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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I read anything and everything.. that I can get my hands on (except Mills and Boon/Barbara Cartland type shit - I do have my limits). I usually have several books on the go at once - one for reading in the bathroom, one in the kitchen, a couple in the bedroom, one in the living room. I'm not fussy, I do have my favourite authors and will read some books several times over and get something new out of them every time.
However, I have to agree with the various comments about the Harry Potter books - the first one wasnt too bad really, a bit simple but they are children's books after all. The later ones though, they were the biggest pile of dross I've ever read. I nearly gave up on them after being presented with a couple of pages containing a description of the crumbs from Hermione's toast. I had to continue however, morbid fascination as to whether the books could get any worse... they did. I didn't even give them to a charity shop as I usually do with stuff I know I'll never read again - they got binned.
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 16:31, 4 replies)
I'm reading a Mills and Boon type book right nowJust to say that I have (and partly because it was free). After all, its only fair to judge something once you've tried it, right? It's called Child of the Mist, and I'm about half way through.
Dear God its awful.
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 18:22, closed)
My mother used to read that kind of thing a lot, so I used to pick them up and read them occasionally - to be fair though I haven't read anything of that ilk for many years now.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:17, closed)
Harry Potter was so shityou took steps to ensure that anyone else wanting to read it, would pay full price?
JK Rowling will be glad you did.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 19:39,
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I couldn't bring myself to inflict this kind of thing on the unsuspecting public. You're right though - perhaps I should have given them away free.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:18, closed)
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