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    Best Book Ever Read ?

    For me Kane and Abel
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    #2
    Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
    For me Kane and Abel
    My chequebook - it was all blank.

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      #3
      If we are talking fiction it would be The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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        #4
        Les Liasons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
        "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

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          #5
          The 1997 Labour Party manifesto.

          Still a hilarious read.

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            #6
            Little Black Sambo.

            I must buy a copy for the kids sometime.

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              #7
              Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
              Little Black Sambo.

              I must buy a copy for the kids sometime.
              I remember that. He turns the lions into ghee.

              It was rubbish.

              I'd put 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez high up the list as when I read that aged 16 it was the first book given to me as part of a school course that had been written within my lifetime (just).

              I read it in both English and Spanish and loved every moment of it.

              I re-read it a couple of years back and while it brought back memories, the impact of the first reading is no longer there.

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                #8
                Weathering Heights

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
                  For me Kane and Abel
                  Il Principe (The Prince) by Machiavelli.

                  Ruthless required reading for any (and every) aspiring contractor.

                  Nomadd

                  Example quote: "A wise [contractor] should establish himself on that which is in his own control and not in that of others." You see, it even covers IR35, 500 years before it was introduced.
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                    #10
                    read "World War Z".

                    Its a cracking read, think of interview with the vampire or Bridgette Jone's diary mixed with an apocalyptic George Romero zombie movie.

                    Its a series of interviews with people during the aftermath of a global zombie war.

                    I loved it and its going to be made into a film via Brad Pitt's production company.

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