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meegannie

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I don't think this question has been asked in a while (though I was probably the last person to ask it :reject: ), but what are your favourite books? And what are you reading now?
 
favourite books:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Mystery...Series by Enid Blyton
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Take A Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
U2 At The End Of The World by Bill Flanagan :wink:

I can't think of anything else at the mo, but I'll return with some.

Current reading:

The Sound Of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Biology for O-Levels: A Textbook by Lam Peng Kwan and Eric Y K Lam
Physics for O-Levels: A Textbook
 
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:up: I :heart: books

I am torn between several favourite books. But I think my top 3 is:

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

I also love Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry - which I think was by Mildred D. Taylor. Although I haven't read it since I was 15. I remember it had quite an effect on me

I have just yesterday finished reading a book called 'Join Me' by Danny Wallace and would definitely recommend it. It's by this guy who decided.......actually I can't describe it. Go to the website instead:

http://www.join-me.co.uk/

It's a VERY funny book. I laughed. A lot.
 
yertle-the-turtle said:
favourite books:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie :yes:

I especially love the Poirot books.

yertle-the-turtle said:

The Mystery...Series by Enid Blyton
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:D God I loved those books when I was younger. In fact I re-read a few quite recently. Great fun.
 
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I :heart: Enid Blyton.
She is almost outlawed here though for all her gay references :mad: She is the last of the innocents. If anyone has any old Noddy books, please pm me, I would pay shipping + lots of money to get them again.
 
Im reading Lonesome Dove right now (800 pages), and I dont usually care for western novels. But this is a great read and a real page turner.....:up:
 
bammo2 said:


I have just yesterday finished reading a book called 'Join Me' by Danny Wallace and would definitely recommend it. It's by this guy who decided.......actually I can't describe it. Go to the website instead:

http://www.join-me.co.uk/

It's a VERY funny book. I laughed. A lot.
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I'd seen that site before but I didn't know it was by the Are You Dave Gorman? Danny Wallace!!
 
Favorites:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, JT LeRoy
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

Right now, I am reading Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests. It's long but it's very interesting.
 
meegannie said:


I'd seen that site before but I didn't know it was by the Are You Dave Gorman? Danny Wallace!!
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Are You Dave Gorman!!! :lmao: Great book. Great TV series too. Very funny guy, with very large sideburns

:up:

Another funny guy (who I'm sure you've heard of) is Tony Hawks (not the skateboarding guy!)

Wrote some fab books:

Round Ireland with a Fridge
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
One Hit Wonderland
 
In fact, Dave Gorman is on tour at the moment, but the nottingham show on 13th October is sold out. Ah well. I suppose I could try to get tickets for the derby show.

He's got a new book called 'Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure' coming out early next year :hyper:
 
nabakov's lolita
fear and loathing in las vegas
white oleander
anything by bukowski
my list could go on and on.

also, cruddy by lynda barry is too incredible for words.
it both hypnotized and horrified me at the same time.
 
bammo2 said:
In fact, Dave Gorman is on tour at the moment, but the nottingham show on 13th October is sold out. Ah well. I suppose I could try to get tickets for the derby show.

He's got a new book called 'Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure' coming out early next year :hyper:
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I know!! My fiance and I were going to see him in Norwich and there was only one ticket left for each night! :mad::down:
 
Some of the best books I have read:

Autobiography of Malcom X
Endurance - about Sir Ernest Shackleton - amazing true survival story
Once a Runner - an unreal fictional portrayal of elite distance running

What I am reading now:
just finished Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
just started The Return of the King
also reading an anatomy and physiology textbook
 
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a seperate peace john knowles
high fidelity nick hornby
about a boy nick hornby
fever pitch nick hornby
flannagan's u2 'bible'
1984 george orwell
dead souls nikolai gogol
timeline michael crichton

just read property by valerie martin for a lit class i'm taking. i didn't like the book. read slaughterhouse five (also for class) last week. have to read linden hills by gloria naylor next week. was reading how to be good--more nick hornby--for fun, but i wasn't enjoying it as much...so it's back on the shelf until i've got a little more time to read.
 
i challenge anyone who hasn't read mick "mankind" foley's book because "why would i want to read something about a stupid fake wrestler" to go out and pick up a copy of Have A Nice Day and try and tell me that you did not enjoy it... he wrote the entire thing himself, no ghost writer... and it's amazing what the man went through to get to the top of his business. good books are good books, no matter what the subject matter may be... and Have A Nice Day isn't just a good book, it's a great one.
 
A few of my favorites include...

(my personal fav. book of all-time) - "A Hundred Years of Solitude" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
"The Catcher in the Rye" (J.D. Salinger)
"The Screwtape Letters" (C.S. Lewis)

and I'm currently reading "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman. I'm really lovin' it so far!
 
My favourites:

Servant Of The Bones - Anne Rice
Queen Of The Damned - Anne Rice
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde


At the mo I've got quite a few books on the go. I'm about halfway through Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder and 1984 - George Orwell, I'm a few hundred pages through The Witching Hour - Anne Rice and I've read a bit of Complete Short Fiction - Oscar Wilde.
But, for English Lit, I've also got to read Snow Falling On Cedars - David Guterson which is without a doubt THE worst book I have EVER EVER EVER read :madspit: :banghead: :censored: Ugh I hate it SO much. :madspit:
 
Klaus said:


Le petit prince - Saint Exup?ry
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:up:

I just realized that I haven't posted mine. :reject:

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Abhorsen books by Garth Nix
U2 At End of the World by Bill Flanagan
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Sallinger
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (though I completely disagree with her philosophy and think she was insane)

current reading The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Sixties by Arthur Marwick, and Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics (the last two for class, obviously)
 
off the top of my head:
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Christo
Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Series
Joseph Heller's Catch 22
anything by James Joyce, especially Ulysses
The Crying of Lot 49, V. and Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (great :rant: )
Don DeLillo's Underworld
Salman Rusdie's Midnight's Children
 
'Hound of the Baskervilles' - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
'Red Storm Rising' & most all of his novels - Tom Clancy
'Ender's Game' - Orson Scott Card
'Frankenstein' - Mary Shelly
Lord of the Rings Trilogy & The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
'Jurassic Park' - Michael Crichton (the movie is crap)
'War of the Worlds' - HG Wells
'Robinson Crusoe' - Daniel Defoe
'Slaughter House 5' - Kurt Vonnegut
'Black Hawk Down' - Mark Bowden
 
Oh, yay! I haven't read a good book in so long....
I bet I post the same books I always do - I'll try to add some variety though!

A.S. Byatt - Possession
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Henry James - A Turn of the Screw
Bill Flannagan - U2 At the end of the World
Michael Cunningham - The Hours
Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
James Joyce - Ulysses
Kahil Gibran - The Prophet
Thomas Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49 (very different, but good if you just keeping plowing through it)
currently reading James Ellroy - American Tabloid. I like it so far.
 
Robbins - Skinny Legs and All, Half Asleep in Frogs Pajamas, etc.
Capote - In Cold Blood
Heller - Catch 22
Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las vegas
 
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