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Giggerotar
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Your Favourite Books of All Time
« Thread started on: Dec 3rd, 2002, 01:08am » |
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I dun read a lot I have to say. But I really dig C.S. Lewis's stuff since young. Chronicles of Narnia, The Final Battle, The Magician's Nephew etc...
How about you guys? 
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Re: Your Favourite Books of All Time
« Reply #1 on: Dec 4th, 2002, 02:32am » |
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I really like JD Salinger books (except the Seymour book which I never ever got through). His ideas and style of writing are brilliant.
And Harry Potter as well. Love the magical world and its parallels to our muggle world.
Hehe, I used to read a whole lot but I have an awful memory and often forget 90% of whatever I read. Excuses, excuses 
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Re: Your Favourite Books of All Time
« Reply #2 on: Dec 4th, 2002, 02:47am » |
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on Dec 4th, 2002, 02:32am, rewols wrote:| Hehe, I used to read a whole lot but I have an awful memory and often forget 90% of whatever I read. Excuses, excuses |
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More like lazy!! I can understand... 
Mine are:
Fried Green Tomatoes (such a dear little book... treasure it lots)
Stardust (first Neil Gaiman book that I've read... tori reference in it too)
The Alchemist (a very dear friend bought this book for me. I read it and was inspired once again. I happened to be feeling very down about my future at the time.)
The Passionate Eye - Suzanne Vega (it's not really a book but a book of Suzanne's poetry and lyrics... a gem)
Angela's Ashes (It's beautiful and sad... best to read it when listening to Choirgirl Hotel)
Horse Whisperer (I love horses... and this book is really good, love the movie too... I'm just a sucker when it comes to horses...)
Lazy to think of more now...
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Your Favourite Books of All Time
« Reply #3 on: Dec 4th, 2002, 11:19am » |
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I've mentioned Jeanette Winterson a gazillion times before. She's my all-time fave. 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' was a life-changing book for me.
'Possession' by AS Byatt is a very heavy read and in all fairness, a very difficult work to adapt. It has very complex layers that are a joy to unravel - pity that the film was marketed as a sexy date movie.
'What Katy Did' is a storybook I picked up when I was in primary school and it's been one of my faves ever since. I actually love children's storybooks, especially the illustrated ones.
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend are a hoot. I recently borrowed all of them and read them chronologically over a week. Makes you wanna blog.
'Macbeth' by Shakespeare. Technically not a 'book', but this is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. I love reading it aloud.
'Between Angels' by Stephen Dunn, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His writings have greatly influenced my own attempts at 'poetry'.
trivia: blankettes' copy of Passionate Eye was one that I brought in when I was store merchandiser eons ago. I find that bizarrely cosmic. Any of you happened to purchase any copies of the Tori songbooks from MPH as well? (I personally know one former SEWF who did)
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