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  1. The Secret Ingredient

    The Secret Ingredient Well-Known Member

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    so i'm not the only one who has books esp. for the loo,will check that out anyone with kids should try "go the **** to sleep"
     
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    The Secret Ingredient Well-Known Member

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    waiting
     
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    Don't think I've stopped looking for that ****ing book. I will not rest until.
     
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    The Secret Ingredient Well-Known Member

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    you must have known what the waiting post was <laugh>
    tried everywhere going to the local libary tomorrow to see if it's on their comp if not waterstones here we come
     
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    The Secret Ingredient, Oct 21, 2011
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    Bog books are the best. I'm sure the amount of reading I do on the toilet will eventually lead to me developing the old tap and spiles in later life, but it's a great place to read where nobody can bug you.
     
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    I realise i'm a few pages late here... but 1984 is awesome, i've just read American Psycho and it's ****ed up something bad but so good. And bought A Clockwork Orange last week. You have good taste in books.
     
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    A book that I always thought was overrated is On The Road by Jack Kerouac, it's such a so called classic but I have tried reading it twice and given up. In my opinion writers like John Fante and Charles Bukowski had a much better flow with their writing and could tell a story.

    Wait Until Spring Bandini by John Fante is mt all time favourite, most would say Ask The Dust with this author but my choice is just that.
     
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    Missed this first time around, Descartes is fantastic to read especially Discourse. I also had a nice book that covered his thoughts along with those of Hobbes and Locke in great detail but I can't seem to find it now (and I won't add another book search to this thread either!). When you look at writers like them, it's quite amazing to think of the bravery it must have taken to publish some of their thoughts in the time periods that they did.
     
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  9. The Secret Ingredient

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    reading The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacob at the minute good read up till now
     
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    Graphic Novels

    Maus
    From Hell
    Watchmen

    Novels
    Will Self - Book of Dave
    Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
    Leo Tolstoy - War and Piece (honestly, it's long but not difficult and absolutely brilliant).
    Aldous Huxley - A Brave New World.
    Don De Lillo - Underworld.
    Emile Durkheim - On Suicide
    Higher Than The Sun (Primal Scream on tour).
     
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    The Secret Ingredient Well-Known Member

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    enjoyed that

    would recommend 100 bullets as a graphic novel
     
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    The Secret Ingredient Well-Known Member

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    Might go through this get all the recommendations and post them on the first page ,saves people hunting through 11 pages for recommendations.
     
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    I love James Patterson, very graphic but really good read.

    For the ladies Maeve Binchy and Jenny Colgan great reads and good laughs.
     
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    I really wanted to comment on this but there are too many books to mention and if i mention one i'll be here all day. I'll just say this:

    Joyce, Hemingway, Sartre, Self, Fitzgerald, Zola, Homer, Watts, Isherwood, Woolf, Shelley (both)...oh Coupland if you like Easton-Ellis. I have to stop now.
     
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    just pace yourself <laugh> and post a few a day
     
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    The Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser are a really good read. Great fun and educational as well due to his attention to detail and historical accuracy.

    Mostly read History books though and there are too many to mention. The one that really got me started (read it when I was 14) and therefore changed my outlook on reading was "In Search of the Indo-Europeans" by J.P. Mallory. Book discussing the theories relating to where the Indo-European peoples originally lived before separating and migrating round the world. Very interesting section showing the linguistical similarities of many modern day languages. I need to get out more ...
     
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    Ta.

    Will give it a go.

    By the way, earlier you asked if Heart of Darkness was any good. Personally, I think it's great.

    Also recommend The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad. They're a bit more straight forward novel than HoD.
     
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    Read HofD last week for uni. Was a bit like swimming through treacle to be honest, but I still liked it.

    Also in the middle of reading Junkie, by Burroughs. Would recommend that. And Naked Lunch too, but that's a bit heavier..
     
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    Naked Lunch gave me The Fear. It was the most unpleasant thing I have ever read.
     
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  20. AH

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    Aye, it's strange. Watched the movie when coming down once. That was difficult to cope with...
     
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