George Stark

A couple that spring to my mind is; The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Out of those it has to be Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. For me it's such a powerful book. It explains and shows poverty in the Western World. Because lets face it, it's different to real poverty like in Africa and Asia. Though i do have to add that Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally is powerfull and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King becuase it's just an awesome book. I really hate these types of questions because i love books for different reasons and different people will have different reasons for thinking a book is better than another book. It's so subjective but it gets you thinking about them and that's always good!

Meatballs yuuum

Hmm, i am already to old for my age in many ways. I nearly spend as much time reading maps as i do reading novels. You need them with all these Welsh mountains eh?

More than that. Shaking, cramps and the realisation that i am turning into my parents.

It's a horrible sensation isn't it

I forgot to add, that personally i didn't think the ending was rushed. Throughout the whole book she fitted alot of action into not that many pages. I dunno, maybe i am wrong.

Yea i think you got what i mean, but no i haven't really found one yet. A quiet belief in Angels - R.J. Ellory looks really good but i am not sure about it. Well i am going away for a week tomorrow so i won't have time to read so i have some more tiem to think about it. I am flying out to Cape Town, staying with some family friends out there for 4-5 days, i really haven't decided how long i am goin to stay there yet. Then i am traveling up to Durban and flying home from there. I am going for a month and stopping along the coast and staying in a number of different places. For a plane book i am think i might take the boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyneby or something by George Orwell like animal farm.

Sorry my bad!

I was just looking at my book shelf and saw the historian tucked away right on the very top and read the first chapter. Just reminded me how good this book really was i never noramlly re-read books with a few exceptions but i might re-read this one. It was one of the many books that i picked up randomally in 3 for 2 offer in waterstones. I am glad i picked it up.

I didn't really want to start a new thread but i felt that i had to. This is the orginal thread; "http://bookclubforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=220&highlight=who+you+choose+your+next+book&page=4" I am reading The dark Half by Stephen King at the moment, i am loving reading it and i know it won't last for very long, i've mentioned it in another thread over the weekend. By what i have been reading on threads that have been posted up recently or threads that have come and gone, people have either lists of books to read or actual piles of books to get through. So i have been thinking about what i should read next. I don't have a reading list to get through and i don't have the foggiest idea what i should read next. Well, i have read all the books on my pile, it wasn't really a pile to be fair, it consisted of two books strewn around my room. I am really confused what book i should read next. I can't make up my mind. I thought that i should carry on reading Stephen King, while i have a healthy enthusiasm for his writing, but i am very mindful that i have only been reading his books lately and quite worried that my mind is slowly getting warped. So i started thinking about reading something with abit more emotion, a story line that doesn't included someone being disenbowled by a made up pen persona or a town full of human-alien hybribs. The choices that i had, were well overwhelming. I wouldn't go for a classic, as i read Dracular and Frankenstein not to long ago. Along with being quite heavy reads, they there were also quite dark. As i have ruled anything with blood and guts out of the equation, crime/thrillers are a nono. But then i had a phone call from my travel insurance company, asking if i would like to 'update' my insurance plan, which is their code word for trying to get more money out of me. I told them "No thanks" and hung the phone up. I gasped "What about some action adventure, to get me in the spirit for traveling". It soon faded because i am not, unfortunatly, doing anything as exciting as anything Sir Ralph Fiennes gets up to even in his spare time. I started to read again with no idea what i was going to read next. Even as i am sat here at my computer trying to write this as excitingly as possible, and failing miserably, I STILL DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO READ. It really annoys me. I do occasionally have lulls where i don't read anything for a couple of months. In these lulls i am forced to watch tv when i am bored. They also force me to actually do the washing up when there is a sink full of dishes. They even force me, by the way don't tell anyone, to actually clean the house up. I'm trying to figure out what mood i am in. As many people in the above article have mentioned that they choose their books on what mood they are in. What if your not in a mood? More importantly, i need a book to read in the eleven hour fifty minute flight i have to South Africa in June. I won't even get started on that, i got another month to find a good one anyway. OK it's turing into a rant so i will get to the point. Do lulls contribute to your hunger for reading? Or do you even have lulls, are you some kind of book reading machine? Finally, is reading for you, a life style or is it just something you do to pass the time. I went through one just after christmas. I had a few more books on my untidy pile and i only started reading them in March. Since then i read six good sized books and a few smaller ones. For me lulls do make me want to read more. Just as not doing any mountain biking even for a week makes me want to just ride day and night. Books are very much part of my lifestyle, but they do not really rule over my life. I don't really get upset of depressed if i am not reading for a while, because most of the time my lulls correspond to times when i am up to my eye balls with work and social life. But i do find that i am much more bored if i don't have a book to read, the biggest thign with me is that if i have free time and i am watchign telly or playing computer games and i am not reading, i do feel like i am wasting my time. Sorry for going on a little rant. P.s. still haven't found a book:blush:

I really like Othello, i was doing RichardIII in school, but i read Othello before in my own time and it really helped because i understood the Proper English he wrote in. It also helped me with the structure of Shakespeare's plays. Thinking about doing Richard III reminded me how much i hated Michael Henchard, in the Mayor of Casterbridge. I felt neither pity or sympathy with the character. Off topic, but in my eyes he was a pretty good bad guy.

I really hate lending my books to other people. Maybe it's the control freak coming in be but i find that some people don't look after booksa.

Shawshank redemption is a very good film. Does Rita Hayworth feature in the stand?

I totall agrree with that. It's just the way in which he sets up the story i.e. he has many different perspectives running through a book and it doesn't translate to film all that well.

Yea stu Redman is great. I loved the stand. Such an epic book i couldn't put it down. A lot of nasty characters in that one.