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  • #1

    Do you know this book?

    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?
    A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

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    Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

    What would Vedder do?
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  • #2
    ooooooo, hang on, I think I've got that one

    *runs upstairs*

    be back in a min

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    • #3
      *waits excitedly*
      A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

      BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

      Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

      What would Vedder do?

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      • #4
        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

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        • #5
          Awww maaaaan!

          Thanks for looking, lol.

          I'm sure it was a one-word title, and it might have begun with "s"....
          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

          BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

          Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

          What would Vedder do?

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          • #6
            Title's written in red
            A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

            BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

            Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

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            • #7
              You're not thinking of 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris are you?

              Mystery set post WW2 where Germany didn't lose?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Pootle View Post
                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........
                A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

                What would Vedder do?

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                • #9
                  Oooh, stuff like this drives me mad too!

                  Off to go and look at all my books!
                  I was feeling part of the scenery
                  I walked right out of the machinery
                  My heart going boom boom boom
                  "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                  I've come to take you home."

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                  • #10
                    Swastika and title in red... any good?

                    Amazon.co.uk: Visibility: Boris Starling: Books
                    I was feeling part of the scenery
                    I walked right out of the machinery
                    My heart going boom boom boom
                    "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                    I've come to take you home."

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Seahorse View Post
                      Swastika and title in red... any good?

                      Amazon.co.uk: Visibility: Boris Starling: Books
                      Thanks Claire, not that one. I'm certain it's a kind of comedy....
                      A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                      BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                      Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

                      What would Vedder do?

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                      • #12
                        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?
                        I was feeling part of the scenery
                        I walked right out of the machinery
                        My heart going boom boom boom
                        "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                        I've come to take you home."

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                        • #13
                          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.
                          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                          BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                          Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

                          What would Vedder do?

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                          • #14
                            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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                            • #15
                              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?!
                              Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

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