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Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin. Wonderfullly nuanced Russian novel written in Iambic Verse basically about not knowing about the love you've got till it's gone. Turned into an opera but Tchiakovsky. Mmmmm agonisingly bittersweet.

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A Sense of Freedom by Jimmy Boyle. My brother gave it to me to read when I was 17. I found it an exciting, stimulating and thought provoking read. At the time it caused controversy about crime and punishment. No Mean City was very disturbing as it painted a miserable and frightening picture of Glasgow gang culture.

In "The Laugh of the Medusa" Cixous associates a feminine text with subversiveness. "It is volcanic", she says. How could the qualities recognised above be seen as a threat to or undermining the status quo of existing power structures, particularly that of patriarchy? Literature and Feminism, Pam Morris. You did say random book!

I also remember reading all of the Brothers' Grimm fairytales. I still believe these are fairytales for adults as they frightened me as a child. This will sound sad but I read the bible from cover to cover solely because my mum was given a huge leather bound gilt edge, marvelously illustrated bible for a wedding present, she is catholic. I loved the illustrations it was like reading a hollywood epic.

I am the ghost of a child come back to haunt the mother who killed her

I'm from Scotland. I was a home birth and lived in the house i was born in Glasgow until I was fourteen when my parents moved to Fife "for a better life". It was an awful wrench. I'm Glaswegian/FiferScottish/British. Obviously very confused.

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In the Odyssey Homer continually refers to his characters through their characteristics - Odysseus is wise, resourceful, cunning, clever, admirable. His wife Penelope is Faithful Penelope, the Godess Athene is Bright eyed, Flashing eyes Athene. His son Telemachus is Thoughtful Telemachus. The sea is wine dark. I'm in the process of re-reading this book for the sole purpose of highlighting how Homer develops character through repetition of words and phrases. What I'm going to do with that when done I have no clue.

The Secret Seven, The Famous Five, Robert Burns poetry, anything to do with Scottish History - in fiction form - I swallowed the myths before learning the reality.

Nici - Toad in the hole - made me smile at a memory of me coming home from school with Toad in the Hole I made at home economics. I excitedly rushed in the house exclaiming to my Dad.."Dad, Dad, do you like Toad in the Hole?" He replied, "No I don't, it's bloody sore.":roll:

My love of reading is all my mums fault, she always encouraged us to read and took us to the library from a young age, mainly because she couldn't afford to buy us books apart from Christmas and birthdays. As I got older I started reading the books she had kept as well as the library ones. I still love to emerse (sp?) myself in a good read. Posted by Madcow Same here. In the days of black and white Television, OMG say my kids you had black and white TV!!!, My Mum took all of us to libraries and art galleries for entertainment. That was in Glasgow and there is a lot to see and do in the city that cost nothing...We were very poor then...awww