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I was pretty devastated. It was so obvious, but Peter denied it, foolishly. I found that everybody seemed to know about it. Peter Cook: So Farewell Then Wendy Cook

My mother slowly bought them and built up the whole set for me (Men & Miss). I think they've done a few new ones since I gave up reading them (about '96/'97), as I don't recognise some of them. My mother gave them to my two nephews a few years ago.

Just when I thought I had enough on my TBR pile, my sister finds Stephen King's Misery going for £2.97 at a music shop in Lemington Spa. And being the lovely sister that she is, she bought me a copy of it.

Well, you have got some very nice books there. I notice you've got Talented Mr. Ripley on your 2007 list. I read that last year - thought it was fab. I now want to have a go at the others in the series.

My sister has to travel for 2 hours for work each day and she has been thinking about getting a few audio books. I know she was thinking about getting Labyrinth.

I really enjoyed reading Dorian Gray. One of the best books I read last year, actually. I agree with you, PP, on the beautiful descriptions in the book. They were wonderful. However, I liked Henry's little speeches throughout the book. I felt that some of them raised a few good points in them.

I used to read the Mr. Men & Little Miss series of books over and over again. They were great.

Going to move on to another biography. This time it's one about Peter Cook and is written by his first wife, Wendy Cook. So Farewell Then: The Untold Life of Peter Cook Wendy Cook Peter Cook's explosive wit made its impact in 1960, wreaking havoc and shedding light in equal measures. Cook and the satire boom he led first made headlines with the Oxbridge revue Beyond the Fringe, co-starring Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. The show swiftly took by storm first Edinburgh, then the West End and then Broadway, as Peter went on to set up the famous Establishment Club in Soho.

Oooo...look forward to reading that one, then.

Now that is a list and a half that you've got there, Dupin.

My mother tended to read older books to me and so I carried on with them when I could read by myself. I read a lot of.... Roald Dahl Beatrix Potter Enid Blyton A.A. Milne I also read a few more modern children's books which were in the school junior library, which included..... The Redwall series Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell books There were other modern books, but I cannot really think of many at the moment. I have to say, though, that I would read the older children's books again, but I wouldn't want to read the more modern ones for a second time. Once was enough for them, I think.

Finished the Graham Chapman biography this evening. Being a Python fan, I really enjoyed this book. Have read a few books on Python members and this one was one of the better ones. But obviously I think you would have to be a Chapman/Python fan to enjoy this book.

I've got that one waiting on the shelf.

I never thought anyone could beat Kell's list. But I think you've proved me wrong.

Well, to be completely honest, the Dan Brown books are on my sister's shelf, but as she's already read them she said I can borrow them whenever I like.

Woah! What a list!

Righty Ho. Comment taken on board. Thanks for the warning.

Wow. What a list! Some great books there. I've read a few of them, but there are loads there that I would really like to read. I can't wait to see what you will be reading in 2007!

Going to kick off 2007 with a biography......... THE LIFE OF GRAHAM CHAPMAN Bob McCabe Graham Chapman was the quiet, pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed Python who qualified as a doctor - but his calm demeanour belied his true anarchic nature as, more than any other Python, he lived the complete lunacy of the show. Chapman was John Cleese's writing partner from the early days at Cambridge Footlights, on to The Frost Report and right through the Monty Python years. Chapman thrived in chaos and his eccentricity made him one of the most influential and creative members of The Pythons.

I very much doubt I will read all of these. I'm not even going to try. They're just the ones I have waiting on the bookshelf. As much as I would like to read lots of books this year and cut down the TBR pile, I'm not going to put that infront of enjoying the books that I read. It's not worth racing through a book if you're not going to take time to read it and take the whole story in - and hopefully enjoy it.

