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brucieGodlike

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foxylady2209 wrote:

I often pick up books that have had films made from them. I've never found one that wasn't better than the film. In the case of Hunt for red October it was as good - but more detailed with more action and a better understanding of the miltary-political meouverings and the caterpillar drive.

The most memorable book. Ellie (I think) thetrue story of a Jewish girl who was taken to Auschwitz. Twice. Because she was blonde they didn't kill her, they put her to work in a factory. When it was bomber they took her back to Auschwitz.

Her description of the events there - sometimes the smallest ones were the most traumatic. Like the moment when she realised the shaved, naked scrap of human life next to her was a friend of hers that she hadn't recognised.

A book the pierces the soul. And, no, I won't read it again. Nor can I now watch Schindler's List (I can only think of those that he failed to save).

read primo levi, if this is man/the truce

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Staggerlee_BB wrote:

Until I find you...John Irving (or hotel new Hampshire Or the world according to Garp)
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my favourite Irving is actually a prayer for owen meany

brucieGodlike

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P1ayMate wrote:

fluff_n_stuff wrote:

My most favourite book ever keeps cropping up here: The Time Traveller's Wife. I can thoroughly recommend Audrey Niffenegger's follow-up novel too: Her Fearful Symmetry.

Oh? have you read it? I read a teaser online and that looked good.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through it and don't want to finish it, it's that good

how odd. time travellers wife is my 16 year olds favourite book (well it was 2 year sago). so i read it and whilst i saw why it was a bestseller, i actually thought it was an awful book.

fluff_n_stuffGodlike

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brucie wrote:

fluff_n_stuff wrote:

P1ayMate wrote:

fluff_n_stuff wrote:

My most favourite book ever keeps cropping up here: The Time Traveller's Wife. I can thoroughly recommend Audrey Niffenegger's follow-up novel too: Her Fearful Symmetry.

Oh? have you read it? I read a teaser online and that looked good.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through it and don't want to finish it, it's that good

how odd. time travellers wife is my 16 year olds favourite book (well it was 2 year sago). so i read it and whilst i saw why it was a bestseller, i actually thought it was an awful book.

But then, you have no soul

And wouldn't it be strange if we all liked the same things?

TheLovelyOneGodlike

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brucie wrote:

read primo levi, if this is man/the truce

Here's his poem that goes with it:

You who live safe
In your warm houses;
You who find on returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:

Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a bit of bread
Who dies because of a yes and because of a no

Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
Without enough strength to remember
Vacant eyes and cold womb
Like a frog in the winter:

Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
These words I commend to you:
Inscribe them on your heart
When staying at home and going out,

Going to bed and rising up;
Repeat them to your children:
Or may your house fall down,
Illness bar your way,
Your loved ones turn away from you.

Translated from the Italian of Primo Levi's "If This Is a Man"

tomuI need to get out more

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kentswingers777 wrote:

Lord of the Rings.

How anyone can imagine such in depth thoughts and fantasy, shows this authors pure genius.

The films were even more breathtaking.

Finally found something I agree with Kentswingers about! And I agree about the films too, actually - a rare example of the film being as good as the book.

brucie wrote:

meat2pleaseu wrote:

I can highly recommend never picking up the BS7671:2001 17th edition IEE Electrical Regulations unless you really have to or someone has a gun to your head

you joke but i had to read AND UNDERSTAND the WEEE Directives recently

(clue: nothing to do with golden showers. waste electrical something or other)

You might try BSI BS 6008:Preparation of a Liquor of Tea though - I use it on a regular basis. http://sub.spc.org/san/docs/BS6008.pdf

Gufuncouple wrote:

War and Peace

Probably my favourite book. And actually, apart from the sheer size of it, it's not as hard to read as you'd think.

Staggerlee_BB wrote:

did I mention extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan Safran Foer ...do not read on the bus...I did and looked an absolute fool weeping on the back seat

Haven't read that, but I liked Everything is Illuminated a lot.

Ms_Whips wrote:

as a child enid blyton books are the ones that stuck with me.

[snip]

Yeah, it was Enid that stated me reading books. God bless her, th'auld racist.

Dave_Desert229 wrote:

[snip]
I like Pratchett, but if I had the choice, I'd have to pick the 'master of far-fetched fiction', Robert Rankin. His books have reduced me to tears of laughter on numerous occasions. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse and The Toyminator (murder mysteries set in Toy City) are brilliant. [snip]

Yes! Pratchett and Rankin are both ace. My favourite Rankin was always The Book of Ultimate Truths though. And the original Brentford Trilogy.

And then:

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, by David Crystal - who'd have thought an encyclopaedia could be so interesting? But is was, enough so to make me change which degree courses I was applying to, to Linguistics, after I already had offers for Law. If you're asking about life-changing books...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - Got me back into reading recreationally after I finished university.

