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I started the Odyssey Antiope but really it is just a big "Boys Own" annual for the Ancient Greeks. So I put it down, much to the chagrin of my eldest who is made on all things classical.

 

I started reading "Human Traces" and loved it. Then I went off reading for a while so am going to have to finish it. I also want to read "Birdsong",

At the moment however I am reading "Gone with the Wind" as I haven't read it for years.

 

FM

I've had Les Miserables sitting on the table for the last 3 months. I just keep renewing it but I am busy with knitting and decorating and never seem to have time.

I recently read a David Gibbins (or Giddins) book which quoted bits of the Ilyad and Odyssey and the writing seemed really evocative and interesting so I may well have a read if I get the time

FM
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by Syd:

Loved to read in bed...now I need reading specs, I have a pile of books I should have read...not the same when me specs are lopsided on me eyes cos of the pillow......

 oh I know that feeling Syd....that's why I love my Kindle... I can have the font as big as I want... and ditch the specs....

Am going to ask for one for Christmas from daughter who mocks me....

Syd
I read for pleasure from a very early age. School got in the way. they made us read stuff like the Greek classics mentioned, appallingly boring stuff like Catcher in the Rye, and the greening of America. The only ones I remember fondly are the two orwell classics and the Bard. I have never read any Broente or Austen books and alas! There are so many new novels and political biographies that they just seem to lead into each other.
Garage Joe
Originally Posted by Veggieburger:

I've read IT Rawky, you're right it is long but I enjoyed it. Stephen King has a real grasp of the relationships kids have with eachother and their view of the world.

I loved the IT film as well although the book is slightly different

 

He does like to waffle Veggie.  I've seen the film before but everyone says that the book is so much better. I will finish it...one day.

Rawky-Roo

i bought my OH a book i saw on 'mudmen' programme on the history channel

its called

'harris's list of covent garden ladies'

 

its like some bloke wrote short notes about all the prostitutes in that area and logged it

he tells you where they live, what they look like and their little quirks and how much they charged

i know its strange but like they said on 'mudmen' you get to see a bit of someones life who otherwise you would never have heard of

 

i mean to nick it when she's read it

 

 

pirate1111

Last book I read was about Fred and Rose's antics in Cromwell Street.  I bought it whilst Christmas shopping. 

 

 

Anyway, most recent unfinished book was a Val McDairmid (sp) book about that pathologist bloke.  And that's cause I can't get Robson Green out my head whenever he appears and I can't stand the ferrety little turd. 

FM
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Skylark24:

Harry Potter books, i have the whole collection. But has anyone ACTUALLY read them? I started, but lost interest, my kids never read them either.................

i have, a few times each

but not the last one-im saving that 'til just before deathly hallows pt2 comes out

Do you find them for childrens reading? I know my kids, who are intelligent, got a bit lost in too many characters etc. The films were perhaps a bit better, havent seen the either....

FM
Originally Posted by Skylark24:
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Skylark24:

Harry Potter books, i have the whole collection. But has anyone ACTUALLY read them? I started, but lost interest, my kids never read them either.................

i have, a few times each

but not the last one-im saving that 'til just before deathly hallows pt2 comes out

Do you find them for childrens reading? I know my kids, who are intelligent, got a bit lost in too many characters etc. The films were perhaps a bit better, havent seen the either....

nah

i started on goblet of fire and it got my imagination, so i read it again

then i went on to the first 2 books which i thought were more for kids

then i carried on and kept reading them over again

films are great

but my imagination is better


 

pirate1111

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