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Following on from the Favourite Authors thread, I was thinking about books to take away on holiday and it got me thinking about a book I read once, but I can't remember the author, or the name of the book.

All I can remember is that it was a slightly satirical book, with a black cover and a sort of swastika on the front. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with spelling or advertising as part of the story line.

Any ideas?

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ooooooo, hang on, I think I've got that one

*runs upstairs*

be back in a min

*waits excitedly*

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PMSL, just hunted high and low, crawled under bed & found the book with the Swastika on it and its......... the wrong one!!!! I got the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer!!! LOL

Sorry

Awww maaaaan!

Thanks for looking, lol.

I'm sure it was a one-word title, and it might have begun with "s"....

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Title's written in red

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You're not thinking of 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris are you?

Mystery set post WW2 where Germany didn't lose?

Nope. I'm sure the word was similar to Metropolis - but obviously not Metropolis.

Driving me mad now........

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Oooh, stuff like this drives me mad too!

Off to go and look at all my books!

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Swastika and title in red... any good?

Amazon.co.uk: Visibility: Boris Starling: Books

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Always look on the bright side of life...
I mean - what have you got to lose?
You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!

Thanks Claire, not that one. I'm certain it's a kind of comedy....

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Apparantly, putting a swastika on the cover of your book boosts sales by up to 30%. No wonder there are a lot of them!

Thought of it yet Wayne?

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Always look on the bright side of life...
I mean - what have you got to lose?
You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!

Woohooo!!!

I didn't remember it, but remembered that someone else in the office had. Asked him, and he knew straight away.

Here it is: Amazon.co.uk: Books: Incompetence (Gollancz S.F.)

Ok, so it wasn't a swastika, but I was close.

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And it didn't begin with s!

i am still trying to locate a book that I read when I was about 13; about a girl with diabetes, she kept sampling her dog's wee; and pretty much hibernated in a cave, got really fat and the description of her preening herself when she decided to come out of the cave [whether this was metaphorical or real, I never worked out] was just too insipid to ever ask anyone.

I think her name was Felicity though...

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moon trial underway with onions, lettuce, tomatoes and calabrese.

Ohh, I like Rob Grant! Got some of his Red Dwarf stuff - this one any good Wayne?? And where are you off to on your jollies, now you have a book to take?!

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I liked the book - enough to nearly remember it anyway! Never read anything else of his, but I will probably try a couple of others. Not keen on Red Dwarf myself.

Not on hols until September, but I like to organise these things in advance. We've got a villa in Tuscany with some friends, about 8-10 of us going. In the middle of nowhere, our own pool. Reeeeeeeally looking forward to it, 2 weeks away from work (well, that's the idea anyway).

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Ohhh, I love Tuscany - got room for a ikkle stowaway?! Be a bit quieter even than normal in Sept too.

And thats definitely what I call getting well organised in advance - I'd have read any books I bought now well before September!

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Wayne! Your clues were rubbish Give us another one!

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Always look on the bright side of life...
I mean - what have you got to lose?
You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!

Welcome to my world, it's no wonder I can never find anything!

LadyWayne does call me Dory on account of my rubbish memory.

In my defence it was a book I read about 8 years ago that I picked up in the "library" of a hotel we were staying at in Turkey.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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There's room for 10 at the villa...

Any tips on where to go? We're staying near a place called Radicondoli.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Thanks mate I have things to do & people to see but then I followed your link to the book, started to read it now I have got hooked on the story, had to put said darn book on my Amazon wish list. Now where was I before I read your thread

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