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The GOT Book Club

I have been looking to buy a book.....in HARDBACK not paperback.

Its called

"Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment" by Ian Marter.
Printed in 1978 by WH Allen.

Looking for a near mint copy, no battered ex library stamped to death copy.

It comes with a removable dust jacket and depicts a small picture of Tom Baker standing in front of a large space helmet.

If anybody can get hold of a copy for me, I have a couple of hundred quid for you.
 
BigBlueConk said:
I have been looking to buy a book.....in HARDBACK not paperback.

Its called

"Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment" by Ian Marter.
Printed in 1978 by WH Allen.

Looking for a near mint copy, no battered ex library stamped to death copy.

It comes with a removable dust jacket and depicts a small picture of Tom Baker standing in front of a large space helmet.

If anybody can get hold of a copy for me, I have a couple of hundred quid for you.
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BBC, a pristine copy will no longer exist mate outside the realms of collectors fairs. Those that went into the piublic domain got bought initially for kids, they get torn, dirty and scawled on, unfortunately,

Your best chance, but it will take an age is to get one from the same source as BB, car boots, charity shops etc. I've picked up some classic books that way mate, you've just got to be perpared to rummage.

I've just started reading Rule of Four..............again about Templar legacy etc, based in USA its a good read so far,

If anyone wants a good funny book, 'The Pub Landlords Book of British Common Sense' gives me a chuckle everytime I pick it up
 
I just started reading 'Life of Pi' after several recommendations.

About a boy, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450lb Bengal tiger bobbing about in a lifeboat in the pacific.

Should be interesting.
 
heatmeiser said:
I just started reading 'Life of Pi' after several recommendations.

About a boy, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450lb Bengal tiger bobbing about in a lifeboat in the pacific.

Should be interesting.
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Bloody typical, here was me thinking we've got far to many food threads on here only to find you are reading the Life of Pi.....I give up
 
bluebastardo said:
Some great books.

I collected first editions as a hobby with the wife for a few years.
It was fun, and we'd visit car boot sales, and charity shops etc looking for first editions.
I think we have over 2000 books, so we had to stop as we were running out of space.
The book that has stuck in my mind most throughout my life has been a book by Jack London called White Fang.
I recommend any child or adult to read it.
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My twelve year old started White Fang at school last week. Remember doing the same myself - a great book.

Birdsong by Sebastian Foulkes. A stirringlly erotic and utterly tragic tale of want, war and loss. Once read, never forgotten.

The Cruel Sea. The battles of a small group of men against the German Navy and an even bigger enemy, The North Atlantic. A book about people who stand up men.

Great Expectations. Forget your school experience of one of the greatest novels ever written. Instead, enjoy the trajectory of Pips journey from shy country boy to adulthood.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. Transformational...

Anything by CS Forester.

As said elsewhere on this site. 1984. The best bit of polemic ever penned in our language. Think of Neville's tackle on Ronaldo - translate that into an assault on the power of government to intrude into our lives and our very thoughts. An novel that shapes our thinking about how we are governed.
 

trebilcock66 said:
My twelve year old started White Fang at school last week. Remember doing the same myself - a great book.

Birdsong by Sebastian Foulkes. A stirringlly erotic and utterly tragic tale of want, war and loss. Once read, never forgotten.

The Cruel Sea. The battles of a small group of men against the German Navy and an even bigger enemy, The North Atlantic. A book about people who stand up men.

Great Expectations. Forget your school experience of one of the greatest novels ever written. Instead, enjoy the trajectory of Pips journey from shy country boy to adulthood.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. Transformational...

Anything by CS Forester.

As said elsewhere on this site. 1984. The best bit of polemic ever penned in our language. Think of Neville's tackle on Ronaldo - translate that into an assault on the power of government to intrude into our lives and our very thoughts. An novel that shapes our thinking about how we are governed.
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Nicholas Monserrat.................the best book ever at school and he was a scouser(y)
 
My all time favoritte book is by Allan Eckert Titled ( Frontiersman )It is about the Ohio country when it was still a frontier.. A Non-Fiction Book
 
monty said:
Nicholas Monserrat.................the best book ever at school and he was a scouser(y)
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Dead right, Monts. Liverpool and Birkenhead feature strongly in the story and are sympathetically portrayed as opening their arms for the sailors when they return from duty. Also the aftermath of bombing is described in heartrending detail.
 
trebilcock66 said:
Dead right, Monts. Liverpool and Birkenhead feature strongly in the story and are sympathetically portrayed as opening their arms for the sailors when they return from duty. Also the aftermath of bombing is described in heartrending detail.
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Treb, it reminded me of my own family who all went away to war, the majority in the Merchant Navy manning those convoys, there was never a better book than that to describe how everyone coped
 

monty said:
Nicholas Monserrat.................the best book ever at school and he was a scouser(y)
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I read that when I was just out of school and just a kid in the Royal Navy, and loved it. I'm tempted to read it again, around 35 years later, to see how differently I relate to it now.
 
cloud atlas
brave new world
hitchhiker's guide
fight club
motley crue biography
the god delusion

all read in last week
all good
 
ps that makes it look like i'm some sort of maniac reader, i'm off work after having an op and so finally got the chance to read some novels and such.
 
turner said:
ps that makes it look like i'm some sort of maniac reader, i'm off work after having an op and so finally got the chance to read some novels and such.
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Nothing too serious I trust mate but if you've read all of them its taken a while to get you back to work:D
 

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