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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    ...or Anna Sewell.

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    I have read so many great books .Nearly all crime or thrillers.
    best book fiction has got to be Harper Lee -To kill a Mockingbird
    best non fiction Ernest Hemingway -Death in the Afternoon (about bullfighting in the 1930s )

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    Quote Originally Posted by ETA View Post
    Five parts surely? Hence the reference to "the increasingly inaccurately-named Hitchhikers Trilogy".
    I have the omnibus edition of the first four , have to admit i have not read part 5 .
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    The Hitchhikers Trilogy - Douglas Adams
    Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf
    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    This Time Next Week - Leslie Thomas
    Most of the Discworld books - Terry Pratchett
    The Dark Tower - Stephen King
    Early Tom Sharpe especially the Wilt series and the South African ones.
    Escape from Colditz/The Colditz Story - Pat Reid
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    Not really a big reader of novels and stuff but the last 10 books I've read are:

    Creation Stories - Alan McGee
    Common As Muck - Roy 'Chubby' Brown
    My Liverpool Home - Kenny Dalglish
    The Real Bob Paisley
    Renegade - Mark E Smith
    Substance, Inside New Order - Peter Hook
    Goodbye 20th Century, Sonic Youth - David Browne
    Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
    Anger Is An Energy - John Lydon
    A Drink With Shane MacGowan - Victoria Clarke

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    I'm not a great reader of books but enjoyed Brave New World which was similar in some ways to 1984. I read another of Huxley's books, I think it was called Legless In The Kaze or something and was so long and boring that I couldn't stay awake for more than two pages at a time.
    I was talking to a woman about Science Fiction and we couldn't agree whether Asimov's Foundation Trilogy was any good. She thought it was great so I went on to ask her if she liked Moorcock and she slapped me in the face!!

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    I can't remember the last book I read to be honest but I was a fairly big reader when I was younger.

    I always loved The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. On a side note my daughter went to school with a relation of Tolkien. in fact her middle name was Tolkien.

    I was a bit of a collector or Biggles books by W.E Johns and Just William books by Richmal Crompton.

    I also loved Jules Verne, H.G Wells and Edgar Rice burroughs.

    Going back further you couldn't beat Enid Blyton!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    I read another of Huxley's books, I think it was called Legless In The Kaze or something...

    I was talking to a woman about Science Fiction and we couldn't agree whether Asimov's Foundation Trilogy was any good. She thought it was great so I went on to ask her if she liked Moorcock and she slapped me in the face!!
    Eyeless in Gaza.

    I had a vaguely similar experience to yours about a year or two ago. An East European barmaid poured my pint and said 'Would you like some more head?'. 'No thanks', I replied. 'Just the pint's fine'. And no I'm not making that one up either - the perils of learning a new language.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    I'm not a great reader of books but enjoyed Brave New World which was similar in some ways to 1984. I read another of Huxley's books, I think it was called Legless In The Kaze or something and was so long and boring that I couldn't stay awake for more than two pages at a time.
    I was talking to a woman about Science Fiction and we couldn't agree whether Asimov's Foundation Trilogy was any good. She thought it was great so I went on to ask her if she liked Moorcock and she slapped me in the face!!
    HA HA

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    Quote Originally Posted by tris39 View Post
    eyeless in gaza.

    I had a vaguely similar experience to yours about a year or two ago. An east european barmaid poured my pint and said 'would you like some more head?'. 'no thanks', i replied. 'just the pint's fine'. And no i'm not making that one up either - the perils of learning a new language.
    ha ha ha

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