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Hey all just wondering has anyone read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon, it was the only book i read on my own back in secondary school so im going to buy it and re read it, but theres 2 looks like i read the Children's Edition.

I was wondering if anyone knows what the difference was from the Children's Edition and the normal guessing there more swearing and gore on it but would the normal Edition make for a better read?

also is Great Expectations and of mice and men worth a read. =]
 
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Hey all just wondering has anyone read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon, it was the only book i read on my own back in secondary school so im going to buy it and re read it, but theres 2 looks like i read the Children's Edition.
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I was wondering if anyone knows what the difference was from the Children's Edition and the normal guessing there more swearing and gore on it but would the normal Edition make for a better read?

Don't know the difference but I read the normal one not long after it came out about 10 years ago and didn't find it over the top gory or sweary. Weird book though.

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of mice and men worth a read. =]
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Got a thing with dogs being killed? :P
 
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel and George Orwell's 1984 are two of
My faves:). I read Of Mice and Men back in school (yes, they had books even way back then!) and think I enjoyed is... Mostly.
 
I never liked Of mice and men, it seemed too liberal for my liking. we studied it in collage whilst i did my a level english. i will never read it again :) just my opinion
 
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I never liked Of mice and men, it seemed too liberal for my liking. we studied it in collage whilst i did my a level english. i will never read it again :) just my opinion
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I only read it to study it was the easier option.
 
It's a real shame, i used to find time to read before i went to sleep, now when i go to bed i just need to sleep. I also used to find time to read on the bus into college, reading on the bike would only be dangerous!

I am very slowly picking my way through Frank Gardner's autobiography, fascinating insight into the middle east in recent history :D
 
a big +1 for 1984 =) a brilliant book. Gore Vidal is allso one I like, and the halo books, I like all sorts. as for the "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" I read that when I was younger too.
 
Ended up ordering the Children's Edition lol as its the one i read in school and i like the front cover, my aunt said she has the normal one and will post it to me to read in a few weeks so im happy. =]
allso happy about Great Expectations was free on android book store. =]

About the Haynes Manual's iv read my ts and my dt one all the way throw and bought a ktm exc r6 and a Honda translap Manual plus a book on adventure riding from halfords for a quid each still all sealed mind but have then haha
 
I liked Of Mice And Men... but that was when I was back in school and it was dated then.

Personally, I don't see the point of reading these 'classics' which bear little relevance to life or even the language used today. There are a million great authors telling stories you can relate to that are far more entertaining.

This from someone who is a writer, and read his first adult novel (err... not THAT kind of adult novel - it was "The Jonah" by James Herbert :? ) when he was 8 years old!

Charles Dickins or Shakespeare blathering bollocks, or Andy McNab, Dean Koontz, and Terry Pratchett? No contest!

Or even the auto/biographies from Ayrton Senna, Alex Zanardi, Valentino Rossi and Dave Mustaine. Great reads! They make pinching a loaf a pleasure again! :mrgreen:
 
I'll read a book constantly, all day, have done since I was 3, used to read under the covers with a torch, etc...

I absolutely love reading however have not read any classics other than what I did during school. (exception being dracula, huckleberry finn, frankenstein and sherlock holmes) Ninja is bang on, there are many far more entertaining authors out there.

Anyone into epic space battles?

Check out Jack Campbell - Lost fleet

it's an 8? Book series and is bloody brilliantly written I read the entire thing in a week, barely put a book down it's a series I'd highly recommend checking out.

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Pssst. Night's Dawn trilogy, by Peter Hamilton. It's sci-fi, and it's good sci-fi (detail-heavy), so it'll take a while to read, but the stories covered are awesome.
Starts with Night's Dawn.
 
Will check it out. Detail is what sold me on the lost fleet series.

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Will check it out. Detail is what sold me on the lost fleet series.

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Actually Bloke, change my suggestion. You're better off reading the Commonwealth saga from Hamilton. Starts with Pandora's Box. It's slightly more fast-paced (2x1500 pages as opposed to 3 and a half). There is also an epic follow-up trilogy called the Void trilogy (Dreaming Void, Evolutionary Void, temporal Void) which is set 500 years after the whole Prime incident.

Pretty incredible stories overall, though. I have read every single one of his books and I did not regret it. I re-read them from time to time, because the first time you read them, there is no way you can follow every story (lots of different plots evolving simultaneously, lots of main characters).
 
"I, Partridge" by Alan Partridge.

It's excellent! :mrgreen: I don't really need to say much more about it, because Steve Coogan has always been a genius.
 
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