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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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^THIS^
Clicked hard for Austen, which also saved me the trouble of pearoasting this
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:27, 2 replies)
At school I was forced to read Pride & Prejudice and Mansfield Park
P&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.
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:56, closed)
Except for one honourable exception
The 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
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 18:02, closed)

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