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22nd June 2009 06:07 PM
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What is on the bedside table: Favourite books
Well we have everything else so how about a thread for fine literature.
For those of you who don't have me on ignore What are yall reading?
Just finished A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe again, great book.
Reading PostWar by Tony Judt atm.
What are peoples all time favourite books?
Last edited by Courty; 7th May 2010 at 09:53 PM.
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22nd June 2009 06:11 PM
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Im re-reading 1984 - George Orwell
also re-reading Scar Tissue - Anthony Keidis autobiography. (All time favourite!)
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22nd June 2009 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by
Minor_Threat
Im re-reading 1984 - George Orwell
Creepy. I am doing the same. (I am going through a stage of re-reading the "classics" I read back in school.)
I have also started reading "The God Delusion" for my non-fiction fix. I am not a huge fan of most fiction.
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22nd June 2009 06:19 PM
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On the Bedside: Case for a Creator - Lee Strobel.
Favourite all time books are the series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Left Behind, and many of Jack Higgins earlier books from the WWII era.
I'd be partial to some Biggles if I had the time though.
Might also be a good time to pick up The Dawkins Delusion.
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22nd June 2009 06:21 PM
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Loved biggles as a kid, still do.
Good to see this could spark a religion debate
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22nd June 2009 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by
markTHEblake
Might also be a good time to pick up The Dawkins Delusion.
I'll probably read that too!
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22nd June 2009 06:34 PM
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I often return to my favourites - J.P. Donleavy, Saroyan, Steinbeck, Bukowski, Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hemingway.
All U.S. authors from roughly a 40 year period around mid last century - a golden period of literature.
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22nd June 2009 06:36 PM
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I have read a bit of Steinback and Hemmingway but never really got into it.
Maybe now I am a little older and wiser?
Love my James Elroy atm as well.
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22nd June 2009 06:40 PM
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Depends on whether you prefer "plot based" or "character based" novels. While Elroy is a brilliant plot based writer, the authors I listed are generally character focused.
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22nd June 2009 06:41 PM
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On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Great book.
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22nd June 2009 06:43 PM
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Would you call Tom Wolfe or Robertson Davies character based? Different writers I know but they both seem to focus on character development more than a plot?
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22nd June 2009 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by
Yossarian
Well we have everything else so how about a thread for fine literature.
I'm not a fine literature buff, but there was an old book thread. It rarely got posted in though.
I'm reading Feist's latest, and just finished Michael J Fox's second book. I almost exclusively read fantasy books.
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22nd June 2009 06:58 PM
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I read a book once.....nearly finished it too
If it wasn't for those damn putters......
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22nd June 2009 07:02 PM
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If worst comes to worst we can reduce this thread to a discussion about porn magazines
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22nd June 2009 07:02 PM
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I only get them for the articles.
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22nd June 2009 07:03 PM
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Fav books, Hitchhikers Guide of course. Lord of the Rings is a given. Then Leon Uris' 'Trinity' and Ken Follett's 'The Pillars of the Earth'. Also was a fan of the Clive Cussler 'Dirk Pitt' novels, Wilbur Smith's novels, in particular 'A time to Die'. Also Robert Ludlum's books.
On the bedside table - would be a Men's Health mag, and a few different Triathlon mags.
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22nd June 2009 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by
Yossarian
Well we have everything else so how about a thread for fine literature.
For those of you who don't have me on ignore What are yall reading?
Just finished A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe again, great book.
Reading PostWar by Tony Judt atm.
What are peoples all time favourite books?
Never read Tom Wolfe, but have always wanted to. What would you recommend?
Originally Posted by
markTHEblake
Favourite all time books are the series of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Left Behind, and many of Jack Higgins earlier books from the WWII era.
The Eagle has Landed was a fantastic read.
Originally Posted by
henno
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Great book.
I was going to put this as was of my favorites. I have been looking to pick up another copy for a re-read as I have lost mine.
Also loved:
The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
Papillon - Henri Charriere - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The Brotherhood of the Rose - David Morrell
The Green Mile - Stephen King - movie is terrible compared to the book
Want to read Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
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22nd June 2009 07:09 PM
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A Man in Full is Wolfe's best book IMO.
Bonfire of the Vanities is good to.
Also if you are in to Ken Kesey, whose books are amazing as well, read The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Great book about Kesey, acid, psychedelia ect.
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22nd June 2009 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by
AndyP
I'm reading Feist's latest
What it P?
Loved the Riftwar series.
I'm back.
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22nd June 2009 07:21 PM
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What it P?
Loved the Riftwar series.
Rides a Dread Legion. He is still churning out the series in the world of Midkemia. The books are starting to be a little hit and miss, but this one seems fine so far.
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22nd June 2009 07:24 PM
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Ok cool might check it out.
I'm back.
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22nd June 2009 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by
Yossarian
Also if you are in to Ken Kesey, whose books are amazing as well, read The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Great book about Kesey, acid, psychedelia ect.
A brilliant documentation of when the Beats met the hippies. Great read.
"Acid Test" and "Fear and Loathing" always make me want to get properly messy.
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22nd June 2009 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by
dc68
What it P?
Loved the Riftwar series.
Enjoyed the first book of the series, but prefer David Gemmell; his Drenai and The Reganti Series are outstanding.
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22nd June 2009 07:48 PM
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Love Hunter S Thompson, the way he uses language is amazing. Paints such a good picture in ones head.
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22nd June 2009 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by
dc68
Ok cool might check it out.
It follows on from the series before which follows on from the series before, etc, so you might have to read a few books depending on where you were up to.
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