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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I am getting a kindel book reading thing and not read alot of books in my time as get lost on paper and find myself having to keep going back ..... I am better on things like pc s reading seeing the tex its my Dyslexia i know .. so in my life i have read about 3 books and that was school short storys. I would like to read all sorts .. so if you have ever read a good book can you tell me what it was as i am going to be down loading some on the kindel .. my sister read but its garden and love storys ..  its going to open up a new world for me this Kindel i feel reading in bed , xx |
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"i read alot, it all depends what sort of thing interests you, but a good start would be "the incident of the dog in the nighttime""
I like all sorts from real life stuff to made up storys ... and old time things .. erotic storys i have not a clue .. really .
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I download the freebie books mainly. There's some reasonable erotica that pops up on the top 100 bestsellers for free books from time to time.
Always worth browsing through that list and seeing what there is.. if you don't like the books, no harm done to your pocket.
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"i read alot, it all depends what sort of thing interests you, but a good start would be "the incident of the dog in the nighttime""
sorry that should be the curious indident of the dog in the nighttime |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I download the freebie books mainly. There's some reasonable erotica that pops up on the top 100 bestsellers for free books from time to time.
Always worth browsing through that list and seeing what there is.. if you don't like the books, no harm done to your pocket.
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How do you find them to read on the kindel ? did not know theres feebie books .. x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Barbara Erskine has written two books of short stories, Encounters and Sands of Time.
Also if you Google her, her website has a selection of short stories for you to read online"
I will thankyou xxx just feel like i have missed out over the years reading books and Some classics. Have harry potter on tapes , But i really would like to give this kindel thing a go . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Lots of free books Jo, I download them from a couple of sites onto my ipad.
Well done you for giving it a go, you really are coming on all the time with your reading and writing.
You'll be writing your own best selling erotic e-book before you know it and we'll all be downloading it! xxx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Lots of free books Jo, I download them from a couple of sites onto my ipad.
Well done you for giving it a go, you really are coming on all the time with your reading and writing.
You'll be writing your own best selling erotic e-book before you know it and we'll all be downloading it! xxx"
you can tell me next year if my spelling getting better from reading i was always told as a child it would help me so lets see xx Be very diffrent for me xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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i have Dyslexia to ,i love reading but my spelling wouldnt save me life lol.ive had boxes on boxes of book under the bed befor i lefted my ex taken me year to get some set of V. C. Andrews,like dan brown book,and just read Let the right one in ,dont think ill watch the movie for it
sam x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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to be honest reading hasnt helped me, im very dslexic and have been an avid reader all my life, but dont let that stop you its a fun thing to do, there is so much stuff out there |
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"I download the freebie books mainly. There's some reasonable erotica that pops up on the top 100 bestsellers for free books from time to time.
Always worth browsing through that list and seeing what there is.. if you don't like the books, no harm done to your pocket.
How do you find them to read on the kindel ? did not know theres feebie books .. x"
If you go onto the amazon site and go to kindle books, there is a best sellers option on the left hand side of the screen. Click into that and it lists the best sellers both paid and free. You can go into the specific genres you want too to just get those books up. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My mum downloads all her books for free for kindle.
Start with something simple so it wont fluster your head. I know people will laugh but i suggest starting with catherine cookson"
your right i need to start of with simple and work my way up xx will look into her books thankyou xxx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"i have Dyslexia to ,i love reading but my spelling wouldnt save me life lol.ive had boxes on boxes of book under the bed befor i lefted my ex taken me year to get some set of V. C. Andrews,like dan brown book,and just read Let the right one in ,dont think ill watch the movie for it
sam x"
everything i would have a go at reading a book i get lost have to go over same things but find on the pc i can read better .. why i was thinking that kindel thing may be what i have been looking for year for to help xx |
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Papillon by Henri Charriere.
The true story of a convicts numerous escape atempts from the French governments brutal penal colonys/workcamps in French Guiana.
First time I read it I couldn't put it down.
I found his style of writing flows naturally and is easy to read.
