#103

I have read none of the books, except Beady Eye’s Different Gear, Still Speeding

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#104

A Moon Paped Shool?

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#105

Little Women was retrospectively ruined for me by Good Wives.
:pensive:

#106

You preferred the Good Fight?

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#107

Good shout whoever nominated “Drive Your Plow” - great book.

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#108

Reckon there might be another seven, possibly eight more football books to come.

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#109

knew i should have done a list, just to get ‘slaying the badger’ in there

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#110

I’m about 99% sure this was a joke nomination, but had to include it anyway.

#111

This was the first Mieville book I read and thought it was excellent. The next one I read of his was Kraken, which is totally different and not the kind of thing I’d usually read.

Anyone have any suggestions as to which of his other books are more along the lines of The City and the City?

#112

Embassytown is probably the closest and my personal favourite of his, but it’s different again. He doesn’t really stay still.

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#113

I should read more books

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#114

Putting me to shame this, but glad to see the Guardian seems just as ignorant.

#115

Used to be quite good at having read the obvious books of any given year, but smartphones were the end for me

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#116

And the Nintendo Switch portable gaming system
220px-AllHopeIsGone

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#117

Saw an advert for a switch lite, tempted

#118

Another that I’ve tried to read upwards of three times

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#119

is switch lite a pun on light switch

#120

Have a really strong personal dislike for Curious Incident, like really strong. Get why other people like it though.

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#121

Are you able to expand on why? (If you’re comfortable to do so obviously) I’d be interested to hear your take innit.

#122

Personal grudge really because it presents a really narrow portrayal of aspergers and kind of says quite strongly ‘this is what it is’ when it is a very broad spectrum of things (at least, this is how it read to me). Put me off track on seeking diagnosis for years because I always thought “well, I’m not that like the kid in Curious Incident, am I?” - so for me I can’t really appreciate it because it contributed to me hiding away more for years.

I know it is judy one book and a work of non-fiction, so really is just about the one protagonist, but so much aroubd it seemed to set it up as ‘this book tells you what it is like to be autistic’. Maybe my beef is more outside of the actual work.

So, probably a good book and also probably useful for some people, but for me it was incredibly damaging to read so I despise it.

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