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Jan 2017
7:45pm, 27 Jan 2017
27,770 posts
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McGoohan
Wee Dan Brown
runs into town
with a pile of paperbacks
in his nightgown
Crying at the windows
marching up the road
with his bloody awful book
the DaVinci Sodding Code
Now piss off Dan.
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Jan 2017
7:46pm, 27 Jan 2017
20,423 posts
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Diogenes
Choosinator, Choosinator
Pick a book, our book curator.
Make it short or make it snappy
Pick a book to make us happy.
Choosinator, Choosinator
Serve it up, be our book waiter
Offer up the chef's selection
For our delight and delectation.
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Jan 2017
8:01pm, 27 Jan 2017
27,142 posts
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Night-owl
Seren my favourite time too
McG brilliant
Now waits for Linds
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Jan 2017
8:14pm, 27 Jan 2017
27,771 posts
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McGoohan
A book of Lunar geography?
A Piers Morgan biography?
Selections from the Book of Kells?
A cookery book that almost smells?
The latest from J K Rowling?
The Secrets of Great Ten-Pin Bowling?
A book of photos? A book of dreams?
A fishy book all filled with breams?
Whatever it is don't let us down
for Christ's sake, no ****ing Dan Brown!
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Jan 2017
8:23pm, 27 Jan 2017
20,428 posts
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Diogenes
Famous writers yet to feature:
Katie Price, or that Archer creature
Alan Titchmarsh, or Naomi Campbell
All of these need no preamble
They've written books
(or had them published)
The reviews weren't good
Some were rublished
So save us from celebrity tomes
How about some Sherlock Holmes?
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Jan 2017
8:43pm, 27 Jan 2017
20,429 posts
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Diogenes
If I may interrupt, I have tonight started The Trouble With Goats And Sheep by Joanna Cannon, a book I very much want to like.
I'm thirty pages in and, although there is much to like so far, I've already come across three things I would query.
1. There is s map of the street where the story is set and it is a cul-de-sac, however, the street is called The Avenue. In my mind an avenue can't be a dead-end.
2. A character is reported to be stacking shelves in the Co-op on a Sunday morning. Supermarkets weren't open on a Sunday in 1976.
3. Similarly, Jimmy Young is on radio 2 on a Sunday lunchtime. I don't recall him ever being on on a Sunday.
Maybe I'm being too picky?
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Jan 2017
8:57pm, 27 Jan 2017
14,098 posts
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Seratonin
Feeling your disbelief Dio. Thirty pages in and all that wrongness. Tut tut 
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Jan 2017
10:35pm, 27 Jan 2017
14,918 posts
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LindsD
I'm feeling the pressure...
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Jan 2017
10:44pm, 27 Jan 2017
14,919 posts
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LindsD
What's our page limit?
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Jan 2017
10:45pm, 27 Jan 2017
27,772 posts
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McGoohan
1. The Avenue was a long, broad line of trees of great vintage. then the council came along and closed off the road, building a giant quarry. Naturally, the Avenue was closed off, though kept its name.
2. Due to food shortages and panic buying caused by the great heatwave of 1976, the Co-op shelf stackers have been asked to come in on Sunday.
3. Terry Wogan has come down with flu and Radio 2 bosses have asked Jimmy Young to stand in.
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