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Post by Cupid Stunt on Jun 6, 2011 0:24:10 GMT
As we're all educated and cultured on here, I presume we all read some cracking books. What's your favourite novel? I love Of Mice and Men but I think Animal Farm is so clever it probably beats it. Don't feel intimidated if you're not an intellectual who goes to a top 20 university like myself and haven't read novels as thought provoking as the two I have mentioned  Join in anyway.  |
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Post by One-Two on Jun 6, 2011 0:30:57 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird, Let the Right One in, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and Harlequin. Can't choose one really.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jun 6, 2011 0:31:19 GMT
While England Sleeps, Paradise Lost, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment
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Post by Cupid Stunt on Jun 6, 2011 0:32:56 GMT
Really need to read Catcher in the Rye. |
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Post by rhodesy on Jun 6, 2011 0:36:39 GMT
As we're all educated and cultured on here, I presume we all read some cracking books. What's your favourite novel? I love Of Mice and Men but I think Animal Farm is so clever it probably beats it. Don't feel intimidated if you're not an intellectual who goes to a top 20 university like myself and haven't read novels as thought provoking as the two I have mentioned Join in anyway. You've clearly only read those both in GCSE english, pisser. Both very short books I see as well! Probably catch 22 or catcher in the rye. |
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Post by Beardy200 on Jun 6, 2011 0:43:48 GMT
Really need to read Catcher in the Rye. It's very forgettable. It must be as i read it for my GCSE English and can't remember a single thing about it. I've probably only read about 5 books since so my list to choose from is pretty small. I'll go for Hannibal as it's the only one i can remember. ;D |
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Post by Cupid Stunt on Jun 6, 2011 0:46:29 GMT
As we're all educated and cultured on here, I presume we all read some cracking books. What's your favourite novel? I love Of Mice and Men but I think Animal Farm is so clever it probably beats it. Don't feel intimidated if you're not an intellectual who goes to a top 20 university like myself and haven't read novels as thought provoking as the two I have mentioned Join in anyway. You've clearly only read those both in GCSE english, pisser. Both very short books I see as well! Probably catch 22 or catcher in the rye. I did Of Mice and Men at GCSE and absolutely loved it. Brilliant story and I have read it since. Animal Farm I didn't do at GCSE and only read it around this time last year as it tied in with Soviet History. I think English exam boards do tend to pick excellent novels and poets and that's why enjoyed it so much at school. |
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Post by rhodesy on Jun 6, 2011 0:50:00 GMT
Really need to read Catcher in the Rye. It's very forgettable. It must be as i read it for my GCSE English and can't remember a single thing about it. I've probably only read about 5 books since so my list to choose from is pretty small. I'll go for Hannibal as it's the only one i can remember. ;D That's what pot does to you! ;D |
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Post by One-Two on Jun 6, 2011 0:50:08 GMT
On this subject, does anyone actually like "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". I really hated it, (maybe even more than treasure island,) mainly because the big twist is that they're actually the same person, which obviously comes as a bit of a shock.
Crap book.
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Post by Tubes on Jun 6, 2011 0:55:58 GMT
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
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Post by Beardy200 on Jun 6, 2011 0:59:34 GMT
It's very forgettable. It must be as i read it for my GCSE English and can't remember a single thing about it. I've probably only read about 5 books since so my list to choose from is pretty small. I'll go for Hannibal as it's the only one i can remember. ;D That's what pot does to you! ;D Possibly ;D |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jun 6, 2011 1:01:48 GMT
Cath 22 is shit. To Kill a Mockingbird and Treasure Island (and Trainspotting) are fucking bossing.
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Post by Cupid Stunt on Jun 6, 2011 1:09:38 GMT
Cath 22 is shit. To Kill a Mockingbird and Treasure Island (and Trainspotting) are fucking bossing. So shit you can't spell its title? Should have studied Lit at UEA rather than Manc |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jun 6, 2011 1:26:38 GMT
Nah mate, I'll just continue not being a an autistic, latent-homosexual tosser.
