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    I love "The House of the Dead". It's an amazing book.

    Lucky, by Alice Seabold. The true story of her rape, the trial and the effects on herself, her family and her friends.

    Very sad.

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    Down and Out in Paris and London. George Orwell.

    That's good for a laugh.

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    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

    Can't be arsed to check whether it's already been mentioned, but it's one of the most depressing books known to man.

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    I used to read my Mam and Dad's books, because they were there, before I started going to the park and drinking cider.

    Dad's Tom Clancy, Wilbur Smith and Egyptology books were great and stood me in good stead for appreciating and understanding stuff but Mam's Virginia Andrews must have had the opposite effect.

    Flowers in the Attic and the subsequent four or five books which depicted the lives of the incestuous, dysfuntional children who were locked in an attic and slowly poisoned with arsenic was particularly depressing prose.

    Looking back, I'm surprised that they let the twelve year old me read them
    I plan on beating him to death with his kids. I'll use them as a bludgeon on his face. -

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    Quote Originally Posted by manker

    Flowers in the Attic and the subsequent four or five books which depicted the lives of the incestuous, dysfuntional children who were locked in an attic and slowly poisoned with arsenic was particularly depressing prose.

    Looking back, I'm surprised that they let the twelve year old me read them
    Maybe they saw it as a bit of escapism from an otherwise wholly Welsh childhood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul
    Quote Originally Posted by manker

    Flowers in the Attic and the subsequent four or five books which depicted the lives of the incestuous, dysfuntional children who were locked in an attic and slowly poisoned with arsenic was particularly depressing prose.

    Looking back, I'm surprised that they let the twelve year old me read them
    Maybe they saw it as a bit of escapism from an otherwise wholly Welsh childhood.
    They were merkin children, locked away in t'attic.

    So, yeah, I think that's a given, mate
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    Quote Originally Posted by manker
    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul
    Maybe they saw it as a bit of escapism from an otherwise wholly Welsh childhood.
    They were merkin children, locked away in t'attic.

    So, yeah, I think that's a given, mate
    Probably what gave you the dellusions of adequacy. They probably realized it would.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul
    Quote Originally Posted by manker
    They were merkin children, locked away in t'attic.

    So, yeah, I think that's a given, mate
    Probably what gave you the dellusions of adequacy. They probably realized it would.
    I can see what you did with the 'z' in 'realise', however I wasn't aware that they'd started adding an extra 'l' in the middle of words.

    Mind, I can't keep up with merkins and their car-azy spelling
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    Quote Originally Posted by manker
    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul
    Probably what gave you the dellusions of adequacy. They probably realized it would.
    I can see what you did with the 'z' in 'realise', however I wasn't aware that they'd started adding an extra 'l' in the middle of words.

    Mind, I can't keep up with merkins and their car-azy spelling
    "Realize" is the preferred spelling given the context. "Realise" is better in relation to financial transactions etc.

    But you knew that already, didn't you Rodrick.

    The extraneous "l" I put down to keyboard hiccoughs. I need to look at the keyboard whilst typing and not the screen. A spare "l" is hard to see when scanning prior to posting. True story.

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    tools workman bad A blames his.

    Can someone please arrange the above words into an appropriate sentence given the context provided by JP, I'd do it myself but my monitor is on the blink
    I plan on beating him to death with his kids. I'll use them as a bludgeon on his face. -

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