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Batsheep
17 yrs ago
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His account of the Vendee challenge including when he had to sail back and upwind to rescue a Frenchman whose name I can't remember. Gripping stuff.
Also 'No law, no God' by Mike Golding - another round the world accou…
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
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Silk by Alessandro Baricco. It's only 90 pages or so but perfectly written.
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
There are very few books I have abandoned but Catch-22 was one of them. So dull and aprt from the basic joke just not funny. It is forever linked in my mind with Catcher in the Rye which I did finish at about the same …
Book Talk
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Should I....
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Re: Hmmmm, I'm just finding it all a bit too far fetched....they've just had
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
I enjoyed it, but then I read it when I was about 15 and some of the characters reminded me of some of the wierder fringes of my own family, but made them seem fairly normal by comparision which is reassuring at that age…
OBCZ Managers
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Hello! I'm a new OBCZ manager. Helpful hints please!
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Re: Hello! I'm a new OBCZ manager. Helpful hints please!
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
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I've been running an OBCZ in a cafe for about 15 months and I still find that people can't believe they can really take the books, despite posters etc.
I have tried seeing who's joined bookcrossing recently in my area …
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
Posted mine today, I do hope you enjoy it.
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
I ddn't read it this year, but I found Catcher in the Rye totally underwhelming too. I read it first at 15 (surely the perfect age?) and tried it again at about thirty as I had read so many quotes on the back of other b…
Release Challenges
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In memory of little Sam: a release challenge on June 29.
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Re: In memory of little Sam: a release challenge on June 29.
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
Only found out about this when I caught the release alerts from Barby-Girl's 19 books, but will release Fireman Sam's 1 2 3 tomorrow (yet to register)
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
Like it.
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
'It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me..'
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
p.s. Good luck.
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
I've been running an OBCZ for about 6 months. I find that about 20% of the books that disappear get journalled, but sometimes people take one....then another and when they get to about the third they bite the bullet and…
OBCZ Managers
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OBCZ finder updates on indefinite hold
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Re: New OBCZ finder: Updated with more countries!
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
Good work, Netstation. Entry is correct for Summersault in Rugby.
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
It is very funny - I haven't read it for at least 20 years but someone mentioned housemaid's knee the other day and I instantly thought of 3 Men in a Boat.
Book Talk
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What was the funniest book you have ever read?
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Re: Wilt, by Tom Sharpe - made me laugh out loud
Batsheep
17 yrs ago
Agree wholeheartedly. Wilt is brilliant but (I suspect) very English humour. The sequence where they disinter the blow up doll is sublime. It is one of the few books that has made me laugh out loud on the tube. Pratc…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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My answer to blacklists.
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Re: I alway like to give people the "benefit of the doubt"
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
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I have read through all this with increasing dismay that a group of people who purport to aspire to 'good karma' can be so picky and then I got this far and thought 'benefit of the doubt' - Mid West American? It was in …
Book Talk
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When did you start reading "to" your child?
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Re: When did you start reading "to" your child?
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
All these answers seem so positive. In my experience they aren't always that receptive. I read to my first when he was very small, but as soon as he became mobile at 8 months or so he crawled away every time I tried. …
Book Talk
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What is your favorite book from your childhood?
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Re: What is your favorite book from your childhood?
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
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I have a battered copy of the Girl of the Limberlost that belonged to my father. I loved it as a child (30 years ago) but have never met anyone else who had read it. I don't have Freckles - what have I missed?
Book Talk
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Alternate history favourites?
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Re: Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase & series
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
I agree. I have read all 11 to my children and they have really enjoyed them. Me too!
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
(from UK) Tricky as not all UK cookbooks work in translation - you have this obsession with cups and spoons and some odd ingredients and we have too many floz in our pint and (presumably) some different odd ingredients.
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Batsheep
18 yrs ago
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I picked up a book recently that was really awful - as soon as I got to page 5 and it had a man with a sword and a full breasted woman I knew it was going to be terrible. It then threw in a member of the IRA and a girl …
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
This was set in Rugby School, which is just down the road from me in Rugby. Though it is set in the 1830s most of the school buildings are still there - they filmed much of the recent film of it on location there - as …
Book Talk
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BORING to you , excellent to the masses ?
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Re: First ones that come to mind are Catcher In The Rye, The Bell Jar and Lovely Bones
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
Certainly agree with Catcher in the Rye - I read it because som many books had crits of the back saying 'Best book since Catcher..' but it did nothing for me, even though I was about 14 and ought to have been just the ri…
Book Talk
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Books SO Bad You Can't Believe They Were Published
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Re: The first six or seven were actually pretty good - Gor books
Batsheep
18 yrs ago
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Loved the link. Like you, I really enjoyed the first few Gor books (I was young) but then they became rather (OK, very) pathetic. It seems strange that everyone who is slagging them off but seems to have read not one b…
