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The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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Little Nemo
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Virago republished all her books in the 80s and I read most of them. All of them are great but I really loved A Game of Hide and Seek and The Sleeping Beauty. She's got a great style, feels very "English" in a good way :-)
Diogenes
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Listening to audiobooks in the car and when walking, and using Kindle on the iPad when going to bed doesn't leave me much time for reading physical books these days. "If On A Winter's Night A Traveller" is being neglected. The Kindle reads tend to be a bit lighter, crime fiction and the like. I find I get very sleepy after 20 minutes and end up reading the same page over and over again between nodding off and waking up, often going into a dream and then wondering why the story has taken such a strange turn. The book I am reading at the moment, I can't even remember the name of it. It's not bad, it's just negligible.

(It's called Tuned Out and is by Keith A Pearson)
McGoohan
McGoohan
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Keith: A Person, most boring autobiography ever
Diogenes
Diogenes
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There was a maths teacher at my school called Keith Pearson
McGoohan
McGoohan
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We had a Physics teacher called Mr Pearson actually. I don't know his first name but I do know that he was a total bell-end.
Wriggling Snake
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I had 4 maths teachers in my time at comp., Mrs Ellis who was German and smelled very bad, Mr Davis who thought he was well cool and used to take us to England Football Internationals, Mr Davies who was a Cambridge Gradate who wanted to do his bit for the working class, and Mr Clapper, who, quite obviously we called Crapper. Somehow I got an A Level.
Night-owl
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Going back

I've heard of Elizabeth Taylor the writer and always thought of giving her a go

I have also heard of Elizabeth Taylor who I'm told was an actress ;)
Diogenes
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I always want to call the writer Robert Burton (The Anatomy of Melancholy) Richard Burton.
Night-owl
Night-owl
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Most of us have a name that's shared with someone who writes. Mine is a British lady and is usually about horses. She's more successful in USA.
LindsD
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I don't :)

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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