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Judge Dredd Year One

Abaddon Books paperback edition of Judge Dredd Year One

I know these 2000AD novels aren’t what you would call mainstream reads for book lovers, since their origins were established in comics, but I love this world. So I’m indulging myself.


Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Robert Nicholson Robert Nicholson

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)

What an exquisite book! An all-time favourite, for sure! Amazingly layered storytelling.
I have to admit, again, as with previous classics, I'm more enamoured with the prose itself than the story.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild (1890)
Robert Nicholson Robert Nicholson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild (1890)

I definitely have a passion for this kind of classic prose. I find such delight in the guarded nature of the language's frankness. I love the way such blunt conversations can be carried out in such an inoffensive manner

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