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Old 06-02-2013, 10:32 AM #1
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I need a book to read, can someone recommend me something good, something fictional and non romantic novel please!
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Niamh,does it need to be fictional?
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..I've recommended it before but no one ever reads it lol...Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones..it's quite a short book but a very powerful story....
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I will getting this book,I don't know if you know much about this but it was a terrible family tragedy,and this is from a fathers perpective and I feel Ralph kind of got forgotten in all this,so it will be interesting if not hard to read.Not out till February 14th though.


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My mum used to love the classics! I want to read Crime And Punishment . Looks interesting!
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Nah see that's why I don't read alot of non fiction, it would make me too depressed, especially about that poor child, such an horrific case. Anything to do with kids being hurt especially I just couldn't read, it would upset me too much
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...it's about a young girl in the middle of a war on an island somewhere, I can't remember....there is only one white man who tries to teach the children (and adults attend as well)...Great Expectations is one of the very few books that haven't been destroyed and the character Mr Pip becomes misinterpreted by rebel soldiers..it's quite brutal and violent...sad but uplifting as well....
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