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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 19:09:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 19:25:39 GMT
Hmm - it looks like you can't add extra answers as you go along. So post your suggestions here and when we've got enough I'll start the poll.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 19:25:58 GMT
Fiction only?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 19:26:54 GMT
Anything you like )
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Post by lens on Jan 26, 2022 20:16:11 GMT
"Enigma" by Robert Harris
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Post by shevii on Jan 26, 2022 20:29:00 GMT
Kafka- The Castle
Plath- The Bell Jar
Asimov- Foundation Series
HG Wells- Ann Veronica
Doris Lessing- Martha Quest
David Webber- A Beautiful Friendship
Robert Heinlein- Any- all much of a muchness.
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Post by mandolinist on Jan 26, 2022 20:45:10 GMT
Lilith's Brood - Octavia Butler
Capital - Thomas Pikerty
The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
My go to books when I am not feeling well are a very different list
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -J K Rowling
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Anything by Terry Pratchett
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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on Jan 26, 2022 20:53:31 GMT
If it’s only three:
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Use of weapons - Iain M Banks
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 21:15:37 GMT
If it’s only three
Just William
William the Conqueror
William the Outlaw
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 21:17:01 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so.
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Post by barbara on Jan 26, 2022 21:49:42 GMT
Anthony Trollope.
Can You Forgive Her (The first of the Palliser novels
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 22:18:08 GMT
That's about 30 nominations so far - the max is 50, so when we get there, in the morning I expect, I'll start the poll.
I'm going to throw in Treasure Island, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and To The Lighthouse or Mrs Dalloway, not sure which.
Oh and Swallows & Amazons of course.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 22:19:47 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so. Not until you return the Malory Towers box set |
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Post by bardin1 on Jan 26, 2022 23:00:01 GMT
Sunset Song
A Suitable Boy
Deep Water (by Patricia Highsmith)
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Post by bardin1 on Jan 26, 2022 23:00:45 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so. In a previous life I was a chartered librarian I have about 10,000 books in the house so i can lend you a few.... |
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Post by mercian on Jan 27, 2022 0:41:27 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so. Try www.gutenberg.org/It's a brilliant site, aiming to put every book that's out of copyright on the internet. I've made one or two small contributions myself. |
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Post by mercian on Jan 27, 2022 0:42:52 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so. In a previous life I was a chartered librarian I have about 10,000 books in the house so i can lend you a few.... Did you nick them?  |
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Post by mercian on Jan 27, 2022 0:47:07 GMT
I agree with some of the choices above and here's a few more:
Pickwick Papers
A Christmas Carol
City by Theodore Sturgeon
Anything by Cyril Kornbluth with or without Frederick Pohl (particularly The Marching Morons)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 1:14:56 GMT
I agree with some of the choices above and here's a few more: Pickwick Papers A Christmas Carol City by Theodore Sturgeon Anything by Cyril Kornbluth with or without Frederick Pohl (particularly The Marching Morons) Didn’t know you could read actual books Mercian.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 1:16:02 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so. Try www.gutenberg.org/It's a brilliant site, aiming to put every book that's out of copyright on the internet. I've made one or two small contributions myself. Didn’t know you were an author Mercian.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 1:27:54 GMT
ps Is there a library section? Would quite fancy taking out some William books if so. Try www.gutenberg.org/It's a brilliant site, aiming to put every book that's out of copyright on the internet. I've made one or two small contributions myself. Useful tip. |
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Post by mercian on Jan 27, 2022 2:16:54 GMT
Try www.gutenberg.org/It's a brilliant site, aiming to put every book that's out of copyright on the internet. I've made one or two small contributions myself. Didn’t know you were an author Mercian.  I have added/edited one or two things on that site. I have actually had a few articles published in various printed media, including a competition where I won a grand for a 50-word story. Cool, eh? |
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Post by wb61 on Jan 27, 2022 10:14:21 GMT
(1) Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
(2) The Name of the Wind Trilogy- Patrick Rothfuss
(3) Augustus - Adrian Goldsworthy
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Post by mandolinist on Jan 27, 2022 10:50:53 GMT
johntel Malory Towers had a cult following amongst the girls for a few years at the very large very working class comprehensive school I went to. For some reason we all fancied ourselves as these prvileged upper middle class snobs. 
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Post by wb61 on Jan 27, 2022 12:55:18 GMT
mandolinistSnap, almost, the last year of Junior School (as we used to call it) with a catchment area (remember them) of 65% council housing but, nonetheless, the various Jennings books were constantly discussed. As the Americans would say "go figure"!
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Post by bardin1 on Jan 27, 2022 14:35:10 GMT
In a previous life I was a chartered librarian I have about 10,000 books in the house so i can lend you a few.... Did you nick them?  No, though I was nearly accused of that recently (selling a book bought at auction which turned out to have been stolen). Returning it to the owner personally next week.. I am, these days, an online bookseller |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 16:33:24 GMT
mercian“ Mercian. I have actually had a few articles published in various printed media, including a competition where I won a grand for a 50-word story. Cool, eh?” Can I have your autograph?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 17:08:49 GMT
hmmm
I'll thinks of 3 to start with
The Long Goodbye - Chandler
The Ginger Man - Donleavy
Cotillion - Heyer
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Post by steamdrivenandy on Jan 27, 2022 17:10:50 GMT
A few years back a neighbour of ours, who volunteered at the local Oxfam shop, gave me a book that she thought might be of interest that had turned up in donations.
It was written by a retired British Railways manager, covering his career and what the railways went through in WW2, nationalisation, Beeching etc. It was not very well written and fairly boring.
However there was a website at the time where you could offer a book for sale and they would connect you to anyone who was looking for it. So I put the book on the site and very swiftly got an email from the site saying someone wanted to buy it and they suggested a price of £75. I agreed to the valuation and was given the name and address to post the book to. The surname was the same as the authors, so obviously a member of the family.
I gave our neighbour £20 for her Oxfam shop and have felt guilty ever since that I didn't give more.
I can't remember the name of the website but I believe it was bought by Amazon.
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Post by jimjam on Jan 27, 2022 17:14:03 GMT
James Kelman - A Disaffection.
Anything by Jostein Gaardner - maybe put Sophie's World on the list as the most well known but Ringmasters Daughter is my favourite.
Carol Shields - Happenstance and Box Garden
Would add The Trial by Kafka as I prefer to the Castle.
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