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 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:18 pm
georgehippo dont really read books....i like script books, like father ted, blackadder and the office...oh and calvin and hobbes cartoon books...i have them all....in fact i offered to lend them to Miss Jelly for one weeks free of hippo-poking but she said no deal... YA! Blackadder!
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:20 pm
 ( Photo of Alicelight's copy of David Copperfield' on her rock razz ) The last book I read...hmm In October I was in Canada and I read 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens by a river on a rock...the good life. I enbarked on that when younger and only made it to somthing like page 200;;;.... so this time I decided to take on it's 1050 (I think ) pages and actually WON! WOO~ Oh, also, every year in December or November I read Mr Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol', it's just such...a lovely book. If you have not read it, Why not?! If you can't be bothered to bother with dead trees find that old animated version with Alistair Sim doing Scrooges voice! best version ever! *cough, cough* I am not actually a huge huge Dickens-nut like that mad lady in America on TV. ...though I am watching the latest adamp' of 'Bleak House'. ...Before the Dickens, In was reading the latest Harry Potter!
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:29 pm
i used to always read a book of my Mum's at Christmastime, it was The Armourer's house by Rosemary Sutcliffe, i can't remember much about it now as it's many a year since i read it, but it's a lovely, heartwarming story 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:07 am
Just finished reading 'Letters From Father Christmas' by Tolkein.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:21 am
my Mum gave me the complete set of Cadfael on DVD for Christmas, so now i've started reading all the books again, such an unlikely character, a medieval sleuthing monk, but most enjoyable all the same 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:08 am
Invictus_88 The Game Players of SlaithwaiteThis book is ace, it really is..
3nodding Quote: Synopsis.Wolf spiders chasing clowns in the heather, rats running in the maze, townboys gaming at the museum, Americans invading Nant Sara's. It was like living in an early Spielberg movie one of the classics, Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom or the Mattress perhaps? Not that any of us ever saw ourselves as a hero. It"s a long time since we saw one of those films, even though they play endlessly on the net. Everything is on the net, all the facts and fictions. Like that rubbish about Napoleon, inventing corned beef, the trouble that got us into. What did we know? We were just kids from the academy. Quote: Review.The whole scenario is terrific. It is based on the idea that Armageddon has been and gone and the world is a rather different place. This works really well because it is all based on current scientific knowledge coupled with our current fears for the future. eg global warming and the rise in ocean depths.... Rochdale is on the coast; Wales is now a group of islands. Water transport and helicopters are the main means of transport. Root vegetables are a luxury since they were more or less wiped out in GM experiments, which went very wrong. And so on. Totally credible.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:18 am
i'm currently reading Stephen Fry's autobiography, strangely entitled..Moab is my Washpot.
it's rather good, very frank, saddening and highly amusing in equal measures and i'd recommend it to anyone who likes the man 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:28 pm
I havent read anything new at all recently sad Its high time I get myself a nice thick book to read rofl
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:23 am
me favourite books are ps i love you (cecelia ahern) - it had me in tears! amazing!! and also, sons of fortune (jefrey archer) which is really good too... i cant read "deep" books... i get confused too easily hehe smile
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:51 am
Ive read ps I Love u as well thought it was a good read Ive also read the one that comes after it as well cant remember what its called tho but its done as texts that made me laugh as well
Ive just finished the da vince code It was alright a bit contrived but a good story and now am reading "belle de jour" "the intimate adventures of a london call girl" which is quite funny if errrmmm how shall i put it errrrrr frank? ummm grafic? one of those anyway lol
Oh and by the way if u like stephen fry try his book called tennis shoes that a good read too
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:22 am
hello josie!!
i do have 2 other Stephen Fry's to read..the star's tennis balls( was that the one you meant?) , and Making history.
i got distracted from them by someone from work lending me another Terry Pratchett..
Going Postal..highly enjoyable! 3nodding
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:59 am
i read Jeffrey Archers prison diaries...its a facinating read altho i think in places some of it is embellished and in others just plain made up.... 3nodding
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:05 pm
i have maybe 6 Jeffery Archer books, i know he's slammed by the critics, but that's what critic's do!
i have found everything by him enjoyable to read 3nodding
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:24 am
Poppetta hello josie!! i do have 2 other Stephen Fry's to read..the star's tennis balls( was that the one you meant?) yep that was the one lol strange book but I enjoyed it and Making history. i got distracted from them by someone from work lending me another Terry Pratchett.. I love terry pratchett but not read any for a while cos peeps keep lending me other weird books lol Going Postal..highly enjoyable! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 2:01 pm
I recently read "The Hamlet" by William Faulkner (not to be confused with the similarly named Shakespeare story) and it's a typical novel of his: long, amusing, brilliantly written but also bombastic, great characters. I love Faulkner in spite of his excess; I sort of think he did it on purpose just to get under the skin of his critics.
For lighter reading, I've recently discovered Laurie R. King, who took an
aging Sherlock Holmes and gave him a young female partner. It sounds, on the surface, like a marketing scheme, but for whatever reason, I've bought it and enjoy the stories.
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