Spooncat

Hiya and welcome

Hiya REd and welcome:mrgreen:

Hello jude and welcome:mrgreen:

I loved it! was really looking forward to it - I rarely watch any Tv as there's nothing usually I can find to like but i do love this! It didnt disappoint either - I also watched the programme afterwards and thought Nicholas came across well- who was the one who was nearly crying ? Michael I think? he was rather keen to take the blame i thought!

Thats it!

I thought this book was great - it has to be in my all time top 10 books!

I am intriged now - have loved her other two books - have decided to get this one - couldnt find it in my local book shops so have just won a bid for it on ebay for

Loved this book thought it was very moving at times

I really enjoyed this book ,in fact I love all her books including her other books written under her other name which escapes me at the moment:tong:

A good book is one which compells you to carry on reading - it lays little titbits along the way that you have no choice but to collect and then you simply must read on to find out what they mean! its a book you cannot put down or give up half way through.

Have just finished this book and really enjoyed it. I couldnt put it down and found that it was one of those books that you have to keep reading to find out more!

I only caught the last episode of this -maybe being uncharitable but i didnt rate either of the finalists efforts!

when i get time which isnt very often I love to make cards and scrapbook ,

Eek yes - and the beedy red eyes at the window!

Actually quite a few! The Elephant Man The Last snows of Spring Philidalphia

Got to agree with that one - I was so scared that I wouldn't even have the book on my bookcase in my bedroom at night! ( I was 19 at the time!)

Kylie -I agree -its that sort of book where as soon as I finished it I wanted to discuss it with others to see what they thought. " In 1980 the Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar - who is acknowledged at the end of Martel's author's note - wrote a novella called Max and the Cats whose cat-obsessed protagonist is, at one stage, shipwrecked in the company of a jaguar. Martel read a review of the tale just before he set out on his own. " I wonder if anyone on here has read it? I am tempted! I seem to recall that author threated to sue Yann Martel for stealing his idea.

dont let that put you off its a great book!

The Amityville Horror - I think its accepted as fiction now? I read this when it first came out and I was in my teens at the time - it scared the hell out of me!

So glad we are discussing this book. I read it a while ago and loved it. It was one of those books I couldnt put down and didnt want it to end. I enjoyed it for the original story it is I didnt get too hung up on the faith issues or any other "message"it might have had - I read it like a "true " account of a fasinating set of circumstances which might have happened. It did inspire me to read more of Yann Martel - I bought "The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios" - a set of short stories and I wasnt disappointed -some of that writing is just beautiful in its descriptions. Dont take Life of Pi too seriously - you might enjoy it more that way!

Ive read Anne Frank too, havent heard of the worlds largest diary! I think reading someone's diary is a compliment to their autobiography if they've got one , like Kenneth Williams for example

what a good idea for a thread! I'm not sure if this has been forgotten but its a great book all the same - have just nominated it for our January read The Collector by John Fowles "A singularly skilled first novel, original in its conception and unnervingly acute in its observation of an obsession. It is the story of a kidnapping- a nutty clerk captures and holds the art student he has become fixated upon, and there follows a fiendish interplay of sanity and insanity, the contest of minds wihtout a meeting point."

Philip Larkin - collection of poems entitled "The Whitsun Weddings"

I'm re-reading The Orton Diaries - Joe Orton - just wondered if anyone else has read this and what you thought - also how do people feel about reading published diaries? I've also read Kenneth Williams diaries - I think with Joe Orton's diaries -he clearly envisioned them being published at some point - i wonder if that affected what he wrote in them?

what what what???