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What book would you strongly recommend?
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After all the dull, rubbish, waste of megabytes etc threads that I have been reading through on this board over the past few days, I have decided to put up a mildly stimulating topic.
I would like you to recommend a book. It can be a book you read years ago, a book you read last week or one you're reading at the moment. I have £20 in WH Smith vouchers and I'd like to put them to good use! The book has to be the best book you've ever read. You can recommend more than one if you have more than one favourite.
Answers on a postcard by the 31st of February.
*Laughs wickedly*
I would like you to recommend a book. It can be a book you read years ago, a book you read last week or one you're reading at the moment. I have £20 in WH Smith vouchers and I'd like to put them to good use! The book has to be the best book you've ever read. You can recommend more than one if you have more than one favourite.
Answers on a postcard by the 31st of February.
*Laughs wickedly*
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my fave books would be
Behind the Scenes at the Museum and Human Croquet-both by Kate Atkinson:)
my life on a plate by India Knight. - v funny.
fishbowl - Sarah Mlynowski - this is funny in places and very bitchy. im reading it atm.
Kate cann books.
Louise Rennison books, yes her books are teenage books but v. v. funny.
it all depends on what your after really hun.
Oi, ya tea leaf! I had a thread about this a couple of weeks ago.
I suppose it depends upon what you like?
Hmm, I can reccomened virtually any Terry Pratchett book.
The Cuckoos Egg, by Clifford Stoll. A story about how a hippy astrologer tracked a gang of international hackers who were stealing data from the US government.
Mr_Wobble
Lol sorry Mr_Wobble I never saw it. That book sounds quite good.
I guess I'm after anything intellectually stimulating, unpredictable etc.
all books featuring Kay Scarpetta, written by Patricia Cornwell
of course: all Dean Koontz books
Also quite good:
fantasy - Robert Jordan : Wheel of time-series
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Marian Keyes` books are the ones I really can`t put down though.. I`ve read Rachel`s Holiday, Sushi For Beginners and Last Chance Saloon and they were all excellent.
I couldn't tell you my favourite, it all depends on what I feel like reading.
I also really like The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
i hate to admit it but you can't go wrong with good ol' Harry Potter. i was cynical about him to start with then i had a book voucher and didnt kno wat 2 get. i decided 2 c wat all the fuss is about and now iv put a deposit down for the 5th book!
failing that, "Junk" by Melvin Burgess is brilliant!
Philip Pullman's Dark Matrials Triology (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)
Little Women:D Classic
The Beach by Alex Garland
Damn i love reading!
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it is 'frank and endlessly touching', and by frank... i mean frank! all about a 13 year old girl who loses her virginity to a 32 year old man, and enjoys getting knocked about by guys. written through her own eyes, its bloody fantsatic, and rebecca ray wrote it at 17, so she became the youngest ever novelsit, so it really has loads of truth in it, and you can really relate/sympathise with her.
its excellent.
i'll b gettin that aswell then
Ooooo, I'll forgive you, but search for the thread, as there were quite a few good reccomendations on it.
The Cuckoo's Egg is actually a true story by the way, written by that hippy astrologer - Clifford Stoll.
It's interesting to see how he tried to trace the hackers. The FBI and KGB were involved too.
Mr_Wobble
That does sound interesting, i'll certainy keep an eye out for it.
Buy it!!
Also a book called Witch Child by Celia Rees. I'll quote the publishers quote Very good book - I bought it when I was going to Crete and the stupid WH Smiths at the airport had no decent magazines, so I bought a book instead.
What about Little Miss? :eek:
Gah, I really much too little these days... you might like to buy a book with a lot of Roald Dahl's short stories in though, they're all very good and a few of them can be quite shocking in places - especialy when you consider that they come from the man who wrote so many childrens books.
s'ok, i'd recommend it to anyone. seriously one of the best books i ever read.
(also 'catcher in the rye' by JD Salinger - very good)
:yes: Fantastic Book! I must buy the sequel (Sorceress) have you read it?
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There's a sequel? ooooh *bounces* me want me want!