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Postby My Kitten » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:32 pm

thecatsmother wrote:One of my fave sites for picking up books at a bargain is:
http://www.psbooks.co.uk


Just had a quick peek, good selection of books, like you say the search facility is a bit pants but I feel some retail therapy occuring. Thanks
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Postby DMcNay » Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:10 am

thecatsmother wrote:One of my fave sites for picking up books at a bargain is:
http://www.psbooks.co.uk They often have books on aspects of Glasgow/Scotland. This week I got one on the photographer Annan, and Michael Moss's "The Clyde - a portrait of a river". The site isn't particularly easy to use, I find, but the paper catalogue they send out is good.


Also worth trying is http://www.abebooks.co.uk
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Postby kirkyguy » Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:20 am

Good as Gold by Joseph Heller the guy who did my all time fav book Catch -22...In this one he is doing the Jewish experience in America oh and along the way he is slaughtering politics and everything else he encounters its a hoot ...
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Postby purplegrum » Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:36 pm

I'm now moving on to read Attack Warning Red. Read bits of it but never the entire thing from cover to cover, so here goes...

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Postby kirkyguy » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:21 pm

The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown,its one of those ones you just cant put down its well peachy..
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Postby adject » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:33 pm

Yay bibliophiles! I'm currently reading _Guns, Germs and Steel_ which is a pretty good read. Before that I read a few of those Oxford Very Short Introductions (Emotion, Fascism & Linguistics). For my trip I'm bringing Bruce Sterling & Octavia Butler for a nice distraction. Oh, and also a music theory book.
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Postby Pgcc93 » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:16 pm

A tale of an iPod - or why I spend £299 of my student LOAN on a technical device.
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Postby paladin » Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:31 am

A book that I have just acquired is 'Regeneration, The Story of the Dome' by Adam Nicholson.
Printed in 1999, it is good to reflect over such a short period of time on how things change in less than a decade.
Some really stunning photographs.

ISBN 0-00-257130-7
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Postby Alchemist » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:36 am

Wolfram Von Eschenbach's - Parzival

http://tinyurl.com/49uxs

Makes a change from the Dennis Wheatley collection :twisted:
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Postby DMcNay » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:03 am

A biography of Lord Kitchener ( 8O ) which strangely isn't as dull as I thought it might be.

I know how it ends though...
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Postby kirkyguy » Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:53 pm

The Diceman by Luke Rheinhart..its so weird cant make up my mind if i love it or hate it yet....its about a bored psychiatrist who makes up his system or anti system truly weird book.....
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Postby duncan » Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:26 pm

Diceman is cool, although i'm not too keen on the ending. I'd recommend when you're finished, get yourself a dice and carry it around. Useful for those important decisions when you can't make up your mind, like whether you should have chips or pizza.
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Postby paladin » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:53 pm

Picked up a nice book today from 1986, Turning the Tide by David Bellamy & Brendan Quayle. Apparently it's 'The Book of the TV Series'.....which I don't recall, but the book is sure interesting and will be perused through in more detail over the Easter break.

ISBN 0-00-219368-X

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Postby Captain Brittles » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:10 pm

High Tide - News from a warming world by Mark Lynas.

Dealing with the retreat of glaciers, desertifcation, melting perma frost in Alaska, retreating sea ice in the polar regions, rising sea levels and disappearing islands in the Pacific atolls and global warming and how it is seriously hastening climate change.

This should become compulsory reading in schools. Especially American and Australian ones.
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Postby DickyHart » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:57 am

Going Postal- Terry Pratchett

Just started it, so much funnyiness, should ensue.
Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
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