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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:49 pm 
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I didn't mean to buy a book today, but I wandered into Ottakar's at lunchtime and this caught my eye:

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It's a book I'd been meaning to read for a long time -- partly because I like the other things I've read by Swift, and partly because I was intrigued by the title. But the main reason I picked it up today (shallow though it is) was the cool cover design. Penguin has done a whole series of these:

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(St Augustine is the only one I've read. :oops: )

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:17 pm 
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Wandering around Hay last week I bought

"Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov at the Moscow Art Theatre "
Anatoly Smeliansky, Arch Tait

"Five Miles From Outer Hope" - Nicola Barker

"Psychology of Perception" by ????? because I was reading "How I Trade For a Living" by Gary Smith which got me thinking............

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Razzle.

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Not very cultured but its one up from The Razzle, but its not a bad read, outlines his fight against every addiction going.


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I can't find a picture of it, but A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Cover notes sounded good, and I was entertained for a while. The dates, figures, facts, quantities, distances etc then totally did my head in and it became too hard work to bother with. So I threw it.

All the others above sound very posh and interesting for clever arty types, so I'm with Dave, er Razzle :shock: (well ok EuroBoys) :wink:

Exit stage left persued by people with more culture than me :shock:

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:32 pm 
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Not highbrow but currently up my street......(& short but sweet)

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Dee Dee Ramone wrote:
Not highbrow but currently up my street......(& short but sweet)

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I was going to get that one, some of them are interesting in that series...already have the ones on The Smiths, Love (nonsense but novel!) and Dusty Springfield.


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That Vernon God Little book is amazing.

And I've been wanting to read The Da Vinci Code for ages. Is it any good?

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"Deep In a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker" by James Gavin


Jeeezus, what a ride. I've been a huge fan since discovering Chet in '95... The Bruce Weber film "Let's Get Lost" was a romantic introduction to his sordid, sad story. Gavin is a little heavy handed, but he definately did his homework on this one.


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I spent yesterday reading:

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It was really interesting -- I learned a lot. Great pictures, too.

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Just bought 'The Motorcycle Diaries' very good indeed

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:36 pm 
After a recommendation on here I got this yesterday and am enjoying it very much so far...thanks for the tip off kids.

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Michelvis wrote:
After a recommendation on here I got this yesterday and am enjoying it very much so far...thanks for the tip off kids.

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M,y son has got, and has read, that book and I was rather interested....not least because it's about someone with Aspergers Syndrome and the kids I've taught, over the years, who have had it have been some of the most fascinating people I've ever met.


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