Lillehamring Posted 3 February 2009 Posted 3 February 2009 i'm reading 'his family' by ernest poole it was the first novel to win a pulitzer
cisono Posted 3 February 2009 Posted 3 February 2009 On holiday, I read Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth. (this below is the cover of the US edition, which is the one I read, as I got to borrow one such copy for free from the hotel) Ken's words: This is my most popular book. It still sells about 100,000 copies a year in paperback in the US, it was number one in the UK and Italy and it was on the German best seller list for six years. It's overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. It's becoming a cult. Writing Pillars of the Earth was exhausting. It is much more difficult to write one book of 400,000 words than three or four shorter books because you have to keep making up more and more stuff about the same people. Pillars of the Earth took me three years and three months and towards the end I was working Saturdays and Sundays because I thought I was never going to get it finished. POPULARITY: The Pillars of the Earth was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the 60th Oprah’s Book Club selection in November 2007, and is #1 on the The New York Times trade paperback list and #8 on its mass market paperback list (9 December 2008) Die Säulen der Erde (the German edition of The Pillars of the Earth) has been voted the third-most popular book in Germany by more than 250 000 readers who voted for the ZDF TV channel's 'best books' poll in 2006, after J R R Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings and the Bible. The audiobook edition has won a German Platinum Disk award for sales of more than 200,000 copies. The Pillars of the Earth is one of the top 100 books chosen by British readers in the BBC's 2003 'The Big Read' The Pillars of the Earth is one of the '101 Books to Read Before You Die' chosen by patrons of Exclusive Books – it is 27th on the list. more info: http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliography/th..._the_earth.html
The People's Hero Posted 4 February 2009 Posted 4 February 2009 I've read all Follett's stuff. Pretty good. What did you make of it?
Raj Posted 4 February 2009 Posted 4 February 2009 Boy in the striped pyjamas (Mrs made me read it...honest!!!!) Its Ok...endings good though!!! Now onto Life of Pi.
General Smuts Posted 4 February 2009 Posted 4 February 2009 Boy in the striped pyjamas(Mrs made me read it...honest!!!!) Its Ok...endings good though!!! Now onto Life of Pi. As if you can read.
BoneDog Posted 4 February 2009 Posted 4 February 2009 3 Quality Books The 1st one is a biography thing but reads like fiction. Amazing stuff.
placidcasual Posted 5 February 2009 Posted 5 February 2009 Vasily Grossman: A Writer at War - A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army 1941-1945
StanSP Posted 5 February 2009 Posted 5 February 2009 Reading Flaubert's Parrot (for school). There is no way I would read that just out of interest. Such a weird but wonderfully constructed book.
Chris LCFC Posted 5 February 2009 Posted 5 February 2009 Just started FA Confidential. Anyone read it? Seems a pretty decent read so far
Lillehamring Posted 5 February 2009 Posted 5 February 2009 Reading Flaubert's Parrot (for school).There is no way I would read that just out of interest. Such a weird but wonderfully constructed book. and written by a city fan, too
BoneDog Posted 5 February 2009 Posted 5 February 2009 Just started FA Confidential. Anyone read it? Seems a pretty decent read so far Yes it's good but the films better
Lillehamring Posted 10 February 2009 Posted 10 February 2009 i'm currently racing through the rather excellent 19th century, gothic lesbian vampire thrilla, Carmilla a spooky and sultry piece of writing - good stuff
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 25 February 2009 Posted 25 February 2009 current all-time favourite:shantaram - gregory david roberts amazing TRUE story of an australian armed robber who escapes from prison and flees to bombay where he spends 8 years in the bombay underworld living in slums, working as a gangster, acting in bollywood and, just for good measure, fighting with the taliban against the russians in afghanistan. unbelievable stuff and beatutifully written (apparently they're making a film with jonny depp as lead - read it before the film comes out) Reading this at the moment, should take me a good couple of months to read as it certaintly not the smallest book. Also just read a book "Shoot to Kill" by Michael Ahser
JakeShingler Posted 25 February 2009 Posted 25 February 2009 Anyone know were i can get the football factory book? I heard its decent.
stez Posted 25 February 2009 Posted 25 February 2009 Anyone know were i can get the football factory book?I heard its decent. a book shop? amazon? ebay? the library? tesco? welcome break service station?
JakeShingler Posted 25 February 2009 Posted 25 February 2009 a book shop? amazon? ebay? the library? tesco? welcome break service station? Tryed
StanSP Posted 25 February 2009 Posted 25 February 2009 and written by a city fan, too wow, didn't know that! Dipping in and out of 'Do Bats Have Bollocks?' Lame book . And just read Rape of The Lock by Alexander Pope for English
MC Prussian Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Finally making my way through Christopher Vogler's "The Writer's Journey". And have just finished Excellent read that was.
Master Fox Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Finally making my way through Christopher Vogler's "The Writer's Journey".And have just finished Excellent read that was. I've been wanting to read this for a while now. I might buy this for my trip.
Lillehamring Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 I've been wanting to read this for a while now. I might buy this for my trip. i would highly recommend instead of kerouac, for someone of your particular, um, tendancies to go for henry miller's tropic of capricorn Edit: ok, just noticed it is about him not by him - anyway, if you're into that period of american literature and you haven't already tried it, i'd still recommend miller: it's funny, very alcoholic and very very dirty....
Lillehamring Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Attempt #3423221. ha, good luck... i like joyce and enjoyed reading fragments of ulysses, but by all accounts, this is just literary noise... ...more importantantly, which manga is your sig from?
MC Prussian Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 ha, good luck... i like joyce and enjoyed reading fragments of ulysses, but by all accounts, this is just literary noise......more importantantly, which manga is your sig from? Isn't that from the Bioshock game?
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