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GregP
GregP
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12:26pm, 13 Jul 2019
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[there’s a precedent for this - I saved the last two completed PO’Bs until I ‘needed’ them, and the one before last is a cast iron shocker. Worst book in the series by so far it hurts. Mercifully the last one is actually really good, just a bit short]
Diogenes
Diogenes
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1:45pm, 13 Jul 2019
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TRTLD?
Is PO’B Patrick O’Brian?
Deinonychus
Deinonychus
Jul 2019
2:48pm, 13 Jul 2019
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Deinonychus
The Road to Little Dribbing. At least, that’s my guess, since it was mentioned not far back.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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2:50pm, 13 Jul 2019
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Of course, the very book I am reading and introduced on the thread!
GregP
GregP
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9:52am, 14 Jul 2019
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And Patrick O’Brien, yes. Which he was the very author of the world.

Taken as a whole the Aubrey/Maturin books are my favourite novel. Or nineteen of them are anyway.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jul 2019
7:42am, 17 Jul 2019
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Not quite halfway through Restless and either despite or because of the low expectations I brought to it, I’m really enjoying it. Quite page-turnery.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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8:05am, 17 Jul 2019
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Diogenes
Boyd is always readable.

Bill Bryson is off to Tenby this morning, I’m looking forward to joining him in another place I know.
Serendippily
Serendippily
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There was a short chapter in the mermaid and Mrs Hancock which was so immensely enjoyable it made the whole book worthwhile. An unexpected treat
McGoohan
McGoohan
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If I'm not mistaken, there are a number of books which all have the same very short chapter: "Nothing else happened the rest of the night".

I think Stephen King has used it as has Ray Bradbury, but I thiiiink the original was Mark Twain.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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11:23am, 17 Jul 2019
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I’ve ready many books that cover whole epochs in which nothing happens

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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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