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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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I'll admit to part b)
but in actual fact, despite the fact I read the books, like, three times before the films came out, I still spent a lot of time during the films going "Oh, is THAT what the actual story is? Huh.".
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:58, 1 reply)
So what you're saying is that you're not bright enough to follow the perfectly straightforward plot of a book aimed at adolescents despite numerous readings?

(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:03, closed)
No.
What I'm saying is that the book is four times as long as it needs to be, and I lost track of the line between 'events' and 'smartarsed masturbatory linguistic padding'.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 13:34, closed)
Yeah, Tolkien, you elitist bastard
why don't you just say what you mean for once?
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 13:58, closed)
So what you're saying is that you're not bright enough to follow the perfectly straightforward plot of a book aimed at adolescents despite numerous readings because the author used too many words?
That makes all the difference.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 14:11, closed)
So, what you're saying is, you have less of an attention span than a goldfish with ADHD?

(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 17:24, closed)

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