brief history of time.....stephen hawkins.......fascinating read and easy to understand
Anything by Wilbur Smith or Terry Pratchet
chritopher stasheff....brilliant....especially the warlock in spite of himself
Or why not go for one of the classics like The Beano?
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Next time I see you Dawnie I will quiz you on old Carl Rogers lol lol I have to talk about him twice a year now
:eeek: Bollocks, does that mean I have to get past page 9 of the book
Yes I will test you on the third to last page of the book and he wrote loads so read them all!!!!!!! just in case :smug: :evil2:
Corrie, we might be mates but you can sod off if you think I'm reading any more than I can get away with :lol2:
Still on page 9 :roll:
:notes: 
Has anyone here read;
Neil Gaiman?
yes yes...I know he may well have been mentioned previously in this thread.. however, I'm farrr too lazy to go back and check
I'm just about to start Neverwhere Author's prefered text, and the author's blurb, at the very front of the book reads:
Neil Gaiman is a messy-haired white male author trapped in the body of an identical white male author with perhaps even less tidy hair. His books and comics have won many awards. He thanks you for your offer of a comb but does not believe it would do any good. Despite being English, he lives more in America than he does anywhere else in the world, and is currently somehwhere in his mid-forties. He wrote this book especially for you.
you gotta like that huh?
any spelling/gramatical mistakes in the above text are mine and not the author's. Got that?
lp
Neil Gaiman?
yes yes...I know he may well have been mentioned previously in this thread.. however, I'm farrr too lazy to go back and check
I'm just about to start Neverwhere Author's prefered text, and the author's blurb, at the very front of the book reads:
Neil Gaiman is a messy-haired white male author trapped in the body of an identical white male author with perhaps even less tidy hair. His books and comics have won many awards. He thanks you for your offer of a comb but does not believe it would do any good. Despite being English, he lives more in America than he does anywhere else in the world, and is currently somehwhere in his mid-forties. He wrote this book especially for you.
you gotta like that huh?
any spelling/gramatical mistakes in the above text are mine and not the author's. Got that?
lp
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Has anyone here read;
Neil Gaiman?
yes yes...I know he may well have been mentioned previously in this thread.. however, I'm farrr too lazy to go back and check
I'm just about to start Neverwhere Author's prefered text, and the author's blurb, at the very front of the book reads:
Neil Gaiman is a messy-haired white male author trapped in the body of an identical white male author with perhaps even less tidy hair. His books and comics have won many awards. He thanks you for your offer of a comb but does not believe it would do any good. Despite being English, he lives more in America than he does anywhere else in the world, and is currently somehwhere in his mid-forties. He wrote this book especially for you.
you gotta like that huh?
any spelling/gramatical mistakes in the above text are mine and not the author's. Got that?
lp
Neil Gamain and Terry Pratchett's 'Good Omens' made me laugh out loud to the point of almost accidentally wetting myself.
I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan, but Mr Gamain's darker, even more surreal, humour just makes this a TOP read
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Apologies for resurrecting this thread, it is only to share that I am reading a couple of great books at the mo.
One is (work related but nonetheless fab) David Crystal's 'The Stories of English' which is a fascinating book about our language and how it came to be. Non-fiction but reads like a novel.
And, for pleasure (ish) 'The Tin Roof Blow Down' by James Lee Burke. This is one of the latest in the Dave Robicheaux series and deals with Hurricane Katrina and its impact on New Orleans and South Louisiana. Harrowing at times, yet beautifully written even at its most painful moments. He's a cracking crime writer. Highly recommended.
Nola x
One is (work related but nonetheless fab) David Crystal's 'The Stories of English' which is a fascinating book about our language and how it came to be. Non-fiction but reads like a novel.
And, for pleasure (ish) 'The Tin Roof Blow Down' by James Lee Burke. This is one of the latest in the Dave Robicheaux series and deals with Hurricane Katrina and its impact on New Orleans and South Louisiana. Harrowing at times, yet beautifully written even at its most painful moments. He's a cracking crime writer. Highly recommended.
Nola x
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............... Stephen Fry's autobiography 'Moab Is My Washpot'.
Happy reading!
read that over xmas and really, really enjoyed it.
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I'm currently reading Long Way Down
The story of Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman travelling on their motorbikes...
So far its a cracking read...
The story of Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman travelling on their motorbikes...
So far its a cracking read...
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The Lovely Bones. Just getting to the end of it and it's taken me 2 nights :shock: Couldn't put it down....excellent read!
That made me cry :cry:
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The Lovely Bones. Just getting to the end of it and it's taken me 2 nights :shock: Couldn't put it down....excellent read!
That made me cry :cry:
Me too but it's just so good!
I'm sure I mentioned Birdsong before but that's now one of my top 5 all time fave books. A must read for anyone!
