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Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
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I think I have two options:

1) I liked the sound of but it seems to have been a really divisive and controversial book
2) Popped up on Amazon first as a choice and also sounds like a good read and is nice and cheap if you are signed up to that kind of stuff

I will ponder on it overnight.
Serendippily
Serendippily
Aug 2020
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I haven’t read this months book yet but should catch up next month. I’ve started Great Apes from my TBR pile (1997) but I can feel Will Self sneering at me and i don’t think I cba
Diogenes
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I like the sound of divisive. I frequently contemplate binning my Will Self books on account of him being such an arse, especially where his ex-wife (now deceased) was concerned.
Bazoaxe
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I think thats now ruled out as its only in hardback at present
McGoohan
McGoohan
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I have read and quite enjoyed a number of Will Self books but I agree, you can feel him looking down his nose at you while you read. Even his best books, like Great Apes never really escape that.
DazTheSlug
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Aug 2020
10:05pm, 24 Aug 2020
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I wouldn't worry about picking a divisive book in the wake of "High Rise", which poll shows 5 votes of 6/10 or less and 3 of 10/10 and nothing in between!

I just started reading John Barth's "The Sot-Weed Factor" which is great fun so far, but it is 800 pages long :o/
Columba
Columba
Aug 2020
10:17pm, 24 Aug 2020
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AST is only in hardback at present, but we all seem to be reading it (or to have read it). But I must say I prefer a paperback, especially as much of my reading takes place in bed.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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Yes, I got 'mine' from the library
Columba
Columba
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10:19pm, 24 Aug 2020
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... all except Little Nemo, that is.

Local library still not functioning normally.
Peregrinator
Peregrinator
Aug 2020
10:22pm, 24 Aug 2020
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Long way behind on the sprinklings of poetry - excellent. Some what behind on the reading - I've read the Single Thread but need to set down my 2d. Just finished Amateurs in Eden, a biography of Nancy and Lawrence Durrell: Corfu comes out of it well, Lawrence Durrell less so.

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Welcome to Season Eight

February 2025 (Chrisull)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead---feb-2025-book-group-discussion-63501
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/i-apos-m-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom---jason-pargin---jan-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63445
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Last two books of Season Seven

December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/mind-of-winter---dec-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63388
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11632

November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
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Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11610

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