DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
my LOTR and Dune books get a once-a-year read usually. Well thmbed, foxed, badgered and dog eared.
Your most-read novel
- Thread starter the button
- Start date
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
I do enjoy a foxed book.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I don't get this if you love a book you don't break the spine. You can tell I love a book by the amount of yellowed sellotape holding it together from me sleeping on top of it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I've only read "The Cider House Rules" and "The World According to Garp" thrice each.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I bet you're one of those evil book-Nazi's who'd complain about the fact that many of my non-fiction books are heavily annotated as well, wouldn't you?
Eh?
EH?
EEEEEHHHHHHH?
E2A: I just re-read your post and I have, without a doubt, entirely misread it the first time.
I am a twat.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
in pencil?
Worse, my good Sir.
In Biro...
And frequently with the dreaded highlighter pens...
MOOHAHAHAHAAAA!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Truly, you are a cad of the book world.
kained&able
Here for the football.
reckon i hjave read 1984 4 times between school and pleasure, so probabley that.
dave
dave
jiggajagga
Judge_Mental
The Rama series. Should be a movie by now!!
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Toss up between LOTR and Dune.......(my Dune is 32 yrs old and very battered)...........
i re-read loads for lot's of reasons......
i re-read loads for lot's of reasons......
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
It is either
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
or
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
or
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
the button
out on the kocker
Two crackers there. I bought The Restraint of Beasts in a charity shop cos I liked the title, and it was an amazing read.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Two crackers there. I bought The Restraint of Beasts in a charity shop cos I liked the title, and it was an amazing read.
they are very similar in a lot of ways (work, drudge, systems, us and them, feeling/being a prisoner etc) and the writing style could be compared (like I did @ Uni
)the button
out on the kocker
they are very similar in a lot of ways (work, drudge, systems, us and them, feeling/being a prisoner etc) and the writing style could be compared (like I did @ Uni
Interesting comparison. For some reason that I can't quite put my finger on, it reminded me of Flann O'Brien.
Absolutely brilliant dialogue, capturing the cadences of natural speech (i.e. they don't talk like people in a novel, or talk like a novelist imagines working class people to speak), and their "wtf" reactions when people keep dying.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The novel I have read the most times is definitely Iain M Banks' Use Of Weapons. I can't do it any more, but my sister and I used to have a game where one of us would start a sentence (any sentence) and the other one would repeat what came after it, paragraph after paragraph. We used to do that with Time Bandits as well.
These days it's mostly comics. I've read the collected Doom Patrol a hell of a lot, also The Invisibles, the latter mostly because it makes no fucking sense if you don't read it lots of times carefully and in fact makes no fucking sense even if you do.
These days it's mostly comics. I've read the collected Doom Patrol a hell of a lot, also The Invisibles, the latter mostly because it makes no fucking sense if you don't read it lots of times carefully and in fact makes no fucking sense even if you do.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Invisibles is also kind enough to fuck with your head by introducing freaky visual clues as to the plot.
Clever-clever cunts.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Part of the process of analysing The Invisibles is to recognise the point where you are turning into an obsessed twat, and where you need to get out and have a shag and take some drugs and burn something in order to get the point. A lot of people fail at that stage.
I prefer his other stuff anyway, he's up his own arse with The Invisibles.
I prefer his other stuff anyway, he's up his own arse with The Invisibles.
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
Has to be 1984. Read it about three times, then another two times for A levels. Got really bored of it the last time, so might leave it for a while.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
For me he really took a trip up his own bournville boulevard when writing himself int the finale of Animal Man.
Inexcusable.
must get hold of that actually, cheers for the reminder. off to bookmooch.com as soon as I've finished typing.
For me it's probably 'general tales of ordinary madness' by bukowski. for me, reading a buk book is like slipping into a nice warm bath. a nice warm bath filled with misanthropy and dipsomania
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Same here, on balance probably LOTR.
Other well thumbed: E.R.Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, also his Zimiavian trilogy; Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy; Charlotte Brontë's Villette; Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast saga; Towers In The Mist and A City Of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge; the works of Jane Austen.
I like re-reading, probably because I tend to skim read.
Similar threads
