The best book you ever read was...
Discussion
Hitchhikers Guide "trilogy" - Douglas Adams
read it as a kid, read it as a teenager, read it at Uni, read it as a married man - looking forward to reading it to my boy, going to read it when I'm 42 too.
doesn't have to be "literature" to be a stonking read.
(I have erected an SEP field around the awful crap by Colfer)
read it as a kid, read it as a teenager, read it at Uni, read it as a married man - looking forward to reading it to my boy, going to read it when I'm 42 too.
doesn't have to be "literature" to be a stonking read.
(I have erected an SEP field around the awful crap by Colfer)
slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut - awesome antiwar novel
The book thief, Marcus Zusak. The most emotional book i've read for a long time. Crying so hard couldnt keep reading it, but couldn't put it down either.
The unbearable lightness of being: (can't remember). Slim little thing that improves and reveals more each and everytime you read it.
The book thief, Marcus Zusak. The most emotional book i've read for a long time. Crying so hard couldnt keep reading it, but couldn't put it down either.
The unbearable lightness of being: (can't remember). Slim little thing that improves and reveals more each and everytime you read it.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The title is supposedly the temperature at which book paper combusts. Set in a time when books are banned and people are punished if caught in possesion of them. Thought provoking.
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor. Title is a ship which sails to the U.S. during the potato famine of Ireland. Stick with it, it's worth it. In fact I think I'll dig it out and give it another read. Refresh my memory.
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor. Title is a ship which sails to the U.S. during the potato famine of Ireland. Stick with it, it's worth it. In fact I think I'll dig it out and give it another read. Refresh my memory.
Rather embarrassingly mainstream (won the Booker Prize) but one of the better books I've read which is unusual is "The Life of Pi". The tale of a 16yo boy stranded in a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a orang-utan and a 450lb bengal tiger. The style of writing keeps catching you out whilst remaining compelling.
For relaxing easy but interesting read then I'm working through Tess Gerritsen's crime thrillers which also give an insight in to the world of the pathologist.
For a personal life changing book then "Families and How to Survive Them" written by an expert family psychologist but co-written with John Cleese! It explores how we become the people we are and in understanding that enables you to change bits if you wish. I got some genuine Ah! moments of understanding out of it. As you would expect with Mr Cleese involved its a funny and easy read too for such a tricky subject. It's a not a campaigning book or one that proscribes any "method".
For new parents "Taming Toddlers" by Dr Chris Green. I was reccommended this by a GP friend and its just a brilliantly common-sense source of practical knowledge about young children from someone who has been dealing with the subject for decades.
For young children "The Kiss That Missed". The children love it and there is so much humour tucked away in the stunning artwork - keep an eye on the lion on the knight's shield!
For relaxing easy but interesting read then I'm working through Tess Gerritsen's crime thrillers which also give an insight in to the world of the pathologist.
For a personal life changing book then "Families and How to Survive Them" written by an expert family psychologist but co-written with John Cleese! It explores how we become the people we are and in understanding that enables you to change bits if you wish. I got some genuine Ah! moments of understanding out of it. As you would expect with Mr Cleese involved its a funny and easy read too for such a tricky subject. It's a not a campaigning book or one that proscribes any "method".
For new parents "Taming Toddlers" by Dr Chris Green. I was reccommended this by a GP friend and its just a brilliantly common-sense source of practical knowledge about young children from someone who has been dealing with the subject for decades.
For young children "The Kiss That Missed". The children love it and there is so much humour tucked away in the stunning artwork - keep an eye on the lion on the knight's shield!
Brian Fantana said:
Catch 22. Every male who reads it loves it....I'm yet to meet a female who does too.
Love this book; and in fact it was a lady that recommended it to me way back when. She said "you can borrow any of my books, except Catch-22. I have to keep that one".I actually wore out my first copy I read it so many times.
Edited by davepoth on Saturday 27th August 00:15
Gassing Station | Books and Literature | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff