Bill Walker
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erm 4 Harry Potter..
I wont be reading them
Cant believe 4 HP but no Le Carre or Dostoevsky
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Classic novels
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I wont be reading them
Cant believe 4 HP but no Le Carre or Dostoevsky
Bill Walker
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Surprised this isn't on the list
what ?
Prestwich_Blue
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I've read it twice. The first half/two-thirds is simply magnificent. The last bit, with all its moralising and religious shite, is dirgey I'll agree.Nobody, ever, has read War and Peace.
If you meet someone who says they have, they are lying. It's dirge. Not just normal dirge but true unsurpassed dirge with knobs on. Plus , it makes no sense. Loads of Russians with similar names and jobs and titles mushing around doing stuff.
In fact, thinking on . Dirge doesn't do this overbearing monotonous pile of shite any justice.
And it's 14 million pages long .
Surprised at that list. There no way people like Terry Pratchett & Jacqueline Wilson should be in there about authors like Grahame Greene and Ernest Hemingway. Two novels that should be in there are Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich' and Donna Tartt's 'Secret History' which is probably the best modern novel I've read. Also no Trollope? Barchester Towers, The Warden are both absolute classics.
Bilboblue
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I've only read twelve of them.
But then I much prefer non-fiction.
But then I much prefer non-fiction.
Lancet Fluke
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Secret History is on the list.I've read it twice. The first half/two-thirds is simply magnificent. The last bit, with all its moralising and religious shite, is dirgey I'll agree.
Surprised at that list. There no way people like Terry Pratchett & Jacqueline Wilson should be in there about authors like Grahame Greene and Ernest Hemingway. Two novels that should be in there are Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich' and Donna Tartt's 'Secret History' which is probably the best modern novel I've read. Also no Trollope? Barchester Towers, The Warden are both absolute classics.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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It is clearly a work of fiction. It's classed as an autobiography for a start, and there is no way Ruggy could have written it; even with his chubby crayons.what ?
OurCity
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Great to see
The woman in white by Wilkie Collins up there..A gem
Probably my favourite book. Love Birdsong too.
Bill Walker
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what is ?It is clearly a work of fiction. It's classed as an autobiography for a start, and there is no way Ruggy could have written it; even with his chubby crayons.
Armchair Supporter
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Meh. These things are subjective but HP sequels? Really?
Trevor Morley's Tache
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I posted an Amazon link to "Wayne Rooney - My Story So Far"what is ?