Chrissy
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I love William Blake's work
I remember having to do an analysis of some of Blake's work when I was at uni. I fell in love with his passion and individual style - he didn't give a monkeys about whether anyone would like his stuff he just had to write it down. Great man in many ways. I may have to revisit his work.
Thanks Rawr for reminding me of his work!
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There's too many to pick just the one. Am I allowed four? If so they'd be William Shakespeare, John Milton, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman.
Great choices. WW's 'Dalliance Of Eagles' is a favourite of mine. You've certainly chosen a few BIG names there - you can't fault these guys!
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Hiya LinRobinson!
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There's something strangely unsentimental about her writing. The two here have a realism and rough edge to them, that makes them more passionate, more knowing somehow. I do like her work!
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Carol Ann Duffy's 'Words, Wide Night' has got to be one of my favourite poems, it really had an impact on me at the first read, and still does.
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad?
In one of the tenses I am singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.
La la la la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you,
For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words. -
You have plenty of time to get loads of reading done Ben, no need to pressure yourself! Plus this is only a list compiled by the BBC... it's fun to compare results but there's no reason why it should dictate our choice of books I'm sure you've read and will read plenty of great books which aren't mentioned.Oh ok, sorry if I flew off the handle... not sure why *laughs* I guess I just get a bit annoyed at all those lists of books people "have to read" which are around...Chimera, it's one of the things which annoys me too!
Hear Hear!
I've read some of them, will never read others of them, even ones I may own already!
That's why I have enjoyed reading the BCF threads where we nominate books we would recommend and/or meant the most to us etc. So many different books, and opinions of them.
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy-
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens-
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker-
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante-
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
45 I have read (some so long ago I can barely remember them) In Bold Black
17 I have, and have either dabbled in (eg Shakespeare and Bible) or have never started. In Red
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Hiya Binary_Digit!
We all curse at the begining, then we just accept the inevitable!
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Hello Fionen!
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Hello Ali!
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Hello PreFlyWrelf!
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Hello Gil!
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Hello PandaGirl!
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Hello Mirian!
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A good book is a good book, no matter the originally intended audience. I'll read anything that looks good to me.
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Hello sixtyfoothigh!
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I lost my beautiful book thong the other day when I stupidly left my book behind at the airport
It was such a lovely bookmark. I've already bought plenty of beads to make my own, but I really liked the one I bought.
It just means that a bookmark will come to you soon that will mean more - it'll be gorgeouser (if this isn't a word it should be!) and the books you read with it will be better, and you'll love it more and never lose it!
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Hello Genevieve!
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...started in the main square, recently reopened after the fiasco involving.....
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I sincerely wish that Keira "Stick Insect" Knightly wasn't involved - she can't act for toffee!
No really Kell, say what you mean!
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I wasn't told, it's just that they would always start early evening, but be done with if I slept, ate and stayed in the dark, by the early hours. Most migraine sufferers I have chatted to have them lasting for days!
I would feel a fraud calling them migraines, having only had mini bouts of hell-in-a-head!
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They are making a film of Never Let Me Go! Keira Knightly playing Ruth I think.
Here's a link - BUT DON'T LOOK IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK!
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/keira-knightley-starring-in-never-let-me-go
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Hello Giulia!
Welcome to the forum, I think you'll enjoy yourself!
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I have never had a migraine (Thank heavens!), but I did suffer terribly from tension headaches throughout my teens and twenties. I have them occasionally now, but not often.
Disturbed vision, aversion to smells and light, nausea, the works. Only relieved by dark, sleep and throwing up (in any order). The next day I would awaken bright eyed and ravenous.
I avoid milk things in the morning, as that was a definite trigger. I eat regularly. I very rarely drink alcohol (must be about 2 maybe 3 years since I last had a drink) and I take regular exercise.
I have a learnt that there is a 20 minute window at the start of a
stress/tension headache where I may be able to head it off ('scuse the pun), by dealing with the trigger/s - stress, lack of food, lack of hydration, aching neck.
It's been about 3 years since I was last floored by one. Phew!
The Big 'Chick Lit' Survey - For the Fans and the Critics!
in Women's Fiction / Chick Lit
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Completed the survey. It included some really good questions!