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 Apr 2 2011, 03:46 PM
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QUOTE (mcraigclark @ Apr 2 2011, 02:48 PM)  I LOVE PJ Tracy. Have we talked about this? Did you start with Monkeewrench? Me too! Monkeewrench was released as Want To Play? over here so you might want to double check with your library under that title Shack. |
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Apr 2 2011, 05:46 PM
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Live And Let Pie Group: Senior Members Posts: 9,166 Joined: 18-February 05 From: Leeds Member No.: 3,441 |
QUOTE (Outatime @ Apr 2 2011, 04:46 PM) Me too! Monkeewrench was released as Want To Play? over here so you might want to double check with your library under that title Shack. My library is only small so only holds the one PJ Tracy. Have been angling to reserve Want To Play? from another branch but never got around to it. |
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Apr 2 2011, 09:35 PM
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I'm a poncey thrush. Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,602 Joined: 30-March 06 From: Undisclosed Member No.: 5,057 |
I'm sorry to say that reading them out of order will spoil it somewhat. In this case, it really is best to begin at the beginning.
Snow Blind is the 4th book, and they all really do play off of the previous ones. This post has been edited by mcraigclark: Apr 2 2011, 09:36 PM |
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Apr 2 2011, 10:16 PM
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Addict Group: Senior Members Posts: 3,063 Joined: 10-February 05 Member No.: 3,386 |
I'd be inclined to agree that starting at the beginning is the best bet, you certainly need to read the first one first. I'm not sure it would matter if you read the others out of order, but it has been a while since I read them so I could be wrong.
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Apr 3 2011, 11:29 AM
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Live And Let Pie Group: Senior Members Posts: 9,166 Joined: 18-February 05 From: Leeds Member No.: 3,441 |
QUOTE (mcraigclark @ Apr 2 2011, 10:35 PM) I'm sorry to say that reading them out of order will spoil it somewhat. In this case, it really is best to begin at the beginning. Snow Blind is the 4th book, and they all really do play off of the previous ones. Knickers. I'll go to Wortley library and pick it up tomorrow. |
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Apr 4 2011, 01:38 PM
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Live And Let Pie Group: Senior Members Posts: 9,166 Joined: 18-February 05 From: Leeds Member No.: 3,441 |
QUOTE (Shack @ Apr 3 2011, 12:29 PM) Knickers. I'll go to Wortley library and pick it up tomorrow. Gorrit! Will begin that one this evening. |
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Apr 4 2011, 08:18 PM
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Addict Group: Senior Members Posts: 3,063 Joined: 10-February 05 Member No.: 3,386 |
QUOTE (Shack @ Apr 4 2011, 02:38 PM) Gorrit! Will begin that one this evening. Enjoy! I think it's the best one (the others are worth reading too though). |
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Apr 4 2011, 09:45 PM
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Ade Flanders Group: Senior Moderators Posts: 14,205 Joined: 2-October 04 From: the moment I could first write, I KNEW that I wanted to be an internet forum moderator... Member No.: 2,296 |
Finally finished Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten, which was jolly good indeed. Now made a start on First Among Sequels in anticipation of One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing when it comes out in paperback this summer. It's great to get back into reading Fforde's books again, and generally into reading full stop.
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Apr 5 2011, 09:43 AM
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I'm a poncey thrush. Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,602 Joined: 30-March 06 From: Undisclosed Member No.: 5,057 |
QUOTE (Outatime @ Apr 4 2011, 04:18 PM) Enjoy! I think it's the best one (the others are worth reading too though). I like the whole series so far, but I agree that the first book is the best. |
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Apr 5 2011, 10:42 AM
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Money ... Group: Senior Members Posts: 11,440 Joined: 14-October 04 From: 14 carat yacht - what? (Going wow!) Member No.: 2,511 |
QUOTE (maian @ Apr 2 2011, 10:26 AM) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov is amazing as a writer for all the reasons you say. I love this book for so many reasons. Great summation. I really want to read the Jens Lapidus Stockholm Noir books before I go to Sweden next month - but they are very difficult to find in English. Boo. |
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Apr 6 2011, 12:10 AM
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I'm a poncey thrush. Group: Senior Members Posts: 6,602 Joined: 30-March 06 From: Undisclosed Member No.: 5,057 |
Not a book, but if you're a David Foster Wallace fan, you might want to take a peek at his private self-help library.
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Apr 7 2011, 07:22 AM
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your typical selfish, back-stabbing slut faced ho-bag  Group: Senior Moderators Posts: 28,277 Joined: 2-October 04 From: Norf London Member No.: 2,309 |
QUOTE (Serafina_Pekkala @ Mar 14 2011, 02:00 PM) TV apparently. It was just a note in the programme. I've not heard anything more. It's been going for a while though - this is from June 2009. I can't imagine it working that well either. Although casting would intrigue me. So much interesting stuff from last night, including one thing related to this. Jeremy sent the finished script to Jonathan, he says it's funnier and sharper than the novel (pshaw) and that it makes it totally contemporary while keeping the period setting. Channel 4 have dropped it, it's now with the BBC, but don't hold your breath. He seems desperate to get it filmed. It was optioned before it was published in 1994, and before it was dropped the plan was to cast the Winshaws with Carry On... cast members. |
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Apr 7 2011, 10:15 AM
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Bully for you Group: Senior Members Posts: 20,419 Joined: 25-February 05 From: behind a desk, sitting very still Member No.: 3,498 |
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
By dint of being his first novel, it isn't as narratively inventive or thematically deep than his later work, but even early on his particular brand of humanism is on full display in a story of people living in a world where almost all human work has been taken up by machines. Vonnegut clearly captures the spiritual emptiness of people who no longer feel like they contribute to society, instead being given meaningless gruntwork to ensure they are employed, and the absurdity of a bureaucracy in which tests and punch cards determine what a person will do for their entire life, removing ambition or innovation from the equation. Not one of his stronger satires, but a great first novel and a clear indication that greatness was in him. |
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Apr 7 2011, 07:53 PM
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Be careful what you fish for Group: Senior Members Posts: 15,436 Joined: 2-February 05 Member No.: 3,331 |
Room by Emma Donoghue
Very good. First book I've read in a day for a very long time. |
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Apr 8 2011, 04:40 PM
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Live And Let Pie Group: Senior Members Posts: 9,166 Joined: 18-February 05 From: Leeds Member No.: 3,441 |
QUOTE (Outatime @ Apr 2 2011, 04:46 PM) Me too! Monkeewrench was released as Want To Play? over here so you might want to double check with your library under that title Shack. Read it over the course of the last 4 days. I think I devoured the last half in the last 24 hours. Lots of fun. So much so, I'm going to take Snow Blind back to my library and go and get Live Bait next (from a different library). |
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