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[Misc] Following on from the " What book are you currently reading " thread







Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
This.

I don't think they ever get there, let alone even starting out.

It's the needlessly short sentences that get my goat.

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
 


Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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Uffern
We had a thread on this a few weeks ago.

And it's still the same book for me - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. I've tried starting it so many times but keep giving up.

The modern book that defeated me was Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon. I love Pynchon's stuff but this absolutely defeated me
 


Lower West Stander

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Mar 25, 2012
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Back in Sussex
Another vote for Lord of the Rings.

I tried but just found it really boring. I just didn’t care.

Another one is Kate Mosse. She lives locally to me but I just cannot get interested in her books at all.


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Bry Nylon

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Jul 21, 2003
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Playing snooker
Another vote for Lord of the Rings.

I tried but just found it really boring. I just didn’t care.

I used to have a recurring dream that I’d written Lord of the Rings.

Went to the doctor and he said it was nothing to worry about, I was just Tolkien in my sleep
 








Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Paradise Lost by Milton

Another vote for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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The Fatherland
Selected Works of Paul Barber. I’m currently on page 456632 but hope to finish the first chapter soon.
 


Uh_huh_him

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Sep 28, 2011
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The island of the day before - Umberto Eco

Loved Focault's Pendulum and Name of the Rose.
Tried this one about 8 times and never got past the first 3 or 4 chapters.
 






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