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What's Your Favourite Book?

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  1. The Prof Administrator Administrator

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  2. Vinnie BBQ Justice is lost Justice is raped Justice is gone.

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    Better than boring sport biographies. :icon_mrgreen:

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    A Clockwork Orange is probably my all time favourite book. Bit of effort getting used to the dialect etc but its well worth it.

    City of Bohane is last book I read, set in a dystopian Burgess-esque fictional city in the west of Ireland. Reminded me a lot of Clockwork Orange in a way.

    If you are into sci fi/alternate history type books then 'Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep' and 'The Man in the High Castle are fantastic'
     
    Fiferbhoy1991, Jan 26, 2016
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    Not into books at all, the only two I've read in about 20 years are:

    Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen which was really good until the end where it went a bit mental.

    and

    Back From The Brink - Paul McGrath's autobiography which is excellent reading.
     
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    Marching Powder - True story

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  6. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    Probably the only book I've ever bothered to read. :smiley-laughing002:

    Done it for my English 3rd year book essay, loved it so much I actually done some school work.
     
    TimFloyd, Jan 26, 2016
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    Filth is good.
     
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  9. Tim-Time 1888 Always look on the bright side of Life Gold Member

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    It sure did mate lol, loved the book and the movie.
     
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  11. Jack Torrance Heeeeeere's Johnny! Gold Member

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    fiction

    Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
    Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
    Moby * by Melville. this one seems daunting but it's an incredible book.
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    Fear and Loathing by Hunter s Thompson
    big Sur by Jack Kerouac
    A farwell to Arms by Hemingway
    everything written ever by Kafka
     
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    Any Viz Annual!
     
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    Trainspotting is the best book I've read in the last 20-odd years.

    Apart from that: LOTR, 1984, Catch 22, Lord of the Flies...

    I've had a couple of novels published myself but a piece of advice for the OP...it's a really long process. Took me a long time to be good enough to be accepted so if you seriously would like to be a writer - be prepared for spending a lot of your life working in empty rooms with nothing but rejection and humiliation around every corner.

    Bit like being a hun housepainter...
     
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    Awesome series of books.
     
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    The ragged trousered philanthropists by R. Tressell .
    Of mice and men by J. Steinbeck .
    A Scots quair by L. Grassic Gibbon .
     
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    Read all of the books you mentioned there except for Catch 22. All excellent reads.
     
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    Fly Fishing by J R Hartley.
     
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    Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into them.

    I bought The Girl On The Train two days ago and have since been reading it obsessively. It really is a great read and I recommend it highly.
     
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  20. packybhoy Administrator Administrator Gold Member

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    Aye it is and so is glue. Although a lot longer read. Felt like Welsh made that one a bit more biographical. Fairly gives it to the Huns as well.:50:
     
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