Top 5 books you have read

[Rico1304]

I was surprised To Kill A M didn't get more votes, brilliant book for an early teen to read (and before anyone starts I didn't cheer at the end)

American Psycho is the single most disturbing book I've ever read

Moby Dick is the worst I've ever read

 

1. To Kill a Mockingbird

2. Red Vagabond (first book I read on my own, given to me by my grandad)

3. Danny The Champion of the World

4. The Count of Monte Cristo

5. A Tale of Two Cities

[Paul]

1. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

2. Danny, The Champion Of The World by Roald Dahl

3. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

4. La Peste by Albert Camus

5. The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham

[Kevin D]

Are we including plays?

[PestiRed]

Catch 22

trainspotting

Cannery Row

American Psycho

The Godfather

 

All books that I return to every few years or so, especially Catch 22 - possibly the funniest and most tragic book ever written

[Pidge]

1) The Idiot (Dostoevsky)

2) The Colour of Magic (Pratchett)

3) Resurrection (Tolstoy)

4) High Rise (Ballard)

5) Diary of a Drug Fiend (Crowley)

[mars]

Neuromancer - Wiliam Gibson

Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories - Ernest Hemingway

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Empire Star - Samuel R Delany

Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett

[Jose Jones]

Catch 22

trainspotting

Cannery Row

American Psycho

The Godfather

 

All books that I return to every few years or so, especially Catch 22 - possibly the funniest and most tragic book ever written

I nearly had Cannery Row. I suppose it's minor Steinbeck compared with the larger themes in Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men or East of Eden, but probably my favourite to read.

[Remmie]

I read Catch 22 from a recommendation on here well over 10 years ago (possibly 15) and was pretty disappointed. It's sometimes funny, but I was hoping for a story and there isn't one. Don't mean to piss on the chips of those that love it, but if like me you were hoping for a great war story, give it a big swerve.

 

Anyone read The Dice man by Lucius Rhineheart? Great book with a very intriguing concept, impossible to not play a couple games after getting into it. I got into it from a recommendation on here again after reading the heart-warming Yes man and it didn't disappoint.

 

My favourite book as a teenager was the Red Dwarf trilogy; very, very funny and I can't watch the show after reading it, it's so completely inferior.

 

Savage by Richard Laymon - The first Horror book I read, very entertaining and dark. I'm sure there are better horror books out there, but this was a great way get into the genre. It is a Wild West book that manages to get Jack the Ripper as a character in it.

 

George's Marvellous Medicine - My favourite kids book and reminds me of going to my grandma's and making "potions" in her bath.

 

Porno - Irvine Welsh. Only because I haven't read Trainspotting, but this is a cracking follow up and I love that the T2 movie went in a slightly different direction. Fucking funny and fucking sad at the same time.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Anyone read The Dice man by Lucius Rhineheart? Great book with a very intriguing concept, impossible to not play a couple games after getting into it. I got into it from a recommendation on here again after reading the heart-warming Yes man and it didn't disappoint.

 

 

Many years ago mate, excellent book. As you say, quite hard not to follow the plot a few times yourself. Might have been myself who recommended this book, but then again. Thinking about it, it would make a cracking film, or maybes even a series if the Author was willing to let new writers expand on the original story. The possibilities of new story lines is never ending. 

[Tourt]

I read Catch 22 from a recommendation on here well over 10 years ago (possibly 15) and was pretty disappointed. It's sometimes funny, but I was hoping for a story and there isn't one. Don't mean to piss on the chips of those that love it, but if like me you were hoping for a great war story, give it a big swerve.

 

Anyone read The Dice man by Lucius Rhineheart? Great book with a very intriguing concept, impossible to not play a couple games after getting into it. I got into it from a recommendation on here again after reading the heart-warming Yes man and it didn't disappoint.

 

My favourite book as a teenager was the Red Dwarf trilogy; very, very funny and I can't watch the show after reading it, it's so completely inferior.

 

Savage by Richard Laymon - The first Horror book I read, very entertaining and dark. I'm sure there are better horror books out there, but this was a great way get into the genre. It is a Wild West book that manages to get Jack the Ripper as a character in it.

 

George's Marvellous Medicine - My favourite kids book and reminds me of going to my grandma's and making "potions" in her bath.

