Summer Book Swap
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Marry me?
As my local library is hopeless, I propose we do a book swapping thing with members of VR.
Good books, not the sh*te ones you want to pawn off on everyone
And you get your own books (hopefully still in the condition that you sent them in!) back at the end.
What we do is, we post the and title blurb in this thread, and anyone who is interested signs up. They get posted in the order of signing up, and please no-one keep them for longer than 2 weeks (that should satisfy even the slowest reader plus a re-read).
What do you think?
Good books, not the sh*te ones you want to pawn off on everyone
And you get your own books (hopefully still in the condition that you sent them in!) back at the end.
What we do is, we post the and title blurb in this thread, and anyone who is interested signs up. They get posted in the order of signing up, and please no-one keep them for longer than 2 weeks (that should satisfy even the slowest reader plus a re-read).
What do you think?
Wife of Amy, Sex Goddess 
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I'm game. Though I wont be lending too many to read myself, I don't have enough time to read fiction at the moment. 
Because cake is happiness
This is a really great idea but I just can't read books that quickly at the minute due to having to read books for work too.
Wife of the lovely Alice
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Quote: Skank, Jun 2009
If this is because I still have your copy of Diary I apologise, you'll just have to invite me round when I get home so I can give it back
As my local library is hopeless, I propose we do a book swapping thing with members of VR.
Good books, not the sh*te ones you want to pawn off on everyone
And you get your own books (hopefully still in the condition that you sent them in!) back at the end.
What we do is, we post the and title blurb in this thread, and anyone who is interested signs up. They get posted in the order of signing up, and please no-one keep them for longer than 2 weeks (that should satisfy even the slowest reader plus a re-read).
What do you think?
If this is because I still have your copy of Diary I apologise, you'll just have to invite me round when I get home so I can give it back
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Quote: Skank, Jun 2009
I have had it for too long though, I do apologize, I always steal your books
And no, George. I was just thinking of the camera project.
We can do it. Any books will do. This should broaden our literary horizons.
I have had it for too long though, I do apologize, I always steal your books
Marry me?
So, nominate books to be shared by next Wednesday. Then we'll allocate an order
Wife of Amy, Sex Goddess
Quote: Sgt. James Doakes, Jul 2009
It's not complicated, it's the thinking man's Da Vinci Code
How's this project going, then?
I'm going for a ridiculously hard-to-read book, just for fun;
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Blurb - Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired to have some fun by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth.
Most of the book makes little to no sense and is the hardest thing to follow I've ever read. And there's quotes at the start of every chapter in a variety of languages which is annoying, but still.
It's not complicated, it's the thinking man's Da Vinci Code
How's this project going, then?
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