Originally posted by AmauroteCold Comfort Farm is a hoot! I came to the book after watching the most recent film version with Kate Beckinsale, and I found the book even better. There's so much literary hilarity going on in the book.
I've been running a few reading groups recently - the choices have been much lighter than I would voluntarily have chosen, but I was impressed by the quality of Mark Twains Adventures (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) sequence which to my shame I've never read before, and less so by Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm, which to my surprise turned out to have elements of science fiction.
Originally posted by widgetThat sounds pretty interesting. 🙂
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" - Julian Jaynes 😲
😀 Not what we think, but how we come to be fundamentally obliged to think the way we do....
I don't even know if I can choose - I guess the most epic book I read was The Lord of the Rings - but I enjoyed what I read of The Stand more, yet ironically I didn't finish it. And I'm not even going to explain why just to bother all of you. That's right - be bothered.
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Originally posted by NordlysMaybe you two should have a game User 208982.
That's one of the very few books I didn't manage to finish because I was so disgusted. I read it (or part of it) a long time ago, though, so I don't know if I would still see it the same way. I always loved and still love Hesse's "Das Glasperlenspiel".
This was my favorite book until I read "All the King's Men." Now, egh.
Originally posted by blakbuzzrdIt is a stylish little book, but I have to say there were only one or two sections (Ada Doom brooding in her room about the woodshed, Feckless and the cows spontaneously amputating) that really made me laugh - the problem is that it's a parody of a particular novelist, and that novelist (Mary Webber) is not read any more (I know someone who has read her, but even she was hardly her biggest fan).
Cold Comfort Farm is a hoot! I came to the book after watching the most recent film version with Kate Beckinsale, and I found the book even better. There's so much literary hilarity going on in the book.
Originally posted by blakbuzzrdIf we're including graphic novels, then "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth" by Chris Ware, gets my vote.
I guess I'll throw in a graphic novel: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Changed my perspective on Batman altogether, and watching him kick the crap out of Superman was worth the price several times over.
Originally posted by taipei5200YES YES YES! This is one of the few books that I keep buying for other people. I reread it every few years. Awesome choice!
My favorite book is:
Replay by Ken Grimwood.
Guy drops dead in middle age, wakes up & he's 18 years old again & can recall his previous life. Then he reaches middle age & drops dead again & wakes up & can recall his previous lives...ETC
Like ground hog day
"Legend" by David Gammel.
Best fiction fantasy writer ever. Goose bumps all the way through. Every book out of his 20 something books are quality. He died earlier this year, damnit!
Best sreies "Star of the Guardians" by Margret Weiss. They are old now but so well worth a read.
Best new series in fantasy for me, "A Song of Fire and Ice" George RR Martin. Widest and most intricate in its scope, up to book 5 and finally starting to tell about the final quarter of the fictional realm comes into the story. Another reason i like the guy is as soon as you really like a character, they are killed! Your thinking WTF?!?!?! Love it.
Originally posted by lordhighgusI was a huge fan of his at school..."Legend" was superb. His stuff on Troy looks interesting, so I might have to honour his memory by reading it.
"Legend" by David Gammel.
Best fiction fantasy writer ever. Goose bumps all the way through. Every book out of his 20 something books are quality. He died earlier this year, damnit!.