 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £1.44 Drugs Drugs Drugs Drugs and a few drugs.... and Las Vegas.... what a combo
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 | The Dirk Gently Omnibus by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £4.66 My favourite author and someone I would have loved to have met - Hitch Hikers is good but Mr Gently is genius
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 | Mort: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Favourite Pratchett book - brilliant stuff - if you don't read them in order it's a good one to start with, but try and read them in order
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 | The Doors of Perception (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £2.11 Huxley off his face - what a book! And inspiration for the band name too.... bargain
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 | The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.50 Led onto this from Mr Thompson - great book
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 | The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science) by Susan Greenfield
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.10 Very good - readable and bloody interesting stuff
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 | Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays by Bez
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant - a good insight into life in Manchester and the lives of the Mondays - told by a craftsman
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 | The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher
Buy used from: £53.43 Right this is for kids I know - but I remember the tv series and still think it's a great trilogy
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 | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.96 Borrowed this from a mate and was astounded - again very readable / accessible
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 | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 As good as the film - or I should really say the film is as good as this......
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 | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Arkana) by Carlos Castaneda
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.77 Very interesting stuff - lent to me by one of my offshore mates
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £1.70 Just finished reading this - and it was as good as everyone I spoke to said it would be!
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 | The Proud Highway: 1955-67, Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman v.1: Fear and Loathing Letters: 1955-67, Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman Vol 1 by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.93 More HST - A little hard core reading but a really good laugh - fantastic letters, notes and articles and a good lesson in history too
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 | The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
Buy used from: £3.97 Don't get me wrong I think this guy is a penis - but he cooks good fodder
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 | Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy - Book 1) by Robin Hobb
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.99 First book in the 'Farseer' trilogy and a very good read indeed
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 | Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jules Peabody Verne
Buy new: £2.22 / Used from: £0.01 The first 'proper' book I read when a nipper - utterly absurd - but a great book
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 | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £0.01 Yeah, yeah all this Lord of the Rings gubbins - but it really is a good book - read it long before this movie lark
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 I have a scary knack of reading books then suddenly finding them being shown down at the pictures a year later - the book is better than the film!
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 | Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Very entertaining - read this after I saw him live in Liverpool - a good naughty man
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 | Quest for the Gloop (Picture Puffin) by Helen Nicoll
Buy used from: £0.25 Wow - nearly fell off my chair when I searched for this one - my favourite book when I was a kid - fantastic
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| The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley
Buy used from: £63.95 The only book I've read which scared me s*itless
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 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.01 First Hemmigway I read - and it's good
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 | I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 Very famous book from a genius writer - a good introduction to the Asimov library
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another Pratchett - but this time a collaboration with Neil Gaimen - adds a little more darkness to the Pratchett world
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 | Atlantis of the Sands by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Buy used from: £4.28 The last 'proper' explorer delivers a fantastic read
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