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Have You Read?, by manchestermike on Mar 8, 2009 13:05:18 GMT 1, Funnily enough just been reading about that one on Amazon, basketed that too ;D You wont regret it!
Good recommendation mate, read it on Friday night and last night. Enjoyed it as much as you can "enjoy" that book. Very good though. Got a few more to go through then may try a few more of Banks' books
Funnily enough just been reading about that one on Amazon, basketed that too ;D You wont regret it! Good recommendation mate, read it on Friday night and last night. Enjoyed it as much as you can "enjoy" that book. Very good though. Got a few more to go through then may try a few more of Banks' books
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G-Man
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Have You Read?, by G-Man on Mar 8, 2009 22:18:23 GMT 1, You should MM
Banks is a phenomenon!
His best are Walking On Glass or The Player Of Games as Iain M Banks IMO
You should MM
Banks is a phenomenon!
His best are Walking On Glass or The Player Of Games as Iain M Banks IMO
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brun
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Have You Read?, by brun on Mar 9, 2009 12:41:31 GMT 1, f*cuk me i read 11 of them ! some i fell asleep , but some school classics and some i read since ....went back and read dickens and orwell again recently ......
f*cuk me i read 11 of them ! some i fell asleep , but some school classics and some i read since ....went back and read dickens and orwell again recently ......
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kingleopald
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Have You Read?, by kingleopald on Mar 9, 2009 13:08:49 GMT 1, 28 for me. Tell you one book (which isn't on the list) that I read for the first time last week is A Clockwork Orange. I'd resisted it so long because I'd seen the film, but a classic read.
28 for me. Tell you one book (which isn't on the list) that I read for the first time last week is A Clockwork Orange. I'd resisted it so long because I'd seen the film, but a classic read.
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Guy Denning
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Have You Read?, by Guy Denning on Mar 9, 2009 13:40:29 GMT 1, Forty odd for me - frightened myself!
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Tess of the DโUrbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Bleak House - Charles d**kens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hikerโs Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles d**kens The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelliโs Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Lord of the Flies - William Golding Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles d**kens Brave New World - Aldous Huley Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Moby d**k - Herman Melville The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Ulysses - James Joyce Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray A Christmas Carol - Charles d**kens The Color Purple - Alice Walker Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas
Dune - Frank Herbert (and the rest in the series)
Watched these but haven't read them in their entirety. Does that count? Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, - William Shakespeare
Other suggestions for those that might give a monkeys...
The Spire - William Golding The Book of Dave - Will Self The Green Child - Herbert Read Don Quixote - Cervantes Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines Dubliners - James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Forty odd for me - frightened myself!
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Tess of the DโUrbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Bleak House - Charles d**kens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hikerโs Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles d**kens The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelliโs Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Lord of the Flies - William Golding Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles d**kens Brave New World - Aldous Huley Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Moby d**k - Herman Melville The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Ulysses - James Joyce Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray A Christmas Carol - Charles d**kens The Color Purple - Alice Walker Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas
Dune - Frank Herbert (and the rest in the series)
Watched these but haven't read them in their entirety. Does that count? Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, - William Shakespeare
Other suggestions for those that might give a monkeys...
The Spire - William Golding The Book of Dave - Will Self The Green Child - Herbert Read Don Quixote - Cervantes Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines Dubliners - James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
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kingleopald
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Have You Read?, by kingleopald on Mar 9, 2009 14:57:48 GMT 1, Did you actually read Don Quixote? Man, that book is like wading through porridge! Agree with you on Book of Dave though. I'd also like to suggest The Sewerside Chronicles by Tim lay. One of my favourite books of last year.
Did you actually read Don Quixote? Man, that book is like wading through porridge! Agree with you on Book of Dave though. I'd also like to suggest The Sewerside Chronicles by Tim lay. One of my favourite books of last year.
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Guy Denning
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Have You Read?, by Guy Denning on Mar 9, 2009 16:30:34 GMT 1, Did you actually read Don Quixote? Man, that book is like wading through porridge!
Yup! Didn't find it a drag at all! From this list though, the two books that I can remember being a bit of a slog were Catch 22 and Moby Dick!
Did you actually read Don Quixote? Man, that book is like wading through porridge! Yup! Didn't find it a drag at all! From this list though, the two books that I can remember being a bit of a slog were Catch 22 and Moby Dick!
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goffy
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Have You Read?, by goffy on Mar 10, 2009 6:59:01 GMT 1, 12 for me I think. Can I just warn people, DO NOT READ 'A FINE BALANCE' by Rohintan Mistry. It is the most depressing, horrible book I have ever read. I haven't forgiven my wife for telling me to read it.
12 for me I think. Can I just warn people, DO NOT READ 'A FINE BALANCE' by Rohintan Mistry. It is the most depressing, horrible book I have ever read. I haven't forgiven my wife for telling me to read it.
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Count Jedi
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Have You Read?, by Count Jedi on Mar 11, 2009 21:05:37 GMT 1, Unsure if this is the right place for this but I did not want to start a new thread, so please move if required
I came across this site today that sell something called the "Black Book" (sketch books) 11 in total and for $25.00 each
www.sabotazusa.com/store/
"ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on "collection one" of blackbook stencils engraved sketchbooks. A select group of artists were invited to submit their designs for permanent etching on a traditional writer's blackbook. each book is 8.5 x 11" and engraved on a smooth Faux leather cover, tightly bound with acid free paper. These books are served piping hot, mailed right to your door... you lucky bastards.
Cheers
Unsure if this is the right place for this but I did not want to start a new thread, so please move if required I came across this site today that sell something called the "Black Book" (sketch books) 11 in total and for $25.00 each www.sabotazusa.com/store/"ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on "collection one" of blackbook stencils engraved sketchbooks. A select group of artists were invited to submit their designs for permanent etching on a traditional writer's blackbook. each book is 8.5 x 11" and engraved on a smooth Faux leather cover, tightly bound with acid free paper. These books are served piping hot, mailed right to your door... you lucky bastards. Cheers
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Have You Read?, by closeencounters on Mar 11, 2009 21:22:06 GMT 1, 21 for me, particularly of note were Donna Tartt's Secret History and Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, although the majority were well worth immersing myself in - gotta agree with Guy though, Moby Dick was a bit of a struggle for the most part, interspersed with moments of true genius that kept me going back for more.
just reading Cormac McCarthy's, No Country for Old Men - even if you've seen the film, read the book it's brilliant.
21 for me, particularly of note were Donna Tartt's Secret History and Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, although the majority were well worth immersing myself in - gotta agree with Guy though, Moby Dick was a bit of a struggle for the most part, interspersed with moments of true genius that kept me going back for more.
just reading Cormac McCarthy's, No Country for Old Men - even if you've seen the film, read the book it's brilliant.
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