Tomorrow I plan on being pretend sophisticated and making my annual trip to the library.
Basically looking for some suggestions, anything at all, fiction or non-fiction,l as long as you think its good (please, dear god, no Clique Stephen King, Harry Potter or Twilight sh*t).
Mr_Incredible2010-01-01 23:36:10
Basically looking for some suggestions, anything at all, fiction or non-fiction,l as long as you think its good (please, dear god, no Clique Stephen King, Harry Potter or Twilight sh*t).
Mr_Incredible2010-01-01 23:36:10
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Twilight. Definately Twilight.
Three for me, and two for them.
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Bookies?
And you people wonder why I'm addicted.
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Captain Underpants
Colin the Naughty Puppy
Any of the Fairy stories ("Rachel and Kirsty had a secret. They were friends with the fairies...")
Should keep you going for a while. Ask a grown-up for help with the big words, or try to sound them out and guess the meaning.
"Phoenix till they lose"
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http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2615
You know we belong together...
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Is it a bad thing that the entire Captain Underpants collection is on my bookshelf?
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Nothing bad about that.
Would be worried if you had any Rachel and Kirsty books but.
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The Aeneid is a good read. Comprised of 12 (from memory) smaller books.
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The Aeneid is a good read. Comprised of 12 (from memory) smaller books.
If your Latin is up to it.
Alternatively there is the more classical Illiad, or for a more contemporary 12 reads - The Dirty Dozen (Commando).
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Read Dracula by Bram Stoker and tell all these Twilight idiots what vampires should really be like.
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Read Dracula by Bram Stoker and tell all these Twilight idiots what vampires should really be like.
Got that for Christmas. Looking forward to reading it.
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"Walter The Farting Dog" by William Kotzwinkle.
Wongo2010-01-02 09:31:07
Wongo2010-01-02 09:31:07
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Read Dracula by Bram Stoker and tell all these Twilight idiots what vampires should really be like.
Got that for Christmas. Looking forward to reading it.
Pretty good read. I enjoy going back and reading the classics. I really liked Frankenstein as well - read them one after the other.
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Cormac McCarthy "The Road".
Greta book this.You know we belong together...
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Paid off your bills then
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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(he's going to the library!)
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lulz, though he has PLENTY of bills to payat the shirley library. debt debt deb
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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lulz, though he has PLENTY of� bills to payat the shirley library. debt debt deb
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Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
Yes. I've also read that. Good read. I'm reading "D-Day" by the same author.
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Got Berlin and The Battle for Spain.
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I forgot it was a public holiday. The library is shut. Bastards.
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The Saddle Club.
Babysitters Club.
Two Of A Kind Series (Mary-Kate and Ashley.)
Babysitters Club.
Two Of A Kind Series (Mary-Kate and Ashley.)
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If you like submarine type stories, read any Patrick Robinson books, not too techy like Clancy went.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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If you like submarine type stories, read any Patrick Robinson books, not too techy like Clancy went.
I like Clancy's "techyness". I personally think his best novel was "Red Storm Rising" - all-out 3rd world war. Larry Bond novel are very much in the same mold.
How about reprints of war comics (Commando, Air Ace, War & Battle) printed in large format? I've got 1 for Xmas to add to my collection.
Wongo2010-01-02 23:36:55
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I forgot it was a public holiday. The library is shut. Bastards.
Never mind, there's always next year.
At least you tried!
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Frederick Forsyth Books are alkso quite good. Dogs of War.
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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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Wouldn't bother getting out a book mate if you can't even read a calendar.
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"Walter The Farting Dog" by William Kotzwinkle.
My favourite scatological read would have to be "The mole who knew it was none of his business"
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The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
I like tautologies because I like them.
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Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Best.
Book.
EVER.
EDIT: Irvine Welsh is pretty entertaining too...
Milky Pisswit2010-01-07 12:34:43
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Used to be heavily into VS Naipaul when I was a yoof (can't remember when I last read a proper book - maybe God of Small Things)
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I went to the library and picked up a book called Panicology. About how likely it is things we panic about actually happen.
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Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
One of my fav books, Berlin and D-Day by him I didn't enjoy so much. I went to the book fair at TSB this year and stocked up on new (old) books. Picked up some cracking war books written in the 60s and 70s.
I love reading books written on the same part of the war but written at different times, interesting the extra information in books written today that has obviously been de-classified or recently discovered compared to the more personal insights that are fresher in peoples minds.www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com
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I went to the library and picked up a book called Panicology. About how likely it is things we panic about actually happen.
So you've had all of these good suggestions and you get a "how to panic" book????
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Got Berlin and The Battle for Spain.
What's The Battle of Spain like?
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones is good!
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde.
Don Quixote- Cervantes.
Nausea- Jean-Paul Sartre.
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole- Sue Townsend.
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