Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
oh, you lucky person... how lovely 
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Isaac Asimov's Foundation 'Trilogy' - there's 7 for starters! 
As a boy I remember my Dad b ringing home a dog eared copy of an Isaac Asimov book, I can't be sure which one, but I think it was I Robot.
Jude the obscure -Thomas Hardy
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
oh, you lucky person... how lovely
yes I agree
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion 
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Isaac Asimov's Foundation 'Trilogy' - there's 7 for starters!
I think EC needs to adjust his parameters
This thread is moving too quick for me to respond 
Would seem we have too many book lovers here (that's a good thing).
I think the best thing is for the thread to organically develop as they usually do, the main thing people talking about books and maybe picking up a few recommendations.
Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
To kill a Mockingbird
Crimea
Umm.....there's more to come
The Go -between
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion
Another thing to add to my bucket list 
Re read Blyton's books
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion
Although I never actually *found * her until I was about 20... 
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
oh, you lucky person... how lovely
Thanks, although she is a little way along the family tree, my mother met her.
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion
me too
..my namesake was a super sleuth 
Originally Posted by Baz:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by Ducky:
I think many people love books from their childhood which is great, at least we read and not spend our spare time on video games.
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
Are you EC?
Yep, tis true. Along my maternal side.
Off the top of my head (I will edit again and again I'm sure)
Birdsong
A Star Called Henry
The God of Small Things
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
A real random book I read as a teenager and simply adored called: Fifteen.
I know I'll have many, many more that'll pop into my head but that'll do for now.
Originally Posted by Baz:
Although I never actually *found * her until I was about 20...
That made me laugh so much!
I did take the opportunity to re-read quite a few of her books when Duds was small, and still up for a bed time story.
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Thanks, although she is a little way along the family tree, my mother met her.
aww, I don't know if I should be extremely jealous or extremely glad for your mum... I shall have to ponder 
Originally Posted by Rosgirl:
Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
I loved Jude the Obscure
Originally Posted by Dame_Ann_Average:
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion
me too
..my namesake was a super sleuth
Out with it you! 
Originally Posted by Sprout:
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Probably should not say this but I am related to Enid Blyton..
She bought me hours and hours and HOURS of enjoyment as a child. She should be up there with the heavyweights in my opinion
Another thing to add to my bucket list Re read Blyton's books
Last year I bought a whole box set to read as I had never read them all.
Originally Posted by Rosgirl:
Jude the obscure -Thomas Hardy
Oooooooooooooh I just posted this before I saw your post.
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Baz:
Although I never actually *found * her until I was about 20...
That made me laugh so much!
I did take the opportunity to re-read quite a few of her books when Duds was small, and still up for a bed time story.
LOL... I was too busy reading the *heavyweights* when I was young.....but a good friend leant me one of the school series, can't remember why.... and I was hooked... I had to read all of them
Brideshead revisited - Waugh
Swallows and Amazons - Ransome
A Town like Alice - Shute
Pippi Longstocking
The Borrowers
Of Mice and Men
The Womens Room
Five Quarters of the Orange
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Originally Posted by Rosgirl:
Jude the obscure -Thomas Hardy
Oooooooooooooh I just posted this before I saw your post.
love it - my very favourite
Originally Posted by Rosgirl:
Brideshead revisited - Waugh
Swallows and Amazons - Ransome
A Town like Alice - Shute
A book I think we covered at school, but one I need to revisit.
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Pippi Longstocking
The Borrowers
Of Mice and Men
The Womens Room
Five Quarters of the Orange
oo ooloved the Woman's room and of Mice and men
Mind you, I can also just about remember me taking Philip Harben's cookery encyclopedia up to bed with me and showing dad a picture of a lovely cake when he came up to tuck me in.
Awwwww
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Isaac Asimov's Foundation 'Trilogy' - there's 7 for starters!
As a boy I remember my Dad b ringing home a dog eared copy of an Isaac Asimov book, I can't be sure which one, but I think it was I Robot.
When I was very young - well, at primary school, my parents listened to a radio adaptation of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (It was still just a trillogy back then, ) It sounded very dry and boring to me at the time and I got the impression it was something like 'The Brothers' TV programme. It was several years later when I actually read the books and was quite gob-smacked at how rivetting they were - absolutely NOTHING like my childhood impression.
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Pippi Longstocking
The Borrowers
Of Mice and Men
The Womens Room
Five Quarters of the Orange
Hi Cologne - a nice swift five 
The Borrowers brings back memories
Oooh....a book I really really loved as an adult, was Ben Elton's Blast From the Blast. I highly recommend it!
It was the first book of his that I ever read....and I loved it so much I wanted to read his others.... but yeah, I should have quit while I was ahead.
Little Women!
oh,I forgot...the Bill Badger books.... I read them as a child and I would love to read them again
I want to throw into the mix a couple of books from my youth.
Roald Dahl's
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
This thread is making me think I need to branch out in my reading again....these days I tend to stick to detective novels.... but I'd be hard pressed to remember a thing about them once I've finished.
Except for Jeffery's death, I'll never forget Jeffery's death. *holds Baz's hand* 
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Oooh....a book I really really loved as an adult, was Ben Elton's Blast From the Blast. I highly recommend it!
It was the first book of his that I ever read....and I loved it so much I wanted to read his others.... but yeah, I should have quit while I was ahead.
I love all Ben Eltons - really enjoyed his latest 'Two Brothers'. I think he's a great and very underrated writer.