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Helen Martell

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Room with a view….?
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Skylar Brown

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Yes! "Stranger In A Strange Land", and again, Yes to "Farenheit 451" for the second.
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Andrew Roles

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Room with a view….?
Helen Martell on 04/08/2024 20:06:17
Good suggestion, but the clue is the plant which features in the title rather than the view. 

Diane Boswell

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Andrew, perhaps it's 'Keep the Aspidistra flying' by George Orwell? If I've remembered the title correctly....
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Skylar Brown

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Diane - Now that's obscure. I will be surprised when it turns out to be correct...

Sylvia Evans

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O Eid I’d much earlier.
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Andrew Roles

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Andrew, perhaps it's 'Keep the Aspidistra flying' by George Orwell? If I've remembered the title correctly....
Diane Boswell on 04/08/2024 22:36:33
Well done Diane, yes, it is Keep The Aspidistra Flying by Orwell. A view of Gordon Comstock’s desk and the omnipresent aspidistra. 
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Lewis Cooper

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'Keep the aspidistra flying' is a new one on me.  Hardly surprising, there are so many books.  I'd thought 'room with a view' like Helen.  It'll be interesting to get the answer to that one. Sylvia's is also intriguing, a crowd of people with  just one facing a different way to everyone else...that's ringing a bell, but not loud enough.  It's fairly early, I'm up but I'm not sure my brain's awake yet. Hmmnn.... 
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Lewis Cooper

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Ha...I'll have to look that book up.
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Andrew Roles

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'Keep the aspidistra flying' is a new one on me.  Hardly surprising, there are so many books.  I'd thought 'room with a view' like Helen.  It'll be interesting to get the answer to that one.
Lewis Cooper on 05/08/2024 06:23:13
Lewis , sorry but Diane was correct. It’s not the easiest read, I continually wanted to take the protagonist and give him a good talking to. Skylar - yes it’s pretty obscure, but they actually made a movie of it, Richard E Grant and Helena Bonham Carter,  so somebody obviously thought it had some merit. I saw the film first and then picked up the book in a charity shop. I wish I’d left it there but I had to finish it.  Sylvia - no idea so far.  :-)

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Tanja Gerster

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ok folks, here comes the solution to the book: "When Nietzsche Wept" - A Novel of Obsession. I think I'll start reading it again right away. It was difficult, I didn't know that the English book version had completely different covers.

Diane Boswell

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Sylvia,  could yours be 'Look back in anger' ?
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