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excellent holiday literature?
Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 9, 2001
AGB!?? ADF... 
excellent holiday literature?
Honey³ Posted Jul 9, 2001
Thanks guys/girls for all the reactions, I have a *huge* list by now! Unfortunately the holiday has not begun yet... I'll be leaving the 15th and I'm working till tomorrow.
Reason why I don't answer for days in a row sometimes is because I still don't have internet connection at home (yeah, shame on ME!) so I'm only able to check h2g2 at work... Rather inconvenient situation, but maybe after summer this will change...
Anyway, I'll definitely let you know what I found (have to check the library and some bookstores since you can't just find every English literature you want here in Belgium...) and what I thought about it!
h³
excellent holiday literature?
Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 9, 2001
YAY!!! (this is a cool way to have met Honey3... YAY!!!)
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Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Jul 9, 2001
Well, I've just come back from a week off and I took The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien.
Hadn't read it in years and really got swept away in the storyline. Still reading it now in fact due to length.
Rama
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a girl called Ben Posted Jul 9, 2001
I just re-read LoTR too, to test to see whether it was boring. Why don't you go post on the Tolkein Boring thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F19585?thread=107259 I feel a little bit adrift now I have finished it again. How far through have you got? a tolkein-reader called Ben
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C Hawke Posted Jul 9, 2001
A long book by new writer China Mieville Perido Street Station was an excellent read on my recent hol, although I did have to make a note of some of the words to look up when I gort home 
Some reviews
"New Crobuzon [the city the bool is based in] isone of the finest creations in speculative fiction" Time Out
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"for once comparisions with Gormenghast are justified" Guardian
and from me
A wonderful landscape populated with characters real and weird whose loves, hates and pssions intertwine to form a complex yet understandable web of deciet, threachary, adventure and near apocalyptic disaster
ChawkE
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Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Jul 10, 2001
Ben,
The Fellowship are about to enter Moria.
The last time I read it was about 10 years ago and I belted through it. This time I'm reading a lot more slowly (mainly due to time constraints) but I seem to be enjoying it more at a sedate pace rather than just zipping through to the next piece of plot.
Rama
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 10, 2001
Books need to be savored... like a good cheesecake... 
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Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Jul 11, 2001
But the only good cheesecake is a dead cheesecake!!
Rama
excellent holiday literature?
Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 11, 2001
That's ok... they have cheesecake farms where they are grown for that purpose... and there are few cheesecakes close to extinction anymore...
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Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Jul 11, 2001
Must destroy cheesecake, I hate cheesecake (oh and chocolate milk)!!!!
Rama
excellent holiday literature?
Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 11, 2001
;:GASP!!!:: hate is not healthy... 
excellent holiday literature?
Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Jul 12, 2001
But neither is cheesecake or chocolate milk. The resistance to these evil foods has started. We will resist. Resistance is not futile.
Rama
excellent holiday literature?
Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 12, 2001
They are NOT evil foods!!!
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