What is the best book you have ever read?

[AndrewT]

No Harold Robbins fans?

It's just pornographic muzak, really.

[marcro]

No Harold Robbins fans?

It's just pornographic muzak, really.

aha - I knew that there would be a reader lurking somewhere, lol.

[booder]

So he's Welsh then!

Any sharper and you'd cut yourself!

There are decent people from Wales - as well as Bertrand Russell, there's Scott Quinnell, Billy Boston, Jim Sullivan, Ian Rush, and Blonde's own Dewi!

Some Welshmen though...

FYP

[action man]

Kama Sutra

Did you read it thoroughly or just give it a quick flick?

lmfao

[charmaine]

Just coming to the end of Stepen King's  , Cell

Excellent reading one that i dont want to put down , reminds me alot of the  stand

Must admit worrying using the mobile phone now lol

[yellowmagic]

Good evening,

I thought I'd dip my toe in with this thread: some good reads I've had :-

The kingdom of the wicked - Anthony Burgess
Tommy - Richard Holmes
The soul of a new machine - Tracey Kidder
Enemy coast ahead - Guy Gibson
LIbra - Don DeLillo
All the Presidents' men - Woodward and Bernstein
Watch my back - Geoff Thompson
Money - Martin Amis
One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
Collected Poems - Philip Larkin
Citizens - Simon Schama
Bell's eye - Steve Bell
Lempriere's dictionary - Lawrence Norfolk
Red dragon - Thomas Harris

I steer clear of Waugh, McEwan, Greene and Dostoyevsky, miserabilist sods to a man.

(whew, that wasn't so daunting after all...)

[RED-DOG]

Welcome Yellow

Regards

Red.

[The Baron]

Fermat's Last Theorem - was that the Pythagoras Puzzle?

[Eck]

Some of my favourite's all the usuals im afraid


Lord of the rings - tolkien (take it that no longer cool to like the greatest piece of fiction any longer)
1984 -  orwell
Wasp Factory & Espadair street - Iain Banks (not Iain M Banks he's a knob)
To kill a mockingbird - harper lee (loved it from school)
Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy -  Douglas Adams
Fear and loathing - hunter s thompson

[Claw75]

One (or three) that's not been mentioned yet that I really enjoyed were the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman

[kinboshi]

Fermat's Last Theorem - was that the Pythagoras Puzzle?

xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ
has no integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2

So I guess it's could be known as that.

[Jon MW]

Fermat's Last Theorem - was that the Pythagoras Puzzle?

No it was Fermat's

 


Sorry, I mean yes, sort of


Edit:  What Kinboshi said

[The Baron]

Fermat's Last Theorem - was that the Pythagoras Puzzle?

xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ
has no integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2

So I guess it's could be known as that.

Cheers Kin,

Think I've read this or seen a film on it maybe. I remember it being really interesting.

[BrumBilly]

Collected Poems - Philip Larkin


I steer clear of Waugh, McEwan, Greene and Dostoyevsky, miserabilist sods to a man.

(whew, that wasn't so daunting after all...)

Larkin wasn't exactly a glass half-full type character but he's one of my fav's too.

On my list would be: Colin Wilson's 'A Criminal History of Mankind'

[redimp]

Good evening,

I thought I'd dip my toe in with this thread: some good reads I've had :-

The kingdom of the wicked - Anthony Burgess
Tommy - Richard Holmes
The soul of a new machine - Tracey Kidder
Enemy coast ahead - Guy Gibson
LIbra - Don DeLillo
All the Presidents' men - Woodward and Bernstein
Watch my back - Geoff Thompson
Money - Martin Amis
One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
Collected Poems - Philip Larkin
Citizens - Simon Schama
Bell's eye - Steve Bell
Lempriere's dictionary - Lawrence Norfolk
Red dragon - Thomas Harris

I steer clear of Waugh, McEwan, Greene and Dostoyevsky, miserabilist sods to a man.

(whew, that wasn't so daunting after all...)

Nice first post