Chrissy

I love the 'Chronicles Of Narnia'. I have done since I was very young and wished so very hard to find myself there one day! I love A Horse And His Boy, it gave an added depth to Narnia. I also enjoyed the gentle humour that seemed to run through this one.

Cos you love 'em!

I get the distinct feeling that the film makers know that they have to get the plot right. I keep hearing so many stories and counter stories about plans for the last two films. There are a number of plots threads that HAVE to be brought together in the final two - there will be lynch mobs if too much is left out or altered! I think Neville is one of my favourites in the books, Two others I love are Luna and Ginny. They are both understated but are great literary role models.

I've only read Sarum - but can recommend it. Ever been to Salisbury SueK? You can visit the old site of Sarum nearby - fascinating!

Completed the survey. It included some really good questions!

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!

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!

Hiya LinRobinson!

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!

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.

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.

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

Hiya Binary_Digit! We all curse at the begining, then we just accept the inevitable!

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Hello Mirian!

A good book is a good book, no matter the originally intended audience. I'll read anything that looks good to me.

Hello sixtyfoothigh!

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!

Hello Genevieve!

...started in the main square, recently reopened after the fiasco involving.....

No really Kell, say what you mean!