DFW Rabid Readers: reading and discussion group

Marru

My favourite authors in no particular order:
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- James Herriot
- Agatha Christie
- Nicholas Evans
- Nora Roberts

Ooh - I have Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy and I have been meaning to read it for a long time.

At the moment I am reading: Run: The Mind-body Method of Running by Feel

savingwannabe

I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks of Animal Farm (George Orwell)?

MicheH

savingwannabe wrote: »

I'd be interested to know what everyone thinks of Animal Farm (George Orwell)?

I have not looked at this since school savingwannabe but the message about how groups interact in a way that makes it possible for one of them to control the rest with unquestioning authoirity can be applied throughout life, specially how the animals seem to depict different classes. A very clever novel with many hidden messages. A great way to get an insight into dictatorship and blind following of that dictatorship because of propaganda or 'cult of personality'

Again, I would like to look at this again. Intriquing.

Sea78

Animal farm - great book, with many interesting undertones.

I'd be up for re-reading it!

tellmeitsfriday

I thought I'd post the BBC list.

My favourite ever book is Jane Eyre> Not sure why though, maybe I am just a soppy old romantic at heart and refuse to admit it I will be back to list my other big likes later x

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby !!!!!! - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (contained within the complete works)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

MrsMoo2U

Oh dear, this is so hard. It is harder than sitting an exam, having to choose favourite books!
Ok, I will give it a try

Favourite childhood book - Flight of the Doves - Walter Macken. read to us by Miss Tate in 2nd year (aged 8) and I still hear her voice if I read it.

Favourite Shakespeare Comedy - how to choose? Today I would say Merry Wives of Windsor, tomorrow it will be different

Favourite Thriller - Primal Fear - Wiliam Diehl - spoiled by the making of the film. This is the only thriller that ever made me catch my breath in the last paragraph and be desperate for the follow up.

Favourite book as a teenager - The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Favourite Classic - Jane Eyre

I have a tendency to read non fiction a lot and I really need to switch off and read some fiction to relax. However I do love autobiographies
I also have read The Two of Us by Sheila Hancock and her latest Just Me. I also love Michael J Fox autobiography - inspirational.

I do have a confession. I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird. My Mum went back to college when she was 50 and took English Lit O level. She read this and talked about it a lot. If we were to read it I would finally understand what she meant. Unfortunately she isnt here to discuss it with anymore.

kdenty

OO I like this. I got a Kindle bought for me a few months back. I am a total book addict.

My favourites include:
Manda Scott
Diana Gabaldon
Micheal Marshall Smith
Clive Barker
Jean M Auel
Ken follett
Phillip Pullman


I love thrillers, horror and epic novels mostly. The Boudica series by Manda Scott has to be my favourite of all time.

I'm really an avid reader and it just feels wrong not to have a book on the go.

savingwannabe

Brave New World is the most frightening book i have ever read. Couldn't finish it I found it too distressing.

Also Wild Swans by Jung Chang. i couldn't stop crying by chapter 3 and gave up i have tried reading it at 5 times in my life. Would love to know what people think of these too.

Miche I use Animal Farm in my lessons when introducing Economics to students. Quite simply one of the most amazing books i have ever read.

savingwannabe

I remember Scout and Boo Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird i read it when i was 12. Again a superb book. I will borrow it over the weekend.

Double_Trouble

I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird either

Love so many books hard to choose

Austen- Northanger Abbey
Lovely Bones
The Chalet Series - I wanted to go to boarding school too but I read everything as a child mystery series, secret seven, secret island series, famous five, the bobbsey twins
Les Miserables
Birdsong

and so many others please let us decide soon I want to start

one book I could never get on with despite trying several times was The Water Babies

DTxx