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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But that's exactly the pointThe style does reinforce the feeling of the place. If you read the 3rd book you see it's completely different. These books are the only ones that I just keep coming back to and reading and re-reading over and over again. Genius. Find out about Peake's early life - it explains a lot about how he ended up defining this bizarre place.
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my mum named me after a character in those booksI was lucky I was not a girl or I would of been called Fuchsia
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sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 17:50,
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Instead you're called Steerpike(
Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 7 Jan 2012, 10:39,
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NoAbiatha Swelter surely.
Oh and the third volume is mainly Alzheimer induced bilge if you ask me. The first two are superb though.
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Strike that lastI prefer to believe there's an adult walking the earth called Prunesquallor
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