~Andrea~
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I think Pilgrims Progress is mentioned in George Eliots The Mill on the Floss
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Ok here goes
The Beach - Alex garland
The Magicians Nephew - C S Lewis
The lion the witch and the wardrobe - C S Lewis
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Animal farm - George Orwell
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
Who goes here - Bob Shaw
The man who was Thursday - G K Chesterton
The end of eternity - Isaac Asimov
A fairly eclectic mix with a slight leaning towards sci fi
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Ooh same birthday as me
Birthday:11 Dec 73
Age:33
Starsign:who cares
Single/Married/Other?other - attached
Children? no
Where do you live? south wales
Do you work? yes im a geek - I mean a software developer
Favourite author? Err C S Lewis, Daphne Du maurier, plus many more
Favourite book? The Beach, Watership down, plus many more
How did you get here? Google search
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Really interesting to see everyone elses lists.
I'm currently composing mine - but it has 11 in it and im sure there'll be more added before I get it down to 10!
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i thought the last episode was awful
sad really. it answered questions, but in an unsatisfactory way. i've been addicted to this show and now feel a tad let down by it
Oh what a shame, I really enjoyed the last episode.
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Ah right.
Well I think the dvd is out tuesday or wednesday so not long to wait!
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Ew looks horrid. I bet it tastes bitter.
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This show makes me the saddest about living here so I keep watching the last season over and over and over...
Why are you British living in the US?
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Tonight at 9!!
I can't wait for the last two episodes of this!!!
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well the library is nice but there is not a lot of choice
You can ask your library to purchase books, and requested books get subjected to a panel I think, who decide whether to buy them or not.
It does mean a little wait though.
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Its on my "to read" list.
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yea thats true! The book im reading at the moment I picked up at a jumble sale for 50p
If i dont force myself to use the library from time to time I end up buying tons of books and never reading them
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Do you buy them? If so where from?
Supermarket?
Bookshop?
Online?
Second hand?
Or do you use the library.
I used to use the library a lot, not so much these days, though I feel I should really - since its a lot easier on the purse! I quite often buy from Amazon. I occasionally but rarely buy from the supermarket. I'm sure I used to have a good reason not to buy from supermarkets - but I can't remember what it was now
something about them only stocking best sellers means its harder to get new talent published maybe -
I've read "A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy, took me a while to read it but I got there and loved every page of it.
Hmm, maybe i'll try that - i did tess in school and loved it but havent read anything else of his, have always meant to ready far from the madding crowd
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I cant wait for the new one to be published!
me neither
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it's good so far, very sad though.
Yea - its not an easy read - but it does get easier the older and less vulnerable she becomes.
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Well I thoroughly recommend it - and its a very quick read. One of those books that stays with you.
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Has anybody read this? I just finished it.
Its a fairly harrowing account of child abuse, but it was so compelling i couldn't stop reading it. I think it took me about a week to read, which is very quick for me. Its a real page turner, and although upsetting in parts its not all depressing and grows more positive the older she gets.
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yes half enjoyed it - its well written but just didnt hold my interest, Gave up half way through, there was just something missing for me.
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"Who Goes Here" by Bob Shaw - excellent comedy sci fi
"The Tin Men" by Michael Frayn
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- The Beach - Alex Garland
Whaaaat!!! One of my all time faves!!
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Hello everybody!
Maybe anyone of you can fill me in. I read How to be good. The theme was great, it could be gripping (has anybody not asked himself, what the sense in all this is), but it was not, I felt. He could not get the woman perspective right and besides some funny scenes, he could not go into it.
Then recently, I read Long Way Down, same thing. Interesting theme, of which you could make much, but somehow, he messed it again. It was boring.
So, is it just my opinion or is the hype somehow mislead?
I totally agree. I enjoyed "High Fidelity". I loved "About a boy". "How to be good" was a real disappointment. It contained the odd great bit of writing but it just seemed to be trying too hard to make some kind of profound point about morality and really didnt work for me at all.
"A long way down" the characters was boring. Easy enough to read so that I finished it but the characters lacked any depth - a little too much like caricatures to be believable. Again quite disappointing.
Daphne du Maurier
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Oh I looove Daphne Du Maurier, though I haven't read anything by her for years. I'm more of a fan of her short stories actually. I read and enjoyed Jamaica Inn but found Rabecca hard work and never finished it.
Her short stories though I love!! My favourite is perhaps the Blue lenses. But Don't Look Now is really good too. Her stories have a certain darkness about them with supernatural or otherworldly undertones which I love.
Yay I'm so glad there's a thread about her now!!
The House on the Strand has been on my TBR pile for years. I really should read it soon!