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Will do!

£2.99 on Amazon. Will buy it when I get paid on Friday along with some other books.

Yeah, I feel a small Amazon spree coming on.

(A very very low price one, that is, as am extremely poor.)

Quote: bamalamafizzvaj @ July 24 2010, 8:11 PM BST

Another yay! And that's Miss Balfamajah, thankyouverymuch.

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Yay! Another lady is discovered on BCG!

Oh dear. Should I be frightened? Or aroused?

Both!

Excellent.

Quote: zooo @ July 24 2010, 8:15 PM BST

(A very very low price one, that is, as am extremely poor.)

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I recently discovered a furniture store that specializes in shelves and display units, and to get punters in, the display shelves are filled with new (well, titles from the past one to three years) books at 90% off the recommended retail price. The girl at the store told me they buy bulk quantities of unsold/remaindered books that are otherwise destined to be pulped. One of the better titles I picked up there was Flat Earth News by Nick Davies, about the declining quality of British reporting and increasing acceptance of PR spin as fact.

Paper Towns - John Green

Colin Dexter - Last Bus to Woodstock (the first Morse book)

Tempted to choose it from the brand-new section in the library. I'm surprised by the poor quality of the writing.

Quote: Griff @ August 1 2010, 1:01 PM BST

The Morse books definitely get better, although I don't dislike Last Bus To Woodstock. It's interesting how in the early books Morse and Lewis are different from the TV versions, and then they suddenly transform into John Thaw and Kevin Whately in the later ones.

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Finished Woodstock.
I prefer my detective fiction more donnish. Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin are my favourites. (Coincidentally, they both often use Oxford as a setting.)

My recommendations:

Edmund Crispin The Case of the Gilded Fly
(The first chapter describes the train journey from Didcot Junction to Oxford)

Michael Innes Stop Press

Quote: Griff @ August 4 2010, 10:01 AM BST

Didcot Junction. There's a blast from the past.

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The book was published in 1944!

(Comedy connection), Edmund Crispin later wrote the musical scores for the early Carry On films - under his given name, Bruce Montgomery.

The latest Viz. Funny.

Middlemarch by George Eliot. All 770 pages of it.

Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ August 4 2010, 8:14 PM BST

Middlemarch by George Eliot. All 770 pages of it.

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