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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is one I've been meaning to try for years. I got it out of the school library when I was about 13 (OMG - that's nearly 30 years ago.
Where's my zimmer?) but couldn't get into it but I'm sure I could now! Lolita by Nabokov. Again, when I was about 13/14, The Police (pop group for you youngsters!) released 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' and as I was obsessed with the group I wanted to read it but somehow never got round to it. I've got it on my TBR now but I keep putting it to the bottom of the pile.
I URGE you to read Lolita haha it's fantastic. And yeah, I've been meaning to read Catch 22 for years! Everytime I'm in a bookshop or a library it's there, staring me in the face but I just go "Meh, another time" and walk off.
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Last week someone told me it's the fastest growing language in the world. I don't know how true that is but it made me laugh.
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haha! The library I haunt has a tape on conversational klingon. I was so damn tempted...
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I like to think i'm a real reader, someone who is open to a variation of genres and reads anything and everything. However the other day i realised i had not read the true classic "Animal farm". I felt it was one book i had to read. I then thought of other books that you cant call yourself a reader if you have not read. For example "catcher in the rye" " to kill a mocking bird", " Curious incident of the dog in the night", " Rebecca" by daphane du Maurier, " memoirs of a Geisha", "Angelas Ashes" etc...... This is just in my opinion. What book woould you say must be read if you want to call yourself a reader?
Memoirs of a Geisha? Really? I've read it but I didn't think it was good enough to not consider yourself a reader if you haven't read it.
And Angela's Ashes is unofficially banned in my house haha
Everyone here seems to be making a good point though. It's not the books you've read that make you a well-read individual, but the diversity in genres of the books you read.
Though I'm not too concerned with being well-read. I read hopelessly trashy transgressive fiction out of pure enjoyment haha
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Actually, thats a good question, I'm not sure how she pronounces it. I say, 'seer-sha' but I think some people with strong accents say something more like 'sayor-sha'.
I say Seer-sha. But people bastardize it on a daily basis haha I've heard Sayor-sha, Sheer-sha, Shurr-sha and other variations.
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I was pretty disappointed by it. I suppose because I'd heard all this hype for years and when I finally read it, I felt a bit cheated.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed how it was written and everything. I just didn't see the big hooplah that everyone had built it up to be.
But then I didn't see the big deal with The Dark Knight either so maybe I'm defective haha
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I've got a weird neutralized Irish accent :/
And I have the biggest soft spot going for Minnesota accents. Don't even get me started. They're sublime.
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There's a car ad out at the minute and it just blows my mind. I have no idea what car it's advertising, but it's done like a spy film. It's incredible. Incredible though evidently a waste of money, seeing as I can't remember the bloody make of the car.
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haha she seems to have quite the reputation around these parts!
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I'd like to be stuck with Vladimir Nabokov. I think we'd have a good laugh.
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wow this forum moves fast.
Thank you all
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Hi, I'm Saoirse.
I'm 18.
My friend Roxi suggested I join this forum.
And I get bashful when I have to type introductions...
What are Everyone's Favourite Films?
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Favourites : Fargo, Ghost World, American Psycho, American Beauty, American Splendor, High Fidelity, Sideways, Happiness (and most Todd Solondz films if I'm honest), all of Tarantino's movies EXCEPT Death Proof, The awful truth (and, admittedly, anything else with Cary Grant. I'm something of a fan girl), Battle Royale, Clockwork Orange and others