![]() | Guards! Guards!: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 this got me into pratchett i originally heard a great radio adaptation and i kicked off from there and havent looked back this reperesents the whole guards series cause they rock
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![]() | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £8.04 need i say any more, just groundbraking, brilliant and hilarious. there is simply no reason why anybody in the english speaking world should not read these books
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![]() | The Dirk Gently Omnibus by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £12.28 / Used from: £10.85 dirk genty is fantastic and on a par with hitch hikers guide at points, i love the character i cant see why reveiws have said its not funny, just read the fridge part or any of it really
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![]() | Mort: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 this goes for all the death books, they are brilliant pratchett on top form with all of them, (actually the only one i havent read yet i heard a very good radio version though which was ace)
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![]() | Thief of Time (A Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 my fav and the best possibly (its a toss up between this, the truth and night watch) one of the main characters is Lu-tze possibly the best character apart from death who is a kind of old master type
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![]() | The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 one of the 3 best discworld movels, this is brilliant, the watch take a back seat to the new charcters, mainly de worde but otto is also a brilliant charcter (who i hope is developed )
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![]() | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Tressell
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £2.97 a very good novel about socialism and the working classes at the start of the 20th century that is still (to some extent) relevent today
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![]() | The Lord of the Rings: AND The Hobbit (Collins Modern Classics) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £18.99 this and the hobbit were what really started modern fantasy true genius,only thing is its been copied so much the large amount of unoriginal books out there are pale copies of its ideas,first and best
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![]() | A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin
Buy new: £5.26 / Used from: £2.20 one of the best books ive read its engroasing, the characters are real people the plots are clever fresh and original and he kills characters off and isnt afraid of it (no miraculous escapes here)
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![]() | Hogfather: A Discworld novel (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 the wizards are the jewel in the crown of the diskworld whatever theyre in they are themost constantly funny group and can make a book this is basically recomending all the books with the wiazards in
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![]() | Carry on, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.15 most of you will not know or care who wodehouse is but you should, he is described by douglas adams as the greatest comic writer ever and may well be, the books are funny and ripping reads, What-ho!
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![]() | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £1.50 this is fantastic in a horrible way the ideas and concets in it can be quite frightening you read it a much to learn about ideas of ingsoc as to follow the protragonist a book that can change you
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![]() | Othello (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 a play not a novel but othello is brilliant with the best (worst) villain ever created, Iago is an enigma why does he do this? we never find out, this can disturb. One of shakespeares best i love it
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![]() | Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £6.14 my favourite poet who is often seen as a depressing mysoginistic and pesimistic person but larkin was not so simple, whatever he may have been like his poetry is brilliant
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![]() | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.86 a short but great novel about dreams, friendships and outsiders. lifting at points, depressing at others it is very a rewarding read
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![]() | Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Poirot the diminutive almost obsessively neat and amazingly clever man is imho the greatest fictional detective (only holmes comes close) the plots are interesting, the mysteries are feindishly hard
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![]() | The Assassin's Road (Lone Wolf & Cub S.) Vol 1: Assassin's Road v. 1 (Lone Wolf and Cub (Dark Horse)) by Kazuo Koike
Buy new: £5.10 / Used from: £0.81 very cool if a bit weird for most, the series examines things such as the father/son relationship, death the morality of the killer and also are just entertaining and very violent(influenced kill bill
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![]() | Sword in the Storm (The Rigante series) by David Gemmell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 far and away gemmels best series two books are set in the equivalent of roman times two in a period based somewhere between the civil war and napoleonic wars, very good and more original than most
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![]() | Giles Annual 1956-57: Eleventh series (Annuals) by Giles
Buy used from: £6.00 Giles is possibly the greatest cartoonist of the 20th century and almost definately the most loved he ranges from light jokes on family to quite scathing critique and satire at points, very good
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![]() | The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Coleridge
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £6.90 Colridge is another favorite poet of mine, the rime of the ancient mariner being my absolute favorite poem, his other work is good as well
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![]() | Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II (Oxford World's Classics) by Christopher Marlowe
Buy used from: £0.10 a very good play that was mauled in the b-text version so read the a-text
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