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What is your favourite book(s)?
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Jeans Reunited | Report | 12 Mar 2006 00:30 |
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do you find that when you've read a really good book the film is a load of rubbish Claire |
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Many N's | Report | 12 Mar 2006 00:34 |
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Nearly always - with the exception of Chocolat. Might have somethind to do with the fact Johnny Depp's in the film? |
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Jeans Reunited | Report | 12 Mar 2006 00:35 |
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has anyone ever read the bible from cover to cover. I can't get past Genesis Claire |
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Rosi Glow | Report | 12 Mar 2006 00:51 |
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The Kid by Kevin Lewis A true story, highly recomended Rosi |
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Zoe | Report | 12 Mar 2006 01:27 |
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Reading Patricia Cornwell at the moment she is a great writer a forensic Agatha Christie ...HEHE Enjoyed reading 13 of her books so far Zoe |
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Helen | Report | 12 Mar 2006 02:00 |
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At the moment, I am well into Terry Pratchett. As a child I loved C S Lewis books, Horsey books by Pullein-Thompson sisters, Rebecca's World by Terry Nation, St Clares and Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton...oooh, the list goes on and on!!! Just remembered another one called Joni - biography about a girl who got paralysed from the neck down in a diving accident. The way she adapted to treatment and her new life was awesome - as an adult she was producing brilliant paintings by paintbrush in mouth!!! |
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Unknown | Report | 12 Mar 2006 07:33 |
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Hi Lucia I love anything that accurately depicts social history, especially the Victorian period I totally agree with Dave about the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. He recommended it to me a while back and I really enjoyed it. It then came up as a set book on my course, so is a well thought of book in academic circles Dee xx |
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Claire | Report | 12 Mar 2006 08:01 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird. What a beautiful book. And I agree with Clare, rarely are the films as good, but the film with Gregory Peck is one of the few films I have seen that does this book justice. I have soooo many favourite books. I love to read, but this one always springs to mind forst. Claire xx |
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Unknown | Report | 12 Mar 2006 08:25 |
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Clare I totally agree about To Kill A Mockingbird and Gregory Peck as Atticus was spot on. I was a little disappointed by Scout in the film though, I thought she was a bit wooden. (my old border collie who died aged 11 last May was called Scout!!!!) Lady Of Hay by Barbara Erskine was given to me years ago and that one springs to mind. Love; Pride and Prejudice book and film. (Colin Firth as Darcy is unbeatable to my mind) Loved Gone With the Wind film and book. Anyone else read the Diana Gabaldon Cross Stitch series about Claire and Jamie Fraser ? Just bought the 7th in that series and can't wait. |
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Sal in Sydney | Report | 12 Mar 2006 08:26 |
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Tuesdays with Morrie.... Sal x |
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Guinevere | Report | 12 Mar 2006 08:42 |
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Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Lord of the Rings - Tolkein Lorna Doone - R D Blackmore Tess Of the Durbervilles - Hardy Anna Karenina - Tolstoy Dr Zhivago - Pasternak Brave New World - Huxley 1984 - Orwell The Chrysalids - Wyndham On the Road - Jack Kerouac Collected Poems of Adrian Mitchell Collected Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. There are more but those came to mind straight away. Heinlein's book is one I read at least every 2 years. I love it. Gwynne |
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Trudes | Report | 12 Mar 2006 08:46 |
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The Keys to the street. Ruth Rendell. She hasn't written anything else like it. I didn't want it to end. |
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Countrymouse | Report | 12 Mar 2006 09:20 |
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Wuthering Heights definitely and anything written about the Bronte sisters, plus a good family saga, Lyn andrews Josephine Cox catherine Cookson Maureen Lee etc |
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Aileen | Report | 12 Mar 2006 09:36 |
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Patricia Cornwell stuff as I love crime reads...she is brilliant. However Harry Potter is at the top too. |
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East Point | Report | 12 Mar 2006 11:10 |
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My favourites are Lynn Andrews, Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson - can't put them down once started. Stella |
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