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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Ones to avoid and one useful oneAt school, I was forced to read "The Good Earth" which is about some miserable Chinese bloke. I can remember it went on for a good four pages describing the wrinkles in some bloke's face. Zzzz.
A couple of years later, I was reading "Snuf the dog" (not a line from a Tarantino film, but a riveting tale of a boy and his Alsatian doing daring things against the Nazis in occupied Holland) and it was getting quite exciting until I found that some arse had ripped a load of pages out.
These two experiences have put me off reading fiction ever again, so now it's Windows 2008 R2 Server Resource Kit and so on.
One book which will save your life, however, is Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 21:35, Reply)
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