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The Ladybird series
No I'm serious ... when you think they informed educated and helped develop the reading skills to allow a person to enjoy such classics as those mentioned above ... they have to be up there  |
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"The Ladybird series
No I'm serious ... when you think they informed educated and helped develop the reading skills to allow a person to enjoy such classics as those mentioned above ... they have to be up there "
In a similar vein the Richard Scarry books including "Big,Big World" really sparked my imagination as a nipper |
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"hitch hikers guide to the galaxy ..d.adamslove it,got it on my kindle and read it when i get time.
Don't forget your towel..and don't panic"
Haha I'll try not to x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Fridthjofs Saga
Grimm Fairytales
The Illiad
Sorry couldn't pick just one lol"
do androids dream wasnt that Blade Runner in film, just wondering of on this occassion was film better than book !!! |
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Fridthjofs Saga
Grimm Fairytales
The Illiad
Sorry couldn't pick just one lol
do androids dream wasnt that Blade Runner in film, just wondering of on this occassion was film better than book !!!"
It was indeed and I love both but I do prefer the book. Although not by much because the film was brilliant! Excellent retelling its worth a read dude |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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So many fantastic books out there but if I had to pick just one it would be Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - it is probably the most moving book I have ever read and I would recommend it to anyone. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"This is like asking me to pick my favourite child, which is actually easier as I have only 3 children..."
and which is your favourite ? ...we could auction the other two orf.. i put in a bid of I packet of jaffa cakes ..a FULL packet... they dont make a noise do they ( ive been watching oliver) |
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"A song of ice and fire (aka game of thrones) George rr martin iv still not read it yet i ghought il wait till the shows done so i dont confuse myself"
I can understand that but seriously read the books first they have a ton more story then the series does i was reading the books while watching it and tbh wasn't that confusing gave me a good idea of what the characters look like |
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"The Ladybird series
No I'm serious ... when you think they informed educated and helped develop the reading skills to allow a person to enjoy such classics as those mentioned above ... they have to be up there "
My vote's for " A Fine Balance" by Rohynton Mistry . Cracking read , maybe not everyone's cuppa , x |
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Fridthjofs Saga
Grimm Fairytales
The Illiad
Sorry couldn't pick just one lol
do androids dream wasnt that Blade Runner in film, just wondering of on this occassion was film better than book !!!
It was indeed and I love both but I do prefer the book. Although not by much because the film was brilliant! Excellent retelling its worth a read dude "
Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly were also written by Philip K. Dick . And a lot more , dude was a genius/visionary . |
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Fridthjofs Saga
Grimm Fairytales
The Illiad
Sorry couldn't pick just one lol
do androids dream wasnt that Blade Runner in film, just wondering of on this occassion was film better than book !!!
It was indeed and I love both but I do prefer the book. Although not by much because the film was brilliant! Excellent retelling its worth a read dude
Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly were also written by Philip K. Dick . And a lot more , dude was a genius/visionary . "
Let's not forget The Minority Report |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Fridthjofs Saga
Grimm Fairytales
The Illiad
Sorry couldn't pick just one lol
do androids dream wasnt that Blade Runner in film, just wondering of on this occassion was film better than book !!!
It was indeed and I love both but I do prefer the book. Although not by much because the film was brilliant! Excellent retelling its worth a read dude
Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly were also written by Philip K. Dick . And a lot more , dude was a genius/visionary . "
Truly! I love In Milton Lumky Territory and Martian Time Slip visionary as you say |
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Mein kampf
Wearher you love or hate him your entitled to know the truth rather than what different media tells you
E.g. "he was brought up in Jewish brothel and his farther abandoned him"
(Your better off reading his own words rather than speculative accounts on national geographic)
You will learn the whole story of ww1, Germany after and ww2 rather than the fiction they show on tv...
Fyi...his farther was a liberal minded civil servant who debated with him but loved him and his mum. (No abuse)
His fartherwanted him to be a politician and he wanted to be an artist because he knew his views were not popular.
It's well w rittern. It's alot better than the communist manifesto which he criticised extensively.
Commie manifesto is academic (w rittern to be confusing)...Mein kampf is more like a rant that has been structured into a book yet it is simple to follow and rather intresting.
The most talked about person of the 20th century....yet only few people have read the book. Even the experts get it all wrong and speculate things that have been made up by america/bbc
If you want to understand ww2 and not be ignorant than you should read his book because otherwise you will have totally the wrong idea about what happened. |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
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"It’s like choosing a favourite child. Impossible."
This, completely. There are so many, and they're good in such different ways. It's impossible to compare them.
Anyway, the answer is obviously Fup. |
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"The art of war. Sun tzu "
I've read art of war. Seems obvious. Bits about attacking the enemy once half of them have crossed the river.