A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murukami - my favourite current novelist.

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski - got all the tricks you can think of in terms of layout and structure, but actually it's a really good horror/thriller novel too.

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tomu wrote:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - Got me back into reading recreationally after I finished university.

Getting back into reading for fun after Uni was so difficult, I felt like I never wanted to read again!

noladreamsSite Moderator

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tomu wrote:

And then:

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, by David Crystal - who'd have thought an encyclopaedia could be so interesting? But is was, enough so to make me change which degree courses I was applying to, to Linguistics, after I already had offers for Law. If you're asking about life-changing books...

I am reading that at the mo - I keep dipping in and out. Just great. The man is a legend. I love listening to him.

TheLovelyOneGodlike

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Another book I will never forget reading - even though it's not a very good book - is Nick Hornby's 'How to be Good'.

I read it from within a desperately unhappy marriage and the book's first few pages are a description of a phonecall that mirrorred where I was, and the recognition was horrible:

"... Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt ..."

Makes me shudder.

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on the subject of films as goods or better than the book..
i can only think of the godfather.

a book im intrigued how it can be made (i mean made well...), life of pi

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brucie wrote:

on the subject of films as goods or better than the book..
i can only think of the godfather.

a book im intrigued how it can be made (i mean made well...), life of pi

I've read Puzo's novel and yes, Coppola certainly did a great job with it - far more epic in scope. Thing is, after I'd read it once, I read it again just to check it was as bad as I thought and, do you know what, it kinda started to grow on me! Never, ever be as good as the films... but trashy-good, like Valley of the Dolls was trashy-good!

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brucie wrote:

on the subject of films as goods or better than the book..
i can only think of the godfather.

a book im intrigued how it can be made (i mean made well...), life of pi

Life of Pi is already a widely-performed play... don't know about film though ...

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brucie wrote:

on the subject of films as goods or better than the book..
i can only think of the godfather.

a book im intrigued how it can be made (i mean made well...), life of pi

Are they seriously planning that, the whole thing is a hallucination?

Mind apparently the lovely bones is supposed to be a gd film ,and i would have said that was unfilmable

i generally make a rule of never seeing a film of a book i have already read,but the lovely bones tempts me

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a great many books have left an impression, though thier titles illude me.
Bad memory is also wonderful for re-reading, that's what I say anyway.

However, one that definately sticks in the mind, and has been re-read is Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor. Wonderful dual time-line story telling with a mixture old and present day language. Wonderfully dark and gothic themes, based in a mysterious London.

spook.

... Which led me to read others by Ackroyd too... all of which a good. But as a lover of london and it's make-up, his London: A Biography gives depth and personality to this city's history. Go Read!
lp

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__random_orbit__ wrote:

... Which led me to read others by Ackroyd too... all of which a good. But as a lover of london and it's make-up, his London: A Biography gives depth and personality to this city's history. Go Read!
lp

I did go read! Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem et al ... Coolly weird!

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foucault - had to read it for Uni, then write an essay on it! Only book that gave me headache!

tomuI need to get out more

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Kaznkev wrote:

brucie wrote:

on the subject of films as goods or better than the book..
i can only think of the godfather.

a book im intrigued how it can be made (i mean made well...), life of pi

Are they seriously planning that, the whole thing is a hallucination?

Oh Jesus, you could have at least put *spoiler* above that :-p

(I'd managed to forget how the book ends...)

TheLovelyOneGodlike

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anais wrote:

foucault - had to read it for Uni, then write an essay on it! Only book that gave me headache!

Did his pendulum hit you?

Gillianthe1stSuper human rambling

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Love reading so had to reply to this one.

Anything by Dean Koontz
But a Favourite is Weaveworld by Clive Barker
dont often re read a book but enjoyed it so much.
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mollman1 wrote:

i also love a autobiography from time to time, such as Paul O' Grady, Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.

I love autobiographies too and Paul O'Grady's is on my list of 'to reads'. Just started reading David Attenborough's Life On Air

Also well worth reading are:
Alan Carr - Look Who It Is ( funny as! )
Julie Walters - That's Another Story
Dawn French - Dear Fatty
John Bailey - Iris
Ricky Tomlinson - Ricky
Richard E Grant - With Nails

Although I'd list Angela's Ashes in my top 5 I'm not a fan of that kind of book. Stories of abuse, whether it be physical, sexual or emotional, really upset me but one I did read was The Kid by Kevin Lewis. It's his own account of his traumatic childhood and written because he couldn't bring himself to tell his wife what he'd been through. It's heartwrenching and disturbing but such a brave man to tell all.

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