Favourite Book Ever (1 Viewer)

[sugar_referee]

Catcher In The Rye - is it filmable?

I would say no , but that's always the reaction to a great book being filmed. What a book though. I heard about the possibilty of For Esmé - With Love and Squalor being done, select stories out of the book like, but I can't be arsed seing if it's true. Id say they'd be a great venture, not as daunting an idea as Catcher In the Rye would be.

 

[potlatch]

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Do these have to be story books or can day be not story, oto?

 

[It Will Never Last]

Mine is Anne and Barry do 69.

 

[ernesto]

right, im not reading half as many books as i should be or want to.
here are some i liked/loved:
hitchhikers guides
Mr. nice and his other ones
catch 22
clockwork orange - burgess
bill hicks's main one
Fat God, Thin God - james kennedy
things snowball - rich hall
sad bastard - hugo hamilton

please someone recommend me some books that will stir my mind and arouse my brain. i need to read more.
thanks

 

[MDR]

right, im not reading half as many books as i should be or want to.
here are some i liked/loved:
hitchhikers guides
Mr. nice and his other ones
catch 22
clockwork orange - burgess
bill hicks's main one
Fat God, Thin God - james kennedy
things snowball - rich hall
sad bastard - hugo hamilton

please someone recommend me some books that will stir my mind and arouse my brain. i need to read more.
thanks

What type of books do you like? Modern, 19th century? Plot-driven? Funny?

I have yet to meet someone who didn't like 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest'.

 

[billygannon]

My favourite book is "The Life and Times of Ronan Hession".

 

[MDR]

My favourite book is "The Life and Times of Ronan Hession".

The full title is:

"Every rainbow has a silver lining: The life and/or times of ronan hession"

 

[billygannon]

The full title is:

"Every rainbow has a silver lining: The life and/or times of ronan hession"

I was reading the unauthorised biography. Need to check out this one.

I didn't know you knew Dermot Murnaghan, the BBC news anchorman!

 

[MDR]

I was reading the unauthorised biography. Need to check out this one.

I didn't know you knew Dermot Murnaghan, the BBC news anchorman!

I think my book captures his certain (as the say in France) "I don't know what".

 

[Doctor Muscles]

 

[Nate Champion]

Yeah, just last week I'm walking home at four in the morning and my friend says 'can I recommend a book...' and it's Peter Carey's Bliss.

Always wanted to read Calvino. I've thumbed through them in shops, always been interested but I've never got around.

Yes, someone mentioned William Maxwell and I think 'They came like swallows'. One of my favourites too. He's such a spare, generous writer.
Also 'the folded leaf' - great novel on the trials of teenhood moving into young adulthood.

Also,

'Raise high the roofbeams carpenters' by Salinger.

 

[potlatch]

I also like this:

 

[therealjohnny]

I also like this:

This has been sitting on my shelf for 2 years! The spine ahs gven way and seeing as I do all my readin gon the bus I cant stick it in my bag for fear of it coming apart

I first heard of it when I was commisioned to do this..
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[Bellatrix]

'Raise high the roofbeams carpenters' by Salinger.

I went through a brief but intense Glass Family obsession several years ago. The only story I haven't read is Hapworth 16, 1924 which, I think, is only available in The Complete New Yorker.

 

[P. Littbarski]

i would like to revise my choice

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Fiction it would probably be I Married a Communist by Phillip Roth, non-fiction favourite would be Europe: A History by Norman Davies. I've read both several times.

 

[jimmybreeze]

Love that book,the other novels Iv read of his though have been a disappointment.
Also the first short story of his I read was "A clean well lighted place",which I love,again all the other short stories of his that Iv read have been pretty poor.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

my favourite book sitting on my favourite carpet.