Leaving the enemy in the Forrest if they are hideing there.
He was more intrested in subversion than battle. Kinda like the BBC |
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"Mein kampf
Wearher you love or hate him your entitled to know the truth rather than what different media tells you
E.g. "he was brought up in Jewish brothel and his farther abandoned him"
(Your better off reading his own words rather than speculative accounts on national geographic)
You will learn the whole story of ww1, Germany after and ww2 rather than the fiction they show on tv...
Fyi...his farther was a liberal minded civil servant who debated with him but loved him and his mum. (No abuse)
His fartherwanted him to be a politician and he wanted to be an artist because he knew his views were not popular.
It's well w rittern. It's alot better than the communist manifesto which he criticised extensively.
Commie manifesto is academic (w rittern to be confusing)...Mein kampf is more like a rant that has been structured into a book yet it is simple to follow and rather intresting.
The most talked about person of the 20th century....yet only few people have read the book. Even the experts get it all wrong and speculate things that have been made up by america/bbc
If you want to understand ww2 and not be ignorant than you should read his book because otherwise you will have totally the wrong idea about what happened."
Actually the Communist Manifesto is not at all academic. It's easy to read, goes along at a rollicking pace and is a short succinct summary of Marxism in its earliest phase.
It's probably the easiest to read of the works of Marx. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Fridthjofs Saga
Grimm Fairytales
The Illiad
Sorry couldn't pick just one lol
do androids dream wasnt that Blade Runner in film, just wondering of on this occassion was film better than book !!!
It was indeed and I love both but I do prefer the book. Although not by much because the film was brilliant! Excellent retelling its worth a read dude
Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly were also written by Philip K. Dick . And a lot more , dude was a genius/visionary .
Let's not forget The Minority Report"
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"Mein kampf
Wearher you love or hate him your entitled to know the truth rather than what different media tells you
E.g. "he was brought up in Jewish brothel and his farther abandoned him"
(Your better off reading his own words rather than speculative accounts on national geographic)
You will learn the whole story of ww1, Germany after and ww2 rather than the fiction they show on tv...
Fyi...his farther was a liberal minded civil servant who debated with him but loved him and his mum. (No abuse)
His fartherwanted him to be a politician and he wanted to be an artist because he knew his views were not popular.
It's well w rittern. It's alot better than the communist manifesto which he criticised extensively.
Commie manifesto is academic (w rittern to be confusing)...Mein kampf is more like a rant that has been structured into a book yet it is simple to follow and rather intresting.
The most talked about person of the 20th century....yet only few people have read the book. Even the experts get it all wrong and speculate things that have been made up by america/bbc
If you want to understand ww2 and not be ignorant than you should read his book because otherwise you will have totally the wrong idea about what happened.
Actually the Communist Manifesto is not at all academic. It's easy to read, goes along at a rollicking pace and is a short succinct summary of Marxism in its earliest phase.
It's probably the easiest to read of the works of Marx. "
It needs to be compaired to its greatest critics.
Mein kampf rips it apart. The language is so straightforward while Marx is diliberately confusing.
To understand you must have read both books with an objective open mind to both.
That's easy for me....
Hitler debunks everything writtern in the communist manifesto.
Politicly I am more into thatcher (who also debunked socialism)...but Hitler had alot of background knowledge to why Germany went to war and surrendered.....how to lead a sucessfull movement vs corruption....
A nationalist is loyal to his culture. Marx was subversive..an alien entity. Simmilar to the liberal elites in power today but more like a henchman.
The stupidity of Marxism is the removal of all class structure while leaving the same banking elites in the same positions of power.
Thatcher said "socialists would be happy to see the poor poorer provides the rich were less rich....I have the same contempt for socialism as the people of eastern europe"
I'm mixed German and eastern European. Marx, stalin and Hitler defined my grandparents lives. |
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"Mein kampf
Wearher you love or hate him your entitled to know the truth rather than what different media tells you
E.g. "he was brought up in Jewish brothel and his farther abandoned him"
(Your better off reading his own words rather than speculative accounts on national geographic)
You will learn the whole story of ww1, Germany after and ww2 rather than the fiction they show on tv...
Fyi...his farther was a liberal minded civil servant who debated with him but loved him and his mum. (No abuse)
His fartherwanted him to be a politician and he wanted to be an artist because he knew his views were not popular.
It's well w rittern. It's alot better than the communist manifesto which he criticised extensively.
Commie manifesto is academic (w rittern to be confusing)...Mein kampf is more like a rant that has been structured into a book yet it is simple to follow and rather intresting.
The most talked about person of the 20th century....yet only few people have read the book. Even the experts get it all wrong and speculate things that have been made up by america/bbc
If you want to understand ww2 and not be ignorant than you should read his book because otherwise you will have totally the wrong idea about what happened.
