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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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A conversation with a close friend tossed up the idiotic idea of a calendar of scruffy boys reading her favourite books.
Which lead to "what are your 12 fav books?" Therein a very difficult list was compiled.
These are mine, I'd like to know yours if you can take the time.
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
Surface Detail - Iain M Banks
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Different Seasons - Stephen King
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Van - Roddy Doyle
K-Pax - Gene Brewer
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Couldn't decide on an Attwood, could all have been Iain (M) Banks and I'll fully change my mind by tomorrow, but... |
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By *rufinWoman
over a year ago
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If a favourite is one you can re-read many times ...
A couple of Penelope Lively ones, but especially Moon Tiger
Jane Eyre
The hobbit
All the Terry Pratchett Discworld books, can't decide on an absolute favourite
The Far Pavilions
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Gosh ...
My favourite still stays with me and it’s not exactly a prize winner, but it reminds me of my teenage years.
Dracula ... "
I own that book. Decided I needed it after watching Gary Oldman's Dracula. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"If a favourite is one you can re-read many times ...
A couple of Penelope Lively ones, but especially Moon Tiger
Jane Eyre
The hobbit
All the Terry Pratchett Discworld books, can't decide on an absolute favourite
The Far Pavilions
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*thinks* why have I never read Jane Eyre... |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
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Dune - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor - Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isabelle Allende - Zorro
Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne
Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Dune - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor - Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isabelle Allende - Zorro
Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne
Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me
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When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho. |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
"Dune - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor - Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isabelle Allende - Zorro
Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne
Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me
When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho. "
I have yet to find a mote appealing mix of fantasy, political intrigue, interwoven with strong religious and even ecological themes. One word. Brilliant. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Dune - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor - Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isabelle Allende - Zorro
Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne
Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me
When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho.
I have yet to find a mote appealing mix of fantasy, political intrigue, interwoven with strong religious and even ecological themes. One word. Brilliant."
I'll stick it on the list. I remember adoring it as a teen... |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
"Dune - Frank Herbert
Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
God Emperor - Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isabelle Allende - Zorro
Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne
Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me
When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho.
I have yet to find a mote appealing mix of fantasy, political intrigue, interwoven with strong religious and even ecological themes. One word. Brilliant.
I'll stick it on the list. I remember adoring it as a teen..."
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"If a favourite is one you can re-read many times ...
A couple of Penelope Lively ones, but especially Moon Tiger
Jane Eyre
The hobbit
All the Terry Pratchett Discworld books, can't decide on an absolute favourite
The Far Pavilions
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OMG, I love Penelope Lively, and Moon Tiger is my favourite book of all time too! Reread it many times.
As for the other 11 - I'll get back to you, might take a while...
Mrs TMN x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Twelve... sheesh
Lolita - Nabokov
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell
Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World - Huxley
Handmaid’s Tale - Atwell
We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel shriver
A little life - Hanya Yanigihara
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
Brief Interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace
Dystopian heavy. Short stories included (cheating?) |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
"Twelve... sheesh
Lolita - Nabokov
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell
Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World - Huxley
Handmaid’s Tale - Atwell
We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel shriver
A little life - Hanya Yanigihara
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
Brief Interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace
Dystopian heavy. Short stories included (cheating?)"
Darn...forgot about Brave New World  left out H.P. lovecraft as well |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Twelve... sheesh
Lolita - Nabokov
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell
Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World - Huxley
Handmaid’s Tale - Atwell
We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel shriver
A little life - Hanya Yanigihara
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
Brief Interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace
Dystopian heavy. Short stories included (cheating?)
Darn...forgot about Brave New World left out H.P. lovecraft as well"
Yeah I've realised I've left out a few. It's a tricky ask. Great list tho. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Needs a Cormac McCarthy
What would you recommend as a gateway drug?
Blood Meridian and if you are feeling really upbeat The Road. "
Ahhh The Road, of course. Harrowing film I thought. Father and son stuff always gets me... |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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So this is subject to change daily. Probably hourly in all honesty, I'm a fickle woman. I've tried to match up seasonal and literature which was actually quite a fun thing to do.
January - Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
Because nothing says the start of a new year like a fantastical romp to stop the end of days.
February - Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)/ Pride and Prejudice/maybe Emma (Jane Austen)
One a perfectly pitched satirical romance that delightfully plays on the tropes and societal expectations of gender, love and family. Rhetorical perfection. The other doesn't need explaining.
March - Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. A feminist retelling of the classic fairy tales: bringing new life to old much like Spring
April - Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis/Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
May - The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni/ Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway/ North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
June - White Teeth, Zadie Smith/The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart/No Logo, Naomi Klein.
July - Lord of the Rings/The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe/
August - American Gods by one of the greatest living authors who I will one day not squeak at but seduce with my dazzling erudite wit. On the Road (Jack Kerouac) and Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts) belong here as well.
September - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë/The Handmaid's Tale/A Spy in the House of Love.
A new academic year and the time where I get all feminist-y and want to read about unapologetically brilliant women who truly live their lives and embrace their emotions.
October - Bram Stoker's Dracula/The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Obvs.
November - Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray/ Vanity Fair by William Thackeray.
December - The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern. Magical, poignant, beautiful. Perfect for long cold nights and reading in front of the fire.
My front page would be 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami being read.
Fucking hell that's a lot of words. Sorry for that and any spelling mistakes.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"So this is subject to change daily. Probably hourly in all honesty, I'm a fickle woman. I've tried to match up seasonal and literature which was actually quite a fun thing to do.
January - Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
Because nothing says the start of a new year like a fantastical romp to stop the end of days.
February - Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)/ Pride and Prejudice/maybe Emma (Jane Austen)
One a perfectly pitched satirical romance that delightfully plays on the tropes and societal expectations of gender, love and family. Rhetorical perfection. The other doesn't need explaining.
March - Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. A feminist retelling of the classic fairy tales: bringing new life to old much like Spring
April - Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis/Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
May - The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni/ Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway/ North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
June - White Teeth, Zadie Smith/The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart/No Logo, Naomi Klein.
July - Lord of the Rings/The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe/
August - American Gods by one of the greatest living authors who I will one day not squeak at but seduce with my dazzling erudite wit. On the Road (Jack Kerouac) and Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts) belong here as well.
September - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë/The Handmaid's Tale/A Spy in the House of Love.
A new academic year and the time where I get all feminist-y and want to read about unapologetically brilliant women who truly live their lives and embrace their emotions.
October - Bram Stoker's Dracula/The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Obvs.
November - Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray/ Vanity Fair by William Thackeray.
December - The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern. Magical, poignant, beautiful. Perfect for long cold nights and reading in front of the fire.
My front page would be 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami being read.
Fucking hell that's a lot of words. Sorry for that and any spelling mistakes. "
Oh bollocks I forgot about Shantaram as well. One of only two books I've had to put down because I was crying, the other is on my list.
Nice list Meli |
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By (user no longer on site)
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As others above I'll struggle with 12 but for books I can read over and over (or listen to, I do a lot of driving):-
Tolkien LOTR trilogy - read and listened too many time to count since a child.
Terry Pratchet - all of them but especially the later ones.
Ed Visteurs - No short cuts to the top.
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything.
Yuval Noah Harare - Sapiens
Sean Carroll The big picture.
Andrew Marr - A history of the world.
Like the sound of the Dune series, will look out for them once I've finished my latest Sean Carroll The particle at the end of the universe. |
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