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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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The Lovely Bone
Gay porn.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Ariston
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The Davinci Cod The fine, fine art of fish & chips.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Macbet the rise and fall of a Scottish bookie.
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Albertus
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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Sorry to disappoint you, but I've never heard of William Cooper!
Much overlooked: but Scenes from Provincial Life (1950) is reckoned to be really the daddy of those 1950s provincial realist novels like Room at the Top (NB I realise that this may or may not be a recommendation.... ). Like Snow, a scientific civil servant, and I believe they worked together at one point. The reference is to The Ever-interesting Topic, a novel about sex education in a public school.
Anyway, back to the game. Capita by Karl Marx, a scarily accurate work predicting the rise of global outsourcing corporations.
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mousethief
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The Völsunga Sag
Norse gods and their beer guts
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Eats, Shoots and Leave
Gramatically-incorrect grammatical pedantry.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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The Mystery of Edwin Droo -- Strange tale of a young man who died before he could finish signing his name.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Libby Purves: Passing G
A steamy novel of seduction, to the G-spot and beyond...
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Baptist Trainfan
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The Forsyte Sag - ennui and depression grip the nation as they face episode 746 of an apparently never-ending Sunday evening drama in the days before videos and satellite TV. Why, folk might even be forced to go to Evensong again!
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Quinine
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Wolf Hal
Mantel's surprise revelation of why Henry VIII avoided the full moon.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Life of P, sequel to Life of O, both being sex manuals.
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W Hyatt
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Jaw: A great white shark loses its lower jaw to the propeller on a fishing boat and the local townspeople rally to save and adopt it, giving it a nickname for its one remaining jaw.
[ 09. April 2013, 17:20: Message edited by: W Hyatt ]
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A new church and a new earth, with Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Cheaper by the Doze
Why taking naps is good for you, and costs so little.
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Oinkster
"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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LeRoc
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And of course, there is the second book of the Bible, Number.
The number in question seems to be 42, but nobody seems to know the question to which it is an answer.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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The Art of Wa
Classic Chinese text on getting your way in life through whingeing
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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King Solomon's Mine Kiss and tell autobiography of the Queen of Sheba.
[ 09. April 2013, 18:22: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax
At least when you encounter a beetleweed while you're thumbing your way through the country, you'll know all about it!
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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ArachnidinElmet
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Gah! Everytime I check this thread someone's nicked me book. Anyway, after a bit of thinking:
Watchme
The story of a voyeuristic superhero.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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The Tao te Chin
Classic Chinese philosophy about the way of the beard.
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jacobsen
seeker
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Little Me Louisa Alcott's autobiography
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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In a similar vein...
I Chin
First of the Claudius' Body Parts series.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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The Old Man and the Se -- inspirational saga of an old Cuban fisherman's struggle to master Spanish reflexive pronouns.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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jacobsen
seeker
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The Spy who loved M
The till now untold story of the Bond/Boss relationship
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Contac
Carl Sagan's tale of time-release alien allergy medications.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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The Invisible Ma
Just when you thought that you could put your hand in the buscuit tin... there she is!
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Riceyman Step The story of the Edwardian precursor of gangnam style.
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The Rogue
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I well remember the comic I read as a child. The Bean often explored the effect the title product had on certain bodily functions.
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Albertus
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
. by Thomas Pynchon
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lilBuddha
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The Rights of Ma
The tale of the struggles of a mother and suffragette.
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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Dafyd
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The Golden Bow There were archers; there was a certain significant sense of as it might be competition between them. There was some impression of rivalry between two of the contestants, whose relations seemed redolent of matrimony over an object whose shape and hue struck the onlooker as a bow made of gold and that those concerned treated with an attitude that it might be a prize.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Sioni Sais
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Another with biblical connections, The Book of Jo with its companions, The Book of Am, The Book of Bet and The Book of Me.
(all the above are sequels to Little Wome, but you knew that)
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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The Quick and the DEA
On the lam from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Athrawes
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The Tao of Poo - you really do not want to know. Really.
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Explaining why is going to need a moment, since along the way we must take in the Ancient Greeks, the study of birds, witchcraft, 19thC Vaudeville and the history of baseball. Michael Quinion.
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jedijudy
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And one that many of us own, the Telephone Boo. Used by certain adolescents to make prank calls.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Ariston
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City of Go: a psychological thriller set during the 1988 Ing Cup exploring the nature of human interactions, the search for God, and the meaning of happiness.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Confession -- St. Augustine's how-to book for receiving the sacrament of penance (oops, I mean reconciliation).
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mousethief
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The Pelican Brie
Cheesemaking intrigue among the rare lactating birds of France.
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Ariston
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The Second Se, a guide to the history and development of alternate forms of Latin reflexive pronouns. Only of interest to medieval linguists—say hi to the book booth folks at Kazoo next month for me!
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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mousethief
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Seven Days in Ma
A newborn remembers its last week in the womb
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The Man Who Was Thursda Memoir of Mr Thur, Senior.
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Cara
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
[qb] King Solomon's Mine Kiss and tell autobiography of the Queen of Sheba
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
And so many other chuckles in this thread, which I've just discovered.
Hard to beat what's been done.
Norwegian Woo
Murakami takes an unusual excursus into the courtship rituals of some Scandinavians.
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Pondering.
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Dafyd
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La Belle Dame Sans Merc Poem about a knight who meets a fairy lover and then nicks her car.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Baptist Trainfan
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The Jewel in the Crow - ornithological thievery on a sunny day causes financial palpitations in the Antwerp diamond markets.
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Stetson
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Gone With The Win-- Frustrated office-worker flips his boss the middle finger after checking the lottery announcements.
And the sequel...
The Return Of The Kin-- Our lucky hero suddenly finds himself extremely popular with relatives who haven't spoken to him in years.
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I have the power...Lucifer is lord!
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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The Imitation of Chris -- daily devotional readings for those who wish they could be just like the "boy next door."
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Wasp Factor Exposé of the insect-centred talent contest.
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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