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5th January 2006, 8:18pm
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#61 | | Made in the 80's.
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The best little Whorehouse near Tesco.
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
1. The mammoth book of sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll - Edited by Jim Driver
2. The Crow Road - Iain Banks | 
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5th January 2006, 8:19pm
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#62 | | Pillowpants Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Granny Land
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
I meant to start this today - went for a mega swatch through Borders in toon...couldn't find one book that grabbed me  Looked up "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" on the first level and flicking through it it didn't grab me like I hoped it would 
Damn me and my pickyness
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5th January 2006, 8:20pm
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#63 | | Bring the heid o' charlie Editor
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Staley Road
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
How can people have read 3 novels just 5 days into the new year? | |
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5th January 2006, 8:21pm
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#64 | | Is it bad that I..... ?
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sunny Glasvegas
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
1. Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
2. Christopher Brookmyre - The Sacred Art Of Stealing
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5th January 2006, 8:30pm
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#65 | | P.C.P
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In a house
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Everything is illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Kite runner - Khaled Hosseini
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5th January 2006, 8:35pm
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#66 | | ......
Join Date: Jan 2002
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by Charlie Parker  How can people have read 3 novels just 5 days into the new year? | on holiday with nothing better to do | |
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5th January 2006, 8:36pm
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#67 | | Lady Of War
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Hamelldaeme
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Originally Posted by Charlie Parke How can people have read 3 novels just 5 days into the new year? |
its the joys of being a book nut... you get your book and get so into it you can put it down, you ditch the forum for it and sit up to obscenely late hours reading it, thinking "ill just read a few more pages" and poof 48 hours later the 500 page book is gone, like a slice of toast
maybe thats just me though 
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5th January 2006, 8:45pm
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#68 | | ......
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
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Originally Posted by Witch its the joys of being a book nut... you get your book and get so into it you can put it down, you ditch the forum for it and sit up to obscenely late hours reading it, thinking "ill just read a few more pages" and poof 48 hours later the 500 page book is gone, like a slice of toast
maybe thats just me though | nup, me too, just finished The Da Vinci Code a few hours ago after starting it yesterday around lunch time, eyes are a bit sore and head is swimming but it was good  | |
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5th January 2006, 9:09pm
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#69 | | The Awakening of Oliver
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow
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1. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus | |
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5th January 2006, 9:41pm
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#70 | | Registered Abuser
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Location: Locat
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| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
1. Ayn Rand - Anthem
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5th January 2006, 10:00pm
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#71 | | Do The Hustle
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: No Fixed Abode
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Originally Posted by Purplerose No Mean City and The Alchemist are on at the Citizens Theatre this year | Yeah? Nice one, might get me some tickets.
EDIT: Apparently it's on between 31st Mar 06 - 4th Jan 06 - think they've maybe made a typo there.  Quote: |
Originally Posted by Charlie Parker How can people have read 3 novels just 5 days into the new year? | Well I dunno about other folk but my excuse is I'm on study leave and it beats doing any work! | |
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6th January 2006, 2:38am
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#72 | | Kurwa
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I'll give it a bash.
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6th January 2006, 2:48am
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#73 | | v.i.p
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: brighton
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i am definately up for this! not finished any as of yet but i got a bunch for xmas. started on one of em at the moment which will be finished within a week at the most. il list it up then!!
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6th January 2006, 2:52am
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#74 | | Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 27,686
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
# The Broker - John Grisham
# The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
# Revolution On Canvas: Poetry From The Indie Music Scene - Rich Balling
Shall remember and come back to edit this post once I'm finished every book.
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6th January 2006, 7:19am
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#75 | | MANLEGEND SuperMod
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 26,709
| Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Just read this post...already read around 9 novels since Jan 1st (1100+ pages on the planes alone just yesterday).
Chuck in my work tech manuals and graphic novels...hmm, I'll need to keep track now for this thread. Good idea though.
List (to be edited later...lucky mod powers):
Bill Hicks: Love all the people - Bill Hicks, John Lahr
Harry Potter 1 and 4 (despite my previous books embargo, bought 'em for folks in the US as there's some apparent edits between UK/US books, and ran out of reading books on the plane) - JK Rowling
Dragon Wing - Weis and Hickman
Elven Star - Weis and Hickman
Fire Sea - Weis and Hickman
Serpent Mage - Weis and Hickman
The Hand of Chaos - Weis and Hickman
Apalling taste, obviously, but takes me to 8 so far this year - not counting graphic novels (another 7 or so graphic novels, but I really don't want to count those). This is what happens when I have no computer handy!
Last edited by PapaZeb; 6th January 2006 at 7:38am.
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