Actually the Communist Manifesto is not at all academic. It's easy to read, goes along at a rollicking pace and is a short succinct summary of Marxism in its earliest phase.
It's probably the easiest to read of the works of Marx.
It needs to be compaired to its greatest critics.
Mein kampf rips it apart. The language is so straightforward while Marx is diliberately confusing.
To understand you must have read both books with an objective open mind to both.
That's easy for me....
Hitler debunks everything writtern in the communist manifesto.
Politicly I am more into thatcher (who also debunked socialism)...but Hitler had alot of background knowledge to why Germany went to war and surrendered.....how to lead a sucessfull movement vs corruption....
A nationalist is loyal to his culture. Marx was subversive..an alien entity. Simmilar to the liberal elites in power today but more like a henchman.
The stupidity of Marxism is the removal of all class structure while leaving the same banking elites in the same positions of power.
Thatcher said "socialists would be happy to see the poor poorer provides the rich were less rich....I have the same contempt for socialism as the people of eastern europe"
I'm mixed German and eastern European. Marx, stalin and Hitler defined my grandparents lives."
If you really think Hitler is intellectually superior to Marx, there's not much I can do to help you. |
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If you really think Hitler is intellectually superior to Marx, there's not much I can do to help you. "
Your ideology might be more popular in modern Britain.
It's totally acceptable for you to think the way you do.
To think the way I do isn't verry BBC or itv.
Hitler was very much an anglophile. In the trenches he read alot of British propoganda and it inspired him.
Catchy slogons and logos (he liked art)
Whatever your views on Hitler as a fan of Marx....
You must admit Hitler knew alot about how "the broad masses" thought collectively.
He nailed it with propoganda. He wrote his entire tactical plan in main kampf before he did it.
Marx wasn't so honest (subversion). Neither are the BBC. Hitler stated his intentions and did as he said.
Germany at that time was a mess. They were in the pockets of foreign entitys. It had been happening since the hapsburgs.
They liberals in parliament who were allowing the (brainwashed broad masses and sorros elites) to destroy Germany's identity and put them into debt/declare and surrender wars)
The anger the Nazis manifested was a straightforward reaction to Marxism. Normal People supported the Nazis because the marxists were a worse alternative. |
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"Green mile, stephan king.
Traitor! It's the Witcher Saga!"
I couldn't pick a single one though.
The last wish or sword of destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski if I'm allowed more than one.
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Not possible to pick one favourite but really good read for me as I love Japanese history was book called Shogun by James Clavel turned into tv series long time ago book was way better. But can’t take away the impact the Harry Potter books had. Got lots of kids reading and enjoying books |
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"didnt hitler say something like the masses will believe a big lie before a small one!. Now we have brexit ..nothing changes in politics
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Whatever side of the political spectrum you are there are alot of lodgical ideas in mein kampf.
Mainly it's criticism of Germany's liberal democracy being corrupted.
Unlike modern politicians. Hitler thinks the "broad masses" need to be "guided" in the right direction by a smart leader who wanted what was best (for nationalists)
Something we are both left right and from a neutral position is smart people rallying dumb people.
Hitler is one of the only politicians to aknowledge the stupidity of "the broad masses" openly.
He goes on in detail about graphic design and political slogons the British used because he wanted to use it for his own cause.
He totally give up on the idea that "the broad masses" had objective and indipendent thought.
He only recognised a % of the population being smart enough to stay firm in their beliefs while seeing other things objectively...
He makes an example when he was working in Austria. His colleagues had different opinions every month and he noticed they were just repeating slogons from certain popular writers.
It's like football. (Its overrated)...the people who like it don't often understand the basic fundamentals of what they are seeing....the pundit condenses the information.....then they go on whatsapp arguing with friends repeating the pundits opinion with no opinion of their own...
The broad masses
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I couldn't possibly pick a favourite author let alone a favourite book. Simply too many.
Good books are like old friends some are better when you want a good cry, some are better when you want a good laugh, some are better when you want a good think/discussion, some are better at just being there when you want some company. Doesnt make any of them better than the others they are still old friends ...they are just different to each other and therefore you get different things from them. Exactly the same with books. |
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"The one that has always stuck in my mind is Ceilia Ahern, A Place Called Here
Yes that was a brilliant book! "
Ghost written and paid for by her politician Dad , as far as I know , |
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"The one that has always stuck in my mind is Ceilia Ahern, A Place Called Here
Yes that was a brilliant book!
Ghost written and paid for by her politician Dad , as far as I know , "
Meh, still a lovely heartwarming book, and helped me to explain the death of my children’s grandad. It has a special place for me |
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