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#WorldBookDay. What's your fave book?
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over a year ago
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The pillars of the earth by Ken follett is my all time favourite book (all of his historical fiction work is incredible).
A few other favourites include:
Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris
Oscar Wilde's the picture of Dorian Gray |
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over a year ago
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"Wasp Factory by Iain Banks "
My favourite author of all time. This is a cracking debut, but I don't think it's his best work. It's so hard for me to choose one of his, also his Sci Fi stuff as Iain M Banks is just as wonderful.
But I think I'm going to go with David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue as my current all time favourite novel. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
My favourite author of all time. This is a cracking debut, but I don't think it's his best work. It's so hard for me to choose one of his, also his Sci Fi stuff as Iain M Banks is just as wonderful.
But I think I'm going to go with David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue as my current all time favourite novel."
Agree on the SF, the algebraist was my favourite . Try the three body problem by cixin liu, best trilogy I’ve read but can be tough going |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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too many to mention a random top ten
Kite Runner
The Book thief
Animal farm
Hitch Hikers
Harry Potter
Christmas Carol
Duncton Wood
Lord of the rings
the story of 0
of mice and men
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The Rats trilogy - James Herbert, first memory of a book I could visually picture and feel what was happening on the pages.
The Bone Woman - Clea Koff, autobiography of a 23 year old forensic anthropologist and her experiences in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as she investigates war crimes.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
My favourite author of all time. This is a cracking debut, but I don't think it's his best work. It's so hard for me to choose one of his, also his Sci Fi stuff as Iain M Banks is just as wonderful.
But I think I'm going to go with David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue as my current all time favourite novel.
Agree on the SF, the algebraist was my favourite . Try the three body problem by cixin liu, best trilogy I’ve read but can be tough going "
Neal Stephenson's baroque trilogy can be a bit of a slog at times, but one of the greatest tales I've ever read. So I am very much up for this. Ta for the heads up. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Robin Hobb - Farseer books
Mark Billinghams DI Thorne books
So many to choose from
Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse is a work of art |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Robin Hobb - Farseer books
Mark Billinghams DI Thorne books
So many to choose from
Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse is a work of art "
Intrigued by that last one, by the title alone. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Robin Hobb - Farseer books
Mark Billinghams DI Thorne books
So many to choose from
Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse is a work of art
Intrigued by that last one, by the title alone."
It’s a work of joy in the world that we currently live in. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Mark Billinghams DI Thorne books
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There was a time I couldn't pick between these and Peter James' Roy Grace books as my favourites but I'm not sure Thorne developed quite as well as Grace as the series' went on |
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Mark Billinghams DI Thorne books
There was a time I couldn't pick between these and Peter James' Roy Grace books as my favourites but I'm not sure Thorne developed quite as well as Grace as the series' went on"
Spooky as I did not see your post before doing mine. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Racism - Albert Memmi
Why I no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
The autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
The good immigrant - edited by Nilesh Shukla
White fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Civil desobedience and Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Me and white supremacy - Layla Saad
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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago
Manchester (he/him) |
In no particular order;
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Catch 22- Joseph Heller
1984- George Orwell
Mort- Terry Pratchett
There are others that evade me at the moment but my all time favourite that I read about once a year is Emma by Jane Austen.
I defy anyone to show me a better realised female character and I’ll die on this hill! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Myriad, too many!
Last one I loved was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
I love the Austen novels and most of the Bronte Novels too, I find myself going back to them x |
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"As a child it was Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter.
As an adult the box I return to most is The mabinogion
Oh I loved Pollyanna
Add The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett"
Loved the secret garden also  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The ones which I found most gasp causing.. when I used to read more  were by: Milan Kundera, Kurt Vonnegut, E.M. Remarque (Arch of Triumph) and Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.
I loved Anne Shirley as a child and essay about her got me a place in my secondary school. Well partly! |
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By *ljamMan
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"Neuromancer by William Gibson, I read it in the 80s and it just blew me away.
Gibson is classic cyberpunk at its best."
Been re-reading the sprawl trilogy recently - about a third of the way through Mona Lisa Overdrive. All really excellent novels. |
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By *RSTCouple
over a year ago
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Fiction:
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson.
The film was appallingly bad, despite Morgan Freeman taking the lead character. To someone who isn't a fan of the book/series it's probably an OK film.
Non-Fiction:
Scar Tissue - the autobiography of Anthony Keidis (RHCP lead singer)
Or
Battle Scars by Jason Fox. A very Frank and honest read. |
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"The pillars of the earth by Ken follett is my all time favourite book (all of his historical fiction work is incredible).
A few other favourites include:
Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris
Oscar Wilde's the picture of Dorian Gray "
I love pillars of the earth too. |
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OMG only one. I love all books but Stephen king/dean koontz/James Herbert/ John Grisham/ Richard layman/ Harol Corbin/ Patricia Cornwall are all particular favourites.
My one can’t live without is a good hardback book. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"OMG only one. I love all books but Stephen king/dean koontz/James Herbert/ John Grisham/ Richard layman/ Harol Corbin/ Patricia Cornwall are all particular favourites.
My one can’t live without is a good hardback book. "
True story.. Stephen king rang my house!! |
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"OMG only one. I love all books but Stephen king/dean koontz/James Herbert/ John Grisham/ Richard layman/ Harol Corbin/ Patricia Cornwall are all particular favourites.
My one can’t live without is a good hardback book.
True story.. Stephen king rang my house!!"
You are joking right??? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"OMG only one. I love all books but Stephen king/dean koontz/James Herbert/ John Grisham/ Richard layman/ Harol Corbin/ Patricia Cornwall are all particular favourites.
My one can’t live without is a good hardback book.
True story.. Stephen king rang my house!!
You are joking right???"
Scouts honour honestly x
Was when I was a child. Was researching something x |
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"OMG only one. I love all books but Stephen king/dean koontz/James Herbert/ John Grisham/ Richard layman/ Harol Corbin/ Patricia Cornwall are all particular favourites.
My one can’t live without is a good hardback book.
True story.. Stephen king rang my house!!
You are joking right???
Scouts honour honestly x
Was when I was a child. Was researching something x"
I’m a bit jealous now xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"OMG only one. I love all books but Stephen king/dean koontz/James Herbert/ John Grisham/ Richard layman/ Harol Corbin/ Patricia Cornwall are all particular favourites.
My one can’t live without is a good hardback book.
True story.. Stephen king rang my house!!
You are joking right???
Scouts honour honestly x
Was when I was a child. Was researching something x
I’m a bit jealous now xx"
Wish I could say more but it wasn’t all that from what I was told BUT... absolutely true tho x |
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