BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Interesting pointI suppose what I mean by irrelevant is that I had no sense of connection to the characters or the settings. I really didn't care about the characters, to my (then) fourteen-year-old self they were irrelevant to my life.
Is there virtue in getting my head around something unfamiliar and non-relevant? Yes, there is! However, I found it difficult probably because of the tedious nature of the writing and that I couldn't identify (and therefore empathise) with the characters.
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My hunch is that your school experience poisoned the well;which is not to say that with a different teacher, you'd have loved everything. But if your first experience is not so good, it can really bugger up anything subsequent.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 17:49,
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*Stands on desk*..."Oh Captain, My Captain!"
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 5 Jan 2012, 18:21,
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Ooh!Like the sig - should also read 'Yeah, but it made top post'!
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