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Minx



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:39 pm    Post subject: Books good enough to read twice Reply with quote

Normally I pass my books on, either to friends, neighbours or charity shops. But there are certain books I would never pass on, have read more than once, and which I would be really sorry to lose. One such is The Lovely Bones by Alice Seebold.

I'm also reluctant to pass on any of my Jodie Piquoult books, in particular My Sister's Keeper.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I loved "Lovely Bones" too!
I couldn't part with "Rebecca" by D Du Maurier..!
I read the Winter King Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell from the library and then had to go and buy them..brilliant...about King Arthur...! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dancing on Thorns by Rebecca Horsfall is my current, keep re-reading book (of which I have many!)

I can't say how much I enjoyed this book, I'm not one to go on about books normally, but I've told a few about it, and they've all loved it!

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:29 pm    Post subject: Have I read a book twice? Reply with quote

Question Yes! I've read "Boys from the Wood" twice! Someone on "Richard and Judy's Book Club" website has read it FOUR times. Maybe I eventually will as I will keep it forever as a history book of the 1940's seen from a childs point of view!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Collection - Nuff said. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is my husbands fave book...! that and T Pratchett...! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terry Pratchett is one of my favourites too, such a good writer.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the witches Nanny Ogg and Granny weatherwax...! Very Happy

I see them as sort of role models......! Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I too enjoy most of terry Pratchett's books, I've just bought Hogfather inpart to see how well sky did its adaptation.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like DEATH he always makes me laugh Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My husband's fave is DEATH... he is quite cool...! Cool Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DEATH

Susan

Sam Vimes

It's difficult to choose between the three.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read it twice struggled through the Waterloo battle section both times but loved the rest.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier (read it at least 4 times - Shocked )

Chocolat (Joanne Harris)

Wind in the Willows (many times - yes, I know I'm sad ..... )

The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy

The Awakening & Other Stories by Kate Chopin

Washington Square by Henry James
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
DEATH

Susan

Sam Vimes

It's difficult to choose between the three.


Death and Sam Certainly, but that Susans a mean one! Shocked
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One to read again, Rocket Boys by Homer H.Hickham.

It has the feel of the 'stand by me' film - find it and you'll love it.

I'd love to read Stephen King's 'The Stand' again, but I don't have a spare 18 months!!! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know what you mean about The stand Laughing great book but so flipping long! Shocked
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've read A J Cronin's the Stars Look Down about 20 times since I first devoured it in 1963. AJC is a bit out of fashion these days and his characterisations are a bit black and white but for me no one can tell a story quite liike he can and his prose, which veers from sentimental to ironic, is also a treat.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heloise - a girl after me own heart! Les Miserables! I've actually read it cover to cover several times but quite often dip into it and read odd chapters.
I'm a fan of Anne Perry's books and re-read those, also Ian Rankin's Rebus novels. Oh and good old Agatha Christie of course!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dottie-may wrote:
Heloise - a girl after me own heart! Les Miserables! I've actually read it cover to cover several times but quite often dip into it and read odd chapters.


I know what you mean I picked it up again myself at the weekend and read a chapter or two.
Have you read the sequels I read "Cossette" wasn't that impressed with it myself.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've read A J Cronin's the Stars Look Down about 20 times since I first devoured it in 1963. AJC is a bit out of fashion these days and his characterisations are a bit black and white but for me no one can tell a story quite liike he can and his prose, which veers from sentimental to ironic, is also a treat.

Ian.
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Great news! The 1939 film of the Stars Look Down, which I've never seen before, will be on BBC2 at 11:55am next Sunday, 12 August.

It's got a very good write-up on the Radio Times film page, too.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've mentioned it before but Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand is definitely worth more than one read. The more you read it the better it gets. Brilliant book about time travel - or is it?

Moving to more modern themes Stephen King's The Green Mile. One of his very best. Loved the book and the film.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great news! The 1939 film of the Stars Look Down, which I've never seen before, will be on BBC2 at 11:55am next Sunday, 12 August.

It's got a very good write-up on the Radio Times film page, too.

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I recorded this on Sunday and watched it yesterday evening.

It seemed to be of very good technical quality for 1939.

It was inevitable that there would have to be some compression of the story to fit into 95 minutes. In the event, very little was included from the last two-thirds of the book and several major characters never appeared at all. Also, some of the cast's attempts at Geordie accents were hilariously bad!
But it was still a fairly enjoyable film and it was fascinating to see Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood so early in their careers. There was also a brief appearance by Kynaston Reeves, later to play Mr Quelch in some of the Billy Bunter stories, who, appropriately enough, played a headmaster.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another very nice book worth a second read is Flora Thompson's autobiographical novel Lark Rise To Candleford, set in the 19th century in Oxfordshire, it tells of a young girl who moves to the local market town to begin an apprenticeship as a postmistress. A really lovely story.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have re-read all of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond and Dolly books many times. Haven't quite got into her Niccolo series though.
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