read Saturday in a couple of days found it very readable and bought up interesting political issues
Anyone read Dave Pelzer "The Boy Called It"? & the follow on novels? Wow what a true life story. Made me cry.
Another on that has stuck in my mind is Dibs- In Search Of Self by Virginia M. Axline
If anyone fancies a good laugh read any of Christopher Brookmyre`s books the most recent called something like "All good fun till someone loses an eye" made me laugh out loud on a recent flight, then other passengers start treating you like a nutter. Colin Bateman novels can have a similar effect.
Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next Chronicles
The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
Well of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
also:
The Big Over Easy
POTATOES NOT PROZAC.......Dr. Des Maisons
Has anybody read it before I comment...?
Everyone's literary tastes seem to be so tasteful. What about books relating to swinging? Has anyone read The Sexual Life of Catherine M? This is an account of one French woman's on-going experiences of the French group sex/ swinging scene. At first, it did not strike me as being especially erotic (perhaps something has been lost in the translation from the original French), but it gets going a bit (but only a bit) later on (as the author's own experiences start to get going). Perhaps the lesson is that some things are best done rather than written about?
Everyone's literary tastes seem to be so tasteful. What about books relating to swinging? Has anyone read The Sexual Life of Catherine M? This is an account of one French woman's on-going experiences of the French group sex/ swinging scene. At first, it did not strike me as being especially erotic (perhaps something has been lost in the translation from the original French), but it gets going a bit (but only a bit) later on (as the author's own experiences start to get going). Perhaps the lesson is that some things are best done rather than written about?
Tom Robbins is a particular fave of mine, mainly because his look at life is wonderfully confused between cynicism, humour and serious comment.
Ooooops!! Sorry for posting the same message twice last night. Is that the sort of thing that people on SH mean when they talk about someone being a good repeater??
I don't know quite how I managed to post twice (a bottle of red wine may have had something to do with it) but it was a genuine mistake rather than that I thought my words had so much merit that they had to be posted twice!
Try Duncton wood, it's great. All about moles but when your half way through you start thinking they're about the size of horses. A bit like Watership Down without the rabbits.
I likeread all that stuff too. Stephen king is pretty cool too, although he has gone more pschycalogical(?) in recent years. Dont mind the odd bit of pulp fiction when i'm feeling lowbrow, just reading a book on wether the bible has descriptions of ufo's.
I've tried to read the classics but they do start to do my head in after a while. Saying that i reckon give it 60 years Terry Pratchett wil be a classic(bloody funny though). If i'm in the mood to read just to let my brain time off give me a bit of Eric Von Danniken(i've usually got at three books on the go at any one time, costs me a fortune). Discuss. lol
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I thought it was a fairly good book, the problem was that it failed to go into enough detail.
It wasn't so much that I didn't enjoy the book but rather that I appreciated it more as almost a sociological study of a certain strata of French society than as an erotic work. I sensed an emotional flatness, almost a sense of joylessness, to the various goings-on described. It was as if the participants were more driven by an inner compulsion then by an active and wholly free choice of lifestyle to follow. In that sense, it could almost be read as a piece of black propaganda against the swinging lifestyle. But then it is a French book and the French do have a habit of portraying swinging in that way (existentialism and all that) - I have in mind the sex-club scene at the end of the film Baise-Moi which did not strike me as being particularly inviting even before the "heroines" did their stuff!
Mr Hugs is into Dean Koontz, Terry Pratchett, Tom Sharpe while I like Tolkien, Harry Potter, Terry Pratchett and Ben Elton :thumbup:
Good omens was one of the funniest books i'd read. but lets not forget the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, a trilogy in four parts. best book(books ?) ever.
am the basis for one of the main characters in a book about to be released by a well established author (won't name him on this forum). 
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by Jerome K Jerome and Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham. Recently finished a biography on Alan Ginsberg by Barry Miles and waiting in the wings are Return To The Marshes - Gavin Young and Cycling To Xian by Michael Buckley (about his bicyle travels through China and Tibet). My all time favourite is The Third Poiceman by Flann O'Brien. If you are not sure about this book its described as, a novel comparable only to Alice In Wonderlad as an allegory of the absud. Its a murder thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity and a brief tender erotic story about a love affair between a man and his bicycle (though I don't think he got as far as China on it)! 