 

Porno - Irvine Welsh. Only because I haven't read Trainspotting, but this is a cracking follow up and I love that the T2 movie went in a slightly different direction. Fucking funny and fucking sad at the same time

I read Catch 22 from a recommendation on here well over 10 years ago (possibly 15) and was pretty disappointed. It's sometimes funny, but I was hoping for a story and there isn't one. Don't mean to piss on the chips of those that love it, but if like me you were hoping for a great war story, give it a big swerve.

 

 

Garrulous twat.

 

 

“Complete and utter garbage”,  is the phrase ya looking for.

 

BTW: nice to see you back, about time you made a contribution.

[Remmie]

I read Catch 22 from a recommendation on here well over 10 years ago (possibly 15) and was pretty disappointed. It's sometimes funny, but I was hoping for a story and there isn't one. Don't mean to piss on the chips of those that love it, but if like me you were hoping for a great war story, give it a big swerve.

 

 

Garrulous twat.

 

 

“Complete and utter garbage”,  is the phrase ya looking for.

 

BTW: nice to see you back, about time you made a contribution.

Excellent insult, I had to look it up.

 

I haven't gone anywhere and post almost daily, it's just I post such inane fucking shite that it's easy to miss me.

[King Emlyn]

The Whitsun weddings

The less deceived

High Windows

The dream songs

All quiet on the western front

[Bjornebye]

Has anyone read Catcher In The Rye and if so, is it worth it or am I gonna read it and go and shoot Noel Gallagher?

 

(Yeah read it go and shoot him hahahahahahahahaha yawn) 

[Rotpeter]

Has anyone read Catcher In The Rye and if so, is it worth it or am I gonna read it and go and shoot Noel Gallagher?

 

(Yeah read it go and shoot him hahahahahahahahaha yawn) 

I love it but then again people rarely thank me for my recommendation. A friend called it a "diary of a titty-lipped teen", but I think it's really a "masterpiece of alienation literature".  

 

Your take?  My moneys on "Diary of a titty-lipped teen"

[Jose Jones]

I read Catch 22 from a recommendation on here well over 10 years ago (possibly 15) and was pretty disappointed. It's sometimes funny, but I was hoping for a story and there isn't one. Don't mean to piss on the chips of those that love it, but if like me you were hoping for a great war story, give it a big swerve.

 

 

Garrulous twat.

 

 

“Complete and utter garbage”, is the phrase ya looking for.

 

BTW: nice to see you back, about time you made a contribution.

You two must have flies in your eyes.

[Remmie]

You two must have flies in your eyes.

If we think we might be crazy by definition we cannot be crazy (or something like that).

[Jose Jones]

If we think we might be crazy by definition we cannot be crazy (or something like that).

See, you love it really.

[Bjornebye]

I love it but then again people rarely thank me for my recommendation. A friend called it a "diary of a titty-lipped teen", but I think it's really a "masterpiece of alienation literature".  

 

Your take?  My moneys on "Diary of a titty-lipped teen"

 

 

I haven't read it yet. Now wind your neck in. Thanks for your initial opinion, ill defo read it. Next. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Filth by Irvine Welsh

A Prayer For Owen Meant by John Irving

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Lord of The Rings by J.R.Hartley

[PestiRed]

I haven't read it yet. Now wind your neck in. Thanks for your initial opinion, ill defo read it. Next.

 

Great book for alienated youth. Bit tiresome when you get old

[Paul]

The Whitsun weddings

The less deceived

High Windows

The dream songs

All quiet on the western front

Are those collections of poetry genuinely in your top five reads?

[Paul]

Great book for alienated youth. Bit tiresome when you get old

I read it in my teens and thought it was absolutely shite. I cannot empathise with Holden Caulfield on any level. He's a tit.

[King Emlyn]

Are those collections of poetry genuinely in your top five reads?

Well yeah, that's why I posted them, Philip Larkin is one of my all time idols, I also love Berryman.

Not a fan?

[Paul]

Well yeah, that's why I posted them, Philip Larkin is one of my all time idols, I also love Berryman.

Not a fan?

"Tightly folded bud,

I have wished for you something none of the others would".

Haven't read that in 30 years but some things are so good they just stick.

[King Emlyn]

"Tightly folded bud,

I have wished for you something none of the others would".

Haven't read that in 30 years but some things are so good they just stick.

Larkin is a genius, his work is so abstract and kitchen sink at the same time, I've read his work any number of times and interpret it differently almost as many. Maybe it's meaning is obvious and it's just my fevered mind. I love him