Good Stuff; 20 snapshots of an eclectic mess

A Listmania! list by Al Kitching (Cambridge, UK)
 
To Kill A Mockingbird
1.  To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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  "goodness me but I get all evangelical about this; a masterpiece for everyone to enjoy. Hand it down and share it around."
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The Forest People (Pimlico)
2.  The Forest People (Pimlico) by Colin M Turnbull
The list author says:
  "an academic book for people scared of academic books. Turnbull's evocation of the BaMbuti is about the essence of things, and how we fit into the world. Did I really just say that? Anyway, it's magic."
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The Long Good-bye
3.  The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
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  "difficult to write a precis of Chandler without stumbling into easy cliche, but safe to say that this is what lean, muscular thrillers need to be like. See, told you."
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Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)
4.  Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
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  "Look down on the rest from here, it's the pinnacle, the absolute summit"
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The Wind in the Willows
5.  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The list author says:
  "almost uncriticizable; the greatest kid's book ever, and almost the greatest book ever. Best with the Ernest Shephard illustrations, but it's the prose that knocks you bandy."
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To Serve Them All My Days Series 1, 2 and 3 [DVD] [1980]
6.  To Serve Them All My Days Series 1, 2 and 3 [DVD] [1980] DVD ~ John Duttine
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  "The best, just the best, drama serial the Beeb ever put out. The book isn't too shabby neither."
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Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics)
7.  Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
The list author says:
  "well, it was either this, or Dombey, or Copperfield ... still just about the best story for story's sake you'll find"
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The Last English King
8.  The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
The list author says:
  "you know, you could lose a fiver and get really upset; Walt manages to lose a country. Historical fiction for post modern sophisticates and that."
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The Unburied
9.  The Unburied by Charles Palliser
The list author says:
  "it would be easy to pick The Quincunx, but before embarking on that try this mystery. Proof that you don't need 1400 pages in order to lose someone"
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The Crow Road
10.  The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The list author says:
  "When Banks signed my battered old copy a couple of years back he smiled at the state of the cracked and dog-eared and well-thumbed book, then he wrote 'Ha!' on the last page... geddit?"
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Adams Richard : Girl in A Swing (Film Tie-in) (Signet)
11.  Adams Richard : Girl in A Swing (Film Tie-in) (Signet) by Richard Adams
The list author says:
  "a 500 page ghost story? Richard Adams' unfashionable (and probably out of print) creepy thriller has a couple of genuine shocks. Not for night time."
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Red Riding Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet)
12.  Red Riding Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
The list author says:
  "The Red Riding Quartet is what Brit Crime *and* Brit Lit should be doing right now"
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Where The Wild Things Are
13.  Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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  "Imagination! Will make a man of you! Pleeeeease give this to your children."
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The Eagle Has Landed
14.  The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
The list author says:
  "worth visiting the link for Nigel and Martin's pompous critique alone. Don't these people realise that sometimes, all you want is good honest tat?! A BK Whopper of a book, OK? Jeez, take a chill pill"
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Ancient Evenings
15.  Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
The list author says:
  "try and read it in as short a time as possible; thick and swirly imagination that could pull you under if you let it. It took me three days, any longer and I'd have been lost."
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Hawksmoor
16.  Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The list author says:
  "hallucinatory, macabre, dirty, chilling, thrilling, desperate and as clever as a stick in a bucket of pig swill"
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As If
17.  As If by Blake Morrison
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  "one of the life-changers ... 'stonishing"
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Alma Cogan: A Novel
18.  Alma Cogan: A Novel by Gordon Burn
The list author says:
  "easily the most disturbing ending to a novel in years and years. Some of the images will never leave you (there's one, in the first few pages, that, well...)"
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The Goalkeeper's Revenge: and Other Stories (New Windmills)
19.  The Goalkeeper's Revenge: and Other Stories (New Windmills) by Mr Bill Naughton
The list author says:
  "as heartstopping a memory from my childhhood as I can conjure up. The story of 'Spit Nolan' still sends shivers."
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
20.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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  "one of THE original literary inventions of all time: begin at the beginning..."
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On Cape Three Points
21.  On Cape Three Points by Christopher Wakling
The list author says:
  "A real star of the future. A new Iain Banks even. Get in on the ground floor."
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