Favourite Books

[Moos]

:-$ No, I'm not that girl, eek.

I was just experimenting with the power of googling. Amazing. Have had no luck with Keef's book though.

[Keef]

Me neither :(

[giggirl]

I don?t re-read books (except for Winnie the Pooh), but here are some that I?ve enjoyed and remembered, in no particular order.

Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky,

Love in the time of Cholera ? Garcia Marquez

Vanity Fair ? Thackery

Catch 22 ? Heller

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Bach

Winnie-the-Pooh ? A A Milne

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson

Wise Children ? Carter

The Hitchhikers? Guides (all of them) - Adams

Neuromancer ? William Gibson

1984 ? Orwell

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? Dick

In Cold Blood ? Capote

Tess ? Thomas Hardy

Great Gatsby ? Fitzgerald

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or anything else ? Dahl

Oscar and Lucinda ? Carey

The House of the Spirits - Allende

The Innocent ? McEwan

The Stand ? King

The Little Price ? that French guy

[david_carnell]

Enduring Love - McEwan

Catch 22 - Heller

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Tressel

The Spy That Came In From the Cold - Le Carre

High Fidelity - Hornby

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenace - Prisig

Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

Brideshead Revisited - Waugh

Wild Swans - Jung

The Goalkeeper's Revenge & Other Stories - Naughton

The Machine Gunners - Westall

Of course, all of these (with the exception of WIld Swans) is fiction. I'd like to know people's non-fiction habits as well. I love historical and political accounts. The best I've read recently being Anthony Beevor's two books about Stalingrad and Berlin during WWII. Amazing.

[DaveR]

Keef - your missing book is Dead Long Enough by James Hawes

Do I get a prize?

[James]

I'm reading Andrew Marr's A History of Britain at the moment. Fascinating and well-written but seems to take a bizarrely rightwing tone (I thought Marr was a leftie!?)

Thatcher is portrayed as some sort of visionary like Gandhi or something. I am a bit confused by this.

[Rico]

I'm enjoying his book as well James. Taking it slow and find it fascinating. I think he's fair - Thatcher was a visionary in the long view, though her vision wasn't shared. I personally think she did the right things but the wrong way, but that's not the topic of this thread. So as a book I think it's fair and not politically slanted.

For some odd reason, I also picked up Ian Smith's autobiography. It's been recently re-printed with a forward saying 'with all that is happening in Zimbabwe, it's worth revisiting Ian Smith's views to see if maybe he was right on some things'. He's a bit of a one-theme poney, but indeed did make some sense. But reading his views of being abandoned by the world (and the UK) are especially interesting when reading Marr's take on what was happening back in the UK.

Neither a favourite book though.

[Moos]

DaveR Wrote:

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> Keef - your missing book is Dead Long Enough by

> James Hawes

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> Do I get a prize?

Awww, man, how did you find it? You must have cleverer search criteria than I managed to come up with!

[James]

I dunno Rico - know what you mean (the unions had to be crushed) but I think he is a lot harder on, say, Scargill than the likes of Norman Tebbit - in my opinion an equally odious and extremist man!

[Keef]

Dave you will certainly get a pint if we should meet! Funnily enough the cover is different, but obviously along the same lines.

[Rico]

Agree James. Though liberals tend to be harder on their own. Just look at today's Labour Party!

To be fair, any party in power inevitably implodes due to the fragile centrists/far left/right coalition they must court to win.

Anyway, maybe Marr is liberal and thus harder on his own. Human nature.