A lot better and much,much more indepth than the film I think.  x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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No idea what you can get on kindels, i buy books, secondhand mostly.. .but if you like supernatural/horror/fantasy, i recommend james herbert, shaun hutson, phil rickman to name afew |
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I love Patricia Cornwell books. Hopefully my daughter is sorting me out talking books. I loose concentration easy so this should help. Also with varifocals I find it difficult to read in bed. Thinking talking books may help me sleep also. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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pappillion was indeed amazing - but pretty long.
Id def recommend Paulo Coehlo as his books are shorter and if you havent read lots diving into 600 pages might be daunting.
Try 'The Alchemist' or 'Veronica must die' - a story of how you live your life if you only have limited time left - truly brilliant book. |
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"pappillion was indeed amazing - but pretty long.
Id def recommend Paulo Coehlo as his books are shorter and if you havent read lots diving into 600 pages might be daunting.
Try 'The Alchemist' or 'Veronica must die' - a story of how you live your life if you only have limited time left - truly brilliant book. "
or 11 minutes. One of my favourite authors think ive read all his now |
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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago
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"Papillon by Henri Charriere.
The true story of a convicts numerous escape atempts from the French governments brutal penal colonys/workcamps in French Guiana.
First time I read it I couldn't put it down.
I found his style of writing flows naturally and is easy to read.
A lot better and much,much more indepth than the film I think. x"
wow papillon one of my all time fave books read it when i was 14 couldnt put it down |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Books that I always recommend to anyone (male of female) colour of magic and the light fantastic by terry pratchet. You should be laughing so much that people start staring at you.
Not sure how the footnotes work on a kindle though...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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For victorian lesbian novels you can't beat Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, love that book.
I read a lot and I have fads of different things I wish to read. I may read chic lit or I may read true life crime or books on serial killers, Fred and Rose West being terrifying but compelling reading.
I also like classical books, love A Christmas Carol and one of my fave books was Bram Stoker's Dracula  |
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The Rainman bought me a Kindle for my birthday (mwahx)....I've just been downloading free books so far. I've been revisiting "old friends"....Little Women, Jane Eyre. Pride and Prejudice, Freckles....all good reads. No doubt I'll revisit a few childrens books early next year....Narnia, Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables...and yes...I have no doubt that I will end up getting the complete Harry Potter series for the kindle...even though I've got it in traditional book form already.
I'm sure you will have a wonderful time with your Kindle Jo....just mix up the genres you choose to read.....there's an enormous fiction world out there, so don't tie yourself down to one or two categories...explore...and enjoy xxx |
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" I am getting a kindel book reading thing and not read alot of books in my time as get lost on paper and find myself having to keep going back ..... I am better on things like pc s reading seeing the tex its my Dyslexia i know .. so in my life i have read about 3 books and that was school short storys. I would like to read all sorts .. so if you have ever read a good book can you tell me what it was as i am going to be down loading some on the kindel .. my sister read but its garden and love storys .. its going to open up a new world for me this Kindel i feel reading in bed , xx "
ohhh...where to start...
Do you like history...stuff like the Tudors on tv?
Then got to recommend phillipa gregory...her stories about Anne,Mary Boleyn,Elizabeth and others of that time are fab!
Why not go back to some childhood classics...i still love the secret garden and wind in the willows.
Everything by Jane Austen...perfection
The curious incident of the dog in the night,Mark Haddon...it will have u in tears...in a good way.The story of a boy with aspergers looking for his mum.
The state of montana. Maxim Jakubowski...sexy as anything,you wont just be reading in bed
The story of O,greatest erotic novel ever!
Wuthering Heights.Charotte Bronte..a gothic classic
Do you like detectives?
Read the Sherlock holmes short stories.
The falco novels by Lindsey Davies...a private detective in ancient Rome....brilliant.
The boy in the stripped pyjamas...but you will weep.
i will stop now...i could go on all day |
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"My mum downloads all her books for free for kindle.
