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13 Oct 2007, 4:38 pm

The Engineer's Thumb, short story by Doyle.



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13 Oct 2007, 7:19 pm

The New Adventures of Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane. (Doctor Who meets Sherlock Holmes. No, really!)

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13 Oct 2007, 8:20 pm

Circus of the Damned by Laurell K Hamilton (Anita Blake novel- "no s**t sherlock" is said in the book)


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13 Oct 2007, 8:38 pm

The hound of the baskervilles, By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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13 Oct 2007, 8:46 pm

ShadesOfMe wrote:
The hound of the baskervilles, By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Edit: seems someone already posted this...Oh well?


House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (An investigation of a haunted house and it's surrounds, told from a FPPOV)


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14 Oct 2007, 1:50 am

Leaf by Niggle (tolkien)

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14 Oct 2007, 4:59 am

The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien.


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14 Oct 2007, 6:04 pm

Dune by Frank Herbert (the only book I've known to have the same sort of cultural and historical backstory as LOTR and Middle Earth)


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14 Oct 2007, 9:05 pm

The Eye of the World -- Robert Jordan. Contains the same level of complex intricate political manoeuvring.


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15 Oct 2007, 12:07 am

The New Adventures of Doctor Who: Lungbarrow by Marc Platt (Involves a lot of political maneouvering in the segments set in the Gallifreyan Capitol, and refers the the corruption that tainted an entire civilisation)

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15 Oct 2007, 12:04 pm

The Comedians, by Graham Greene (politics and corruption)



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16 Oct 2007, 8:54 am

[i]The Naked Jape[i/] by Jimmy Carr (a comedian)


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16 Oct 2007, 5:38 pm

The Road to Mars by Eric Idle (Two of the main characters are comedians, and a good deal of the subject matter is on comedy).


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16 Oct 2007, 6:35 pm

"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury.


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16 Oct 2007, 10:49 pm

"The Chronicles of Amber" by Zelazny.



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16 Oct 2007, 10:52 pm

The Waste Lands by Stephen King (Epic fantasy with sections in New York, transport between worlds, and memory needing to be reconciled)


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