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Hi everyone I know this a slightly old topic but I need the community's help with some Jules Verne novels. I've read the major classics: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Around the World In Eighty Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea The Mysterious Island From The Earth To The Moon & Round The Moon Ill soon be starting Captain Hatteras and would like to try and get a few more of his books. Sadly I can only read english so this limits my choices, and I've read a lot of reviews of lesser known publications being very poorly translated. So I was wondering if anyone can recommend another of his books which has got a good translation quality from a publisher! Thanks in advance everyone!

Jane Eyre is on my list to check out, and I already own Dracula but haven't got around to reading it just yet, but i'm looking forward to it! So far since the start of 2013 I have read: Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions George Orwell: 1984 George Orwell: Animal Farm Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days I've really enjoyed all of these books so far so before I move on to more authors I'm going to try and read most if not all of these authors books! I'm currently reading Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea which so far i'm really enjoying, I've also got a copy of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson to read next which Willoyd recommended! Then i'll slowly begin working my way through the classics list

I had a look and searched on the forums and there didn't seem to be a topic for this so thought I would add one? Breaking Bad is soon to air the remaining 8 episodes of its 5th and final season later this year, it's had wide critical acclaim and is widely considered the greatest TV show of all time, which is a pretty strong title to carry. I personally am a huge fan of Breaking Bad, the writing is incredible, the story and development of the characters is mind blowing and the direction and cinematography is outstanding, all in all, it really is a phenomenally good show, and I do recommend it and have got a lot of my friends into it. I don't want to post any spoilers regarding it (also I have NO idea how to do that secret spoiler box thing yet that hides spoilers) So i'm just wondering if anybody else has seen it? And if so, do you like it? Or have you heard of it? Consider watching it? Repeatedly this show has left me almost worn out from anxiety and emotion per episode. How long can a person really sit on the edge of their seat?

Hi Rainer! welcome to the forums! I am also fairly new, only joined the other day, and still working my way around here, but I can assure you everyone here is very friendly! And it's always good to meet a fellow book lover!

I'm also from England!

Catch 22 is definitely on my list of Must Read's, it's currently on my shelf and i'll hopefully be moving on to it soon, I have heard nothing but good things from people I know who have read it and reviews, and looking forward to getting down to reading it myself.

Agreed! I am really new to this forum and usually avoid forums as I'm terrible at navigating them or keeping up to date, and some forums out there can be pretty destructive and have some abusive users but everyone on here has been really helpful and friendly already and my reading list of about 10 books has sky rocketed to about 200 since I joined haha.

I recently finished Kurt Vonnegut's novel/semi autobiographical Slaughterhouse 5 and really enjoyed it so decided to look into a few of his other works, he's most known for Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle (which I will soon buy) and Breakfast of Champions, which I have just started reading, and was wondering if anyone else out there was a fan of Vonnegut's and had maybe read some of his other books and if so, is there one I haven't mentioned that anyone particularly liked?

Hi Rising and Poppy, cheers for your help, I'm completely new to all kinds of poetry and have no idea where to begin so i'm happy just to have some suggestions, not specifically war poetry . I'll check out some Keates and some in that link, looking forward to hearing of any more poetry out there if you find some more good uns! Cheers

Hi Peacefield, cheers for the welcome! I haven't read that many books, I made a topic in the reading list a few days ago to try and get some recommendations from other forum users, i had a pretty bad attention span as a kid and probably didn't read as many books as I should have done, so now at 24 I'm going back and reading a lot of old classics and modern classics that I probably should have. So at the moment it's still early days, but I do enjoy George Orwell, I like the dystopian future genre, I hear Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a must to read, i'm working my way up to it. Also been enjoying a lot of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, oh and Kurt Vonnegut. But i'm very much open to reading any kind of book and anything you can suggest! Reading Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the moment and loving it!

Thanks for the welcome everyone! Enjoying the forums so far, slowly working my way around them and already worked up a pretty big reading list from other forum users, hope to get to know more about you too Minnie as well as everyone else on here, please anyone feel free to add me as a friend on here or message (because i dont know how to do either!) about anything. Cheers everyone!

Hi Kasei, A few years ago I backpacked across Europe myself, to this day it's still one of my fondest memories, I had an amazing time as I am sure you will yourself, if you go to Belgium, I highly recommend you go to Bruges, it was my favourite place out of everywhere I visited, its one of the most amazing and beautiful cities/towns I have ever seen and I hope to return there sometime soon. It's one of the most preserved medieval places in Europe, the Town Hall for example has never been knocked down or refurbished, simply added on over the centuries, so it is this one building that changes ages in architecture and design as you walk around and inside it, bizarre but amazing and everyone is very friendly. If you do end up going to Greece, it's very hard to get to, but there is a tiny (TINY!) village on the south coast called Stoupa I stayed at for a week, its so small the taxi company only has 1 driver, and regularly gave free lifts as everyone knew each other, again everyone was friendly and it is the most isolated, peaceful town i have ever visited, hidden behind mountains, if you do go there, visit the bakery along the coast, you'll never want to leave. I hope you enjoy yourself wherever you choose to visit!

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some help on poetry for beginners. I have never read any poetry other than what I read as a child in school, but I feel I never really appreciated it or understood it, and therefore never really got into it. I'm not sure if I would fully understand a lot of it, but I'm open minded and keen to look into it and read a few. I'm not sure what type of poetry I'm really looking for, but I imagine I would probably quite appreciate War poetry, but really just looking for any suggestions people have that they think are great pieces and everyone should read, as I'm very much in the dark when it comes to poetry and have no idea where to begin. Cheers everyone.

Wow thanks for the additions to my list! Once i've put it all together I will post it up here to see what you all think, I'll be adding a lot (if not all) from both of your lists, you've all been a great help and I will have a browse through some other reading lists and old forum posts to check other peoples suggestions too. I think my reading list is a good 100 or so books strong now! That should keep me busy for the rest of 2013. So far i'm really enjoying some of the old classics like Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, recently finished Treasure Island and Kidnapped I see is on your list is the book I will be reading after One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Around the World in 80 Days I found to be hugely enjoyable and looking to read a few more Jules Verne. Once I've written all the books down and the order I'll probably read them, I shall post it up here and look forward to seeing what you think. Cheers for all the help!