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In terms of the most pleasure derived, I would say Julian Cope's Krautrocksampler, a guide to experimental German rock music of the late 60s and early 70s. Having only been familiar with a couple of the groups previously, this led me to buy dozens more excellent albums that I would otherwise...

I take it that Fifth Business then is not one of those works such as Great Expectations where you can poke around in the cupboards at the side of the classroom and find a special version about 50 pages long with none of the hard words in it? :D

I don't have any children but I guess having a decent set of reference books and looking things up in them regularly would set a good example. Some nice coffee table photo books might also stimulate some curiosity as to what the accompanying captions / explanations say (it works for me!). Having...

They used to all go in the loft in big bin bags, but then one day we decided to have it converted into a bedroom. After giving a couple of carrier bags full to all the local charity shops, we finally filled the car with the rest and donated them to a used book store. Since then we have sold...

This is an interesting discussion, and makes me wonder what actually generates one's motivation to do something. I never saw the point of ball games myself, but perhaps if someone had explained at the time that sporting success is very attractive to girls I might have tried harder.;) I think...

Hello Everyone, I've always enjoyed non-fiction books from the late 1800s and early 1900s, particularly ones with pictures, on such topics as science, nature and geography, and have accumulated a few over the years such as Science in Modern Life, The Earth and Animated Nature and Summer...