 | Celtic (Myths & Legends) by T.W. Rolleston
Buy used from: £0.01 A brief history and a selection of myths from Germany, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, a great read.
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 | Fictions by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.99 Brilliant stuff. Realy shows up his talent, wit, philosphies and fantastic imagination. Challenging but worth it.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.62 The only Kurt Vonnegut book I've read, but I will definitely be checking out more.
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 | The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.40 Amazing fantasy, hilarious and enthralling. If Lord of the Rings was written by Kurt Vonnegut...
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 | The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £8.39 Favourite author, really great, very complex though, more than most people think. Might wanna school up on my classical mythology and folk tales that he makes references to all the time.
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 | The Monk (Dover Thrift Editions) by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Buy new: £2.26 / Used from: £0.51 Great Book. If we showed someone from the 18th Century "The Exorcist" or "Hostel", they'd show us this. Shocking stuff. Rape, murder, incest, paedophilia, Satan and monks. Alright!
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 | Dracula (Wordsworth Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 And you know what? It's not even slightly over-rated. Not at all. Amazing
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Flamingo modern classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy used from: £0.27 Hunter S. Thompson is a great writer, really great, and this is a good place to start.
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 | The Big Sleep: An Philip Marlowe Mystery (Penguin Fiction) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.89 Raymond Chandler books are unbelievably cool. Like Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart cool. That's cool. Actually, I think Humphrey Bogart was in the film. I digress. Good book.
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 | Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by H.C. Andersen
Buy used from: £19.07 I really love H.C. Andersen. I always pick it up and read it when I'm bored. Some beautiful stories and quotes in there. Really great.
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 | Selected Poems by Robert Browning
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.24 My favourite poet, this is a decent enough show of some of his work.
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 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers) by Jules Verne
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.75 Damn entertaining. It's like 450 pages and I zipped through it. Exciting stuff.
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 | Nostradamus: The Evidence by Ian Wilson
Buy used from: £0.94 I find the man himself more interesting than his writings, and this book tells all about him and is prophecies, so best of both world's and a very interesting read.
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 | The Metamorphoses: a New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £4.24 How the Greek Gods created the world. Interesting stuff. Tiring though, heavy stuff. Fortunately, it's broken into 15 books (all included) and with notes and references, so easier to absorb.
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 | The Oxford Book of Death (Oxford Books of Prose)
Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £2.32 Wonderfully macabre. Just in case I'm in a good mood, I open this thing to bum me out again. Seriously though, it is interesting stuff, Death through the ages
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 | In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way v.1: Swann's Way Vol 1 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £2.50 Proust. Gotta love him really. Really beautiful at times, touching. I know it's a lot but I would suggest buying all 6 volumes and just losing yourself in them completely, you really can with Proust.
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