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Post by scoo on May 20, 2007 19:46:21 GMT
I cannot name a favourite book, I have hundreds of books. I just love reading
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Post by fay tacompli on May 20, 2007 20:56:31 GMT
Oh that's easy...Grapes of Wrath...no, no. Ivanhoe, yes, no...Tale of Two Cities, oh but then Birdsong, mmm...or Brighton Rock, but then again I really enjoyed Tess of the...or Jude the Obscure...or The Hitchhikers Guide, that really made me laugh... 1984, wow! What about Lord of the Rings though?
Actually, no I can't, but I can tell you the worst one...The Road to Wigan Pier!
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Post by mdarlin on May 20, 2007 21:41:58 GMT
I agree that one has to choose 'one of my favourites' as there are so many, depending on ones mood. However I loved Captain Correlli's Mandolin -- Luis de Bernieres and could not believe anthing so beautifully written could be so appallingly awful when made into a film by the Americans. It is the sort of book that you have to struggle with, with the first few chapters darting from place to place but is so rewarding when the stories all start to intertwine.
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Post by mdarlin on May 20, 2007 21:48:32 GMT
By the same author who wrote Nicholas Nickel -bees
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Post by lindasahandir on May 21, 2007 7:06:32 GMT
Normally I don't do favourites in any area, because they change with my mood, but with books there is one that I come back to time and time again, and can read in any mood: Pride and Prejudice. I first read it when I was about 18, and I've read it probably about once a year ever since.
The high point of my amateur dramatics career was playing Elizabeth Bennet in a stage adaptation of the novel, when I was about 22.
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Post by smiffy on May 21, 2007 7:46:50 GMT
Normally I don't do favourites in any area, because they change with my mood, but with books there is one that I come back to time and time again, and can read in any mood: Pride and Prejudice. I first read it when I was about 18, and I've read it probably about once a year ever since.
The high point of my amateur dramatics career was playing Elizabeth Bennet in a stage adaptation of the novel, when I was about 22. One of my favorites too, Linda.
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Post by Bromhamtog on May 24, 2007 13:48:05 GMT
Normally I don't do favourites in any area, because they change with my mood, but with books there is one that I come back to time and time again, and can read in any mood: Pride and Prejudice. I first read it when I was about 18, and I've read it probably about once a year ever since.
The high point of my amateur dramatics career was playing Elizabeth Bennet in a stage adaptation of the novel, when I was about 22. One of my favorites too, Linda. Mine too, though I read so many books, I'd have a job to pick just one - I'd be no good on Desert Island discs, I'd need a shipload to keep me sane!
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Post by Dibley on May 28, 2007 11:49:22 GMT
I think my favourite book has to be Peter Pan by J M Barrie....
I adored it as a child, I loved reading it to my children, I'm now enjoying reading it to my grandchildren, and I still find time to read it to myself.
I probably don't need the book now, I'm sure I can remember it word for word!
BTW, when I read it to my own children, (one in bed, the other wrapped in his duvet on the end of her bed) they hung on to my every word, night after night, we flew away from home, fought with pirates, met up with injuns, told stories to the lost boys, shouted and clapped to keep tinkerbell alive...... on the last night, the end was in sight....As I said the final words...'and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless'.... my 2 children sat in total silence for a couple of seconds, then suddenly they both clapped their hands and said..' oh please please start again, start again at the beginning'
That brought a tear to my eyes....
Dibs xx
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Post by scoo on May 29, 2007 20:19:50 GMT
I have never read a Charles Dickens novel. I remember at the age of 8,my parents taking me to a church in Tong , Shropshire I think it was, and my parents showing me the grave of 'Little Nell' from The Old curiosity Shop.'
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Post by misselaineeous on May 29, 2007 21:18:46 GMT
Jane Eyre has to be somewhere near the top of any list I would compile plus the whole series of Narnia stories and Katherine by Anya Seton. I only seem to read thrillers and whodunnits these days though my ambition is to finish Les Miserables some day!
