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"One for the bookworms!"

Nobody seems to have s**tarted a topic about books (perhaps they have, I jus**t cant be bothered to trawl back), so I'd like to know what everyone's favourite books are. Feel free to give reasons also.....


Mine -

The Famished Road by Ben Okri
100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (beautiful)
Adrian Mole aged 13 and a half (s**till find this hilarious!)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. (s**tudied this at college, and found it to be the only book I ever enjoyed s**tudying)
Anything by Stephen King (espec. Bag of Bones & Desperation, some scary sh*t)
Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha by Roddy Doyle - written through the eyes of a ten year old Irish boy, hilariously funny, and reminds me of all the s**tuff we used to get up to kids.

Desperation is very good. One of my favourite King novels.

I'm currently reading Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner. It's an autobiography.

An enjoyable read, as you can pick it up, read a few lines, and put it down again, which is the kind of book you need when you have children!

Um, anyway "I dont do readin I aint no boff".

re-reading "King Blood" by Simon Clark for the Nth time.

Also have a new Chomsky book, but my head's not in the right place for that yet.

In Cold Blood is a true story of two guys in the late 50's - one of them had heard a rumour when he was in prison about a house out in some hick town that supposedly had a safe with loadsa cash. Anyway, they planned the robbery, turned up at the house, killed the family to discover that there was no such safe. But it rocked America at the time because it was such a brutal crime. Very good as Capote changes your views & makes you feel sympathy for one of the killers, and shows what an unfair trial he had.


Whoever had just got 'Desperation' by Stephen King - its a very scary book, played on my mind for days afterwards!

The Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy

(okay, so it WAS a radio series first... but this was my first exposure to the series, and I reckon is the way most people find it these days?)

No, thats next after: Michael Crichton's Timeline :)

Neither Here Nor There was great, I loved Stephen Katz. But I think Down Under was brilliant. Read that?

Stryke wrote:
> In Cold Blood...I've heard of that. Is that the one about the mansion in a
> backwater American town, where someone broke in and slaughtered everyone? Bill
> Bryson mentioned it in "The Lost Continent."

a fellow Bill Bryson fan(!) - I find his work hilarious.

Neither here nor there is his best offering.

Anything by Stephen King (espec. Bag of Bones &
> Desperation, some scary sh*t)

Got Desperation from the libary las**t night. I'm expecting it to be good.

In Cold Blood...I've heard of that. Is that the one about the mansion in a backwater American town, where someone broke in and slaughtered everyone? Bill Bryson mentioned it in "The Lost Continent."

Lord of the Rings
Wheel of Time
Long Walk To Freedom
Gormgenghast