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29th December 2005, 2:44pm
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#16 | | Better not to err
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Glesgae
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by anglarna  Spot on. This is how I crunch through books. | I was reading Catch 22 while you were soundchecking. | 
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29th December 2005, 2:47pm
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#17 | | Tannhauser Gate Veteran
Join Date: May 2001 Location: On the moral high ground - And armed!
Posts: 25,959
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Sounds good!
Got the Broons book under my belt already!
I take it we start at the Bells? | |
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29th December 2005, 2:48pm
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#18 | | Better not to err
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Glesgae
Posts: 28,425
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by Rev Scapegoat Got the Broons book under my belt already! | So thats what that is. | |
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29th December 2005, 2:59pm
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#19 | | Chew you up, spit you out
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Airstrip One
Posts: 26,826
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Oh aye, I'm up for this. Weird though, sometimes I can take 3-4 weeks to finish a book, other times I can go through 500 pages in a day or two. | |
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29th December 2005, 3:00pm
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#20 | | Chew you up, spit you out
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Airstrip One
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by Rev Scapegoat I take it we start at the Bells? | You're right, let's have a massive AltNation Hogmanay gathering in a library. | |
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29th December 2005, 3:10pm
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#21 | | Frankly my dear.....  Editor
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Paradise City
Posts: 11,286
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Count me in too. I try and keep records of what I have read but, like Rowsbette above, tend to forget to note them down when I have finished a book.
Reminds me - really must clear out books I read last year and take them to a charity shop to make room for new ones.
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29th December 2005, 3:39pm
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#22 | | Hymen Hymen
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 12,290
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Not being one for reading in recent yester year I received THREE books in my christmas stockings ...we'll see ...
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29th December 2005, 4:38pm
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#23 | | Forever Waiting.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Glasgow
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count me in for this one. im sure i read more than 50 last year, but it'd be nice to have a list of them.
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29th December 2005, 4:42pm
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#24 | | Shaming the Devil
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Avenue Q
Posts: 8,408
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
I'm up for this. Here's the books I'll be reading next year:
Kiss and Make Up by Gene Simmons
3 Philip Pullman books
Hullawerr China: The Francie & Josie scripts
The Latest Harry Potter
Glue by Irvine Welsh
Whit by Iain Banks
Dubliners by James Joyce
Loot and What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton
Being & Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Neitzsche
Heavy Water by Martin Amis
Tom Shields Takes The Fifth
Tom Shields Goes Forth
Helen And Desire by Alexander Trocchi
The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson
Marilyn Mansons' Hell biography
Everything (A Book About The Manic Street Preachers)
The Color Purple
The Mafia: The 1st hundred years
Please Kill Me by Legs Mc Neill
1 book by Iris Murdoch
The Rebel by Albert Camus
the Castle by Franz Kafka
2 Christopher Brookmyre books
Bret Harts' Biography
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
1 book by Nick Hornby
Downsize This by Michael Moore
all 5 parts of the increasingly innacurately named Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy Trilogy
Rules Of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Resurrection Man by Ian Rankin
something Andre Gide
Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
Love All The People By Bill Hicks
1 each from Kerouac, Burroughs, Poppy Z Brite, Pratchett, Steve Perry, Irvine Welsh and Zadie Smith
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29th December 2005, 4:45pm
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#25 | | Forever Waiting.
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 4,057
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by chiaroscuro I'm up for this. Here's the books I'll be reading next year:
3 Philip Pullman books
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
all 5 parts of the increasingly innacurately named Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy Trilogy | brilliant choices with these ones.
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29th December 2005, 4:52pm
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#26 | | RAWR!!!
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Fraggle rock
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
yup i'll have a go
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29th December 2005, 5:01pm
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#27 | | genuinely retro Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 4,752
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I'm definitely up for this. I've been neglecting my reading a lot since I left uni and really want to find new stuff to teach my pupils so this is the perfect opportunity to read those things that have been cluttering up my shelves for the past year or so.
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29th December 2005, 5:25pm
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#28 | | Made in the 80's.
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The best little Whorehouse near Tesco.
Posts: 10,645
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
I think I'll give this a go too. I seem to have fallen away from reading over the past few months, so hopefully this will get me back on track. | |
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29th December 2005, 5:54pm
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#29 | | Guest | Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
I'm definately up for this - I really haven't read much at all since I left uni, and I miss it. I'll definately make a stab at this  | |
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29th December 2005, 6:07pm
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#30 | | Half a doctor
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: With the Karma Army
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by Semprini You're right, let's have a massive AltNation Hogmanay gathering in a library. | Rock 'N' Roll.
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