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Diogenes
Diogenes
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I'm over half way through The Trouble With Goats And Sheep and it is really very good.

I've only come across one more anomaly to bug me: the author has a character complain that she is missing Emmerdale Farm on a Saturday evening in December 1967, when the programme only started in 1972, and was on on weekday afternoons. Am I picky, or is this the sort of thing editors, proof, and beta readers ought to pick up?
Badger
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Nemo: definitely, see theguardian.com
An awful lot of similarities, but enough originality that it works well.
Badger
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(The really freaky Secret History reference is where what are obviously the characters from that book turn up to a party in one of Bret Easton Ellis' novels, which was published before the Secret History. Ellis was good friends with Tartt and had read the manuscript in progress.)
Little Nemo
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Thanks for that Badger, really interesting :-)
Diogenes
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Was that Rules of Attraction, Badger?
McGoohan
McGoohan
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(Wishes it was American Psycho and P. Bateman had wiped out the preppy twats...)
Seratonin
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I am still undecided about my thoughts on the way American Psycho ended. Has it ever been BOTM or had a discussion thread? I would love to trade views on the book with others but don't want to introduce spoilers on here for folk who have not read it yet.
Badger
Badger
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I think it was, Dio. :O and :) for McG
Badger
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:o?
Serendippily
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: - o ;-)

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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)
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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