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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!

Hello! My name is James, I am new to the forums but looking forward to hopefully be taking part in them regularly to get some help on what to read next and share my thoughts and get other peoples opinions on books out there. I'm not very good with forums, i'm usually really bad at working my way around them and get lost among the pages of topics easily! So I apologise if i post something in the wrong area or my responses aren't very frequent. But looking forward to get talking to some people enthusiastic about reading and recommending some good books. Cheers everyone!

Hi Kylie, thanks for getting back to me, I own a few of the books you listed already and am looking forward to getting stuck into them soon, the ones I own are: Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange Joseph Heller: Catch-22 Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club Bram Stoker: Dracula Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye But I will definitely be checking out the books you recommended, thanks for the help, there are so many books out there I find it overwhelming with where to begin and what to read next so that list has helped a lot. Have you read Don Quixote? Every now and again I fetch up a top 100 books of all time or some similar survey just to see if there are any other titles I have missed or not even heard of, and according to the world library, Don Quixote has repeatedly been considered and voted as the greatest piece of literature ever written, so my hope is to some day move on to that, I was just wondering if I could get an actual readers view on it. Cheers!

Hey everyone, just a quick background, I have a really bad attention span growing which in the past has made it difficult for me to just sit down and read a book with no distractions, and at 24 now, there's really a lot of great books out there I feel I should have read but haven't so I've decided to properly knuckle down and just read as many books as I can really, so I'm just looking for a reading list that other fellow readers and users on the forums can suggest. I'm pretty open to all kinds of books, at the moment i'm trying to cover some of the more obvious classics that I feel I either should have read as a child or just should have read in general. The most recent of which I have read have been George Orwell's Animal Farm (although it may be a cliche, 1984 is my favourite book I've read) Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. I'm currently reading through Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and then i'm hoping to get back to a few Jules Verne/Robert Louis Stevenson/George Orwell/Kurt Vonnegut books before moving on to new authors and books all together. So if there are any classics you think I might like from what I have listed, or just a classic in general you think everyone should read, please let me know and I'll look forward to reading it. Cheers everyone!

Hi everyone, just joined the forums here! I am looking for some suggestions for a book to read or a series, I'm not entirely too sure what I'm looking for, and I know theres a lot out there and its pretty overwhelming, so I was thinking I would just list some of my favourites and what I'm currently reading at the moment to see if theres anything anybody knows of that is of a similar style? My favourite book is George Orwell's 1984, I'm very much into dystopian style books, post apocalyptic future and all that! depressing but pretty interesting, so anything along those lines, I was looking at possibly Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? Any other suggestions? I do also quite like a good trilogy of books, although I read them when I was younger, I still enjoy a read through of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials Trilogy and The Wind On Fire trilogy, I was looking at The Hunger Games for this if anybody knows if they are good? Really I'm up for any sort of dark fantasy book or trilogy to really get stuck into. Or if there are anymore classics like 1984 that are highly recommended please let me know, at the moment I am reading Catch 22, I would like to be able to read through some classics, but there are so many! Any help would be very much appreciated! thank you!