Read a book from every year of your life challenge

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Diogenes
Diogenes
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10:36pm, 6 Jan 2017
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I'm completely confused by Fleecy's author riddle. I feel like I'm being quite dense.
Carpathius
Carpathius
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I was looking at The Justification of Johann Gutenburg by Blake Morrison which turned up in the Fantastic Fiction list for 1984. Annoyingly, further research shows it was first published in 2000.

Back to the search.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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10:38pm, 6 Jan 2017
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Percy Pilkington
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Diogenes
I've seen the mundane thread and all is now clear
Carpathius
Carpathius
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OK, narrowed it down. I'll have to just pick one or I'll spend more time looking than reading.

Lies, Inc. - Philip K. Duck

Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales
Serendippily
Serendippily
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12:48am, 7 Jan 2017
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Love a bit of Diana Wynne Jones.

Also love Milan Kunderas book but I am morally questionable: keen on Lolita too. Really of a particular time.

Think I liked and read the garner book too but not as much as dwj (charmed life was one of my favourite books for a while)
LazyDaisy
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I'm with you on Ian McEwan Carp. His books start brilliantly then fall away. Black Dogs came up as a possible for me for one year, but I read that ages ago and was bored stiff by the end.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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8:43am, 7 Jan 2017
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Black Dogs was the one McEwan book I gave up on. Liked or loved most of the rest.

I loved The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, from the moment I saw the title, from the very first page, but then I was 18 when I read it. I think it might be one of those books that suit the young.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Oh, and you can't beat a bit of Philip K. Duck ;-)
GimmeMedals
GimmeMedals
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9:19am, 7 Jan 2017
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GimmeMedals
I've just finished Flowers for Algernon (1966). I'm pleased I read it.

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The plan to read a book that was first published from each year of your life.
Doesn't matter how long it takes.

some websites for ideas

Fantastic Fiction
fantasticfiction.com

Good Reads
goodreads.com

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