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Post by Payne N Diaz on May 30, 2007 7:23:59 GMT
One fave ... impossible to say
Persuasion by Jane Austen which I can read over and over again.
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, one of the most moving, frightening and humbling books I have ever read.
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally : the real version, not the film version. Again a very moving book.
Anything by Maya Angelou
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Post by Elephant Gerald on May 30, 2007 11:18:24 GMT
The Good fairies of New York by Martin Millar Just come back into print...a must read!!!
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Post by Murphy Slaw on Jun 8, 2007 4:55:04 GMT
15 years ago I picked up The Hobbit for the first time.
Completely cold I read it out half an hour's worth or more to my two kids every night for months. I made up the voices. I shouted the bangs. I whispered the scary bits.
It isn't my favourite book, but it is the book which has given me the most pleasure to read.
Ever
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Post by Scrab on Jun 8, 2007 12:12:42 GMT
Mine is "Lady of Hay", set mainly in the 'now', but bounces back to the 11th/12th Century when the main female character is regressed to the time when Prince John was a young teen. Set in Wales for the historical part and London for the modern, all the men in her life in London where also the men in her life back in Wales
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Post by Misty Meena on Jun 14, 2007 8:21:08 GMT
Just one ?? OK. Not necessarily my all-time favourite but a book I heartily recommend is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It is the story of 14 year old Susie Salmon who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from the afterlife as her family and friends - and the man who murdered her - go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death. It's by turns scary, sad and inspiring. I'm not ashamed to say it made me cry more than once. The description of the effect her disappearance (at first no one knows for sure she has been murdered) and death has on the individual members of her family is particularly good. I found it deeply moving.
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Post by Misty Meena on Jun 14, 2007 8:22:53 GMT
Meant to say Ivy - you're not sad! A book I read over and over again is The Midnight Folk by John Masefield, which I first read aged about 7 I think.
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Post by Ricky T Outhouse on Jun 20, 2007 11:47:31 GMT
Try 'The Crimson Petal and the White' by Michel Faber. It is a fairly hefty book (over 800 pages in hardback), but it details the life of a Victorian prostitute in the London of that era. The life of the heroine is followed in sometimes sickening detail, but the story follows her relationship with the rich perfumier who sets her up as his 'kept woman', and her struggles to make a better future for herself and her child. The descriptions of what it was like to live in the West End in those times when you didn't have any money are painted with a broad brush, and I found myself hooked by the heroine's courage, perseverence and optimism. This isn't a 'dirty' book but it does portray a foul and hypocritical age.
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Post by Illa Squeezinnit on Jun 20, 2007 20:25:42 GMT
Can't say that I have one favourite book....but some of my recent reads have all been fantastic for various different reasons...these have included: An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan - Very moving The Railway Man by Eric Lomax - again very moving Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - couldn't put these down The Girls by Lori Lansens - fantastic fiction almost could believe it to be a true story Be Careful What You Wish For by Alexandra Potter - Bridget Jone style..easy read funny chick flick book.
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Post by Suzy R Sopham on Jun 22, 2007 19:27:00 GMT
I read loads and loads of books. Although probably not very cerebal my favourite authors are:
James Clavell (Shogun gave me a fascination with things Japanese - just as well since I now have a Japanese cousin in law!)
Wilbur Smith
Eric (Van) Lustbader
Clive Cussler
Bernard Cornwell
Robert Ludlum
Patricia Cornwell
Marc Olden
Dov Silverman
Robert Elegant
Richard North Patterson
One of the most heart wrenching books I ever read though was a book by a little known writer, telling the true stories of survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in the days before and weeks after the bomb dropped.
I will amend the post if I find the book or remember the author and title!
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Post by lolliepop on Jun 28, 2007 12:43:49 GMT
Mt favourite book is Heidi by Johanna Spyri. I first read it when I was 5 and have read it many many times since. I found with the troubled child hood that I could loose myself in the story and one of my wishes is that one day I will be able to go to Switzerland and lay on a bed of hay watching the moon and waking in the morning to a breakfast of goats cheese and milk.... a girl can dream.
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