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Post by jbstokie on Jun 6, 2011 1:59:54 GMT
 This book helped me find myself. |
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Post by frasier45 on Jun 6, 2011 5:43:05 GMT
As we're all educated and cultured on here, I presume we all read some cracking books. What's your favourite novel? I love Of Mice and Men but I think Animal Farm is so clever it probably beats it. Don't feel intimidated if you're not an intellectual who goes to a top 20 university like myself and haven't read novels as thought provoking as the two I have mentioned Join in anyway. Those are books we read at school in my day. You'll be moving onto lady birds soon Good boy |
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Jun 6, 2011 5:43:13 GMT
Finding Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne quite enjoyable at the moment. Always enjoyed Treasure Island. Thought The Crucible by Arthur Miller was interesting but that's not really a novel. Wuthering Heights was slightly tedious when I read at for AS English Literature
Tough one really, should really read more regularly. Got The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Our Mutual Friend and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens lined up once I've finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
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Post by iancransonsknees on Jun 6, 2011 6:15:56 GMT
The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
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Post by scfcrmagic on Jun 6, 2011 6:16:08 GMT
Five go to smugglers to top
Five go to mystery moor
Five go to billycock hill
Five go off in a caravan (classic)
Five have plenty of fun
That Enid Blighter could pen a right good read .......it had it all going on...Aunt Fanny,
Uncle Quentin....and Timmy the dog and then the kids ....... ;D
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Post by Northy on Jun 6, 2011 6:26:54 GMT
As we're all educated and cultured on here, I presume we all read some cracking books. What's your favourite novel? I love Of Mice and Men but I think Animal Farm is so clever it probably beats it. Don't feel intimidated if you're not an intellectual who goes to a top 20 university like myself and haven't read novels as thought provoking as the two I have mentioned Join in anyway. Top 20 in what? As I linked to the last time you mentioned it, the tables were showing it as 28  I don't read books, never have since I was at school, where we did those when were about 13 or 14; and they keep telling us 'the exams aren't getting easier' |
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Post by frasier45 on Jun 6, 2011 6:32:20 GMT
I was presented with a famous five book off the lord mayor at primary school wend, for my model of a blue tit in clay
Which to this day sits in the head masters display cabinet for all to see
Probably be an antique soon
The book was used to try and burn the doors of the toilets down
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Post by stokiecat on Jun 6, 2011 7:14:15 GMT
The Master and the Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Good choice. Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon are both amazing books but take some effort to read. Also Rites of Passage by William Golding is brilliant. |
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Post by salopstick on Jun 6, 2011 7:26:22 GMT
having read quite a few of the classic novels my favourite and the best novel ever written will always be the hobbit
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Post by winedelilah on Jun 6, 2011 7:50:44 GMT
This book helped me find myself. ;D |
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Post by winedelilah on Jun 6, 2011 7:55:49 GMT
For pure entertainment value - rather than books read at school for one exam or other (good though they may be).. The Godfather - Mario Puzo Fools Die - Mario Puzo The Stand - Stephen King Brothers - Bernice Ruebens (not entertainment but an incredibly memorable book) |
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Post by frasier45 on Jun 6, 2011 8:18:37 GMT
We're like twins wino D ;D
Used to love reading Steven king books
His films were shite though
Exception of ......"IT"
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Post by dennehy on Jun 6, 2011 8:27:00 GMT
Empyrion - Stephen Lawhead
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Post by winedelilah on Jun 6, 2011 9:25:52 GMT
We're like twins wino D ;D Used to love reading Steven king books His films were shite though Exception of ......"IT" Not quite Fraise, as I thought IT excellent book, shite film.. ;D Shawshank and Green Mile are the only good adaptations of his.. |
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Post by shep207 on Jun 6, 2011 9:47:08 GMT
Brave New World
1984
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Post by Will_75 on Jun 6, 2011 9:51:06 GMT
boother, Catch-22 is brilliant you goof.
Whereas the Catcher in the Rye is the most overrated pile of horsewank in the history of literature.
Louis de Bernieres South American trilogy is amazing, with the War of Don Emanuel's Nether Parts being one of my favourite books ever, even if it owes a huge about to 100 Years of Solitude.
Peter Carey contiues to get better and better - Parrot and Olivier in America is fantastic.
Other must reads, in no particular order:
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
I also absolutely love the Jungle Book, but have beaten my head against too many brick walls trying to convince the world not to be so fucking prejudiced when in comes to Kipling. The man was a genius, whether you care or do not.
Guilty pleasures include the Sharpe* novels and Pratchett.
*you're no bloody soldier sir. you're a bloody frog bastard sir
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Join in anyway.
