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Hey everyone
I like to read quite alot, especially in the summer when I have more time to. I just wondered if everyone has a couple of fav books they'd like to share or reccomend.
I havent read a great deal but two of my favourites were
The Da Vinci code- Dan Brown
Way of the peaceful warrior- Dan Millman
Steve
I like to read quite alot, especially in the summer when I have more time to. I just wondered if everyone has a couple of fav books they'd like to share or reccomend.
I havent read a great deal but two of my favourites were
The Da Vinci code- Dan Brown
Way of the peaceful warrior- Dan Millman
Steve
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You know what else sucks even more than the tiring and monotonous plot of The Da Vinci Code? The way that after people have read it they think they have all the answers to the universe.
"OMG, God don't exist, wtf, the da vinci code said so!!1!"
"But the Bible says God does exist!"
"Pff yeah but like wTf, the Bible is just a book wots made up innit!"
*awkward silence*
"Okay, I'm going now. Your intellect is far too developed for me".
Hahaha, nice one. :thumb:
Dan Brown is the sole reason I am now convinced that I too can one day become a published writer.
I'm not sure why the red mist descends every time I think about The Da Vinci Code (God knows I've read any number of equally shitty, badly-written books) but I think it's because the other crap books didn't become bestsellers overnight. I also don't think people started hailing these other crap books as THE TRUTH and they didn't turn my normally intelligent friends into credulous eejits.
As for book recommendations, off the top of my head: The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx, The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
I took that one out from the school library about 4 years ago...started reading it, forgot about it...they gave up asking for it back after a year or so!
Suggestions...
Atm I'm reading the second part of the Sabriel, Lirael and Aborsen series by Garth Nix. T'is good but I've been reading it for a few months and still havent got around to finishing it
James Herbert - Once... and Nobody True
Peter James - Alchemist
Andrey Kurkov - Death and The Penguin
Making Love by Marius Brill
Espedair Street by Iain Banks
You don't have to be evil to work here, but it helps by Tom Holt
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
You enjoying the Thursday Next series? I really liked them and they are not my sort of book at all.
Currently reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. Today at school I read "Journey to Jo'burg" by Beverley Naidoo. Really enjoyed it and the kids are liking it too.
Yeah, I am. The second was a bit weird, it just seems to be a book of exposition for the sequels. It didn't seem to really build to anything, it just set up the sequels. But I like Fforde's style.
Any series that has Ms Havisham fire a hand gun at the Red Queen gets my vote
Anyone who hasn't read it yet, here's the entire plot compressed for your convinience:
Some people find a cryptic clue. THEY'RE STUCK! Suddenly one of them remembers that they did an intense 3 year course on the exact subject they need to know about to break the clue. They break the clue. It leads them somewhere else and they find a cryptic clue. THEY'RE STUCK! Suddenly one of them remembers that they did an intense 3 year course on the exact subject they need to know about to break the clue. They break the clue. It leads them somewhere else and they find a cryptic clue. THEY'RE STUCK! Suddenly one of them remembers that they did an intense 3 year course on the exact subject they need to know about to break the clue. They break the clue. It leads them somewhere else and they find a cryptic clue. THEY'RE STUCK! Suddenly one of them remembers that they did an intense 3 year course on the exact subject they need to know about to break the clue. They break the clue. It leads them somewhere else and they find a cryptic clue. Jesus had a wife. Therefore God isn't real. Therefore the universe came from nowhere. The end.
*is blown away by the incredible imagination of Dan Brown*
Fair point but I still liked it
oh yes indeed there is
I'll explain (WARNING: spoilers following): Whenever I read a book, or watch a movie, or whatever, in which there's a bad guy but we don't know who it is, I suspect everyone and everything. This is the first story in a long time that managed to fool me: It didn't even cross my mind that Teabing could be him.
As for my favourite books, I listed them in the other thread recently, but here goes again:
Tried to read it when I was 15 and my brain nearly imploded. Think I got half way through. Can't remember who I lent my copy to though...
I didn't know there was a movie.
I tried to read the book while I was doing philosophy at school. I was interested but I just couldn't get my head around it.
If you still have it then I honestly urge you to give it another try, it's very wordy and I struggled to get into it (especially because of the dialect) but it's worth it. If you have an interest in literature, history, politics, the world around you then I can't imagine not being moved by The Grapes of Wrath. It had a huge impact on me, anyway.
His novel East of Eden is comparatively underrated and is definitely overshadowed by TGoW, but I'd highly recommend it. It's essentially an allegory of Cain and Abel's story from the Bible, I definitely found it much easier to get into.
I will :thumb: I read Of Mice and Men at school and I loved that. In fact I took it home and read it twice while they were reading it in the class
I just found it a good read, thats all
Glad to hear it.
I love Of Mice and Men, too, though it's often an unpopular one specifically because it was required school reading for so many people. One thing schools are great at is putting people off reading...
I take your point, most definitely. It's good that people are interested in reading, full stop. It's just frustrating that he gets all that acclaim.
Especially since there are so many glaring inaccuracies in the book; he couldn't even get the date of the Dead Sea Scrolls' discovery right. There is no excuse for such lazy researching, especially since I suspect he has a crack team of minions behind the scenes.
I'm just saying that for all the praise it gets it really SUCKED. I read it on a coach whilst travelling from Toronto to New York and no less than three other people on the coach were reading it as well (their own copies, not looking over my shoulder or anything). I wanted to strike up a conversation with them about how repetitive the plot seemed to be but we got to the US border and had to go through 2 hours of rigerous customs checks in case we were carrying warheads or nail clippers and after that I just wanted to strangle the old guy sat behind me as he had the most horrible snoring you've ever heard and in my silent rage I forgot about the book.
True story.
Cool
What author do you prefer to read then? Or what are you reading at the moment?