Books for bedtime...

[Truck]

always the problem with me too - i've always got books that I want to read off my own back so when a friend recommends or buys me summat, it just joins the pile ...

all-time faves, hmm ...

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

totally off the top of my head, as I'm not a lists man ...

A fine list
I'll check them out.
When I get home later today I'm going to stand in front of my bookcase (rub my chin a bit) and draw up a more detalied list.

Maybe we could start a FRA bookclub?

Tim

[N-dubya]

A rogue male by Geoffery Woodhouse I think. There has been two film adaptations of this.

Anything by George Orwell (coming up for air, is my fave)

Picture of Dorian grey

Sherlock Holmes

Shadow over Babylon

Reading Road to Wigan Pier at the moment

[Rodders]

A rogue male by Geoffery Woodhouse I think. There has been two film adaptations of this.

Aye, and don't forget 'The Thirty Nine Steps' John Buchan's most famous, with a bit of fell running in it too.

Never had a bad word said about "The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz"

[ukhursty]

Anything by Andy McNab or Lance Armstrong.

[OneHillWonder]

I have just finished reading The Woman in White - absolutely loved it
Now reading 1984 by George Orwell.. I think it's something I should read, and it's a good book... but not 100% sure I am actually enjoying it.

[noel]

Now reading 1984 by George Orwell

I'm currently reading A history of modern Britain by Andrew Marr. It's very interesting, but I'm only up to Eden - 1984 will presumably be later in the book.

But seriously, I hadn't realised previously that bread wasn't rationed during WWII, but bread rationing was introduced after the war? It puts this talk of national austerity into perspective.

[noel]

P.S. Catch 22 - great. If you haven't read it, you should.

I should probably read 1984, after the previous posts on this.

[RichardAThackeray]

I have just finished reading The Woman in White - absolutely loved it
Now reading 1984 by George Orwell.. I think it's something I should read, and it's a good book... but not 100% sure I am actually enjoying it.

I'm not sure you're really meant to enjoy 1984, it's more of a 'call to arms' not to let it happen

But, the Ministry of Truth's output could be viewed as 'Spin-Doctoring', & the rest follows............

Reading Road to Wigan Pier at the moment

Co-incidentally, the book I am 're-visiting' at the moment mentions Wigan Pier, & Eric Arthur Blair.

It's a cracking read too (he's almost as good a writer as he is a DJ)


'Pies & Prejudice' by Stuart Maconie

[ZootHornRollo]

'Pies & Prejudice' by Stuart Maconie

Liked it but thought he played it pretty safe. It's almost like he was thinking 'is this going to offend anyone?' with every observation and opinion.


Nice chap though.

[N-dubya]

Nineteen eighty four is one of my favourite books,i've re-read it 3 or 4 times.Martin Amis has a new novel out The pregnant widow,i've pretty much read all of his work and apart from "Night train" think he is a godlike genius. Ian McEwan also has "solar" out this week. Chesil beach is a classic.

I liked Atonement but i've read some of the reviews of Solar and got a general synopsis of the book and it seems an interesting point of view. I think iwiil be definitely reading this. I relly liked Animal Farm, Down and out in Paris and London another Orwell title (biographical) Ipersonally think you should read before Wigan pier