Start with something simple so it wont fluster your head. I know people will laugh but i suggest starting with catherine cookson your right i need to start of with simple and work my way up xx will look into her books thankyou xxx"
recommend 15 streets and our kitty,autobiographical accounts of growing up in poverty stricken tyneside. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I read tons of stuff.
As a kid i loved "pippie longstocking" and the "lion, the witch and the wardrobe"
Read all catherine cooksons too.
Now am addicted to my black dagger brotherhood books by jr ward.
And have found some similar to hers which ive just finished the whole collection in two weeks....nowt to read now   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not sure if you can get them now but my fave as a child was Enid Blytons Golliwog stories. Used to love them oh and the sweet dreams collection."
I have a golliwog. bought for my son 30yrs ago. still in mint condition....but where to sell it ?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not sure if you can get them now but my fave as a child was Enid Blytons Golliwog stories. Used to love them oh and the sweet dreams collection.
I have a golliwog. bought for my son 30yrs ago. still in mint condition....but where to sell it ?? "
Me too and I am keeping it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not sure if you can get them now but my fave as a child was Enid Blytons Golliwog stories. Used to love them oh and the sweet dreams collection.
I have a golliwog. bought for my son 30yrs ago. still in mint condition....but where to sell it ?? "
Me too and I am keeping it. |
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"no chance of getting golliwog books now, or the Mandingo books bout slavery, brill books too x"
omg mandingo and drum...wanked over them so much as a young teen...
Still remember the opening where he fucks two girls locked in the tower 
Daft parents hid them at the back of the book shelf along with anais nin.. |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"Books that I always recommend to anyone (male of female) colour of magic and the light fantastic by terry pratchet. You should be laughing so much that people start staring at you.
Not sure how the footnotes work on a kindle though......"
Good Omens by PTerry Pratchett n Neil Gaiman - my favourite LOL, PMSL, ROFL book ever - footnotes are a bit of a pain, but I got my copy off a £3 "well known auction site" DVD
Bill Bryson travel books - Notes from a small Country etc - more giggling n funny looks
Lee Child - Jack Reacher series
Any Stephen King, specially IT, The Stand and his newest 11.22.63 (controversial choice I believe, but I looovvve it)
Stephanie Meyers - Twilight series
Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse (TrueBlood) series
I could go on, and on, and on xxx |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"no chance of getting golliwog books now, or the Mandingo books bout slavery, brill books too x
omg mandingo and drum...wanked over them so much as a young teen...
Still remember the opening where he fucks two girls locked in the tower
Daft parents hid them at the back of the book shelf along with anais nin.. "
OMG - Mandingo - yeah, found a couple of them in parents bedroom when I was about 13 - mmmmmmm xxx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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1984, Animal Farm (leave it, the book!) and Keep The Aspidistra Flying, all by George Orwell, of course.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy goes without saying.
It's an almost impossible question to answer as you'll most likely (certainly in this instance) get the posters choice of reading matter which may be a million miles away from your own. |
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"no chance of getting golliwog books now, or the Mandingo books bout slavery, brill books too x
omg mandingo and drum...wanked over them so much as a young teen...
Still remember the opening where he fucks two girls locked in the tower
Daft parents hid them at the back of the book shelf along with anais nin..
OMG - Mandingo - yeah, found a couple of them in parents bedroom when I was about 13 - mmmmmmm xxx"
i wonder how many did...those books were the only porn i had....but my did they work! |
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By *waymanMan
over a year ago
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" I am getting a kindel book reading thing and not read alot of books in my time as get lost on paper and find myself having to keep going back ..... I am better on things like pc s reading seeing the tex its my Dyslexia i know .. so in my life i have read about 3 books and that was school short storys. I would like to read all sorts .. so if you have ever read a good book can you tell me what it was as i am going to be down loading some on the kindel .. my sister read but its garden and love storys .. its going to open up a new world for me this Kindel i feel reading in bed , xx
ohhh...where to start...
Do you like history...stuff like the Tudors on tv?
