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    Power Play

    Gattaca, good idea! I wish i'd thought about using it earlier. Animal Farm (Eric Blair/George Orwell) Brave New World (Auldous Huxley) Encounter At Tiber (sp) (Buzz Aldren) are books i'd reckomend (especially Encounter which features power play most of the way through - towards the end...
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    Crime Fiction

    How to drive your teacher wild... ... use Terry Pratchett's 'Guards!' series as an example of Police Procedure and Hardboiled detective genres. The following books (in order of first to latest) comprise Terry Pratchett's (Discworld) 'Guards!' series: Guards! Guards! - About a cult who...
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    conventions of crime fiction

    Thanks for the advice Smegger_em! If you find that info get back to us will you (please) because during the trial i had to bluff like there was no tomorrow re: Conventions of Crime Fiction.
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    Catholic 3 Unit Trial

    Grammar? I don't need no grammar! I liked the exam for Eng. Ex. 1! It was the only english i got a halfways decent mark on (21 out of 25 for both questions), and thats without studying and with shonky grammar (which i have some how managed to cultivate over the past 2 years). What does that...
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    How much easier is 3unit than 2!

    Mordenkainen huh? Nice name. You play a bit of D&D then do you? Eng. Ex. 1, like Morden. said, is very much simplier then Adv. Eng. mind you the module that i'm doing bugs the heck out of me. Its Crime Fiction by the way, at least 'Hound is amusing but The Big Sleep and Snow Falling on...
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    Snow falling on Cedars

    I cannot stand Snow Falling on Cedars it bugs the heck out of me! The movie is not much better (funnily enough) but at least it means you can get an idea about the book off it (no where near as much though - strangely enough). 40 odd days or so til the HSC, i'd better get reading SFOC i got...
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    Catholic Trials (paper 1) - What did u think?

    Ye gods that exam annoyed me! i absolutely crashed and burned in it. Section II got me, i misunderstood the question and waffled on about something completely irrelevant - completely missing the text. Argh. Well at least i learned my lesson on that exam.
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