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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It doesn't describe a car being driven fast either.You can gun a car at 3mph.
He could have said 'He revved the balls off the car, dropped the clutch and sped off with a screech of spinning tyres', but we got all that when he said 'gunned'.
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To be fair to Mr Brown, the quote above is quite out of context.The full sentence is in fact, "He gunned the cardiovascular surgeon down where he stood".
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 16:22,
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Dan Brown writes drivel, my brother leant me two of his books, one was about a super computer, Digital Fortress, and one was about something else, I read them on my night shift and by the end of the week couldn't remember which was which.
They are just airport books, as in, the type of book you'd want to buy in an airport to throw in the intake of a passing 747.
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