Then got to recommend phillipa gregory...her stories about Anne,Mary Boleyn,Elizabeth and others of that time are fab!
Why not go back to some childhood classics...i still love the secret garden and wind in the willows.
Everything by Jane Austen...perfection
The curious incident of the dog in the night,Mark Haddon...it will have u in tears...in a good way.The story of a boy with aspergers looking for his mum.
The state of montana. Maxim Jakubowski...sexy as anything,you wont just be reading in bed
The story of O,greatest erotic novel ever!
Wuthering Heights.Charotte Bronte..a gothic classic
Do you like detectives?
Read the Sherlock holmes short stories.
The falco novels by Lindsey Davies...a private detective in ancient Rome....brilliant.
The boy in the stripped pyjamas...but you will weep.
i will stop now...i could go on all day "
Falco! superb novels by Lindsey Davis.
Personal recommendation? The Spenser novels by Robert B Parker - Bob passed away recently, but he wrote some of the best one liners ever and they're good bite sized novels. Incidentally, I find some of my female colleagues love Tom Selleck in the TV films of his Jesse Stone novels that crop up on satellite occasionally.
Another personal favourite is Mark Timlin for his Nick Sharman series. Again, some female readers will remember Clive Owen in the TV series of these.
For historical novels S J Parrish is two books into a good series of Elizabethan mysteries.
Another good historical, but a one off, is Quality of Mercy by Faye Kellerman - both Faye and her hubby Jonathan do a decent line in murder mysteries - Faye is usually more romantic in her approach to the Peter Decker novels, although there's a historical by her about Nazi Germany that is bleak as midwinter.
Ian Rankin is always good value, especially mid period Rebus and the new Malcolm Fox series.
For laugh out loud satire there is no-one better than Chris Brookmyre.
I don't know how your dyslexia will interact with novels with lots of dialect or reported vernacular speech, so I'll keep two of my personal favourites off the list - Cwmardy by Lewis Jones and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
Oh, and if you like wildlife you'll possibly like Stephen Jay Gould - the scientist Stephen Fry wishes he could have grown up to be....
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"The Rainman bought me a Kindle for my birthday (mwahx)....I've just been downloading free books so far. I've been revisiting "old friends"....Little Women, Jane Eyre. Pride and Prejudice, Freckles....all good reads. No doubt I'll revisit a few childrens books early next year....Narnia, Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables...and yes...I have no doubt that I will end up getting the complete Harry Potter series for the kindle...even though I've got it in traditional book form already.
I'm sure you will have a wonderful time with your Kindle Jo....just mix up the genres you choose to read.....there's an enormous fiction world out there, so don't tie yourself down to one or two categories...explore...and enjoy xxx"
well i am looking at alot of the books people have said and i need to go back even to books i should have been reading as school i so feel i have missed out on some classics. Tapes are lovely having a person read to me too .. but i sall love having a go at reading on the Kindel be so new and i think like reading things on my pc . Little Women, Jane Eyre. Pride and Prejudice, Freckles. i sall be reading as i loved them on the Tv. xxx thankyou. |
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i hardly ever read books until i came across a richard laymon novel. i was hooked and couldnt put it down. ended up buying every one he wrote but he died suddenly so ive run out now |
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"Papillon by Henri Charriere.
The true story of a convicts numerous escape atempts from the French governments brutal penal colonys/workcamps in French Guiana.
First time I read it I couldn't put it down.
I found his style of writing flows naturally and is easy to read.
A lot better and much,much more indepth than the film I think. x"
great choice, the book is so much much better than the film.
The ending of the film is a little different from the book though |
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"i hardly ever read books until i came across a richard laymon novel. i was hooked and couldnt put it down. ended up buying every one he wrote but he died suddenly so ive run out now "
Maybe theres a person who wrights like him around ?? and others here may know ... Just for me maybe it makes he shound thick i new i could not cope with books so i would read magazines i get alot every week . And i read on the pc .. I am a bit ashamed about it all really, if i tell the truth not reading loads of the books that are around as we can all learn so much from them . |
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"Books that I always recommend to anyone (male of female) colour of magic and the light fantastic by terry pratchet. You should be laughing so much that people start staring at you.
