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[Elmer Fudd]

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot by John Muir

Recommend this even if you don't own an air cooled VW.

Typical quote :- turn the 13mm spanner anti-clockwise, if it slips off and you rap your knuckles, then chill man ! Don't curse, remember, have a beer and a draw and think, Karma !

If only Haynes manuals were written in the same spirit !!

 

[laurence]

The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler

 

[Dayvo]

Only one?
Very difficult but I'd choose Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

 

[papercorn2000]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. One of the best, most moving stories that I have ever read. I couldn't put it down.

All the more remarkable because the author was just out of her teens.

 

[papercorn2000]

Good call. I can really recommend 2 by Eric Newby:
Love and War in the Appennines
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.

Also Dubliners by James Joyce.

Good call - absoloutely hilarious. That's how travel should be done!

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. One of the best, most moving stories that I have ever read. I couldn't put it down.

All the more remarkable because the author was just out of her teens.

I would agree with that as well, I'm sure I've seen an old(ish) film that actually followed the book and showed Frankensteins monster was not the monster as depicted in Hammer movies.

 

[Lardyboy]

I would agree with that as well, I'm sure I've seen an old(ish) film that actually followed the book and showed Frankenstein was not the monster as depicted in Hammer movies.

Don't want to be a pedant but the monster is "the monster", Frankenstein is the scientist. It's the mistake that's always made.

Or perhaps you are referring to the good doctor after all?

As for one book to read? Very difficult - would probably go for John Steinbecks "Grapes of Wrath", Graham Greenes " Brighton Rock" or Kafkas "The Trial"