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1. • noone
   • my favourites of the past few months...
     
     So long Hector Bebb - Ron Berry : If you like Niall Griffiths' work you'll love this book
     
     The Riders - Tim Winton : Not his best but strong and exciting fiction , incredible landscapes and terrain. Weak ending.
     
     Sugar and Rum - Barry Unsworth : took a chance on this after finding it in a bin. Reminds me of Slaughterhouse5 in some strange way. Will be checking out his other stuff.
     
     I have a lot of book tokens from my birthday and I'm going to try The Kite Runner and Gods own Country unless anyone strongly advises against it?
     I also feel obliged to buy the new Irvine Welsh but I'm not feeling this new direction. Too much time spent in LA I think.
     [Edited by noone at 22:33 on 05/08/08]
   • [22:33 on 05/08/08]
2. • mike
   • Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, its nice so far.
   • [09:29 on 06/08/08]
3. • JenTheHen
   • Grayson Perry biography.
     
     Amazing stuff.
   • [10:11 on 06/08/08]
4. • Rob Himself
   • Got bored of Harry Potter, unsurprisingly.
     
     Liz Kettle - Broken Biscuits, I'm loving quirky, comic stuff like this and Marina Lewycka. Anyone know of anyone similar? Gonna try Joshua Ferris - And Then We Came To An End next.
   • [19:56 on 08/08/08]
5. • Laddeth
   • Rob Himself says:

     Got bored of Harry Potter, unsurprisingly.
     
     Are the adult and child versions the same word for word?
     
   • [21:37 on 08/08/08]
6. • noone
   • Just finished this. It's an excellent debut novel.
     I'm reluctant to say it but it's almost a Wasp Factory for this generation and then some.
     Read it.
     
     [Edited by noone at 12:49 on 18/08/08]
   • [12:47 on 18/08/08]
7. • Rob Himself
   • Laddeth says:

     Rob Himself says:

     Got bored of Harry Potter, unsurprisingly.

     
     Are the adult and child versions the same word for word?
     
     
     
     To the best of my knowledge yes, but I was reading the kiddy editions.
     
     Just finished A Spot Of Bother and 31 Songs which were ace, now I'm reading King Matt The First, which is a children's book first published in Poland in 1929, then it's on to Long Way Down and The Lovely Bones.
   • [21:56 on 18/08/08]
8. • 90dayman
   • Rob Himself says:

     Laddeth says:

     Rob Himself says:

     Got bored of Harry Potter, unsurprisingly.

     
     Are the adult and child versions the same word for word?
     

     
     
     To the best of my knowledge yes, but I was reading the kiddy editions.
     
     
     
     Yeah, they're exactly the same. Rediculously just the covers are different incase any adults wouldn't want to be seen reading a 'kids' book. Silly marketing bollocks.
     
     Currently reading Fighting Spirt by Bruce Thomas again. A great Bruce Lee biography and the only one that really does the man justice.
   • [23:08 on 18/08/08]
9. • Rob Smith
   • Big Si says:

     Watchmen
     
     
     truly one of the best pieces of fiction ever created. Seen the Ad for the Film? looks to be amazing!
     
     i've not read anything for months. I think I OD'd on reading not too long ago. Next i'm gonna tackle Margrave of the Marshes i think.
     [Edited by Rob Smith at 00:17 on 19/08/08]
   • [00:15 on 19/08/08]
10. • Th@ Guy
    • Lonely Planet - Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos & The Greater Mekong
    • [08:35 on 19/08/08]
11. • Hopkins
    • Rob Himself says:

      Got bored of Harry Potter, unsurprisingly.
      
      
      How far in did you get? They get a lot more darker and interesting around book 4
    • [08:59 on 19/08/08]
12. • Th@ Guy
    • Hopkins says:

      Rob Himself says:

      Got bored of Harry Potter, unsurprisingly.

      
      
      How far in did you get? They get a lot more darker and interesting around book 4
      
      
      I read the first one.... laughed..... remembered Terry Pratchett and went about my day
    • [10:08 on 19/08/08]
13. • Big Si
    • The first two are out and out kids books, they don't get any good until the third one.
      
      Rob: I have seen some publicity pics from the Watchmen movie, looks good. I'll have to go hunting for the trailer. Also, Margrave of the Marshes is a cracking read.
    • [19:15 on 19/08/08]
14. • Gareth
    • Big Si says:

      
      Rob: I have seen some publicity pics from the Watchmen movie, looks good. I'll have to go hunting for the trailer. .
      
      
      The trailer I saw gives away nothing. I remain skeptical.
      
      Reading Ian M Banks - Look to Windward.
    • [19:43 on 19/08/08]
15. • Pete
    • Beavis and Butthead Ensucklopedia
      
      I love this book. I don't go for childish humour in any other guise, but B&B make me laugh a lot, even more so in this book.
      
      I liked this, and is 9hz relevant: talking abut concerts, and the stage:
      "This is the place where, like, it all happens or something. Like, the fat dude in Crowbar comes up the front here, and squats down and starts groaning. That's when it's like, magic time or whatever."
      
      
      [Edited by Pete at 10:24 on 21/08/08]
    • [21:13 on 20/08/08]
16. • Hopkins
    • Pete says:

      Beavis and Butthead Ensucklopedia
      
      I love this book. I don't go for childish humour in any other guise, but B&B make me laugh a lot, even more so in this book.
      
      I liked this, and is 9hz relevant: talking abut the concerts, and the stage:
      "This is the place where, like, it all happens or something. Like, the fat dude in Crowbar comes up the front here, and squats down and starts groaning. That's when it's like, magic time or whatever."
      
      
      I must purchase that again
      I even had the book with the script for the movie
    • [21:18 on 20/08/08]
17. • Wez TDJ
    • The Da Vinci Code.
      
      Never read it. Thought I'd finally see what the fuss is about.
    • [08:54 on 21/08/08]
18. • mike
    • Finished Surfacing yesterday, the woman goes mental in the end, complete suprise!
      
      Starting Are You Dave Gorman? now.
    • [10:08 on 21/08/08]
19. • Carey
    • the end of mr. y - scarlett thomas
      
      very interesting. as with 99.9% of all books though, the ending was disappointing.
    • [10:11 on 21/08/08]
20. • mike
    • Yeah the end of Surfacing is just kind of a "what will happen now" thing, cop-out I reckon.
      
      Also, I was under the impression this one won Atwood the Booker Prize in 2000, turns out she got that for The Blind Assasin, but prints it on all her books! Cheat!
    • [10:24 on 21/08/08]

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