Not sure how the footnotes work on a kindle though......"
Prachet books are fantastic, its a shame there will not be anymore, his latest Snuff, has just been released in Paperback,
In a similar style, look out for Neil Gaiman (he wrote the Neverwhere TV series back in the mid 90s) Tom Holt, and Robert Rankin.
The DCI Banks series by Peter Robinson are good, a few were turned into a TV series broadcast on ITV a couple of months ago,
If you like the Heartbeat TV series try the Constable books by Peter Walker
Its hard to recomend books to someone new to reading, without knowing their tastes, as someone on teh thread said every one has their own taste
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One of my all time favourites is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. A literary classic, beautifully written and not too long - unfortunately I've just searched the kindle store and couldn't find it. So sorry Jo, its a bit of a duff steer! |
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By *riendly foeWoman
over a year ago
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"i hardly ever read books until i came across a richard laymon novel. i was hooked and couldnt put it down. ended up buying every one he wrote but he died suddenly so ive run out now "
Read a few of his...Didnt know he died!!
David Gemmell was brill....but sadly he died also... |
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"One of my all time favourites is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. A literary classic, beautifully written and not too long - unfortunately I've just searched the kindle store and couldn't find it. So sorry Jo, its a bit of a duff steer!"
Have seen the film i liked it very much x
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"One of my all time favourites is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. A literary classic, beautifully written and not too long - unfortunately I've just searched the kindle store and couldn't find it. So sorry Jo, its a bit of a duff steer! Have seen the film i liked it very much x"
I love the film too - I reckon it's one of the few cases where the film actually does justice to the book. |
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" I am getting a kindel book reading thing and not read alot of books in my time as get lost on paper and find myself having to keep going back ..... I am better on things like pc s reading seeing the tex its my Dyslexia i know .. so in my life i have read about 3 books and that was school short storys. I would like to read all sorts .. so if you have ever read a good book can you tell me what it was as i am going to be down loading some on the kindel .. my sister read but its garden and love storys .. its going to open up a new world for me this Kindel i feel reading in bed , xx "
1-George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'
2. M. Youncenar's 'Memories of Hadrian'
These are good books but depends if you want 'pure' literature or something abit lighter... Roddy Doyle's 'The Van' made me laugh out loud! |
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" I am getting a kindel book reading thing and not read alot of books in my time as get lost on paper and find myself having to keep going back ..... I am better on things like pc s reading seeing the tex its my Dyslexia i know .. so in my life i have read about 3 books and that was school short storys. I would like to read all sorts .. so if you have ever read a good book can you tell me what it was as i am going to be down loading some on the kindel .. my sister read but its garden and love storys .. its going to open up a new world for me this Kindel i feel reading in bed , xx "
lol,,love reading,,sometimes read 3 books at a time,lol,anyway im more into scifi/fantasy,,some great authors out there,,from david eddings to tolken and tolstoy,,
im finishing a ten book run by steven erikson at the moment,its the malazan empire run,,great reads,,have read some of the books about ceaser and atilla the hun and genhkis kahn,
any would be a good start really |
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"pappillion was indeed amazing - but pretty long.
Id def recommend Paulo Coehlo as his books are shorter and if you havent read lots diving into 600 pages might be daunting.
Try 'The Alchemist' or 'Veronica must die' - a story of how you live your life if you only have limited time left - truly brilliant book. "
Ive just preordered his new book adelph doesnt come out in paperback until march and im looking forward to reading it
I thought id written more on this thread, but this is just a few of what i love
Jane Eyre
Angelas ashes
tiz
I know why the cage bird sings
Twilight series + the other one she wrote that i cant remember the name of
Jonathon livingston seagul(if you can call it a book)
Educating rita(play) |
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"since i got my kindle i am rereading some of the books i read as a child Tom sawyer etc,"
same here and looking up alot people have told me about here xx
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