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I have a couple of favourites…Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier…Bluebirds by Margaret Mayhew and Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh…

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Stephen Hawkings “A Brief History of Time” will scramble your brain and send it spinning into an event horizon, and when you’ve struggled through it and convinced yourself that you understood every word, you’ll tell everybody on the Airliner World forum that its the best book you’ve ever read.

I need a drink

Dave

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I read August 1914 by Alexander Solsenhitsyn on holiday. I travel on too many buses. It was…..hard work. The Bible was easier (the edition I had) and Mein Kampf got me bogged down in the various academic bullshit that preceded Hitlers own Bullshit. I try and read important stuff as much as I enjoy Clancy or Non-Fiction. But some of it is really overrated – ie that Arab Chappy – Sheikh Speer.

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I really dont read nonfiction, but one book that I have read that I think is important is Farenheit 451. Has anyone here read sholtiniezen (spelling?) that gulag fellow? (Ill probably start reading russian novels when Im 70 and cant get out of my chair)

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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is one of the best books i have read.

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I’m on page 8:

That very same morning, after he’d managed to get the bread bin off his headm Mr Clumsy went to town.

Shopping.

“First things first,” he said, and went into the bank to get some money.

Now if that isn’t a superb narrative with a deep underlying message, then my name is Jeremy Fisher.

Of course, it should be read in partnership with Mr Fussy – now THERE is the real twist to the saga…..

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Yep, I couldnt agree more with your assessment of my character,

by the way have you finished it yet? no probably not cos it says on the front, suitable for 2-5 years, and you’ve only been reading it for six months.

Dave

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Of course it does. Obviously you are a dirty rotten snob who has never read it. It is a classic work, and contains a VERY interesting sub-text. You, sir, are a phillistine.

Besides, it was the first book to have an impact on me, and the pictures are great.

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Snapper

Mr. Clumsy will hardly sit up there with the classics will it?
I’m surprised you havent included any “Thomas the tank engine” books.

One of my contenders would be “Tortilla Flats” by John Stienbeck.

Dave

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Snapper,

The 13th Valley, probably the best Vietnam novel written, absolutely superb! Non aviation books? Here’s five that I think are classics, in no particular order.

Covenant with death by John Harris.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.

Watership Down by Richard Adams.

The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach.

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.

I could go on (and frquently do as many of you know.)

Regards,

kev35

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Catch 22 by Josephe Heller, 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque all come into the front runners to my mind. Along with Battle Annual 1983 and Mr Clumsy by Roger Hargreaves (a seminal work).