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Books that you will never forget reading
From time to time i pick up Terry Pratchet (slooowly gooing through the collection...)
But some of my favourite books are
The Animal Farm, Angela's Ashes and Kes from my school days.
These days i love most pre Green Mile Stephen King (including said book :dry: ) and thrillers such as early Patricia Cornwell, i also love a autobiography from time to time, such as Paul O' Grady, Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.
I also like to dip into a bit of poetry Co: The Nations Favourite Poem by Tony Robinson.
But some of my favourite books are
The Animal Farm, Angela's Ashes and Kes from my school days.
These days i love most pre Green Mile Stephen King (including said book :dry: ) and thrillers such as early Patricia Cornwell, i also love a autobiography from time to time, such as Paul O' Grady, Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.
I also like to dip into a bit of poetry Co: The Nations Favourite Poem by Tony Robinson.
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Glad to see you raising the standards...
Is that sarcasm or patronage?
Affection.
You read quality in depth. I read quantity, with an eclectic bent.
How d'you know she doesn't skim them then??
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You want to get a real stick and try that! :wink:
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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
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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
Made me weep too - but not on a bus - he's amazing! Someone above mentioned his wife too - History of Love Nicole Krauss - what a couple!
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War and Peace
.....we're still living it day-by-day
.....we're still living it day-by-day
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The little engine that could.
I think I can I think I can I know can I know I can I know I canI think I can I can!
I think I can I think I can I know can I know I can I know I canI think I can I can!
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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?
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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"
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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.
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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 :shock:
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.
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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.
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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.
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as a child enid blyton books are the ones that stuck with me.
Yeah, it was Enid that stated me reading books. God bless her, th'auld racist.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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... 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!
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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.
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... 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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... 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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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? :confused2:
Oh Jesus, you could have at least put *spoiler* above that :-p
(I'd managed to forget how the book ends...)
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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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This is a bit of a self-indulgent bump... as I am looking for some book-buying inspiration and I'm hoping that a trawl through this thread (and any new posts *hint hint folks*) may just be the help I need!
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As a great non reader I have not read much since a kid. It takes something very special to get me to read a book and at that point it was as per usual with me games I couldent read that well at the time but other kids could read the Fighting fantasy game books by Steve Jackson and Ian livingstone. This was a huge kick up the ass for me to want to read these books and I have them to thank for my reading skills. The first book I read or played below but I played a lot lot more in the series too and my collection is still fondly tucked away in bedroom closet.
I couldent read that well at the time but other kids could read the Fighting fantasy game books by Steve Jackson and Ian livingstone. This was a huge kick up the ass for me to want to read these books and I have them to thank for my reading skills. The first book I read or played below but I played a lot lot more in the series too and my collection is still fondly tucked away in bedroom closet.Got a few of books on the go from the pile that litters the floor around my bed.
1) History : The Gracchi by David Stockton. About the two social reformers in the late Roman Republic.
2) Historical Novel : Under the Hog by Patrick Carelton. Terrific novel about Richard III. Very well researched and the opposite of the Tudor propaganda. (First read it nearly 40 years ago. Though long out of print, copies can still be bought from Amazon UK).
3) Light Humour : A volume of P.G. Wodehouse short stories about Jeeves and Wooster. For when I'm in a more flippant mood!
4) Childrens' book : The Meeting Pool. A collection of little stories based in the Borneo jungle. Quite delightful. Read them as a child. Not all that long ago! (Long OP but can still be got from Amazon UK).
What about some Camus? The short stories especially.
1) History : The Gracchi by David Stockton. About the two social reformers in the late Roman Republic.
2) Historical Novel : Under the Hog by Patrick Carelton. Terrific novel about Richard III. Very well researched and the opposite of the Tudor propaganda. (First read it nearly 40 years ago. Though long out of print, copies can still be bought from Amazon UK).
3) Light Humour : A volume of P.G. Wodehouse short stories about Jeeves and Wooster. For when I'm in a more flippant mood!
4) Childrens' book : The Meeting Pool. A collection of little stories based in the Borneo jungle. Quite delightful. Read them as a child. Not all that long ago! (Long OP but can still be got from Amazon UK).
What about some Camus? The short stories especially.
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As a great non reader I have not read much since a kid. It takes something very special to get me to read a book and at that point it was as per usual with me games
Thank you. Thank you for making me feel old. My 22 year old son loved these game-books. :giggle:
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Give me Ian McKewan any day. Atonement was awesome although a certain person called Angelica on here exposed the full complexity of the story for me. Just into Solar now.
Jane Austen is so beautifully observed and crafted one cannot ignore such beauty.
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Jane Austen is so beautifully observed and crafted one cannot ignore such beauty.
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Hrm.
Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz was pretty awesome but as I don't speak spanish or know anything about the history of the Dominican Republic I had to keep stopping to look stuff up. But I recommend it.
The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore.
Judge Dredd by John Wagner. All of it, taken as a body of work, so long as John Wagner is the writer. If I have to choose one story I'd say Tour of Duty, which I imagine will be released in book form within three months.
Discworld I love, especially Men At Arms.
Lord of the Rings, as I am nerdy (as you may be able to tell by the choices above)
There are probably a load more, and I have also read some actual literature, the kind that gets good reviews on BBC2, but generally find it pompous. That'll be my inverted snobbery refusing to allow me to enjoy anything recommended to me by people who probably class themselves as 'intellectuals'. ;>
Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz was pretty awesome but as I don't speak spanish or know anything about the history of the Dominican Republic I had to keep stopping to look stuff up. But I recommend it.
The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore.
Judge Dredd by John Wagner. All of it, taken as a body of work, so long as John Wagner is the writer. If I have to choose one story I'd say Tour of Duty, which I imagine will be released in book form within three months.
Discworld I love, especially Men At Arms.
Lord of the Rings, as I am nerdy (as you may be able to tell by the choices above)
There are probably a load more, and I have also read some actual literature, the kind that gets good reviews on BBC2, but generally find it pompous. That'll be my inverted snobbery refusing to allow me to enjoy anything recommended to me by people who probably class themselves as 'intellectuals'. ;>
