Favourite book

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

The Periodic Table - Primo Levi

Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Alchemist - Paolo Cuelho

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

The Incredible Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

The Stand - Stephen King

The Iliad - Homer
 
Hansel and Gretel....purely sentimental reasons. My daughter was obsessed with it as a child and I must have read it to her at least once a week for a year. Mind numbing at the time but now she's 15 it's a very special memory
 
Blf said:
Don't cry for me Sgt Major by Jeremy Hands and Max Hastings.
A look at the Falklands War from the soldiers point of view.
Sad , hilarious and informative from 2 journos travelling with our troops.
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Max Hastings didn't do any of the writing in this book although he did provide a lot of the material for it in as much as he acted like a complete **** in the company of the two other journalists Jeremy Hands and Robert McGowan from the day they sailed to the Falklands to the day they got back.

Great book that I've re-read many times
 
American_Mary said:
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

The Periodic Table - Primo Levi

Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Alchemist - Paolo Cuelho

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

The Incredible Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

The Stand - Stephen King

The Iliad - Homer
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Love the incredible lightness of being, great book
 
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Foundation / Foundation & Empire / Second Foundation - Issac Asimov
Lord of The Rings Trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
Dune - Frank Herbert
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

As always this could change - PG Wodehouse should be in there, as should Spike Milligan for the War memoirs, Philip K. d*ck's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Bill Bryson for one of his numerous funny but thought provoking books.

So much choice
 
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Harry X said:
Max Hastings didn't do any of the writing in this book although he did provide a lot of the material for it in as much as he acted like a complete **** in the company of the two other journalists Jeremy Hands and Robert McGowan from the day they sailed to the Falklands to the day they got back.

Great book that I've re-read many times
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Don't know why I put him down as an author. Just read it again recently and his name must have stuck in my mind from all the mentions he gets.
 
My recent favourite is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin, comprising of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death’s End.

The imagination he has to come up with so many interesting ideas is mind-blowing.
 
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

My Secret History - Paul Theroux

Kane & Abel - Jeffrey Archer

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr


Currently reading The Promise, Damon Galgut, which is fantastic.
 
king_hellfire said:
My recent favourite is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin, comprising of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death’s End.

The imagination he has to come up with so many interesting ideas is mind-blowing.
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I've just finished "The Three Body Problem" and while I enjoyed the body of it, I felt it fizzled out towards the end. I might give another in the trilogy a go later.
 
rkangel said:
I've just finished "The Three Body Problem" and while I enjoyed the body of it, I felt it fizzled out towards the end. I might give another in the trilogy a go later.
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Trust me, the first book is the lesser of the three, although I still enjoyed it. The second and third books are a totally different beast to the first, they blow it out of the water. The Dark Forest starts off relatively slowly but quickly takes off, and when it does, the action, the ingenious concepts, the pace of the story is exhilarating. Entire books could be written based on one of the concepts alone, yet the fact he used them all for one (three-book) story is amazing.

Admittedly, there will obviously be people who totally disagree with my opinion (though they surely can’t disagree with the ingenuity of the concepts), but if you enjoyed the body of the first book then I would HIGHLY recommend you read the next one. 👍🏻
 
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