 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £1.90 Ooh let's all get in van and drink whisky with people we don't know, that'll be fun...ain't it sad when the seminal becomes the orthodox..!
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 This was great til they get rid of Sebastien! He just disappears part way through into an alcoholic fog! A literary injustice if ever there was one : (
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 | Emma (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 I'm not an Austen fan anyway but even her poise and syntactical dexterity don't save this one. Yuck.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.91 / Used from: £2.43 I thought this was meant to change my life! Almost as overrated as On The Road. Holden - stop saying 'Goddamn' so much!
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 | David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 Must stay awake...Must stay awake...Must stay Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
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 | Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £3.59 I can't really think of anything to describe Faulkner's prose. He is an exceptionally proficient writer but...well have a look and see what I mean!
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 | The Portrait of a Lady (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry James
Buy used from: £0.01 Icky, sticky, fiddly prose. Another one of those 'classics' I just couldn't get on with.
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 I swear Bridget Jones has destroyed 30 years worth of feminism! 'Oh poor me I can't get a husband, I'm so fat...' Oh pleeeease!
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 | Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £4.35 Fine if ya like poems about soil and potatoes and mud and drowning kittens...
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 | The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: £0.01 Horrible. Read it when I was 13, hated it, vowed never to read Steinbeck ever again!
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