(Some) On The Shelf Michael Palin - Diaries 1969 - 1979 Alan Bennett - Writing Home Alan Bennett - Four Stories Michael Palin - Sahara Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers Colin Dexter - The Jewel That Was Ours Michele Slatalla - Masters Of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace Mervyn Peak - The Gormenghast Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit Ursula Le Guin - The Earthsea Quartet George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying Jules Verne - Around The World In Eighty Days Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights H.G. Wells - The Time Machine John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath David Attenborough - Life On Air Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea Stephen King - Firestarter Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Truman Capote - In Cold Blood James Robertson - The Testament Of Gideon Mack Graham Chapman - A Liar's Autobiography Eric Idle - The Road To Mars David Nicholls - Starter For Ten Terry Jones - Starship Titanic Dan Brown - Angels & Demons Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Julian Barnes - Arthur & George Barry Pain - The Eliza Stories Bernard Cornwell - Stonehenge Stephen Lawhead - In The Hall Of The Dragon King Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Sheila Fitzpatrick - The Russian Revolution 1917 - 1932 Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian Scarlett Thomas- The End Of Mr. Y H. Rider Haggard - She Anthony Hope - The Prisoner Of Zenda

Read In 2007 01) THE LIFE OF GRAHAM CHAPMAN - Bob McCabe 02) PETER COOK: SO FAREWELL THEN - Wendy Cook 03) PETER COOK'S UNIVERSE & ALL THAT SURROUNDS IT- P. Hamilton 04) HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE - Michael Palin 05) LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK - Colin Dexter 06) REBECCA - Daphne du Maurier 07) THE DIARY OF A NOBODY - G. & W. Grossmith 08) DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON - George Orwell 09) LORDS AND LADIES - Terry Pratchett 10) LAST SEEN WEARING - Colin Dexter (re-read) 11) THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER - Jed Rubenfeld 12) THE SILENT WORLD OF NICHOLAS QUINN - Colin Dexter 13) FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD - Thomas Hardy 14) CARRIE - Stephen King 15) THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald 16) PRIDE & PREJUDICE - Jane Austen (re-read) 17) SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD - Colin Dexter 18) A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN - Marina Lewycka 19) THE LIAR - Stephen Fry 20) SEMI-DETACHED - Griff Rhys Jones 21) THE DEAD OF JERICHO - Colin Dexter (re-read) 22) THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE - Colin Dexter 23) THE LOST WORLD - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 24) WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? - Brian Clark (a play script) 25) PETER PAN - J.M. Barrie 26) MEDIEVAL LIVES - Terry Jones & Alan Ereira (re-read) 27) ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND - Lewis Carroll 28) THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Lewis Carroll 29) A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway 30) TREASURE ISLAND - Robert Louis Stevenson 31) THE PYTHONS' AUTOBIOGRAPHY - The Pythons 32) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - E.M. Remarque 33) ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Ken Kesey 34) DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - Douglas Adams 35) THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL - Douglas Adams 36) THE SALMON OF DOUBT - Douglas Adams 37) MOAB IS MY WASHPOT - Stephen Fry 38) THE SECRET OF ANNEXE 3 - Colin Dexter 39) BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - Evelyn Waugh 40) FIRST AMONG SEQUELS - Jasper Fforde 41) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee 42) MEN AT ARMS - Terry Pratchett 43) THE LITTLE PRINCE - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 44) THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - Oscar Wilde (re-read) 45) ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac 46) FRANKENSTEIN - Mary Shelley 47) THE UNCOMMON READER - Alan Bennett 48) THE WENCH IS DEAD - Colin Dexter 49) MEN WITHOUT WOMEN - Ernest Hemingway (short stories) 50) THE PRINCESS BRIDE - William Goldman 51) THE HIPPOPOTAMUS - Stephen Fry 52) MRS DALLOWAY - Virginia Woolf 53) THE SECRET HISTORY - Donna Tartt 54) SOUL MUSIC - Terry Pratchett 55) THE GHOST - Robert Harris 56) FIVE STORIES FEATURING JEEVES - P.G. Wodehouse (short stories) 57) TIDELAND - Mitch Cullin 58) THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - John Wyndham 59) LIFE OF PI - Yann Martel 60) TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS - R.F. Delderfield

I've never read a whole book from the net before, only short stories, but I prefer to print them off so that I can read them whenever I like. Also, it can give me a headache if I stare at a screen for too long, so I find it's best if I read it on paper.

Just a few books to start with, then.

Thanks guys.