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    #31
    I can't believe no-one has suggested this masterpiece yet: The Road by Cormack McCarthy. And it won the Pulitzer this year.

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      #32
      Dante's Inferno...but it would have to be a long journey because it ain't easy reading!!! It took me all bleedin summer!!

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        #33
        Only really enjoy "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein.

        However, the film of Starship Trooper is a good for a laugh.

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          #34
          Originally posted by Let-Me-In
          Dante's Inferno...but it would have to be a long journey because it ain't easy reading!!! It took me all bleedin summer!!
          Do you mean "The Divine Comedy" or just Inferno? Did you translate it yourself?
          I am not qualified to give the above advice!

          The original point and click interface by
          Smith and Wesson.

          Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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            #35
            Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
            Do you mean "The Divine Comedy" or just Inferno? Did you translate it yourself?
            I read both...and no, they were translated.....

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              #36
              Originally posted by Let-Me-In
              I read both...and no, they were translated.....
              Sorry, you lost me there. Both?
              Inferno is part of the Divine Comedy "trilogy".
              I am not qualified to give the above advice!

              The original point and click interface by
              Smith and Wesson.

              Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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                #37
                Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
                Sorry, you lost me there. Both?
                Inferno is part of the Divine Comedy "trilogy".

                Ah, I agree but I bought them in different books, as opposed to one big mutha book.

                These are the ones I bought!!

                http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...860133-1404648

                http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...860133-1404648

                Most interesting books....

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                  #38
                  Best series I have ever read, The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell.

                  • The Winter King
                  • Enemy of God
                  • Excalibur

                  Or the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden are rather good

                  • The Gates of Rome
                  • The Death of Kings
                  • The Field of Swords
                  • The Gods of War

                  If you like fantasy Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini. Are excellent

                  HTH
                  "Wait, I still function!"

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                    #39
                    The Hornblower series was also very good, good TV series too...

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                      #40
                      anything by isaac azimov, or maybe H.G. Wells (back to the basics...)
                      Carpe Pactum

                      (does fuzzy logic tickle?)

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