I live with an arch-snob, and I must admit that some of it rubs off

I am a tattoo snob. I look down on people with tattoos from a very lofty height indeed. How I will laugh when they are 92 and walking around with 'I love Janey' plastered across their foreheads when Janey buggered off with the milkman 50 years previous 

Actually although I claim not to be a snob - I can be a bit snobby about books...............................that's it though!

At 92 will you remember what a tattoo is 

I have really eclectic taste Prom. Just discovered Jasper Fforde - read Shades of Grey and now onto his Thursday Next series. Not long finished The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver which was amazing - must read more of her. For sci-fi I recommend Iain M Banks (loved The Player of Games and Consider Phlebus), my favourite author is John Fowles - The Magus is my favourite book. For light/crap escapism reading I am partial to Philippa Gregory's Tudor saga (but try C J Sansom's Shardlake books too) and Charlaine Harris (the Trueblood books which bear no relation to the TV series). For humour and general escapism you can't beat Terry Pratchett (but include Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams). Otherwise - there's no-one in particular. If you were here I would be running through my bookshelves and saying "this one, yes, try this, ignore that ... these are great." 

My son's parents evening was last month - I sat before his very young English teacher. Son is in set 1 and on target for an A or A* at GCSE this summer. She looked at me and said "Oh you're the one who tells her children what to read. Erm no ...  I try to guide and since both of them read To Kill A Mockingbird before they were 13 and loved it (also seen film and stage play) and that's a set text I've done half her bloody work for her.  On upside, son has now turned her onto Mr Pratchett. 

I'm a newspaper snob... reading the Sun are you? Move along please

Hah!! I have a tattoo. On my back - I forget it's there most of the time.  

You only live once after all and frankly should I reach 92 I will still be chuffed with the fact I have scrawled on my back. Tis only me after all. 

I'm a snobbery snob. 

I have a tattoo too cariad, if I make it to 92 I imagine what it looks like will be the least of my concerns

If you ever feel like relaxing, why not try a Dean Koontz?

If you ever feel like relaxing, why not try a Dean Koontz?

Tried him. didn't get on.  And all those books were relaxing!! Tsk...

That's an interesting mix. I've never got into Pratchett, very imaginative but just not very funny imo and kind of self indulgent. Adams is my comic writer of choice. Ian M Banks, kind of hit and miss but I loved the Player Of Games. Dan Simmons Hyperion is probably the best work of fiction I've ever read though I asked myself all the way through the first third of it why I was persevering with it. I'm glad I hung around to find out

Stephen King has produced some incredibly imaginative and succinct works but also some of the worst things I have ever read and I really hate how he sees himself more of a big celebrity almost as a rock star more than a writer. He has to write intros explaining what he was thinking at the time then epilogues stating where he will go next yeah seriously Mr King fekk off you boring spaz 

My taste in non fiction is too controversial to mention here 

Stephen King has produced some incredibly imaginative and succinct works but also some of the worst things I have ever read and I really hate how he sees himself more of a big celebrity almost as a rock star more than a writer. He has to write intros explaining what he was thinking at the time then epilogues stating where he will go next yeah seriously Mr King fekk off you boring spaz 

 

My taste in non fiction is too controversial to mention here 

Can't deal with him at all. Read "It" the extended version - well when I say read I meant I started it and lost all interest after 8976 pages. 

Also tried the Dark Tower series ... still sitting there.

Don't do non-fiction much but did enjoy Wedlock 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wedloc...usband/dp/0297853317

Originally Posted by Prometheus:

Stephen King has produced some incredibly imaginative and succinct works but also some of the worst things I have ever read and I really hate how he sees himself more of a big celebrity almost as a rock star more than a writer. He has to write intros explaining what he was thinking at the time then epilogues stating where he will go next yeah seriously Mr King fekk off you boring spaz 

 

My taste in non fiction is too controversial to mention here 

Can't deal with him at all. Read "It" the extended version - well when I say read I meant I started it and lost all interest after 8976 pages. 

 

Also tried the Dark Tower series ... still sitting there.

