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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

A conversation with a close friend tossed up the idiotic idea of a calendar of scruffy boys reading her favourite books.

Which lead to "what are your 12 fav books?" Therein a very difficult list was compiled.

These are mine, I'd like to know yours if you can take the time.

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Surface Detail - Iain M Banks

Anathem - Neal Stephenson

Different Seasons - Stephen King

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell

The Van - Roddy Doyle

K-Pax - Gene Brewer

The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Couldn't decide on an Attwood, could all have been Iain (M) Banks and I'll fully change my mind by tomorrow, but...

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

Bookmarking!

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Oooo are we doing this as calendar months? Because even if not, I am.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gosh ...

My favourite still stays with me and it’s not exactly a prize winner, but it reminds me of my teenage years.

Dracula ...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Oooo are we doing this as calendar months? Because even if not, I am.

Interesting...

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By *rufinWoman
over a year ago

notts

If a favourite is one you can re-read many times ...

A couple of Penelope Lively ones, but especially Moon Tiger

Jane Eyre

The hobbit

All the Terry Pratchett Discworld books, can't decide on an absolute favourite

The Far Pavilions

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Gosh ...

My favourite still stays with me and it’s not exactly a prize winner, but it reminds me of my teenage years.

Dracula ... "

I own that book. Decided I needed it after watching Gary Oldman's Dracula.

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By *ncemoreroundthesunCouple
over a year ago

on the move

Some good books in your list

Can't whittle it down to 12

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"If a favourite is one you can re-read many times ...

A couple of Penelope Lively ones, but especially Moon Tiger

Jane Eyre

The hobbit

All the Terry Pratchett Discworld books, can't decide on an absolute favourite

The Far Pavilions

*thinks* why have I never read Jane Eyre...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Some good books in your list

Can't whittle it down to 12

Ikr, it's difficult. But nobody is going to hold you to it...

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Dune - Frank Herbert

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

God Emperor - Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isabelle Allende - Zorro

Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne

Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Dune - Frank Herbert

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

God Emperor - Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isabelle Allende - Zorro

Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne

Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me

When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho.

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

"Dune - Frank Herbert

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

God Emperor - Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isabelle Allende - Zorro

Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne

Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me

When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho. "

I have yet to find a mote appealing mix of fantasy, political intrigue, interwoven with strong religious and even ecological themes. One word. Brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Dune - Frank Herbert

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

God Emperor - Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isabelle Allende - Zorro

Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne

Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me

When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho.

I have yet to find a mote appealing mix of fantasy, political intrigue, interwoven with strong religious and even ecological themes. One word. Brilliant."

I'll stick it on the list. I remember adoring it as a teen...

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

"Dune - Frank Herbert

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

God Emperor - Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse - Frank Herbert

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

The two towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isabelle Allende - Zorro

Journey to the center of the Earth - Jules verne

Yep, I like my fantasy and Frank Herbert's style is tops for me

When I was scanning the shelves for this list I looked at the Dune novels and paused. Not read them in so long tho.

I have yet to find a mote appealing mix of fantasy, political intrigue, interwoven with strong religious and even ecological themes. One word. Brilliant.

I'll stick it on the list. I remember adoring it as a teen..."

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

This is as hard as Desert Island Discs for tunes!

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Needs a Cormac McCarthy

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By *wist my nipplesCouple
over a year ago

North East Scotland, mostly

"If a favourite is one you can re-read many times ...

A couple of Penelope Lively ones, but especially Moon Tiger

Jane Eyre

The hobbit

All the Terry Pratchett Discworld books, can't decide on an absolute favourite

The Far Pavilions

OMG, I love Penelope Lively, and Moon Tiger is my favourite book of all time too! Reread it many times.

As for the other 11 - I'll get back to you, might take a while...

Mrs TMN x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Needs a Cormac McCarthy "

What would you recommend as a gateway drug?

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

"Needs a Cormac McCarthy

What would you recommend as a gateway drug?"

Blood Meridian and if you are feeling really upbeat The Road.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Twelve... sheesh

Lolita - Nabokov

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell

Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World - Huxley

Handmaid’s Tale - Atwell

We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel shriver

A little life - Hanya Yanigihara

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

Brief Interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace

Dystopian heavy. Short stories included (cheating?)

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By *rufinWoman
over a year ago

notts

Some great choices on here. Love the Dune series, been a long time since I read them though.

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

"Twelve... sheesh

Lolita - Nabokov

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell

Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World - Huxley

Handmaid’s Tale - Atwell

We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel shriver

A little life - Hanya Yanigihara

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

Brief Interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace

Dystopian heavy. Short stories included (cheating?)"

Darn...forgot about Brave New World

left out H.P. lovecraft as well

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Too many to list really but definitely I’d say The Stand by Stephen King. I think reading that was when I realised the differences between reading books and appreciating literature.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Couldn't be arsed cumming up with 12 but I'm a big David Eddings fan. I would so fuck Althalus!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Twelve... sheesh

Lolita - Nabokov

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell

Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World - Huxley

Handmaid’s Tale - Atwell

We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel shriver

A little life - Hanya Yanigihara

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

Brief Interviews with hideous men - David foster Wallace

Dystopian heavy. Short stories included (cheating?)

Darn...forgot about Brave New World

left out H.P. lovecraft as well"

Yeah I've realised I've left out a few. It's a tricky ask. Great list tho.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Needs a Cormac McCarthy

What would you recommend as a gateway drug?

Blood Meridian and if you are feeling really upbeat The Road. "

Ahhh The Road, of course. Harrowing film I thought. Father and son stuff always gets me...

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

So this is subject to change daily. Probably hourly in all honesty, I'm a fickle woman. I've tried to match up seasonal and literature which was actually quite a fun thing to do.

January - Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)

Because nothing says the start of a new year like a fantastical romp to stop the end of days.

February - Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)/ Pride and Prejudice/maybe Emma (Jane Austen)

One a perfectly pitched satirical romance that delightfully plays on the tropes and societal expectations of gender, love and family. Rhetorical perfection. The other doesn't need explaining.

March - Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. A feminist retelling of the classic fairy tales: bringing new life to old much like Spring

April - Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis/Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

May - The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni/ Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway/ North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

June - White Teeth, Zadie Smith/The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart/No Logo, Naomi Klein.

July - Lord of the Rings/The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe/

August - American Gods by one of the greatest living authors who I will one day not squeak at but seduce with my dazzling erudite wit. On the Road (Jack Kerouac) and Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts) belong here as well.

September - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë/The Handmaid's Tale/A Spy in the House of Love.

A new academic year and the time where I get all feminist-y and want to read about unapologetically brilliant women who truly live their lives and embrace their emotions.

October - Bram Stoker's Dracula/The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Obvs.

November - Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray/ Vanity Fair by William Thackeray.

December - The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern. Magical, poignant, beautiful. Perfect for long cold nights and reading in front of the fire.

My front page would be 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami being read.

Fucking hell that's a lot of words. Sorry for that and any spelling mistakes.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"So this is subject to change daily. Probably hourly in all honesty, I'm a fickle woman. I've tried to match up seasonal and literature which was actually quite a fun thing to do.