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   waylandsmithy
   

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   Anyone else a Robert Rankin fan? Brilliant author, who doesn't get enough publicity. Much as I like and admire Terry Pratchet, Robert Rankin makes me laugh a lot more.

   The Antipope was his first novel, I've got all 20-odd. 'The Witches of Chiswick' was a high point.

   Just thought I'd mention him. He's 61 this week. 'chapeau', monsieur Rankin!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Al OPecia
   

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   I loved the "Brightonomicon". Could form the basis of a pub crawl.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   MrChigleysAunt
   

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   I've read several and enjoyed them all - but I always think they're pretty trashy. I can never remember which I've read. I love the one about several generations of one family excavating under their council house over the years, guided by an old treasure map. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a map of the London sewers.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   beau-jolly
   

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   Thanks Auntie. Don't have to finish that one then. Can you tell me who dun it in the mousetrap?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   MrChigleysAunt
   

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   Whoops. No, sorry, they made us all promise before we left the theatre. And I can't remember anyway. It's often the Butler in those sorts of things.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   FraserWords
   

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   Take it you still have time for old PG, Wayland, what?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   waylandsmithy
   

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   PG?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   FraserWords
   

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   Wodehouse, man, Wodehouse...

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   waylandsmithy
   

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   Oh, the Patrick Swayze film? Nah. Didn't like it.

   Rankin's books are trashy, but really well put together. And there's some great characters: Pooley and O'Mally live and breathe in his books. As does Neville the part-time fulltime barman, of course.

   Has there ever been a better name for a character than 'Soap Distant'?

   Posted 1 year ago #

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