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Anyone for any James Joyce?
And another great Irish writer, Flann O'Brien with his remarkable book "The Third Policeman". |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
Another one from Nell:
Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
London |
"Anyone for any James Joyce?
And another great Irish writer, Flann O'Brien with his remarkable book "The Third Policeman"."
I’ll go Dubliners |
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Sherlock Holmes |
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"Anyone for any James Joyce?
And another great Irish writer, Flann O'Brien with his remarkable book "The Third Policeman".
I’ll go Dubliners "
I did enjoy Dubliners, and Portrait of the Artist... Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake I've dipped into, the writing is beautiful, but not been able to settle into reading either systematically. |
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By *eclanHMan
over a year ago
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All genre fiction for me
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
Game of Thrones - George Martin
Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
On Basalisk Station - David Weber
Wyvern - AA Attanasio
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Has anyone come across John Crowley? "Engine Summer" gave me a quite remarkable wtf moment and i had to re-evaluate the entire narrative, the philosophical implication still haunts me thirty years after i read it. "Little Big" was a joy to read, with tears near the end. |
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Two that I re-read irregularly are Steinbeck's Cannery Row and John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany. |
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Dhalgren, and the Neveryona books, by Samuel R Delany. He came to notice in the 70's labelled as a science fiction writer, but his work has nothing to do with planets and spaceships... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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So many books...so little time.
Probably easier to do an author list rather than a book list
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over a year ago
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The Gulag Archipelago
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Devil's Knot
American Overdose |
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Little Women...it still makes me cry when Beth dies and all of EF Bensons Tilling books |
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over a year ago
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Girl on a train
stephen king 22.11/63 |
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over a year ago
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"The Gulag Archipelago
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Devil's Knot
American Overdose "
I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, saw it as a play too....it was fantastic! |
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Animal Farm - Orwell
Not the porn film before someone makes a comment! |
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Too many books, too many authors, too little time. Must have read tens of thousands in my lifetime, i need a whole extra lifetime to re-read just the essentials.
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"Steppenwolf"
Yes, this i must read. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Gulag Archipelago
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Devil's Knot
American Overdose
I love To Kill a Mocking Bird, saw it as a play too....it was fantastic!"
Agreed. Think it's time for a reread! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Too many books, too many authors, too little time. Must have read tens of thousands in my lifetime, i need a whole extra lifetime to re-read just the essentials.
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I so so agree...reading has to be one of life's greatest pleasures...alongside sex of course
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Crime and Punishment and Catch 22 for sure. Utopia certainly. Brave New World.
Roald Dahl were my bread and butter growing up, although I didn't realise picking up My Uncle Oswald at the ripe old age of nine that he'd written books for adults |
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All Quiet on the Western Front - Erik Maria Remarque"
Oh fuck yes. |
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By *guyMan
over a year ago
Wirral |
The Odyssey by Homer (not for everybody I appreciate, but I love it!) |
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Its only really a bookette but Foster by Claire Keegan is lovely. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Odyssey by Homer (not for everybody I appreciate, but I love it!)"
I can’t believe that I forgot Homer, you need the Iliad in there also, specifically Popes translation. Also don Quixote and pilgrims progress. |
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"Lolita "
My favorite book of all time |
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By *r MoriartyMan
over a year ago
The Land that time forgot (Norfolk) |
Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark |
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"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.
Use of Weapons
Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)
Oooh The Player of Games "
Yes.. yes and yes. |
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The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Any book by Iain M Banks (not Iain Banks - same guy, different genre).
Iain M Banks writes about a pan galactic humanity that has spread to become the dominant species in the universe.
Only.. A picture of what we could become.. if we bucked our ideas up and went full Utopian.
Use of Weapons
Although I love The Crow Road (Iain Banks)
Oooh The Player of Games
Yes.. yes and yes."
Whilst dressed as a pirate wench.  |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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Non Fiction:
"Down With Big Brother" - Orlando Figes (collapse of the Soviet empire)
"Age of Extremes" - Eric Hobsbawm
"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins
"The Restless Sea" Robert Kunzig |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Non Fiction:
"Down With Big Brother" - Orlando Figes (collapse of the Soviet empire)
"Age of Extremes" - Eric Hobsbawm
"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins
"The Restless Sea" Robert Kunzig"
I read Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes after you recommended it on the forum - bloody good. |
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Don Quixote
The Grapes of wrath |
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By *ve 63Woman
over a year ago
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Salems Lot - Stephen King |
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Born to Punt ~ Steve Palmer's Betting Year
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'The Life and Times of Girth Minge Fire'
Insightful... |
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Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Mermaid Singing - Val Mcdermid
But my personal fave I recommend to everyone...
Place of execution - Val Mcdermid |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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"Non Fiction:
"Down With Big Brother" - Orlando Figes (collapse of the Soviet empire)
"Age of Extremes" - Eric Hobsbawm
"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins
"The Restless Sea" Robert Kunzig
I read Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes after you recommended it on the forum - bloody good. "
Glad you enjoyed it.
I think everyone should probably read "Das Kapital" - the problem is that the most difficult part to understand is at the beginning. Even if you are a right wing scholar, it is still a valid critique of Capitalism. |
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Holes, Louis Sachar..its amazing x |
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The art of driving in the rain. Amazing book really tugs on the heart
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The Power - Naomi Alderman
Super-Cannes - JG Ballard
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino
House Of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Labyrinths - Jorge-Luis Borges
Q - 'Luther Blissett' |
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"Holes, Louis Sachar..its amazing x"
Yay!!! My favourite book!! |
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over a year ago
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The Road Cormac Mcarthy
Jude The Obscure Thomas Hardy
Just about anything else by Hardy
The Illiad
Lionel Asbo Martin Amis
The Rotters Club Jonathan Coe
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over a year ago
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared |
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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The challenge now is to read them all!
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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago
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Thanks for all the contributions. |
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"The challenge now is to read them all!
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King Solomons Mines  |
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