Bellatrix
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The book is good I read it a few years ago, also saw the film a couple of days ago really good - well worth seeing.
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I'm from Wigan but don't think I have much of an accent (in that most people need to ask where I come from. I love an Irish accent.......yes yes I know join the queue! and I also really like an east Lancashire accent as in Burnley / Blackburn it's the rrrrr sound - I once went to a football match at Accrington Stanley's ground & fell in love with the announcer's accent!
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I've just read Dreamcatcher which I enjoyed but you're right Michelle earlier ones are better, personal favourites being The Stand / Green Mile / The Shining.
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*stares in shock* I could never do that!
The remaining week i do wear sandals but feel sooo vulnerable! Then can't wait to be back in the boots again.
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1 I have a degree in maths (sadly have never used anthing I learnt & now can't remember any of it - was 20 yrs ago though)
2 I can drive a forklift truck
3 I have never placed a bet or bought a lottery ticket
4 I hate shopping (except for books of course!)
5 Never wear make-up & live in army boots for about 11 months & 3 weeks of the year
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I dont really read magazines but the few times I do, I read Broken Pencil and Cosmo.
Can I be nosy and ask what Broken Pencil is?
I read Sight & Sound (film) and The Ecologist
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I read these years ago, borrowed them from a friend who recommended them. Am I right in thinking they were set around Rye which is where his parents were living at the time, they were great to read. Until I read these books EF Benson was better known to me as a ghost story writer.
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I always take notes if I'm reading for a book group, quite early on I realised I had a problem with remembering plots with any reliability (same with films - must be something to do with how the brain works 'cos I'm fairly good with facts). And I take notes if I'm reading something factual that I want to just 'remember' and will at a later time probably look up said interesting fact & find out a bit more.
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Janet just a bit more encouragement from me... don't give up, I think in a couple of years time when you look back at your list and see a few (many) more filled in you'll think with pride "I've read some books I wouldn't normally have picked up". Maybe there are a few more you can fill in now have you read any Coelho (Brazil), Garcia-Marquez (Columbia??), ROhinton Mistry / Aravind Adiga / Arundati Roy (India), Mgt Atwood (Canada)? Anyway good luck with it.
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Hi ProzacKitteh and welcome
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It starts on Tuesday - ahhh poor Warrick!
Excellent thats me sorted for tuesday then
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I love CSI too (original & NY - never liked Miami though) Gil Grissom is great, anyone know when the original CSI is coming back?
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The Shining
Shawshank
Sense & Sensibility
LOTR trilogy
Westerns!! I love westerns... Peckinpah / John Ford / John Sturgis / Clint Eastwood - grew up watching them on saturday mornings mixed in with Laurel & Hardy + Charlie Chaplin films.
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Thanks for the link child.of.god I now know that my 'worst film of the year' Elegy was based on a book called 'The dying animal' by Philip Roth
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I've got this but haven't read it yet. Have however read most of his other books, he is one of the very few authors that can make me laugh out loud forgetting there are other people around me - over the years I've got some strange looks from people on buses & trains. Looking forward to reading this now.
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Five Live (occasionally radio 4) love the footie & current affairs coverage, favourite bit of the week is the Simon Mayo / Mark Kermode film bit on a friday afternoon - always has me in fits.
Five live has book reviews on Simon Mayo - think its weds afternoons
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My favourite is Bleak House closely followed by David Copperfield. Have just read Our Mutual Friend which was very good. Apart from a couple (Oliver Twist / Hard Times) they are are all quite 'chunky'. Has anyone ever tried reading any of the bigger ones as they were originally meant to be read? By that I mean in installments over a number (usally 18 or so) of months, I haven't but I'm not put off by a big book - may give it a go though sometime see how it feels - may feel completely wrong! Another thing with Dickens books is I find I only start to get really drawn in somewhere between 100 - 200 pages in, I'd call them slow burners. Aside from that hope you enjoy whatever you read of Dickens Michelle.
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LOTR and His Dark Materials trilogy
Anyone read Helliconia Spring / Summer / Winter trilogy by Brian Aldiss? Read them years ago & enjoyed them, love to read them again someday but sooo many books...
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I think that might be Ken Follett!
oops! quite right
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A few that no-one has mentioned yet
2nd WW
Spies - Michael Frayn
Jackdaws - Fen Follett
Charlotte Grey - Sebastian Faulks
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
Schindlers Ark - Thomas Kenneally
The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian (I cried loads reading this)
1066
The Last English King - Julian Rathbone
1460 (Wars of the Roses)
Kings of Albion - Julian Rathbone
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Ahh, liked DT as Dr Who. Another name being bandied around for a while has been David Morrissey but as he doesn't appear on the Wm Hill list maybe he's ruled himself out.
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Renniemist you'll be glad to know I thought this was a wonderful book, the women in this book are great - so in tune with the earth around them (mother nature / Gaia call it what you will) I found all three of them inspiring. Along with 'The Poisonwood Bible' I would put this up there in 'The Books I Have Loved' list. A very easy & enjoyable read.
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I like Toni Morrison
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I've also got bored with Scarpetta (Patricia Cornwell) much prefer Tempe Brennan (Kathy Reichs), mandapanda you might like Tempe Brennan she's also a forensic pathologist who 'sleuths'.
As to my favourites
Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler)
Sherlock Holmes(Conan-Doyle)
Precious Ramotswe (Alexander McCall Smith) - did anyone see the tv adaptation of the first novel by Anthony Minghella - utterly gorgeous, and just how I imagined it!
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Forgot to name the films
I read this a few years back, it was given to me by an ex boyfriend who highly recommended it - IT'S BRILLIANT. As well as being a good story the text adds so much to the suspense, I've only come across one other thing like it, which was a pair of Russian films (Horror / Thrillers - for anyone who likes vampire type things like 'Underworld' you might like these films) which were subtitled but every now & again they would fade or drip down the screen or zoom off to one side, interesting films to watch just for the subtitles! Great book - don't be put off by the fact that it's a brick, I've never seen one standard book size only ones as big as a hardback.
Sorry forgot to say the films are called 'Nightwatch' & 'Daywatch'.