Liz
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Hi. It's nice to have you join the forum.
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Hello, Stephanie. Welcome to the forum.
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Just wondered if anyone had read any books by Neal Stephenson?
I have recently been thinking about giving him a try and wondered if anyone had any thoughts on him.
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Finished ...Western Front last week and I enjoyed it very much. The relationships between the characters and the characters themselves were well written and helped to show another side to the war other than the blood and guts of it.
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Ken Kesey
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Hello, Cath. Welcome to the forum.
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"Baseball? Baseball games? Just raise that hand up there-"
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Ken Kesey
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Hello, Laura.
It's good to have you here.
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You Could Have It So Much Better - Franz Ferdinand
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I look out of the window. Behind the sunny street scene you can see the line of the hills, indistinct and pale, and it merges into a bright autumn day and I'm sitting with Kat and Albert by the fire eating baked potatoes in their jackets.
But I don't want to think about that, and I push the thought away.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Erich Maria Remarque
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Finished The Pythons' Autobiography and loved every page of it. Obviously not all of the information in it was new, as they have spoken about certain events in the many interviews over the years, but there was much more detail to the stories in this book. The humour was there, which was great, as some books about comedy groups/programmes can seem dull and unfunny sometimes. This will be a book which I will definitely be keeping, as it's also a good little book to dip in and out of when you want.
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Erich Maria Remarque
After studying WWI and WWII for the past three years at school, I've come to enjoy Modern History. I've wanted to read this book for a while, and so thought now would be a good time to give it a go. I've heard some great reviews of it from people (some being from the BCF).
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I think I just want to live in that building.
That is a fab place!
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Hello, Leona. Welcome to the forum. It's great to have you here.
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Yep, I agree that Oyster Boy is great. Love that book at the moment. xx
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I don't mind some predictability. Sometimes it can be comforting, that feeling that things are happening as they should.
I would agree with that. The comfort side of a predictable book is nice to have every now and then.
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I quite enjoy biographies, but I have to be in the right sort of reading mood to pick one up an stick with it.
I'm currently reading Monty Python's autobiography. I am really enjoying this and as it's an autobiography rather than a biography, it means that the humour is there.
From what I can remember at the moment, I've read.........
# Quite a few biographies on Christians and missionary work.
# Four biographies on the band REM and a few on John Lennon and The Beatles.
# Four books on Peter Cook, one on Graham Chapman and one on Vivian Stanshall.
There are also a few which I fancy having a go at:
David Attenborough
Stephen Fry
Michael Palin
Alan Bennet
Bob Dylan
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That chair is amazing! I love it.
Thanks for posting it, Fiona.
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I enjoy playing different sports with friends and going for walks. I really enjoy art, so I draw and paint quite a lot and have a go at a bit of photography every now and then. I'm interested in History and so I love going to museums and history centres. Art galleries are great to visit, as well.
I quite enjoy going to see plays and at the moment I'm trying to learn how to cook, so that has become a bit of a hobby as well.
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Hello. Welcome to the forum.
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It looks as though it's that time again for Richard & Judy to select a few more books for the summer.
This year they have chosen......
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Relentless
Simon Kernick
The House at Riverton
Kate Morton
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Paul Torday
Getting Rid of Matthew
Jane Fallon
The Savage Garden
Mark Mills
How to talk to a Widower
Jonathan Tropper
The Other Side of The Bridge
Mary Lawson
Is anyone tempted to join in and read one or two?
They have more information on their website:
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/R/richardandjudy/summer_read_07/summer_read.html
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Has anyone actually read Jude the Obscure?
Does anyone plan on actually doing it?
My mother has read it (possibly twice) and recommended it to me. She really enjoyed it (even though it isn't exactly a rib-tickler of a book), so I think I will give it a go at some point.
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I've just gone through the list and I've read 28 of them.
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Hi, Gyre.
Thanks again for sending me the link to the Oyster Boy site.
Went shopping today and decided to buy it as I loved some of the stories and the illustrations were wonderful.
Thanks, Gyre.
xxx
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Sometimes I don't mind if the ending of a book is predictable. I'm thinking more about crime and thriller books. Some of the Agatha Christie ones can be predictable, but that doesn't really spoil it for me too much. If the story is good then that can 'soften the blow', if you like, of having a predictable book.
If I were to go through a phase of reading predicable books then that would probably annoy me quite a bit, but as I don't come across many predictable books that often, then I don't mind the odd one here and there.
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Those are some great choices. I've read both of them and really enjoyed them. I think Dorian Gray would be my favourite out of the two of them, but Of Mice and Men is great as well.
Namaste', friends.
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