If you want a trilogy to get into this is superb.......... The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
My final recommendation is Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski....... In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
has anyone here read a) david gemmill books. He is dead now but produced a huge volume of books. b) stephen erikson. "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series. it was cult and early on was very good, complex but by book ten it was rambling and incoherant (or even more than it was) and it ended badly. many other such authors out there.
I rememebr getting the beano and dandy every week... I have my dennis the menace fan club badges and membership card in a drawer somewhere at home still.. that must've been 1983/4.... says 70p as a price not sure it was that much. I googled it and found also the NUTTY... bananaman.. now that was muck
f me i found this http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/threads/6652-Dennis-the-Menace-Fan-Club I had these very badges and memebrship wallet and still do1 I also have the depserate dan badges FFS simple times eh?
Only used to be about 20p/30p when I was a kid and I wasn't born until 1981, obviously I wouldn't have got it until I was at least six years old too. Had a similar conversation to this the other day talking about lego. My two eldest have decided the like the stuff so keep buying them bits here and there but its so bloody expensive! The little packs where you get a car or boat etc (about 30 pieces) use to cost about 40p, at the most it was 50p. The some thing costs a fiver now!!! To buy a lego house its £25-£30
yes... must have been more like that the internet lied again! Lego is obscene price now. I was looking in toy catalogue two days ago... a lego star wars millennium falcon is £132.99.... thats sick... you can get the simpons house £179... FFS. or http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys/Construction/Lego-Creator-Sydney-Opera-House-10234(0131230) this is puke. Lego is great. I had a old suit case, one of those cardbaordie ones people used ot have full of random bits. Lego is mad money.
John Steinbeck is a great author, loved all his books but American literature is my first choice anyway. Grapes of Wrath superb. Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row easy reads, funny. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee, absolute must read. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Light in August - William Faulkner The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
To Kill a Mocking Bird is a fantastic book and one of the few books were the film is pretty much as good, the Gregory Peck version. Book to avoid Middlemarch by George Elliott, its about 1,000 pages long. Had to do it for A level English because the teacher was a big fan, nothing happens in it, and I mean absolutely nothing. The story is basically girl marries boring vicar then regrets it for 1,0000 mind numbing pages. Then we had A level questions about it. Currently reading Dracula (1897 edition) by Bram Stoker, not a bad read.