 

Don't do non-fiction much but did enjoy Wedlock 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wedloc...usband/dp/0297853317

 

 

Cariad try and dig out The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) and also The Running Man which he wrote under the same alias (it's nothing like the movie with Arnie). Both are absolutely sublime. The Dark Tower stuff was rank, as was anything he did with Straub.

Toilet roll is the only thing I'm snobby about.....I think. (now that's gonna be in my head all day and I'll realise I'm snobby about all sorts) 

If I said some of the things I was snobby about, I would be drummed off the forum

Reading back on this thread I wonder if I'm in the right place 

I'm the opposite. I'd rather find a good label second-hand than dress in brand new primark. You've only got to look at the people going in..

Well Thankfully I don't shop in Primark either - Guess that makes us both snobs of another kind huh ..

My mother got a pair of fabby genuine Gina shoes and matching handbag in a charity shop - for £13!

The knack is, if you ever visit a posh or well-to-do area, check out their charity shops

It's the wearing of other peoples clothes I don't do - not knowing who has worn them...

Good deal by your Mum though...

I don't either slim, and I've never found anything good in a charity shop... I hear about other people getting fab things (like Deman's mum) but it's always other people's tat when I go in

Primark here is mainly teenagers and students

Originally Posted by Cariad:

Originally Posted by Prometheus:

Stephen King has produced some incredibly imaginative and succinct works but also some of the worst things I have ever read and I really hate how he sees himself more of a big celebrity almost as a rock star more than a writer. He has to write intros explaining what he was thinking at the time then epilogues stating where he will go next yeah seriously Mr King fekk off you boring spaz 

 

My taste in non fiction is too controversial to mention here 

Can't deal with him at all. Read "It" the extended version - well when I say read I meant I started it and lost all interest after 8976 pages. 

 

Also tried the Dark Tower series ... still sitting there.

 

Don't do non-fiction much but did enjoy Wedlock 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wedloc...usband/dp/0297853317

 

 

 

Cariad try and dig out The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) and also The Running Man which he wrote under the same alias (it's nothing like the movie with Arnie). Both are absolutely sublime. The Dark Tower stuff was rank, as was anything he did with Straub.

I agree with those. I've just finished Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran. I read the review in the paper and bought it straight away. I didn't realise she lived through the French Revolution. This book is so well researched that I recognised all the movers and shakers and found practically all of it veryfied online (apart from a tiny amount of artistic license). Very bloodthirsty though.

Originally Posted by Cariad:

Originally Posted by Prometheus:

Stephen King has produced some incredibly imaginative and succinct works but also some of the worst things I have ever read and I really hate how he sees himself more of a big celebrity almost as a rock star more than a writer. He has to write intros explaining what he was thinking at the time then epilogues stating where he will go next yeah seriously Mr King fekk off you boring spaz 

 

My taste in non fiction is too controversial to mention here 

Can't deal with him at all. Read "It" the extended version - well when I say read I meant I started it and lost all interest after 8976 pages. 

 

Also tried the Dark Tower series ... still sitting there.

 

Don't do non-fiction much but did enjoy Wedlock 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wedloc...usband/dp/0297853317

 

 

 

Cariad try and dig out The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) and also The Running Man which he wrote under the same alias (it's nothing like the movie with Arnie). Both are absolutely sublime. The Dark Tower stuff was rank, as was anything he did with Straub.

 The Talisman?  

VD and The Stand.

I tend to mostly look down on stupid people!

*looks up* 

Not chooooooo!!!

If you ever feel like relaxing, why not try a Dean Koontz?

Is that really someone's name?!  

I'm a snob of pvc/imitation leather shoes or boots. They not only look shite (especially if they've walked in water) but they are very bad for your feet. (The only ones that aren't are the more costly ones like the special sites for veggie attire or Stella McCartney's). I'm also a boot heel snob. I can't stand to see boots or shoes where the heels have scuffed, the tips have worn down or even worse, come off completely *shudders*

Imitation leather handbags make me cringe a bit, too.

So do multi-coloured Christmas lights and non name brand house cleaning products.

I didn't like it velvet. I think these collaborative efforts are born more out of mutual ego massaging than any desire to produce a great book.

Except Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. That worked.