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 Toby S 21 Oct 2007
Lord of The Rings obviously stands out of one of the big classics. Anyone else got any suggestions?
 Tyler 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Hard Rock, Extreme Rock and The Power of Climbing.
 Doug 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Tyler: Gormenghast ? Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (my copy of one part says 'a triology in five parts' on the back cover)
 Paul Atkinson 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S: Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

JP Sartre - Roads to Freedom

Pat Barker - Regeneration

all superb

+for the kids - Ursula le Guin - Earthsea

 Paul Atkinson 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Paul Atkinson: oh yes, an honourable mention for Roddie Doyle too - Barrytown
 david morse 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S: philip pullman, his dark materials. fantastic
 KeithW 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

The Beiderbecke Affair, Tapes and Connection.
In reply to Tyler: eh? Cold Climbs!
 MeMeMe 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

I thought LOTR wasn't a trilogy because each book isn't a complete story in itself?

And who every said Earthsea was for kids, no way! Well, okay, maybe but it's good for adults too.
 MeMeMe 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Oh, and the Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson, a classic of its genre.
 Padraig 21 Oct 2007
In reply to MeMeMe:
" thought LOTR wasn't a trilogy"
Beat me to it! But I'm not sure? Seem to recall Mark Kermode saying something along those lines.
P
 Tom Last 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Laurie Lee autobiography (Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning & A Moment of War)

Gavin Maxwell autobiography (Ring of Bright Water etc...)

RLS - Kidnapped and Catriona (but only two books)
 Mystery Toad 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Sexus, Nexus, Plexus by you know him ya love him and if you don't you haven't read him Henry Miller.
 Mystery Toad 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Padraig:

Professor Tolkein wrote LOTR as a single novel and objected to it being divided into 3 volumes.
 BelleVedere 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Mystery Toad:

isn't it 5 parts or something anyway
 Mystery Toad 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Paul Atkinson:
> (In reply to Toby S) Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour
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> JP Sartre - Roads to Freedom
>


Thanks to Python whenever I read the name Sartre all I can think of is Cleese and Chapman in drag sitting in the launderette arguing over the meaning of Roads To Freedom.

Palin as Mrs Sartre, fag hanging from a lip "....one of these days I'll revolutionary leaflet him!" is hysterical.

I'd post a link to a photo of the sketch but.....
inexplicably I can no longer do so. very irritating. nm.
 morbh 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:
A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon?
 Mystery Toad 21 Oct 2007
In reply to es:
> (In reply to Mystery Toad)
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> isn't it 5 parts or something anyway

......you mean.......
you haven't read LOTR?
It's only the best novel of the 20th century.
Yanks , ya let them slide but a Briton?
hang your head in SHAME!


and go rent the movies.
heh.
Sesh 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Mystery Toad:
> (In reply to Padraig)
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> Professor Tolkein wrote LOTR as a single novel and objected to it being divided into 3 volumes.

He was lucky his publishers overruled him then. Each volume is fat enough as it is, and the first and the third are written in completely different styles.

 Rycelow 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Isaac Asimov - Foundation.
Harry Harrison - The Stainless-steel Rat.
Hannah m 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Evelyn Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy:

Men at Arms
Oficers and Gentlemen
Unconditional Surrender

Although it is many years since I read it.
 Blue Straggler 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Mystery Toad:
> (In reply to Padraig)
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> Professor Tolkein wrote LOTR as a single novel and objected to it being divided into 3 volumes.

He'd probably have objected to having had his name spelled incorrectly by ex-stoner-bass dudes
 Petzl 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Robert Rankin:
The Brentford Trilogy (actually 8 books)
The Armageddon Quartet (actually 3 books)
bergalia 21 Oct 2007
In reply to morbh:
> (In reply to Toby S)
> A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon?


Exellent choice: Sunset Song; Cloud Howe; and Grey Granite...and congratulations to the BBC all those years back for serialising it (Vivien Heilbron as Chris Colquohoun) Aberdonian accent almost 'spot on'.
 Mystery Toad 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Blue Straggler:

I've been rumbled! lol

doh.
 Blue Straggler 21 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

The first three Dune novels by Frank Herbert (a pre-planned trilogy - Dune doesn't exactly end properly; Children of Dune has, iirc, a fairly satisfying finish)

"The Second Great Dune Trilogy" came much later and I didn't make much headway into God Emperor...Godawful was more like it
almost sane 22 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:
Out of the Silent Planet, Voyage to Venus (aka Perlandra) and That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis.
bergalia 22 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

Len Deighton's 'Faith,' Hope', and 'Charity'.....
 tony 22 Oct 2007
In reply to Toby S:

The Deptford Trilogy, the Salterton Trilogy and the Cornish Trilogy, all by Robertson Davies. Greatly under-rated, in my opinion.
 BelleVedere 22 Oct 2007
In reply to Mystery Toad:
> (In reply to es)
> [...]
>
> ......you mean.......
> you haven't read LOTR?

Yeah - I have read it about 10 times - That's just the kind of detail I'm fuzzy with.

Im i wrong? I recalled that 2 of the books contained 2 parts but couldn't remember the other

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