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Favourite "Classic" Book

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  1. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Time to get GC a bit high brow methinks.

    For me if Catch-22 is considered to be a "classic" then it would be it. Otherwise, "Lord of the Flies"
     
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  2. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    reading is strictly for ****s & *****s
     
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    I read some H.G.Wells, was ok but my favourite is The Holy Bible. Some excellent stories and they're all true. :)
     
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  4. The Raging Oxter

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    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    Graps of Wrath - John Steinbeck
     
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  5. EDGE.

    EDGE. Official POTY 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2023

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    Daily Rhebel or the Gerald for this Prod.
     
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    Confessions Of A Window Cleaner
     
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  7. Mick O'Toon

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    Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain
     
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    Good movies too, especially the last one
     
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  9. Ciaran

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    Down and Out in Paris and London.
     
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  10. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Orwell is a twat.
     
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    I can't remember what I've read so found a list of "classic literature":
    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction

    Read (not many):
    Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
    Moby-Dick Herman Melville
    Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
    The Call of the Wild Jack London
    Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

    Lord of the Flies is another not on that list which is probably my favourite.
     
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  12. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    By ER. Foreword by Trev.
     
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  13. Ciaran

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    Maybe but it's an excellent book.
     
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    Some **** called Shakespear wrote some classic stuff apparently, any **** read any?
     
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  15. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Yes, in school.

    It was largely ****e.
     
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    A true classic indeedy

    [video=youtube;_eXw47qb4U0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0[/video]
     
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  17. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Yes, in school.

    It was entirely ****e.
     
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  18. Mick O'Toon

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    The Winters Tale was good but David Essex's version was better.
     
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  19. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Brings a tear tae yer eye that does <wah>
     
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    In school, read Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet.

    Pish.
     
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