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Not sure if I have already mentioned this (and frankly am just being lazy to not trawl my own post 
) but Once in A House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth is a great novel - it made me cry but truly inspirational.
) but Once in A House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth is a great novel - it made me cry but truly inspirational. Quote by noladreams30
One is (work related but nonetheless fab) David Crystal's 'The Stories of English'...
David Crystal is ace! I saw him speaking at a conference once, and he's as good in person as he is on paper. He also looks like Father Christmas, and he's apparently a really nice man (a friend of mine knew his daughter when they were kids, and learned to act in a theatre group he ran).
Ok my book tips:
If you like Terry Pratchett, try Robert Rankin - probably start with his earlier stuff (like the Brentford Trilogy or The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived). His later books are really surreal and pretty self-indulgent, and if you're not into it it'll be a bit annoying.
For erotica - have a look at a copy of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade if you haven't already. It's, erm, eye-opening. In that it goes waaay beyond anything else you've ever thought of... not as much erotic as... a trip into madness. Unless you come to the conclusion that it's so far gone that he must have been trying to provoke rather than describe stuff he was actually into. Umm, anyone else read this stuff? What do you think?
For serious literature - War and Peace is actually a lot less hard and more engaging than you think it's going to be. Just very very long (took me about six months of reading it for an hour on the tube every day). I really got into it though. It's really character driven and very well drawn. Epic like you wouldn't believe, and yet also about sixteen year old girls falling in love.
Probably my favourite book ever - House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. It's a banging horror/thriller, but it's also really interestingly put together - he's chucked every typographic, structural and stylistic trick he can think of at it and most of them work. Again compelling characters and storylines, which kind of make the rest of it work... oh and it's not as long as it looks: quite a lot of the pages are blank or have only got one line on them.
Oh and anything by Haruki Murakami or Milan Kundera.
Wicked.
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For erotica - have a look at a copy of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade if you haven't already. It's, erm, eye-opening. In that it goes waaay beyond anything else you've ever thought of... not as much erotic as... a trip into madness. Unless you come to the conclusion that it's so far gone that he must have been trying to provoke rather than describe stuff he was actually into. Umm, anyone else read this stuff? What do you think?
no no... gawd nooo!
leave this joke on the shelf!
i'm of the opinion that he was doing the attention-thing... he did it well... many have varying opinions of him now and he still raises debate... so job-done!
But lordy...
lp
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Quote by tomu
For erotica - have a look at a copy of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade if you haven't already. It's, erm, eye-opening. In that it goes waaay beyond anything else you've ever thought of... not as much erotic as... a trip into madness.
I've read some, but not all of de Sade. Have you tried any Georges Bataille?
If you liked/admired/puzzled over de Sade then defo worth a look.
Nola x
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For erotica - have a look at a copy of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade if you haven't already. It's, erm, eye-opening. In that it goes waaay beyond anything else you've ever thought of... not as much erotic as... a trip into madness.
I've read some, but not all of de Sade. Have you tried any Georges Bataille?
If you liked/admired/puzzled over de Sade then defo worth a look.
Nola x
I tried to read one of his books once...........felt a little sick by the 2nd chapter! Very strange man
:?Not heard of George Battaille before...will have a looksee!
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You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough ...
by Chris Pascoe
This is for people with cats, my kids brought it for me. This book had me in tears of laughter from the onset, you know the sort of book that even if you on the train you cant help laughing out loud.
by Chris Pascoe
This is for people with cats, my kids brought it for me. This book had me in tears of laughter from the onset, you know the sort of book that even if you on the train you cant help laughing out loud.
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Can I suggest anything by Haruki Murakami, I've enjoyed every book of his that I've read,all have a slightly off kilter surreal world view.
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Can I suggest anything by Haruki Murakami, I've enjoyed every book of his that I've read,all have a slightly off kilter surreal world view.
Cheers Staggerlee, you're the second person now to recommend Murakami. I shall be taking a look.
Great poetry up in that there thread ^^^^^ btw... you have a real gift.
Nola x
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Can I suggest anything by Haruki Murakami, I've enjoyed every book of his that I've read,all have a slightly off kilter surreal world view.
Cheers Staggerlee, you're the second person now to recommend Murakami. I shall be taking a look.
Great poetry up in that there thread ^^^^^ btw... you have a real gift.
Nola x
Thank you very much, I really wasn't sure if anyone read it.
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We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
That's the last book I read.....it is a bit morbid at times but it's a very good and incredibly well written book. Actually it's probably one of the best written books that I've read in a long time. Read it.
That's the last book I read.....it is a bit morbid at times but it's a very good and incredibly well written book. Actually it's probably one of the best written books that I've read in a long time. Read it.
