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These are some of my favorite things...
Time Trumpet [DVD] [2006]Time Trumpet [DVD] [2006]
Buy new: £7.98
6 reasons to buy this: Armando Iannucci, Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness, Adam Buxton, Jo Enright, Stewart Lee.
15 Storeys High : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 [DVD]15 Storeys High : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 [DVD]
Buy new: £15.88
The great Sean Lock. This man can do no wrong.
Marion And Geoff - Series 1 [DVD] [2000]Marion And Geoff - Series 1 [DVD] [2000]
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.99
Another forgotten comedy legend who practically invented the mockumentary. Guaranteed to give anything a painfully awkward charm.
The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift)The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01
Reading the first sentance was like a Kurtz crystal bullet moment.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £1.71
An unforgetable book, will keep you hooked from start to finish. Feels like long lost friend every time you pick it up.
Wasp FactoryWasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy used from: £49.03
Deep and dark, this book's sinister themes will echo in the Id for years.
The Cossacks and Other Stories: Stories of Sevastopol, the Cossacks, Hadji Murat (Penguin Classics)The Cossacks and Other Stories: Stories of Sevastopol, the Cossacks, Hadji Murat (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.16
I've only read 'The Cossacks', but it is rightly described as the perfect short story. Forget 'catcher in the rye', this tale of a young man's rite of passage is eloquent and moving.
The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.48
I have to thank an unorthodox french teacher for introducing my 15-year-old brain to existentialism. Should be required reading in every classroom in the country.