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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 1, 2005 19:56:39 GMT
Since some of the other threads have segued into book discussion I though people could review, recommend and generally discuss books here.  Personally, I am currently reading Vernon God Little by...umm..,...DBC Paris I think? Its a very strange coming of age tale of a boy implicated in a Columbine type massacre in Texas told from his point of view. Very funny but a very strange narrative. |
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Post by Kneetroll on Mar 1, 2005 20:36:04 GMT
I'm currently working my way through the entire Terry Pratchett Discworld series I've accumulated over the years. I think they're the most inventive books EVER. He's a God, lol.
My favourite character: Sam Vimes. What a loveable arsehole hehe. Anyone else read them?
DD, I've never heard of that book, but it sounds interesting, I might try and snag a copy at the library!
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Post by Jimjamz on Mar 1, 2005 20:37:59 GMT
I've already mentioned it, but I'll go into more detail.
Flowers in the attic- A family is torn apart by there fathers untimely death. The mother, unable to support her four children by herself, takes them up to live in virginia with her rich parents. She was disinherited from her fathers will many years ago, and he is now dying of heart disease. While she tries to win back his affection, her children are kept upstairs in a faraway northern room, and left to play in the attic, to be looked after by there heartless grandmother. Time goes on and on and the children are kept there for years. Does there mother love them any more?
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Post by Fassbender Fan on Mar 1, 2005 20:58:36 GMT
I've always wanted to read that book-only ever seen the film though! Last book I read was The Crucible by Arthur Miller-I studied it in gcse English but bought it recently. It's a great play about the Salem witch trials and the rise of McCarthyism. Tis a good read and real easy to get into |
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 1, 2005 21:14:00 GMT
Oh I like that play. MaCarthayism is crazy. I find the cold war fascinating. Reds under the bed! A good book set in the cold war is On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks. The detail of Cold War Russia is excellent, plus it's the most beautiful love story. I'm not prone to girlynes over many books but that is one of them. Kneetroll: I discovered Vernon God Little via a book group I belong to. I do recommend it. The authors name is DBC Pierre not Paris. |
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Post by Fassbender Fan on Mar 1, 2005 21:17:45 GMT
I shall give it a look!!  |
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 1, 2005 21:23:25 GMT
Books are my weakness. I have hundreds. (and nowhere to put them all!!) Second hand book shops are an especial problem for me because I end up coming out with armfulls of books, usually on the pretense that I'll use them for school. We had free £1 book vouchers for all the kids today and some of them were moaning that £1 wan't much so I told them if they carried on whinging I'd keep the lot and have about £30 to spend in the bookshop. |
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Post by Fassbender Fan on Mar 1, 2005 21:31:12 GMT
haha I have soo many books its terrible-half of them I haven't even read! I made a list of all my books I need to read before I buy anymore!!  |
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 1, 2005 21:37:25 GMT
Oh I know...I have a pile of them right here. After Vernon God Little I plan to read a book called Dissolution, which is a murder mystery set during the time of the dissolution of the monastaries under Henry VIII.
It sounded kind of offbeat and interesting. Although the best historical fiction I ever read was The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. But you have to know a hell of a lot about Medieval Europe to even begin to understand the theology in it, however it is also a cracking detective story.
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Post by Fassbender Fan on Mar 1, 2005 21:42:03 GMT
Wow! I did love Medievil Times at school...the next book on my list is Homer-The Iliad...not gonna be easy!! Also, anyone who is a David Bowie fan I strongly recommend To Major Tom by Dave Thompson. Its a fictional book, based around a young boy writing to his hero (Bowie) over the years well into adult life without a single reply. He shares everything with his idol through his letters. Its a really good book, well I liked it anyway. |
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 1, 2005 21:44:16 GMT
ooh I like the sound of that. I have a horrible feeling that this thread is just going to make me buy more books. |
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Post by Fassbender Fan on Mar 1, 2005 21:53:31 GMT
haha me two! hm...my lists going to get longer and longer
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 1, 2005 23:00:03 GMT
i really want to try and read more classics too. The last classic I read was Therese Raquin and that was quite a while ago. I still have Crime and Punishment, Diary of an Opium Eater, James Joyces' Ulysses and Jane Eyre to read on my classics pile. I need to finish Moll Flanders too which is excellent. |
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Post by Kneetroll on Mar 2, 2005 6:16:11 GMT
Obviously you have all the typical classics like Jane Austen etc etc, but if you wanna read some genre classics, try H.G.Wells! War of the Worlds is by far one of my favourite novels (that and The Time Machine). Also, I'd recommend Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (RIP  ) |
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Post by DreamDangerously on Mar 2, 2005 7:27:02 GMT
LOL read and read both of them. I am pretty widely read ;D Fear and Loathing is one of my favourite books of all time. So funny. I read it when I was at uni studying America in the 1960's |
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