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Post by belletinker on Jan 25, 2018 21:59:37 GMT
started reading a book and thought " I've read this or something very similar before?"
This has happened to me today I started a book last night and I am convinced I have read it before BUT it only came out last year and I have no record of reading it then. I don't even think it was this title! Very strange!
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Post by geminii on Jan 25, 2018 22:20:51 GMT
Yes .. this happened to me over Christmas .. I had downloaded a few freebie Christmas novellas from Amazon, so was just reading through them randomly .. One I started reading was exactly the same as a read from a few days previously, word for word but under a different title & author .. Must have been a pseudonym, but I cannot find anywhere that links the two names ..
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Post by windysisters on Jan 26, 2018 6:27:58 GMT
Yes. In fact happened with a Robert James Waller book. He only wrote a few books one of which was The Bridges of Maddison County and so I was chuffed to find a book by him that I hadn't heard of in a 2nd hand shop. But when I came to read it I found it was Bridges published under a different title
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Post by pennyt on Jan 26, 2018 8:38:45 GMT
started reading a book and thought " I've read this or something very similar before?" This has happened to me today I started a book last night and I am convinced I have read it before BUT it only came out last year and I have no record of reading it then. I don't even think it was this title! Very strange! It has happened to me in very similar circumstances, with a Peter Robinson book. Like you I felt it was so familiar I must have read it, but had no record of it in my (very reliable!) spreadsheet. It turned out it had been published with a different title and much later on in the US. I'd read the UK version some years earlier. It's very irritating when this happens, and Fantastic Fiction doesn't always pick up the fact that two separate titles are sometimes the exact same book.
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Post by belletinker on Jan 26, 2018 12:18:31 GMT
Mystery solved! (I think)
Checking on Fantastic Fiction the author wrote a book about the same characters a few years ago and the book I am reading now appears to be a sequel to that earlier book, which I enjoyed. No wonder I began to think I was going a bit bonkers!
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Post by geminii on Jan 26, 2018 13:36:07 GMT
I agree that FF are not always 100% acurate, but they remain my first choice when checking on Series / chronological order for my reading .. Pleased you can now enjoy the book, Margaret ..
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Post by jen on Jan 27, 2018 11:10:55 GMT
Yes. I was reading Anna Karennina and then realised I'd read it before when I had a copy ages ago. I started keeping a reading record since then but still read a book last yr I'd read in my teens 😄
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