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We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.

(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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I really get annoyed at people that number their books.
Calling something 'Part 1' implies you are so arrogant that you take it for granted that people will be excited to read part 2.

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(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:10, 7 replies)
I mean,
its not like anyone pays attention to these things, is it?
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:10, closed)
You're printing them out and pinning them above your bed next to your Bay City Rollers poster.

(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:13, closed)
I do have an affection for nonces, I admit...
...must dash though, my 'Seventies Stars Who Touch Children' Newsletter has just arrived.

I'm so excited...
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:21, closed)
Writers do it because they are unable to restrain themselves from using 300,000 words to tell a story and their publisher says "no"
...so they split the story into smaller books.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:39, closed)
I think it's ever so polite of authors
to label their work as "This might go on a bit, so you'll probably want to give it a miss."
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 14:19, closed)
Though if they do that they've got less chance of getting onto the "best of" page
by pushing everything else off the screen and hogging the clicks from the folk who equate quality with quantity.
(, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 0:06, closed)
Whereas your opinion on this matter is so important
that it deserves you to make a new post.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 22:41, closed)

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