Drowned In Sound’s best books of the 21st century - RESULTS (post 261)!

I watched it and very much then couldn’t bring myself to read it because I couldn’t go through all of that again.

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Never heard it called that before

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BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

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Which Julia Donaldson book did you all vote for?

I read it years ago when I was an edgelord and remember thinking it was good but it didn’t shock me. But now I’ve just read the synopsis on Wiki and I’m deeply upset.

I like stick man, but I also like room on the broom

One Ted Fell Out of Bed because I prefer her earlier stuff.

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I like Stick Man the best

The Best of Julia Donaldson

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don’t know why but this has really done me

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Used to be able to narrate the whole thing off the top of my head, can’t anymore. Gutted.

Stick Man is deffo the best, but I also have a lot of time for Tabby McTat

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Classic DiS

HYG: The Edgelord Years

Coming to all good booksellers soon

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I used to be able to recite Thomas Comes to Breakfast but I probably can’t any more, I could do the opening few pages though

R disliked Room on the Broom so much he wouldn’t have it in the house.

One Mole Digging a Hole is her only work I have found any value in. Over-rated.

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11. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

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Score: 58
Nominations: 5

Good storytelling is compulsive, coercive - a form of tyranny itself. Mitchell’s storytelling in Cloud Atlas is of the best. I was, appropriately, captivated.

~Laurence Norfolk

GoodReads: 4.02
The Guardian: 9th

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Hmm. fine/10

Should I read Cloud Atlas? Is it one of those impenetrable ones that people read for the sense of achievement?

His involvement in the upcoming new Matrix film intrigues me

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