Liz Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Read In 2007 01) THE LIFE OF GRAHAM CHAPMAN - Bob McCabe 02) PETER COOK: SO FAREWELL THEN - Wendy Cook 03) PETER COOK'S UNIVERSE & ALL THAT SURROUNDS IT- P. Hamilton 04) HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE - Michael Palin 05) LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK - Colin Dexter 06) REBECCA - Daphne du Maurier 07) THE DIARY OF A NOBODY - G. & W. Grossmith 08) DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON - George Orwell 09) LORDS AND LADIES - Terry Pratchett 10) LAST SEEN WEARING - Colin Dexter (re-read) 11) THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER - Jed Rubenfeld 12) THE SILENT WORLD OF NICHOLAS QUINN - Colin Dexter 13) FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD - Thomas Hardy 14) CARRIE - Stephen King 15) THE GREAT GATSBY - F. Scott Fitzgerald 16) PRIDE & PREJUDICE - Jane Austen (re-read) 17) SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD - Colin Dexter 18) A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN - Marina Lewycka 19) THE LIAR - Stephen Fry 20) SEMI-DETACHED - Griff Rhys Jones 21) THE DEAD OF JERICHO - Colin Dexter (re-read) 22) THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE - Colin Dexter 23) THE LOST WORLD - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 24) WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? - Brian Clark (a play script) 25) PETER PAN - J.M. Barrie 26) MEDIEVAL LIVES - Terry Jones & Alan Ereira (re-read) 27) ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND - Lewis Carroll 28) THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Lewis Carroll 29) A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway 30) TREASURE ISLAND - Robert Louis Stevenson 31) THE PYTHONS' AUTOBIOGRAPHY - The Pythons 32) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - E.M. Remarque 33) ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Ken Kesey 34) DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY - Douglas Adams 35) THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL - Douglas Adams 36) THE SALMON OF DOUBT - Douglas Adams 37) MOAB IS MY WASHPOT - Stephen Fry 38) THE SECRET OF ANNEXE 3 - Colin Dexter 39) BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - Evelyn Waugh 40) FIRST AMONG SEQUELS - Jasper Fforde 41) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee 42) MEN AT ARMS - Terry Pratchett 43) THE LITTLE PRINCE - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 44) THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - Oscar Wilde (re-read) 45) ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac 46) FRANKENSTEIN - Mary Shelley 47) THE UNCOMMON READER - Alan Bennett 48) THE WENCH IS DEAD - Colin Dexter 49) MEN WITHOUT WOMEN - Ernest Hemingway (short stories) 50) THE PRINCESS BRIDE - William Goldman 51) THE HIPPOPOTAMUS - Stephen Fry 52) MRS DALLOWAY - Virginia Woolf 53) THE SECRET HISTORY - Donna Tartt 54) SOUL MUSIC - Terry Pratchett 55) THE GHOST - Robert Harris 56) FIVE STORIES FEATURING JEEVES - P.G. Wodehouse (short stories) 57) TIDELAND - Mitch Cullin 58) THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - John Wyndham 59) LIFE OF PI - Yann Martel 60) TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS - R.F. Delderfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 (Some) On The Shelf Michael Palin - Diaries 1969 - 1979 Alan Bennett - Writing Home Alan Bennett - Four Stories Michael Palin - Sahara Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers Colin Dexter - The Jewel That Was Ours Michele Slatalla - Masters Of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace Mervyn Peak - The Gormenghast Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit Ursula Le Guin - The Earthsea Quartet George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying Jules Verne - Around The World In Eighty Days Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights H.G. Wells - The Time Machine John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath David Attenborough - Life On Air Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea Stephen King - Firestarter Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Truman Capote - In Cold Blood James Robertson - The Testament Of Gideon Mack Graham Chapman - A Liar's Autobiography Eric Idle - The Road To Mars David Nicholls - Starter For Ten Terry Jones - Starship Titanic Dan Brown - Angels & Demons Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Julian Barnes - Arthur & George Barry Pain - The Eliza Stories Bernard Cornwell - Stonehenge Stephen Lawhead - In The Hall Of The Dragon King Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Sheila Fitzpatrick - The Russian Revolution 1917 - 1932 Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian Scarlett Thomas- The End Of Mr. Y H. Rider Haggard - She Anthony Hope - The Prisoner Of Zenda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Poppy Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Gosh Liz. is this what you intend to read. You are going to be very busy. I'd be interested in learning what you think about the Alan Bennet ones. He is such a good observer of human behaviour. Good luck with the list. I'm sure you will add and subtract as the year progresses. PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 I very much doubt I will read all of these. I'm not even going to try. They're just the ones I have waiting on the bookshelf. As much as I would like to read lots of books this year and cut down the TBR pile, I'm not going to put that infront of enjoying the books that I read. It's not worth racing through a book if you're not going to take time to read it and take the whole story in - and hopefully enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 Going to kick off 2007 with a biography......... THE LIFE OF GRAHAM CHAPMAN Bob McCabe Graham Chapman was the quiet, pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed Python who qualified as a doctor - but his calm demeanour belied his true anarchic nature as, more than any other Python, he lived the complete lunacy of the show. Chapman was John Cleese's writing partner from the early days at Cambridge Footlights, on to The Frost Report and right through the Monty Python years. Chapman thrived in chaos and his eccentricity made him one of the most influential and creative members of The Pythons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Liz, you've some