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"My new favourite book."

I have just finished reading a book that is better than The Iliad by Homer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe how wonderful it was. Oh btw the book is The Phantom of the Opera, and it is the most wonderful book in the entire globe, even better than all the Agatha Christies!!!!!

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Has anyone read Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis" yet? Saw it in the bookshop & it seems to be the only one I havent read yet of his. But I didnt bother buying it as it's 5 stories set in Vietnam - comments please.

There are so good those books

You know harry potter books well they suck compared to northernlights,the subtle knife and the amber spyglass there by phillip pullman if you get time go to the library and get them.

Man I wish I still read like I used to

I would read one Goosebumps book a day back when I was 10, then I moved onto Point Horrors

I'm lucky if I get to read a copy of FHM nowadays

Yes, he writes it as if he was a child again, his mother was an evil b**ch, the things she done to him were horrific. A Child Called It is the first part of a trilogy, but I dont think I could read the other two after that.

Tallulah wrote:
> Have just finished 'A Child called It' by Dave Pelzer - extremely harrowing read
> which had me bawling my eyes out. I really dont understand this world
> sometimes.

I think I've read that, is it about the mother who goes crazy and treats her child horrifically?? And it's written by the actual child??

Have just finished 'A Child called It' by Dave Pelzer - extremely harrowing read which had me bawling my eyes out. I really dont understand this world sometimes.

Read Cujo when I was about 11,(was advanced for my age!) it was one of my mums books and it was fantastic. Only trouble with Stephen King is that I can never read one of his books twice. The only one I couldnt get to grips with was Insomnia, I gave up halfway through as it was boring me silly.

Also - James Herbert's 'the Fog' is a cracking read.

cooldogs wrote:
Oh btw the book is The
> Phantom of the Opera, and it is the most wonderful book in the entire globe,
> even better than all the Agatha Christies!!!!!
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So you enjoyed it then?
Fantastic, I thought you might do and it wasn't scary was it?
If you liked these, then I could suggest The Man in The Iron Mask.
That's excellent as well.

It's a cool thing to see people reading the same things I did when I was a kid (no patronising meant, sorry).
The Ilead is cool, but we had to read it in Latin at school and that sucked the enjoyment out of it for me until I went back.

Cujo was the last King book I read. Bought it for £2.50.

It was excellent.

Even the parts written from the dog's POV, which could have been bloody awful. Especially if he kept writing 'Woof', but he didn't.

Bit of a surprise at the end, and not in a good way either.

I'd reccommend it to a King fan.

Talking of King (I actually like most of his material, btw) the On Writing book is my recommendation of the week for any aspiring writer. Don't worry if you don't like King's own stories, this has far more useful information than just writing horror stories.

Also, you could do worse than to read Bill Bryson's books. Notes from a Small Island is the best one so far, all about a relative outsider's view of jolly old Britain, fantastic and at times accurate.