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  • Gibbon
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    For books that I really like though I always want my own copy, either for re-reading, referring back to etc. A wood-pannelled library with wall to wall books, leather loungers, a snooker table and some good quality port are what is required...one day.
    You're missing the Swedish au pair, otherwise perfecto.

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  • sasguru
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    The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. For the second time. Possibly the finest non-fiction book of recent times.

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  • Lance
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    “Stories of the Law and How It's Broken”

    By The Secret Barrister....
    Not quite a legal text book, but it’s made of text (and paper), and about the law....

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  • NotAllThere
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    Is this really the most recent Currently Reading thread?

    Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin - seriously hard science fiction, set in China.

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  • Charles Foster Kane
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    Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
    Public Libraries are an excellent feature of British life - I often visit after a day on the collective farm, at closing times the cheerful Librarians can be heard singing that inspiring ditty Forward United Kingdom - collective responsibilites we enjoy.
    I love the library. We have our own Rain Man - if people stay on the PC's longer than 30 minutes he can be seen freaking out on them...

    ...He is the autistic law (of the library).

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Originally posted by HeliCraig View Post
    The credit crunch (read: my being a tight wod) has induced my first visit to a public library since leaving school; I feel guilty spending £15 on a book I shall read only once when the local library has one available!!

    Public Libraries are an excellent feature of British life - I often visit after a day on the collective farm, at closing times the cheerful Librarians can be heard singing that inspiring ditty Forward United Kingdom - collective responsibilites we enjoy.

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  • Bob Dalek
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    Originally posted by chef View Post
    Ronnie - by Ronnie Wood

    and

    As You Do: Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana
    by Richard Hammond

    bit of Top Gear theme going on

    next on the list Parkinson autobiography
    Parkinson? He's crap. Stopped being owt good in the 70s.

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  • chef
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    Ronnie - by Ronnie Wood

    and

    As You Do: Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana
    by Richard Hammond

    bit of Top Gear theme going on

    next on the list Parkinson autobiography

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    I have been assured that I am seldom 'fashionable'
    There is only one thing worse that not being fashionable - and that is - being fashionable.

    He's a dedicated follower of Fashion

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  • HeliCraig
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    Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
    Well the big fashion trend now is Nationalisation - so the collective spirit means we should reject such bourgeoise concepts as private bookstores and spend our time in the public reading libraries instead.
    The credit crunch (read: my being a tight wod) has induced my first visit to a public library since leaving school; I feel guilty spending £15 on a book I shall read only once when the local library has one available!!

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