#163

HYG: The Edgelord Years

Coming to all good booksellers soon

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#164

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

#165

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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#166

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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General reading/book thread for 2020
#168

Great book

#169

Hmm. fine/10

#171

I have read this. It was on my longer list, but didn’t make the top 20.

#172

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

#173

48

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General reading/book thread for 2020
#174

Nah, it’s basically airplane reading.

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#175

Yes

No.

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#176

Watch the film instead, stellar reviews

#177

The gimmick may or may not get your back up but it’s compulsive reading, not impenetrable at all.

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#178
#179

Y tho? Genuinely interested to hear why you liked it and understand why it’s so loved.

(also quite happy to accept that just because I didn’t like a book, that doesn’t make it bad)

#180

Personally I love the concept but thought the execution was pish.

#181

not in the slightest, it’s a really easy, quick read

didn’t like it myself but you might as well

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#182

I read The Bone Clocks and after I got past the initial excitement of South East Kent, in particular the Medway Towns, represented in a modern novel, it just came across as unnecessarily complicated. I’ve had no desire to read Cloud Atlas as a result. Maybe one day I’ll dive in.

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19. Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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Score: 43
Nominations: 3

can’t believe Colin has me muted

~ @anon26275971

GoodReads: 3.96
The Guardian: 75th

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#184

19, is it

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