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OriginalGriff wrote: Windows Messaging
HERESY!
BURN THE WITCH!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sheesh, if you're gonna go that way, then why not that "other" bestseller, also written by delusional people back around the mid-20s, and was given to every newlywed couple in the country a few years later? Bonus: It's already in German.
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Because
1) I have no idea what book you refer to;
And
2) I suspect you didn't follow the link (or even look at the URL)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You're right, I didn't follow the link. When you wrote "the bible", I took it literally.
As for the book: It was very popular back in its time. It's now banned in Germany (unless laws have changed).
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Ah! Schicklgruber's finest opus! 
Never read it (or wanted to) ... but he did make an obscene amount of money out of that one. If only he'd stuck to authorship, the world would be a different place.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Read a copy years ago with added footnotes from some eminent historian. My struggle was keeping a straight face at the number of notes that went along the lines of Quote: 101 This never actually happened
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LOL You got me, OG. Je lève mon chapeau à vous.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat may go...
Also Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret can fit...
Or Eric Lindstrom's Not If I See You First...
I will ask my (almost 13) daughter when home to see what she likes (a dedicated bookworms since learned to read)...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Three Men in a boat would definitely be something for a youngster. I remember the fun I had with it whan I was that age! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Or how about a book that refers to and discusses Three Men in a Boat. “To Say Nothing of the Dog” by Connie Willis. Funny and very English.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat may go...
Oh, come - "To say nothing of the dog" -- ( 'tho that may go better after the other, which I haven't read )
But, to meggaadam - I'm agin existential _anything_ ( doctor asked about depression, I told him I swore off angst in high school. ) "The Tin Drum" is _not_ my taste.
But - assuming she's read the Harry Potters - the next book on sociology and poly sci I'd recommend is "Tom Jones".
For lighter, check out "Terrier" ( Tamora Pierce ) or the Jacky Fabers.
Have fun,
dave
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I would suggest anything by Jules Verne. Exiting stories that appeal to most teenagers - and challenging, but not too much. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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When I was that age, I read Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Clifford D. Simak. But I think it may be too big a mouthful in this case... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain? Light & adventurous - something for a modern 13 year old to compare the old times simple but hard life to how we live today all regulated but everything at your fingertips. Definitely lighter than catcher, but similar times. (i.e. use the Twain to lead into Catcher.)
... oh and it will probably be banned everywhere in the next 10 years.
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lopati: roaming wrote: ... oh and it will probably be banned everywhere in the next 10 years.
Exactly - probably not PC at all. Better read it while she's got the chance. Good suggestion! 
BTW: Are people still allowed to read Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe around the world?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Johnny J. wrote: Are people still allowed to read Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe around the world?
Yes! I just did (after the kids done with it)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Get a phone, it is all kids want to read these days 
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I would recommend Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, or the Bartimaeus Sequence books from Jonathan Stroud which are well written and also very funny in parts - both are a great series to read as an adult too.
Outside of that The Hobbit is a good read or for something really refined how about George Elliot's The Mill on the Floss?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Get a pack with Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters and Witches abroad, by Terry Pratchett, for her. In English.
There's no reason she shouldn't have fun while reading.
And his books do have depth. Especially the later ones.
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Harry Potter books. Easy reading in bang on modern correct English.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: modern correct English.
Not necessarily. It may be necessary to hire a Griff interpreter[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Just think, if it wasnt for immigration we would all be Welsh...
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