Aye, it's a good film ER, with two great actors in McQueen and Hoffman. The book came out in the early Seventies and the film a couple of years later. There's so much adventure in the book that it must have been hard to capture all of that in the film but they certainly made a decent enough fist of it, give a few changes here and there. I read it in the early eighties after watching the film on TV, before any of the doubts about it's authenticity were raised.
Have to agree with DM here, fantastic read. i think i have read it 5 times. The follow up is called Banco, not as good but still worth a read. I read complicity by ian banks when i was 14, i think this was the first time i ever had a tug to a book. prior to that i had only read stuff like Danny the champion of the world (brilliant by the way)
Lord Of The Flies had a profound effect on me as a youngster... and prepared me for years of posting on not606.
"Post Office" by Charles Bukowski. Anything by him, really, but this was his best. A life of alcoholism, gambling, and failure embraced with wit and wisdom.
As a teenager, I was blown away by the Lord Of The Rings. (I was a long haired, drug smoking hippy then.) But I think the one book that really impressed me the most was the Iliad.
Excellent book. Did you ever read his "Fire Down Below" trilogy? Not as powerful as LOTF but every bit as well written. Makes you weep when you think about the ****e that gets pumped out these days. Dan ****in Brown FFS
It's an absolute joke Gambol - people like John Grisham, him and david Baldacci write formulaic bollocks to order and make millions when some of the best authors ever to go into print died penniless. And don't get me started on JK Rowling
not read those....looking for some good book recommendations for the flight over to chilly jocko-land soon though..
It's like those ****s who get a character and then write 2374 books about them and they're all exactly the same save for the plot being turned around a little bit - e.g book 1 he meets a bird, shags her, she gets murdered and he then hunts down her murderer. In book 2 he meets a bird, she allegedly murders someone, he then shags her and when she gets hunted down he proves she never did it. And it's all played out to a jazz soundtrack - always bloody jazz
dan browns knowledge on symbology is actually very interesting, its the fact his books all follow the exact same formula that lets him down
...and the fact he cannot write. Absolute dreadful attempt at prose. So bad that every other one of sentences jars you out of what passes for narrative. All his chapters are about one and a half pages long so it's easy for the simpletons to get through.
I first read Lord of the Rings when I was 9, that would probably be the one for me. That and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I'm gonna echo Pud. First time I read 1984, I went straight back to the start and stayed up all night to read it again. Used as a barometer thereafter for the powers of a state being restrictive, it's the most important book of the 20th Century (in my view) and the world it portrayed was partly stopped because of the book's existence.
I love that book. Also, Animal Farm which is a fantastic insight into Stalanism as well as a critique for the abuse of power in general.
