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Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 5:47 pm Posts: 4981 Location: iPod/Computer, Leicester, England, Britain, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe Highscores:12
Great though Zippy. We need more threads like this. The thing is, i don't read much. I lack the concentration needed but (and i know i'm not very original here) i enjoy the Potter books (though i've not read the 7th yet, just started) and Dan Brown books.
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You should read more! It's good for you! Of course, Harry Potter... I've never been a huge fan of them Maybe it isn't concentration that's your problem - maybe you just need to read better books!
I love books like Les Miserables, Notre Dame de Paris, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca etc All of them have amazing writing but they're more than just the stereotype of classic books, they're all quite dark and haunting
Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 5:47 pm Posts: 4981 Location: iPod/Computer, Leicester, England, Britain, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe Highscores:12
The Potter books are great. That's why i've been able to read them, as well as Dan Brown books. I've tried to read others but there's always been something better to do. So i don't read much.
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Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 9:38 pm Posts: 2072 Location: A farm Highscores:3
The little white horse is amazing. Heartland books are always great. Daughter of the wind. Life as we knew it. Chosen by a horse. - made me cry. Bridge called HOPE. - made me cry even more. Hope Rising. - And again. That story brought back so many memories, i was struggling to read it without a tear in my eye. Flying changes. Aww Change of heart. The middle place. Her last death.
Sorry, most of them are about horses, love or death. But they are amazing. Trust me.
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Joined: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:50 pm Posts: 1752 Location: N.Ireland
My favourite book ever is 'Bog Child' by Siobhan Dowd. Its amazing. Some other ones I really like are: The Highest Tide- Jim Lynch How I Live Now- Meg Rosoff A Swift Pure Cry- Siobhan Dowd PS I Love You- Cecilia Ahern oh, and anything by David Almond
Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 7:09 pm Posts: 3204 Location: County Down
Where do I start with favourite books? I have been reading for more than 30 years adn I just can't imagine life without the excape I get from reading.
All the crime writers - Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Tess Gerritsen, Jonathan Kellerman and his wife Faye Kellerman; some classics - Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mocking Bird. Also love reading light books for easy entertainment; Cecilia Ahern is excellent - I've really enjoyed several of her books and in the same genre I like Cathy Kelly, Patricia Scanlon, Sheila O'Flanagan, Marion Keyes.
I have really enjoyed justa bout every title in Richard and Judy's Summer Read in the last couple of years too. The House at Riverton was brilliant as is Kathy Morton's second book too. Linwood Barclay's current thriller is a really good read. Random Acts of Heroic Love made me cry it's so good. The Island is wonderful. I will bore you if I go on so just look here http://www.richardandjudybookclub.co.uk.
I buy paperbacks 2 for £7 in Asda and they are passed on afterwards to family and friends and I get lots passed on to me in the same way.
Well you did ask!
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Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 9:38 pm Posts: 2072 Location: A farm Highscores:3
Alright, alright. Bookworm.
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Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 9:38 pm Posts: 2072 Location: A farm Highscores:3
No, haven't read that Amy. Whats it about??
I've got to read 'A Box of delights' and when i've finished it, i've got to write an essay on it. great.
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Okay, I'm a bit of a bookworm too so a bit of an essay coming up
Just read the Lovely Bones recently, thought it was great! Also read the Go-Between at school which I also loved. The ending in the film was a let down though. We're going on to King Lear now. Just re-reading some old books atm...re-reading the twilight series (anyone else read them?) and reading some books my friend gave me - her mum gets proof copies through her work
Emm got lots of books I really love...I adore the Harry Potter books, the are amazing And I also love the Lord of the Rings trilogy sooo much! (Love the films too, so great ) Also love To Kill A Mockingbird and Little Women. Getting a nice variety in here There's defo more on my all-time favourite books list so I'll edit them in as and when I remember them
eta: The Kite Runner, that's a brilliant book, made me cry nearly A Thousand Splendid Suns is also amazing but I personally prefer the Kite Runner. Also, 1984...thought I wasn't going to like it at first but I was doing my english personal study on it last year so I had to read it & love it now.
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I love To Kill A Mockingbird! And it takes a pretty amazing book to still be great after its been analysed at GCSE for 2 years I don't remember much about Little Women - I read that years ago, but 1984 is great too! The Picture of Dorian Gray is also another book which I love!
Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 9:38 pm Posts: 2072 Location: A farm Highscores:3
Now i'm reading 'Before I Die' by Jenny Downham. It's good, really good. Slightly... disturbing!
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Joined: Thu May 29, 2008 9:38 pm Posts: 2072 Location: A farm Highscores:3
Yea, it's actually really good!! No horses in it though but still...
Review: With only months left to live, 16-year-old Tessa makes a list of things she must experience: sex, petty crime, fame, drugs and true love. Downham's wrenching work features a girl desperate for a few thrilling moments before leukemia takes her away. Although Tessa remains ardently committed to her list, both she and the reader find comfort in the quiet resonance of the natural world. Tessa's soul mate, Adam, gardens next door; a bird benignly rots in grass; psychedelic mushrooms provide escape; an apple tree brings comfort; and her best friend, Zoey, ripens in the final months of pregnancy. Downham's lithe, facile writing creates a chiaroscuro of life and death, of organic growth and decay. Although Tessa begins to see herself within the natural continuum, she still feels furious with her lot. She lashes out and behaves cruelly at times, making her believable to teen readers. Because her experience feels so palpable, readers will believe that the novel's final pages might offer a crystalline vision of death. Lucid language makes a painful journey bearable, beautiful and transcendent.
that's not my review by the way.
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Maybe it isn't concentration that's your problem - maybe you just need to read better books! 
great.
Also read the Go-Between at school which I also loved. The ending in the film was a let down though. We're going on to King Lear now. Just re-reading some old books atm...re-reading the twilight series (anyone else read them?) and reading some books my friend gave me - her mum gets proof copies through her work 
And I also love the Lord of the Rings trilogy sooo much! (Love the films too, so great 
I don't remember much about Little Women - I read that years ago, but 1984 is great too! The Picture of Dorian Gray is also another book which I love!