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  • Sea78
    Sea78 Posts: 6,185 Forumite
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    I am still at the stage where I can't decide - but I love Maya Angelou - her autobiographies - starting with I know why the caged bird sings (I think?!)
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  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    Here is what Kittikins posted on the other tread:

    Great idea SE999 - here's my list :)

    Favorite book from childhood. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
    (the first book I read to my dad)
    Favorite thriller Perfume by Patrick Susskind /
    Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon
    Science Fiction haven't read any
    Science Fantasy ditto
    Favorite Shakespear comedy Midsummer Night's Dream :)
    Romantic novel Alphabet Weekends/ Things I want my daughters to know both
    by Elizabeth Noble
    Favorite Austin or Bronte novel Jane Eyre, fond memories of sitting reading this with my granny
    Favorite Agatha Christie Hmmm, read nearly all of them in my childhood, prefer Miss
    Marple to Hercule Poirot
    Favorite book when a student most things by John Irving
    Favorite book as a teenager I capture the Castle by Dodie Smith / The Pursuit
    of Love by Nancy Mitford
  • You are all posting author's i have loved. i am going to enjoy this. I wish i had more time to read. I shall have to make time.
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  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    You are all posting author's i have loved. i am going to enjoy this. I wish i had more time to read. I shall have to make time.

    Hey, this is spooky - just read the 1 minute read on Paolo Coelho's blog and it is about killing our dreams. The first thing he says is that we kill out dreams because we claim we don't have time - but the busiest people he knows always have time for things. Priority? Organisation? I wonder.

    Firewalker
  • savingwannabe
    savingwannabe Posts: 16,616 Forumite
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    edited 26 November 2010 at 12:04AM
    I have made time in some ways but clearly ".....i have many miles to go before i sleep.."(Robert Frost).

    It is all a learning curve for me but i shall get there in the end. I am determined.
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  • Aesop
    Aesop Posts: 23,773 Forumite
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    I have read so many diverse books and also books by my favourite authors:

    Patricia Cornwell
    Sue Grafton
    PD James
    Agatha Christie
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Colin Dexter
    Robert Crais
    Harlen Coben
    Mary Higgins Clark
    Michael Crichton

    Non fiction
    Bill Cosby - these are so worth reading! especially ones on parenthood and love and marriage

    Maya Angelou

    and I can't remember the other ones I used to read. I read a lot of non fiction books, including autobiographies.

    I read The Two of Us, my life with John Thaw, by Sheila Hancock
    Dear Fatty, by Dawn French
    Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly and Pamela Stephenson

    I think one of my favourites and I have many(!) has to be The Lottery by Jonathan Tulloch and also by him, The Season Ticket which was made into a film Purely Belter.
  • elantan
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    Books books books .... One of my biggest passions ... I have so many I love and a few I didn't enjoy as well
  • moo2moo
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    Book most likely to make you vomit whilst reading : Kathryn Harrison - The Binding Chair

    Book most likely to make you guffaw out loud in public : Kathy Lette - Foetal Attraction (the best opening page ever!) and Altar Ego

    Books to make your mind go meh which are enjoyable for the sheer fact of being total gibberish - Terry Pratchetts Discworld series - impossible to decide which I like best

    Favourite childhood book: Roald Dahls [STRIKE]The Witches[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Georges Marvelous Medicine[/STRIKE] Revolting Rhymes

    Favourite book to read out loud to children : Julia Donaldson and Axel the unspellable's Room on a Broom

    Most memorable teenage book ever: Judy Blume - Forever (mostly because it hinted at s e x and the nuns hadn't burnt it! unlike the pages in my GCSE biology books which covered forms of contraception over which was stuck a papragraph on the rhythm method.)
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  • MicheH
    MicheH Posts: 2,631 Forumite
    My favs don't seem to follow any particular genre as I have read so many diverse titles from many a different author.

    I'm agreeing with a couple before me that To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a favourite of mine but haven't read it for about 15 years, a chance/excuse to read it again with more life experience behind me would be fab, and yes savingwannabe, Atticus Finch was the man. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." has stayed with me and is such a powerful statement for a group of teenagers learning to live/accept and be accepted in society.

    Ok, some of my favourite reads:

    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    Little Women (author escapes me)
    Watership Down
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (I think)
    My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
    The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
    The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller

    Also, :eek: I have never picked up a Harry Potter book :o
  • Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger - I read this later in life and loved it!
    The Lovely Bones - fab book but I was so disappointed when I saw the films - how many films can ruin a good book!
    Little Women is a great book - i think every young girl should read it (i think Lousia M Alcott?? )
    When I was younger I must say I loved Famous Five and Secret Seven...... I longed to go to boarding school.

    Now I love thrillers and of course the odd trashy novel.....

    Hmm Agetha christie - so many................ classic Murder on the Orient Express

    I love Sherlock Holmes books too

    and I also read Dracular - again a good classic read.

    This really is a great thread!!

    Got to admit - i read all Harry Potters (couple of times!)
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