lovely books on that list. I love the Morse books and Rebecca is beautiful. I also have The Great Gatsby, Mansfield Park, and The Grapes of Wrath on the shelf waiting to be read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttymum303 Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Have only got Dan Brown's book on my list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 Well, to be completely honest, the Dan Brown books are on my sister's shelf, but as she's already read them she said I can borrow them whenever I like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 Finished the Graham Chapman biography this evening. Being a Python fan, I really enjoyed this book. Have read a few books on Python members and this one was one of the better ones. But obviously I think you would have to be a Chapman/Python fan to enjoy this book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 Going to move on to another biography. This time it's one about Peter Cook and is written by his first wife, Wendy Cook. So Farewell Then: The Untold Life of Peter Cook Wendy Cook Peter Cook's explosive wit made its impact in 1960, wreaking havoc and shedding light in equal measures. Cook and the satire boom he led first made headlines with the Oxbridge revue Beyond the Fringe, co-starring Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. The show swiftly took by storm first Edinburgh, then the West End and then Broadway, as Peter went on to set up the famous Establishment Club in Soho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 Just when I thought I had enough on my TBR pile, my sister finds Stephen King's Misery going for £2.97 at a music shop in Lemington Spa. And being the lovely sister that she is, she bought me a copy of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Poppy Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 You lucky girl PP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Ooooo, I've heard that's a good one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 You lucky girl I know. Isn't she just a star! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 Ooooo, I've heard that's a good one! I've seen the film, which wasn't too bad, but I'm hoping the book is going to be better. But it's not a very big book. I thought it was going to be a lot bigger than about 350 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttymum303 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Hubby has that as well as a few other Stephen King books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Misery is one of the best Stephen King's i've read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 Jolly good. I'm looking forward to getting round to reading this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 Finished the Peter Cook biography this evening. Wasn't too bad. I think I prefer the Cook biography by Harry Thompson, though. That talked about Peter Cook's ups and downs, not just his down times, which you sometimes felt this biography did - especially nearer the end. I should imagine it's because it's by his ex-wife, and so it will be a little biased in certain areas, especially with their divorce. Now it's got me in a Peter Cook mood so I'm going to read the other Peter Cook book I had for Christmas. How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe & All That Surrounds It Edited by Paul Hamilton How Very Interesting cotains interviews with those who worked with Cook during his long and varied career and who saw him as an inspiration: his colleagues, collaborators, co-writers, producers, directors, fans and friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Finished reading How Very Interesting late this evening. Really enjoyed this one. Was better than the previous Peter Cook book. There were some very good interviews in it. Some were a bit dull, but the majority of them were good. They went through more or less everying he did using interviews and essays about his work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Going to move away from Peter Cook, I think. Am going to start....... Hemingway Adventure Michael Palin One hundred years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway, Michael Palin set out to discover the man behind the legend. Travelling through the forests and lakes of North Michigan to the First World War battlefields in Italy, from Paris to te sites of the Spanish Civil War, Michael Palin encounters unique events such as the running of the bulls in Pamplona and the and the infectious madness of the Fallas festival in Valencia. And in Cuba, bar-hopping, marlin fishing and daiquiris help unravel some of the myths surrounding Hemingway's life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 Have finished the fourth of Michael Palin's travel books. This one was slightly different to his previous ones as it was more about Hemingway's life and the places he lived in and travelled to. I did enjoy this one, though. It has encouraged me to try one of the two Hemingway books that I own sooner rather than later. His books will definitely be moving nearer to the top of the TBR pile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 After being given the complete Morse set of books for Christmas, I'm going to start with the first book and try and work my way through the series in order (not all in one go, though), rather than reading them from here and there like I have done so far. LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK Colin Dexter The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault and rape. But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renniemist Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Years ago I read a book called Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louiseog Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 After being given the complete Morse set of books for Christmas, I'm going to start with the first book and try and work my way through the series in order (not all in one go, though), rather than reading them from here and there like I have done so far. LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK Colin Dexter The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault and rape. But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key. i did that about three years ago and it was worth it! Not all at once though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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