Awful, awful, awful books....

[????]

...the Da Vinci Code

[Cassius]

The Robbie Williams story.

[mockney piers]

Harry !$*!^@?$!$!^*$!?$^!?$!$^!$!@@!$?$^$ Potter.

I'm sure it's wonderful and, you know, magical and that, when you're 10.

You're a grown up, read a proper book!!!!!!!!

[????]

well said Mockney

[*Bob*]

Douglas Coupland - "All Families Are Psychotic"

Laughably awful.

[dukesdenver]

Anything in the 'Tragic Life Stories' section at Smiths.

[*Bob*]

Btw, that's unfair, Mockney.

The Harry Potter books are a super story, well-written and charming - a good read for anyone of any age and responsible for helping many an adult re-acquire the reading bug!

If anyone has enjoyed Harry Potter, I can thoroughly recommend any of the following:

The Magic Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton

Poppy Cat Loves Rainbows, by Lara Jones

Where's Spot, by Eric Hill

[Brendan]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> You're a grown up, read a proper book!!!!!!!!

This coming from the guy who lent me a comic the other day.

[Keef]

Piers, you like playing video games, some, not me, would call that childish. What is so bad about grown ups reading kids books? I reread the chronicals of narnia last year and quite enjoyed it. By the way, agree about da vinci code, but quite liked Angels and Demons.

[Michael Palaeologus]

.. and spends most of his free time playing shoot-em up computer games................

[Ant]

You know the Spot books are all about the freemasons, right?

[*Bob*]

Another one I wasn't mad about was The Bible.

Don't want to spoil the end for anyone - but God done it.

[Jah Lush]

Anything "written" by Katie Price. Not that that I've read any of 'em mind. I only looked at the pictures while I was on the bog.

[blinder999]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Douglas Coupland - "All Families Are Psychotic"

>

> Laughably awful.

I think Coupland's been scraping the barrel with his more recent efforts, but I enjoyed that one.

At the airport one time, I made the mistake of giving one of those pulpy populist books a go - Last Man Standing by David Baldacci. It is utterly devoid of merit. It's still on my bookshelf and every time I glance at it I feel slightly embarrassed.

[mockney piers]

Mwah hah hah, spot the Harry Potter readers. Sooo predictable.

Tried the first one, juuuuuust to see if I was missing out on something, and I really wasn't.

Have also revisited the Narnia books Keef, and found that without the glow of nostalgia, they're really not a very satisfying read. (I'm even beginning to think Star Wars is a bit shit)

Bah Humbug!!

I of course except Winnie the Pooh books from this general rule.....and comics rock.

[Keef]

They weren't as good as I remembered, but I still enjoyed. I thought the 6th HP book was the best written of the lot.

[*Bob*]

The sixth one? Is that "Harry Potter and the Wizard's Sleeve"?

[mockney piers]

Don't be so rude, it was Harry Potter and the Wizard's Slippers Bob!!

[*Bob*]

Oh year - that's the one.

It's the one where Harry smokes his first spliff, geta a blowie behind the Cauldron of Doom and decides to give up magic and live on a kibbutz.

[Jeremy]

Followed by Harry Potter and the Shower of Gold.

[Jah Lush]

Nah...that's Harry Potter and the Wankers Of Doom.

By the way I've just been into a newsagents and spotted a magazine called Intelligent Life with Paris Hilton on the cover apparently reading Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace. Surely something wrong there.

Paris Hilton/Intelligent Life - is an oxymoron.

Edit: Not to be confused with the Winkers Of Doom a biography of Christiano Ronaldo.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Anything in the 'Tragic Life Stories' section at

> Smiths.

Glad to see someone else who finds all the child abuse tragedy books a bit disturbing.

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Boys from the White Hart Lane. The Players Stories 1980's by Martin Cloake and Adam Powley pants.

[Moos]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> dukesdenver Wrote:

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> > Anything in the 'Tragic Life Stories' section

> at

> > Smiths.

>

>

> Glad to see someone else who finds all the child

> abuse tragedy books a bit disturbing.

Thirded! Very wrong.

Also nominating pretty much everything by Martin Amis.

[dukesdenver]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> Glad to see someone else who finds all the child

> abuse tragedy books a bit disturbing.

I might write a festive-themed one myself - something like 'Please Mummy Don't Make Me Eat Parsnips Again'.