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Uncle Pete
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The New St Joseph Sunday Missa - short and to the point.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by StevHep:
The Bhagavad Git
Story of a bad tempered Indian holy man.
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Baptist Trainfan
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What about that well-known Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Naval Treat in which Holmes and Watson wonder just who is paying for high-ranking officers to be wined and dined in such a lavish fashion at a time of budgetary restraint? They discover that a strange alliance between the Mafia and Russian oligarchy lies behind it - linked to an Old Etonian connection.
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Albertus
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You're really flying today!
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Hawk
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Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magi, a rip-rouring farce of the Nativity story where the three Magi face racism as they follow the Star of Bethlehem across the Deep South.
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Hawk
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And Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Specie, a historical treatise on the evolution of coins as a form of currency.
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Earwig
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Watership Dow
A group of intrepid rabbits take their first steps in the stock market.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Leave Her to Heave
She's very seasick.
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Chorister
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Geraldine Brooks People of the Boo, a story about a children's entertainment enterprise, simultaneously keeping young children from getting bored and scaring the timid.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Angle of Repos
About people who have quit making their car payments
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Albertus
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To be topical, and at the risk of souring the tine of this thread,
Margaret Thatcher: the Downing Street Year. (Might've improved the book: would almost certainly have improved the twentieth century.)
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Chorister
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Melvyn Bragg Remember M
Bragg reminisces about his favourite James Bond character.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Fahrenheit 45 a learned symposium by rather old-fashioned meteorologists explaining just why global warming has given us the coldest winter in years.
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mousethief
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How about some Bible books?
Hose -- The prophet who wore sheer tights
Rut -- Adventures of a breeding animal
Mica -- The prophet who was a flake
Mar -- The gospel writer who ruined everything he touched
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Sioni Sais
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Somehow Mein Kamp doesn't sound half so threatening.
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Smudgie
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I love this thread... though my bookcases seem to be proving rather unhelpful in providing suitable candidates for it.
Other people seem to be able to think of several in a row. But it leaves us poor unimaginative folks reeling. So can we please keep it to one book title per post, as per the OP, so that everyone gets a fair crack of the whip.
Thank you muchly.
Smudgie (with a wave of a hostly kipper)
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mousethief
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Righty-o, Smudgie!
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The Waste LAN -- T.S. Eliot's epic, book-length poem about superfluous ethernet cables.
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Ariel
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"Far From the Madding Crow". A 19th century novel about a group of friends who go out for a summer picnic and have their lives irrevocably changed by an angry bird.
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Starbug
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The Running Ma - Stephen King's story of a mother who enrols in the ultimate reality show in order to keep fit
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Leorning Cniht
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A Clockwork Orang
A prequel to I, Robot, featuring a mechanical ape.
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mousethief
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The Spy Who Loved M -- James Bond hits for the other team just once.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Ring and the Boo - mildly scary take on Tolkien.
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jbohn
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Somehow Mein Kamp doesn't sound half so threatening.
And some how it brings us back to "Three Men in a Boa"
The Audacity of Hop - Barack Obama's stirring tale of a little bunny that never gave up.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Flying In - novel about an obsessive plane spotter.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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The Cricket on the Heart -- Dickens teams up with Poe for this charming Christmas horror novella
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Firenze
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The French Lieutenant's Woma A touching story of a soldier and his pet python.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Mansfield Par a thrilling golfing saga from the East Midlands. Will Mr. D'Arcy manage a hole-in-one or will Emma end up in the rough at the tenth?
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Ariston
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Back to Borges:
The House of Asterio, a take on the myth of Theseus and the Boombox.
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Adam.
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William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fur.
Classic novel about the moral decay of the frozen North..
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mousethief
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The World According to Gar
Our planet home as seen through the eyes of a long, skinny fish
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mousethief
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Peter Pa
The dad who never grew up.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Out of the Silent Plane (C.S. Lewis) - traumatised passengers in Terminal Five recount their distress after the failure of the in-flight entertainment system on their journey from Oz.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Kraken Wake His friends hold a party after the Kraken dies.
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Yorick
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quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
Leave Her to Heave
She's very seasick.
Moo
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Firenze
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Lucky Ji - social mishaps of a young Chinese academic. (And by the same author: Take a Girl Like Yo)
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Stephen King's I
A tender tale of one clown's search for identity in a world that does not understand.
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Yorick
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The BF. Roald Dahl.
A touching fairytale about an enormous benevolent boyfriend.
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Yorick
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The Ilia. ~Homer.
Epic poem about the greatest bones of the pelvis.
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Marvin the Martian
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrob
The leaders of Narnia's warring factions put their differences aside in order to investigate a hospital burglary.
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by mousethief:
How about some Bible books?
Hose -- The prophet who wore sheer tights
Rut -- Adventures of a breeding animal
Mica -- The prophet who was a flake
Mar -- The gospel writer who ruined everything he touched
Luk The gospel writer who scored well on the stock market and with the money changers in the temple.
Proverb Written by a bunch of grammarians who believed the Word was a Verb and was a professional, to boot.
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The5thMary
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The last book (thank you, Jesus!) of the Twilight series: Breaking Daw about a female tween and her vampire lover who travel around the world wrecking musical equipment in recording studios.
*DAW: Digital Audio Workstation
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Adam.
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Wilkie Collins -- The Woman in Whit. A woman trapped in a very small somewhat indeterminate something. (Didn't sell well; too vague).
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Baptist Trainfan
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CP Snow's commentary on the early atomic age obviously causes significant genetic mutation in The New Me.
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Albertus
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And one in which Snow's contemporary and associate, William Cooper, discusses his fascination with pith helmets: The Ever-interesting Topi
(I suspect that our bookshelves have substantially similar contexts, Baptist Trainfain.)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Sorry to disappoint you, but I've never heard of William Cooper!
What you may not have realised is that A E Housman once wrote an opera called A Shropshire La but it bombed as it was ffelt to be rather monotonous. ("Doh!" says Homer Simpson).
(Codefi. —A)
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