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[tigerfort]

We seem to have a number of unwanted books, acquired over the years. This may sound like heresy, but in fact they're all duplicates, things that came in bulk boxes of 'we want most of that', books my grandmother doesn't want anymore and no-one else in the family will ever read, and so on. Anyway, we thought we'd try to find homes where they could be properly cared for, so is anyone interested in any of the following:

Fiction:

PD James - Death in Holy Orders; The Skull Beneath the Skin; A Taste for Death; Death of an Expert Witness; Shroud for a Nightingale

Ellis Peters - Fallen into the Pit

Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

Morris West - The Clowns of God

Mary Stewart - The Prince and the Pilgrim

Lynn and Jay - Yes, Prime Minister, volume 1 (hardback, no dustcover)

EE 'Doc' Smith - Grey Lensman; 2nd Stage Lensman; The Purity Plot

Michael Marshall Smith - Spares

Katherine Kerr - The Fire Dragon

Shea and Wilson - The Eye in the Pyramid (Illuminatus 1)

Non-fiction:

Michael Lewis - The new new thing. (Mildly interesting book about the founding of Netscape and the late 90s internet boom. Amusing at the end, where the author - writing just before the bubble burst - predicts that the boom will last forever and simultaneously laughs at the idiocy of some venture capitalists who've just wasted money on a chunk of a company called Google that consists of two guys and an idea about search engines....)

Michael Moore - Dude, where's my country? (Moore does his thing.)

Andrea Barham - The pedant's revolt. (One of those books correcting long lists of 'facts' which 'everyone knows' but which aren't actually true. At a quick glance, it looks to be mostly, but not always, accurate.)

Self-help:

Secrets of the Cube
Success system that never fails
Know who you are, be what you want

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I loved the Merlin trilogy, and quite like the other historial ones barring the abovementioned limp effort. But yes, the romance-thrillers are the really special ones. I'd recommend Touch Not The Cat and The Ivy Tree if you've not read them. I recently re-read My Brother Michael having read it when I was about 13, and was relieved to find it was still a cracking book. Lots of my other teenage favourites seem to have gone off with time ;)

[lnr]

Touch not the Cat is definitely one I love, and which I borrow from my mum every so often. I'm always very reluctant to give it back :-) But yes, I love the Merlin ones too. I'm so going to have to buy my own copies some day.