Cassis Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I couldn't be bothered to finish it either. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Hah! That makes me feel much better (sigh of relief)[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisymay Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Catcher in the rye. What is that about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 It's about an adolescent frightened of growing up, getting kicked out of school, not fitting in, not being understood and having a nervous bread van. No plot as such. Love it or loathe it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I loved it. The same applies to Catch 22 which Tresco couldn't read - it's one of my repeat read books - just brilliant. Yossarian keeps coming back to the experience of his friend the rear gunner dying and accepting the reality of this. The time switches are confusing. Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I have read many James Herbet books, I love the Domain of the rats trilogy. But I have never been able to finish Survivour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I'm currently a quarter of the way into The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (great name that!). I'm finding it really quite boring, all the jumping back and forth in time. Has anyone else read it and is it worth perservering with? The reveiws on Amazon rave about it but I can't see where the story is going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormx Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 [quote user="Bugbear"]"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. I bought it following someones recommendation on here but what a disapointment. I kept reading, thinking it would develop, but it never happened, not for me anyway.Or am I missing something ?[/quote] agree with some of the others, couldn't read On the Road, Time traveller's I read to the end but wasn't as wowed as the critics, BUT Life Of Pi I thought was absolutely fantastic and it does have a major twist at the end, so you are missing something!! oh god it would be hard to read over though if you didn't like it..... just read the last few chapters then...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse; just could not get into it at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 So what do you all read over and over again?I re-read Pratchett and Lindsey Davis, usually in holiday times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 "the bafut beagles" by gerald durrell and any other gerald durrell books and, sometimes, gabriel garcia marquez (in translation as my spanish is only elementary) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenniswitch Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]So what do you all read over and over again?I re-read Pratchett and Lindsey Davis, usually in holiday times.[/quote]Miss Read. D. E. Stevenson. Mrs. Miniver.These aren't too heavy for you, are they? [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyC Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Pratchett definitely, Dorothy L Sayers and Jane Austen. Nothing if not eclectic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 I haven't re-read Miss Read for years! I'm going to read her again!Just been over to Amazon and ordered! I didn't realise she was still alive.ALSO - anything by PG Wodehouse, but preferably Jeevesish, and anything Maigret, I'll read over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 Katherine by Anya Seton, I don't know how many times I have read it, but I still enjoy it. Little Women by Louisa M Alcott - and I must read it again - I visited the authors home last year and it was very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 When I was but a lad the two books I reread most were Coral Island and The Family from One End Street. I can still remember my empathy for Lily Rose when she ironed the artificial silk petticoat too hot and it shrank - and her mother made her take it to the posh lady to apologise - but the lady was nice to her! Mrs Ruggles not being able to afford a replacement really hit home to me, as we were in much the same situation ourselves. Funny how trivial things can be so important... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 I've still got my copy of Coral Island..........I must have liked it as I went to the trouble of covering it with library film. I wonder if any other ladies remember Ballet Shoes by Noelle Streatfield ? I read that lots........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 I think Coral Island has now been removed from school libraries, due to its racist attitudes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 [quote user="Suze"]I'm currently a quarter of the way into The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (great name that!). I'm finding it really quite boring, all the jumping back and forth in time. Has anyone else read it and is it worth perservering with? The reveiws on Amazon rave about it but I can't see where the story is going.[/quote]You have to stick with it Suze - it's a wonderful love story. It stayed with me for such a long time, it's a very unusual story and at first I almost gave up too. The secret is to NOT try and calculate how it's possible everytime he turns up in a different time - just let yourself go with the flow and you won't be able to put it down. Make sure you have a huge box of tissues for the last few chapters[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]When I was but a lad the two books I reread most were Coral Island and The Family from One End Street. I can still remember my empathy for Lily Rose when she ironed the artificial silk petticoat too hot and it shrank - and her mother made her take it to the posh lady to apologise - but the lady was nice to her! Mrs Ruggles not being able to afford a replacement really hit home to me, as we were in much the same situation ourselves. Funny how trivial things can be so important...[/quote] I loved that book as a girl and bought it in paperback last year as a bit of nostalgia. It seemed a 'thinner' book than I remembered but still good. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was another one that I read the print off, I had the others in the series but could never get into them at all.I re read Cider with Rosie, have only read one Terry Pratchett and I just don't get him at all. The Lord of the Rings.... never got past the first chapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyC Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 [quote user="Russethouse"]I've still got my copy of Coral Island..........I must have liked it as I went to the trouble of covering it with library film. I wonder if any other ladies remember Ballet Shoes by Noelle Streatfield ? I read that lots........[/quote]The Fossils! Weren't they wonderful; you could relate to all of them in different ways. Also agree about Katherine and Louisa May Alcott, such an interesting woman and from such an intellectual background. I don't suppose you were a fan of the Abbey School books by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5-element Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 [quote user="Valleyboy"]Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse; just could not get into it at all![/quote]Snap, Phil!!!I could get into it, it's just that I could not get anything out of it!!!I thought it was pretty appalling - over-formulaic plot, writing style, a real p...take actually, much worse even than Dan Brown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryl-et-elaine Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Any military history books written by Richard Holmes.Rivetting reads!D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 [quote user="KathyC"][quote user="Russethouse"]I've still got my copy of Coral Island..........I must have liked it as I went to the trouble of covering it with library film. I wonder if any other ladies remember Ballet Shoes by Noelle Streatfield ? I read that lots........[/quote]The Fossils! Weren't they wonderful; you could relate to all of them in different ways. Also agree about Katherine and Louisa May Alcott, such an interesting woman and from such an intellectual background. I don't suppose you were a fan of the Abbey School books by any chance?[/quote]I remember someone called 'Bobby' (a girl) in a book based in a boarding school but was it the Abbey or Swiss Chalet series ?The docent at Louisa M Alcott's house was excellent and described the parallels between the books and real life. Artwork by the sister who Amy was based on is on the walls, she was a much more accomplished painter than I thought. Also Geraldine Brooks visited the house when she was researching her book 'March' which I had read, and is based on the father in Little Womenhttp://www.louisamayalcott.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 [quote user="daryl-et-elaine"]Any military history books written by Richard Holmes.Rivetting reads!D.[/quote]But Tommy is the best, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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