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Old 6th January 2006, 8:32am   #76
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Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
Right so far I've got these...

1. Burning Chrome - William Gibson
2. Cyberpunk - Bruce Bethke (in two minds wether to include this or not as its a short story rather than a book/novel...i'll decide later on in the year in case I get nowhere near the 50 books )
3. Finding a Fit: Options for Flexible Working
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling*

* - For every 2 books I want to read I'm attempting to read 1 that I dont want to read.
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Old 6th January 2006, 9:49am   #78
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1. Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides
I love Jeffrey Eugenides - if you enjoyed The Virgin Suicides, have a look for Middlesex - it's another fantastic book.

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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

Oxfam bookshop here I come the morra!
Have a look in Fopp - they tend to have brilliant titles, and they're fairly cheap as well.

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Old 6th January 2006, 10:12am   #79
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50 books in a year!??! thats almost one a week! ive been reading a book for about a month and a half, and it'll take me atleast another 2 weeks to finish it.
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Old 6th January 2006, 10:27am   #80
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Old 6th January 2006, 3:48pm   #81
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Old 6th January 2006, 3:54pm   #82
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I've almost finished 2 books already since New Years, I'm well up for this
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I accept!

1. Star Wars Jedi Search /Kevin J. Anderson (Started again to comply with rules)
2. Ring /Koji Suzuki
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clockwork orange, animal farm and 1984 down: doubleplusgood progress so far
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Old 7th January 2006, 10:42am   #85
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2. Christopher Brookmyre - A big boy did it and ran away
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Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
What the hell

1: Is it just me or is everything shit?
2: Some God Awful Chris Ryan Thing
3: Carl Hiaasen - Sick Puppy
4: Carl Hiaasen - Skin Tight
5: Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season
6: Carl Hiaasen - Double Whammy

(I had two of his omnibuses) I'll fix names when I have the books handy...
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Re: The Fifty Book Challenge
I'm into it. Here's what I have so far:

1. Charles Bukowski - New Poems vol.1
2. Charles Bukowski - New Poems vol.2
3. Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems
4. Roald Dahl - The Best Of

Those were all short and made for fast reading, so I'm off to a good start!
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What the hell

1: Is it just me or is everything shit?
2: Some God Awful Chris Ryan Thing
3: Carl Hiaasen - Sick Puppy
4: Carl Hiaasen - Skin Tight
5: Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season
6: Carl Hiaasen - Double Whammy

(I had two of his omnibuses) I'll fix names when I have the books handy...
I was going to buy a few Hiaasen books before Christmas because I'd seen his work compared to Brookmyre - is he any good?
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I was going to buy a few Hiaasen books before Christmas because I'd seen his work compared to Brookmyre - is he any good?
*looks undecided*

Good as far as comic thrillers go with some of his writing getting downright surreal, but if you read a few of his booksyou start to notice a lot of similarity and reusing of ideas.....he seems to have a real thing for peoples hands getting infected and rotting.....Mark remarked that hes Just like Terry Pratchett in this way.

Broadly Id say read at least one of them

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3. The Speckled People - Hugo Hamilton
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