Books make me sleepy
I love books, I love reading, but within half an hour of picking up a book I usually end up falling asleep.

However.

One book that I literally could not put down and read from start to finish within a few hours was I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier. It's about a kid cycling from one town to another to deliver a parcel to his father. Interwoven with this story are flashbacks to his childhood and a conversation between a psychoanalyst and his patient. The ending is one of the most explosive and disturbing I have ever read. Highly recommended.

I also loved Wuthering Heights. It's the only classic I have read and only read it because I wanted to get off with an English Lit. student. Totally amazing, passionate, tragic and beautiful.

Currently reading George R.R. Martin's books, which have turned me into a Game of Thrones nerd. I have a bunch of sciency books waiting to be read but cannot put the series down.

Worst book I have ever read was lent to me by a mate called Best Man by Matt Dunn. Absolute arse water, a crappy Razzlesque wank fantasy by a middle-aged man wishing he was 15 again. The only book I have ever thrown away. Avoid.
(Ghostlight, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:17, 4 replies)

i'd forgotten all about i am the cheese.
imma go look it up now.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:18, closed)

Lost my copy
Lent it to a God-bothering ex-girlfriend of mine and she never gave it back. I had to make do with one of hers about some smug git who'd found religion. That one went in the bin too...
(Ghostlight, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:23, closed)

Never read (nor watched) any of Game of Thrones,
but The Skin Trade may just be my perfect book.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:11, closed)

Cormier
Thank you! I remember reading I am the Cheese as a kid but had totally forgotten the title and author. You know, one of those things you think every now and then, must use the internet to try and find out what that was, but never get around to. Now I will make a note of it and buy as a present for my friend's kid (and possibly read first).

Silly of me, though, as it's not entirely dissimilar in theme to Bumblebee Flies Anyway (same author) - incarcerated kids, sanity issues, etc.
(Turangalila, Sat 7 Jan 2012, 18:02, closed)