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    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:24:26 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Classics for commuting ...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98418,99004#msg-99004</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes, 'A Tale of Two Cities' is actually good! I had trouble with 'David Copperfield' and 'The Pickwick Papers' but I made it through ATOT easily. Also, try 'The Moonstone' and 'The Woman in White' if you get a chance; Wilkie Collins is king of the 'one read' classic as once you know the endings you'll never want to read them again.]]></description>
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      <author>ibborobb</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Skids - 22.

Egon - Thanks for recommending A Tale of two cities, I was put off Dickens a long time ago when I had to read Hard Times at college but I thoroughly enjoyed this one.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:12:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Bonzai Kitten</author>
      <description><![CDATA[History geeks will like &quot;Warriors of the Dragon Gold.&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:26:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A question for ibborobb: how many of the choices offered fit [i]your[/i] definition of classics?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:19:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Anybody read any Caiseal Mor? I keep putting it off, I bought a book called The Raven Game by them, never get around to it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:31:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA['The Glass Key' by Dashiell Hammett. A genuine crime classic and far better than Chandler. Just don't try to type Hammett's name as it's guaranteed you'll never get the correct number of m's, t's or l's!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:45:31 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[For winter trips when the train is slowed: 'The History of the English Speaking Race' by that promising writer W S Churchill.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:45:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>MartinB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Damon Knight, if you can find anything by him. :\

Only read three shorts, but they were pretty readable.

Dave Freer is also quite good.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:23 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I didn't like &quot;Strange &amp; Norrell&quot; either. It lacked a certain amount of depth to me. Oh well.

'Gateway' by Frederik Pohl?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:32:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>GenericInTraining</author>
      <description><![CDATA[If you like sci-fi, I would highly suggest the &quot;Ender's Game&quot; saga by Orson Scott Card. 
&quot;Ender's Game&quot;
&quot;Speaker for the Dead&quot;
&quot;Xenocide&quot;
&quot;Children of the Mind&quot;
WARNING: These books are not, by any stretch of the imagination classics. Still, they are truly amazing pieces of literature.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:09:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[As I am probably the only person on the Fforum who actively dislikes JS &amp; MN you may find my my suggestions less to your taste. However, here goes

Any Wodehouse - they are all brilliant and yes, Blandings are as good a place to start as any.
Wells - particularly &quot;The Time Machine&quot;
Tolstoy - &quot;War &amp; Peace&quot;
George Grosmith - &quot;Diary of a Nobody&quot;
RL Stevenson -&quot;Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes&quot;

Happy reading!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:13:08 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>OC Not</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ich bin ein bookcrosser.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:09:11 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Secret Garden? Not a bad book either.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:21:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[BK, [url=http://www.bookcrossing.com/]bookcrossing[/url] is all about the same thing that you are talking about.  If you join you can track the books that you &quot;release in to the wild&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:43:46 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Get the one from Hancock.  The one with the missing last page.  Create your own set of neurotics.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:52:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Bonzai Kitten</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've taken to reading whatever some kind soul has left on the train for that purpose. It was a very ordinary spy thriller last week.
I'm thinking of investing in a couple of spare copies of certain books to leave on trains. Maybe with a note inside encouraging other people to do the same. Like a travelling library project.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:01:51 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[How about Tom Sharpe - easy to pick-up and put down, perfick commuting fodder!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:00:12 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[That is why all opportunity shops have at least half a dozen copies of the book (seven little idiots), as nobody wants them.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:53:27 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[That starts me on an idea. For years now, all Berlin subway carriages have been equipped with TV screens that are showing commercials. I should really look into hijacking them to get them to show a better programme...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:56:08 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98418,98645#msg-98645</link>
      <author>PirateXxEsque</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Seven Little Australians was awful. 

Maybe you should skip the whole readin while commuting, and invest in a portable DVD played, and the entire season of Firefly.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:43:16 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98418,98626#msg-98626</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA['Gateway' by Frederik Pohl? It's proper sci-fi.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:54:31 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I would never recommend Seven little Australians to Anyone.

How about Some Jules Verne?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:04:38 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>robert</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Darling Buds of May&quot; and then all of the Darling books (if for nothing more than Dad's ideas of how to make a 'perfick' mixed drink - and he never stops making them).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:28:55 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Bonzai Kitten</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The Australian classic HAS to be Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert.
I think it might be the longest Aussie novel too.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:53:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>MartinB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Were one of the books Alice in Wonderland? *evil grinne*

Am also curious. The story seems to make sense to me though....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:24:05 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[In what sense does it not make sense? It's been a while since I read it but it didn't strike me as any more nonsensical than other books I've read. I'm not making fun; I'm really curious.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:57:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Was it just me, or did the Three Musketeers not really make sense?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:15:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>zendao42</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You know, somebody should do an index of characters referenced in Fforde's books-
no, not me just [i]somebody[/i] with plenty of time, energy &amp; motivation...

I'm hoping that one day Biff from [b]LAMB[/b] will make an appearance!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:24:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I haven't read The Count of Monte Christo, but I have read one of Dumas's lesser-known, shorter books: The Black Tulip. This one I can recommend for sure--a really excellent story with romance and political intrigue and horticulture, and a surprisingly fast read.

And I concur about the Wodehouse books--read some of the Jeeves &amp; Wooster short stories, then any of the novels (recycled plots or not, they're so well-told that it's worth it). As for Blandings, Leave it to Psmith is my favorite, closely followed by Summer Lightning (if I recall correctly, that's the one with the flower pots, which may be my favorite scene in all of Wodehouse).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:57:12 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Puckoon?


All the Noddy books, especially the porno ones where Noddy goes into the woods and feels a little queer.  If not, be creative and rewrite the Noddy stories as porn.

The COunt of Monte Christo, on the basis of if you are not reading it you can use it for a footrest.


Philip Jose Farmer, esp. Riders of the Purple Sage.  It is parodying Joyce.

If Thursday ever went international in her operations the what are the classics of the New World?  I think 'The Last Of The Mohicans' for what became the Untied States, and something like 'Robbery Under Arms' for the great southern land of convicts and remittance men.  (For the Term of his Natural Life' is about as enthralling as reading 'Governor Arthur's Convict System'. Good detail, but would you really want to read it twice?

I am ashamed to admit I don't know what the equivalent book would be for the Land of the Long White Cloud.]]></description>
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