BooksWe 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.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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^THIS^Clicked hard for Austen, which also saved me the trouble of pearoasting this
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:27,
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At school I was forced to read Pride & Prejudice and Mansfield ParkP&P is undoubtedly a classic - it's essentially set the "plot" for every romcom since and I found it very accessible and readable.
Mansfield Park is a steaming pile of elephant wank.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:56,
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Except for one honourable exceptionThe only one I can think of where both forms still shine is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Perhaps A Clockwork Orange but Kubrick's stylized film is not universally acclaimed and Burgess's original is really a top notch pot boiler. Especially if you get an old old copy which has an irredeemably bad extra chapter at the end
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